Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-26
BOWDOIN 'O3.
Glass of 81 Men Given A. B.
and 20 Given M. D.
Over 600 Alumni at Dinner and Many
Notable Speakers.
Announcement of Prizes and the Con
ferring of Degrees.

ment week at BoWdoin, the Commence
ment day proper, with the time-honored
procession, the speaking in the church,
the comforting of degrees, the con-
ferring of degrees, the announcement
of prizes, and closing with the alumni
dinner in Memorial hall with it's great
gathering of graduates and speeches by
| famous sons of the college. The skies
were heavy and the campus was mist
driven as it was on Wednesday, but
the rain refrained from falling in tor
| rents as it did on Commencement day,
last year, and for this everybody was
thankful. 1t will rank as a most sue
cessful commencement in all respects.
The alumni were back in great num-
bers considering the bad weather,
splendid class was graduated ana all
| the exercises We're of very high order
| The procession was formed at the
chapel at 1870 led by Payne's I'd Regi-
ment Band. Following the band came
the graduating class in caps and
gowns, followed Immediately by the
members of the graduating class of the
medical college. Then came President
| I1yuG anu Slllel uSLlCe L ulltl VI Tic
United States supreme court; then
Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard of New York
and Gen. John Marshall Brown of Port
land. Following them came the boards
of trustees and overseers; lnen the
| faculty; and, after the faculty, came
the graduates, in the order of their
classes, from the white hairs of the
earlier graduates, down to the boys who
have been out in the world but year.
| 1t was a procession that reached from
the chapel down the central path
| through the class of rs gates and well
down Maine street to the college. From
| 900 to 700 Bowdoin men We're in line
and the cheers and songs of the younger
classes made things lively.
The big church was filled and there
| the order of exercises was as fonows:
Prayer
Music.
The Party Leader in American Politics,
Clement Franklin Robinson
| The Psychology of the Crowd,
George Bourne FarnsWorth
" Selden Osgood Martin
Music.
Science and Religion, 80.
Leon Valentine Walker
Naturalization in the United States,
William Morris Houghton
The Obligation of the Scholar,
Scott Clement Ward Simpson
Music.
II Comforting of Degrees.
Prayer.
The speaking was of exceptional eX-
cellence and each of the six speakers
was given generous applause.
The degree of bachelor of arts was
conferred upon: Edward Harrington
Abbott, Auburn; Ralph Andrews, Ken
lnebunk; Harris Clark Barrows, Au-
gusta Robert Calvin Bisbee, Bethel;
Merrill Blanchard, Maynard, Mass;
Philip Greedy Clifford, Portland; Philip
Owen Coffin, Brunswick; Charles Pat
trick Corners, Bangor; Luther Dana,
Westbrook; Edward Augustus Dunlap,
Jr., Brunswick; Barton Comstock En-
cry, Saco; Henry Garfield Farley, Port
land George Bourne Farnsworth.
Bethel; Carl Spencer Fuller Lewiston;
Samuel Bradley Gray, Old Town; John
Alfred Harlow, Brewer; Philip Talbot
Harris, East Machias: Andy Percy Ha-
vey, West Sullivan; Ralph Wellington
Hellenbrand, Old Town; Albert Perry
Holt. North Billerica, Mass; William
Morris Houghton, Brunswick; Harris
Allen Jones, Portland; sydney Bartels
Larrabee, Portland; Franklin Law
renee, Portland; George Libby, Jr, Bos-
,on, Mass; Farnsworth Gross Marshall.
Portland; Selden Osgood Martin, Fox
croft; Donald Edward Mccormick
Boothbay Harbor; Edward Folsom
Merrill, Skowhegan; John Lincoln
Mitchell. Brunswick; Edward Fairfield
Moody, Portland; Edward Whiteside
Moore. Champlain. N. Y: Daniel Colin
Munro, Gardiner; Irving Wilson Nutter,
Bangor; Henry Adams Peabody, Port
land; James Blenn Perkins Bath; Niles
Lee Perkins, Augusta; Moses It. Phil
lips. South Brewer; Grant Pierce Fair
field Center; Harold Boswell Pratt,
Brooklyn, N. Y: Paul Preble, Auburn;
Joseph Randall Ridlon, Gorham; Thorn
rs Harrison Riley, Jr, Brunswick;
Clement Franklin Robinson. Bruins
wick George Shaw Sabin. Portland;
Michael James Shaughnessy, Br3ckton,
Mass; Charles Carroll Shaw. Cumber-
land Center; Scott Clement Ward
Simpson. Portland; Bertram Louis |
Smith, Patten: Carl Williams Smith,
Portland; Frederick William Spollett,
Brunswick; George Hinkley Slower, !
l1rIIlSWICh, iHOlllDSoli,
Scbago Lake; Frank Ernest Towne, |
Winfield Chester Towne, Kennebunk- |
port: Leon Valentine Walker, Oxford; |
Harrie Linwood Weber, Auburn; |
Francis Joseph WEIGH, Theodore Wal |
ter Wells, Portland; Thomas Carter |
White, Lewiston: Jesse Davis Wilson, |
Leonard Cecil Whitmore, Brunswick; |
Malcolm Sumner Woodbury., Woods |
fords.
Those to receive the degree of doctor |
Of medicine were: Charles Spiro Bridg- |
ham, Sullivan; Richard Albert Goss, |
Lewiston: ]. Lowell Grindle Mt. De- |
CERT; Oramel Elisha Haney, Belfast; |
Albert Bellathy Hagerthy, Bucksport |
Marcus Philip Hambleton, Brunswick; |
Edgar Ivory Hanscom, A. B., Lebanon; |
Louis Lenville Hills A. B., Portland: |
Stillman David Little, Midtown; Fred |
Clarence Lord, Belgrade; Harry Alton |
Moody, Dover. N. H.; Harry Hill |
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