Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-11
BATES
Opened, Tuesday, After a Ten.
Days Vacation.
Several Students Away Teaching
Improvements at Parker Hall.
Baseball Squad Hard at Work-The
Seasons Schedule.

Lewiston, Me-, April 9-(SpeciaD -
Bates College opened. Tuesday. April
s, after a vacation of 10 days. Several
of the students are away teaching and
the chapel exercises of yesterday morn
ing We're held with a comparatively
small attendance. Among those who
are away teaching are Miss Edna Nor
| ton, 1904, Miss Phtnam, 1903. Mr.. Eu-
gene Tuttle. 1905, Mr.. Elmer Verril,
| 1908. Others who will return the first
of next week are Parsons, 1905, Stock
well. 1905, NJ. G.. Williams, 1905, l.. N
Williams. 1905, Rounds, 1904, Captain
Allen, 1903. Reed, 1905 Bessey, 1905,
Cutler, 1904 and Miss Files 1905.
President Chase has been absent dur
| ing the vacation and for several weeks
past on a business trip to Boston, and
the students are all glad to see him
| back conducting the chapel exercises
| again. During this term he will re-
| sumo his usual work with the classes.
During the last vacation changes for
| the better have been made in sanitary
arrangements of Parker Hall, the boys
dormitory. New sinks and water pipes
| have been put in on each floor and
disinfectant is being freely used. 1t
is now considered that the sanitary
conditions of the hall are perfect.
Mr.. Ramsdell of the Junior class
who was in the hospital, ill with
typhoid fever during a greater part of
the winter term has now entirely re-
covered his health and is back at col
lege. Ramsdell is captain of the baS-
ket ball team and his absence was felt
in the games which We're played, last
term.
Mr.. Davis, 1904, will read at an en-
tertainment to be given by the An
droscoggin Lodge Orchestra in Auburn,
next Friday evening. Also the Misses
Bray, 1904, will sing at the same en-
tertainment. The Sophomore class is
to be complimented upon having as
one of its members so distinguished a
reader as Mr.. David. Since entering
college he has Travelled with the Glee
Club and wherever he has given one
Of his selections he has left his name
as a reader. He is considered to be
the best reader and impersonator who
has been in Bates for several years.
Professor Stanton will take the
Freshman class on the first bird walk
of the season, next Friday morning.
at half past five. There will be bird
walks on every Monday, Wednesday,
Friday and Saturday mornings during
the present term of college. This has
been the custom at Bates for several
years and with such an instructor as
Professor Stanton it is always sure to
cause the Freshmen to take a great
interest in birds. Lectures upon Orin-
thology are given by Professor Stan
ton to the Freshman class every Mon
day.
Baseball practice is had every afternoon
on Garoelon field. There are about %
men out at present who are candidates
for the first and second teams. The work
is showing up well or better than is
usual at the beginning of the season.
and everything points to a successful sea-
son in baseball. Captain Dean is work
ing hard with the men and will do his
best to turn out winning team. At
tempts will be made. this year, to make
the team more strongly united than pre-
viouSly. The coach. Mr.. Purinton. Bates
1900. of Brunswick. came up. Monday af-
ternoon. to give the boys a start in the
practice, and hereafter Will be present to
coach nearly every afternoon. There are
at Bates, this year, the following from
those who played on the Varsity q year
ago: Bucknam. 1903; Stone. 1903: Allen.
1903; Towne. 1903; Captain Dean 1902; Cla-
son, 1902. Doe. the Hebron pitcher, and
f. f.. Parsons of South birmingham,
Mass, ire the two most promising men
from the freshman class. Besides these
the following are some who are out for
practice: Moody. 1902; North. 1905; Fow-
ler 1906; Brown 1904; Sullivan. 1892; Har-
rington. 1902; Paine. 1905; Swan, 1901:
Lang. 1892 Hunt 1903 The first game of
the season will be played at Lewiston on
-.
Academy. The following is the schedule
for the season:
April 19-Hebron Academy at Lewiston
April 22-Harvard Varsity at Cam
bridge.
April 23-Holy Cross at Worcester.
April 26-Bowdoin texhbitiom at Lew
iston.
April 3O-Bridgton Academy at Lewis
ton.
May ST of NJ. at Lewiston.
May s-Middlebury College at Middle
bury, VT.
May university of Vermont at Burl-
May 1O-University Of Vermont at Burl-
| ington, VT.
| May 14-U Of NJ. at Orono.
May 17-Colby at Lewiston.
May 2i-Bowdoin at Lewiston.
May 27-Amherst Aggies at Lewiston.
May 30-Colby (exhibtion) at Lewiston.
| June TUFTS at Lewiston.
| June 13-Bowdoin at Brunswick.
| June 1i-Colby at Waterville.
| The second team will also nave a sched-
| ule. The first team will be provided with
| new suits for the coming season and the
second team will have the old suits of the
| first team.
| Mr.. Fowler formerly Of the class of
| 1902 has returned to college and entered
| the freshman class. He is a graduate OF
| the Nichols Latin School, class of 1898.
| When Mr.. Fowler was in college he play
| ed as one of the halfbacks on the Varsi-
ty football team and was considered one
Of the best men on the team. He is just
| what will be needed, next fall. to take
| Captain Moody's place as right back.
| since Moody will graduate, this year. Be
sides this. Mr.. Fowler has a reputation
as track athlete and no doubt will be a
valuable man for Bates athletics.
| The three sophomores who were put
over on the Drew prize debate to be held
with the juniors, next year. are: Spof-
fosd of South Paris, Briggs of Caribou,
and u G. Weymouth of Greene.
The freshman class has been divided
into six divisions for debating. The de-
bates will come off during the winter
term of next year. The first division
chose as its subject for discussion the
question: would the Annexation of
Canada by the United States Be Desira-
ble?' The second division chose:
fought the United States Government t3
Control the Railroads Within Its Bound
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