The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-07
A VISIT TO BoWooIN, THE ALMA MATER OF LoNcFELLoW, HAW- THoRNE. FRANKLIN PIERCE AND OTHER FAMOUS MEN.


 Miss Lena Jackson. one of Birming- hams brightest and most popular young women. has recently returned from her old home In New England, where she passed the summer. and in compliance with a request has written the following very charming and interesting descrip- ton of the principal feature of her sum mer trip. her journeyings taking her as far as Maine:
 .Tell me something about Mainel I'm sure you must have had a delightful trip"
 Yes; we heartily agree to the latter and emphasize and eulogize and agonize until we are out of words and out of breath, but full of emotions still; and somehow we manage to convey enough of what we feel to the listener. or. perhaps by this time. llsteners-that we are not the only ones to clasp our hands and plc- ture in our minds clear. calm lakes, high. rugged mountains; glorious sunsets and. in short, everything that reaches it's ut- most perfection in Maine-and before an hour is past we have a party all made up to go to Maine every summer; to drink in its beauties. but nothing else, for Maine Is a prohibition state; to taste it's delicious fruits and incidentally to al- most live on It's unsurpassed baked beans, build up in mind and body, and prepare to realize more happiness in a few short weeks than we imagined could be vouch- safed to us in a whole life time.
 'sThere is everything in Maine-that is. everything good; and possibly there are a few things which would not come strict ly in that division, but there are not enough of them to make a separate class l and truly, they are so largely outnum- 1 bered by their betters that 1t were al- most impossible to find them, though they say the sherlffs and their deputies do discover them sometimes when they look for them notwithstanding the harmless array of soda water bottles.
 "Going from Boston into Maine. one is struck by the immaculate appearance of Maine homes Whether in city, town or country. cleanliness and Godliness seem to be equally striven for, and that means good deal for cleanliness, considering the spirit of the Puritans which still lives in their descendants of this old New En- gland state A close third to these comes the love for education, which seems to De a part of New England character The four principal colleges of Maine arc Bowdorn at Brunswick, Colby at Water vile. Bates at Lewiston, and the Univer sity of Maine at Orono.
 There are also many academies, seInir- aries and institutes, assisted generously by the state. The academies give some what more advanced course than the high | schools. and still do not come up to that of colleges.
 l The idea of ''the eternal fitness of | things" which Maine people certainly | have. crops out in this-that their jnsti- tutions shall be named according to ex- actly what they are. and what they do, and nothing more. For this reason the great school of Waterville has within the last five years changed its name from Colby university to Colby college, as, ir the opinion of the president and trustees, 1t did not come up to the requirements Of | a university.
 1 Maine is justly proud of old Bowdoin l (pronounced, by the way, Bodn); proud of her hundred years of intellectual lite | (the state is only eighty-two years old); proud of her fame, for she has turned out more famous men in proportion to the 1 number graduated than even fair Har- yard. Longfellow, Hawthorne, Franklin Pierce and Thomas B. Reed are a few of international reputation whose names occur to me as Bowdoin graduates.
 Then the University of Maine, which | fa hoe it's beautiful campus. large, substantial buildings and it's full quota of students. who love to sing to the tune of Tho Stein Song:
 For it's always fair weather When Maine fellows get together With life in its sprirgtime, On the campus of old Mainel'
 The rivalry between Bowdoin and the University of Maine is like that between talented sons of the same mother. Though one is so much older and has made 8 brilliant record, the younger one has plenty of ability and pluck. So by persis- tently and thoroughly exercising both, he gives his brother a very hard chase, and is adding to his own reputation every day. They back each other, however, against Bates or Colty, whom they re- gard as good fellows, but rather distant cousins. Isn't that college nature. north | or south, east or west?
 The scores of fraternity men one meets in Maine Old and young, all seem to bs members of some large-Oh, yes, each one belongs to the fratl Perhaps we met more D. K. Els than any others, but we also met representatives of the Zeta Psi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Alpha Tan Omega.
 Psi Chi and others. However, we won't