The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-05
Birmingham Girl Writes
 Of "IVy Day" Exercises.

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 The pretty ceremonies incident to com
 mencement week at the great universi-
 ties and colleges furnish the picturesque
 element to so great degree that all
 following very delightful description of
 the Ivy Day. exercises at Bowdoin col-
 lege Maines famous college.
 Miss Eloise Jackson of Birmingham
 who was among the admired beauties of
 the occasion, describes in charming let ter the extremely interesting occasion
 Her letter follows:
 You, who are in the warm, sunny
 southland can hardly imagine that our
 weather here is New England. near the 1 rugged coast of Maine, compared a few l days ago, with our earliest cold spring mornings in Alabama. Though the lux
 urious hotels and cottages at Old Or l chard. Bar Harbor, Bath Rockland and Poland Springs are to be more crowded than ever during the summer, guests are arriving late, owing to the unusual cool ness
 "The airy summer gowns of the south ern girl, so tempting after long winter | season, seem, indeed for a warmer cline and can not be comfortably donned until
 midsummer.
 But girls can have good times at | ''commencements," everywhere and at all times, and 'Ivy Day" at Bowdoin college was glorious and elegance rath- CT than ostentation characterized all of the appointments.
 This grand and proud old college in Brunswick, the alma marer Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorn, Franklin Pierce. Thomas B. 1 Reed, Senator William P. Frye and many of our greatest statesmen Is sit- uated In the midst of a great pine for ! est. these lands having been owned for many years by the college. The college celebrated it's centenary last year, on which occasion Senator Thomas B. Reed delivered his last great address before his death to his dear alma mater on it's hundredth birthday
 Picture the stately granite buildings, halls and chapel, half hidden by til pines. naples and birch trees surrounded by. extensive grounds of veIvety grass and you may have a faint idea of the mag nificence of It's beauty
 Our festivities of the day began with ball game between Bowdoin and Bates. l another of Maines colleges, played on the prettiest athletic field I have ever seen.
 Around the diamond is the same beautiful smooth grass and the beauty of the field and race course of one half mile being enhanced by the immense for est pines which entirely surround it. We viewed the game from a large and very crowded grand stand and amid songs and yells from the Bowdoin boys and occasional outbursts from the Bates admirers, Bowdoin's pure white flag and ribbons were waved to the breezes, and when the score reached fifteen to five" we vowed ever to be loyal to our victor ious boys or "beaux"
 'The elegant grand stand. the brown stone foundation of which has just been completed, will be the finest of any in the country until the Harvard grand stand which will be some larger, is fin- ished.
 After wandering about the grounds we visited the Walker Art building, a perfect gem. by the way, and is to Bowdon what the Corcoran Art Gallery Is to l Washington, D. c.
 This building was given by the Theo- i philus w, Walker of Boston, and was | completed and dedicated to him after his death by his two daughters | 'As one enters, standing in the rotun- da or statuary hall, there are above each of the four archways exquisite paintings | representing Rome, Venice, Florence and | Paris. the four great cities that have l given to us our greatest masters; these are very descriptive in setting and in- tensely interesting studies
 Tn the Dying Gladiator" Venus de Milo,' Apollo Belvidere," and many others as well known, we could see the wonders wrought by our most famous sculptors.
 Among the treasures of the left wing are to be found the portraits of James Bowdoin, former governor of Massachu- setts also portraits of his wife and oth- CTS done by Stuart and Copley Below these are crude original drawings by Correggio, Andrea del Sarto. Titan. Reubens, Lorenzo Ghiberti and Lucca della Robbia.
 These early sketches by those mas ters who have given us our matchless
 'Madonnas.' were especially interesting | to me
 "On paintings of wonderful colorine. and water colors in cool. fresh tints at 1 tract the eye at every turn. So much could I tell you, that can only hope
 you may some time see this beautiful | little gallery.
 From the college we took the electrics to Merry Meeting Park, where we had an elegant shore dinner at The Casino to which We all looked forward because no shore dinner could be quite like one at The Casino or The Inn
 We could not think of going back to Brunswick without taking a view of the merry meeting of the Androscoggin and Kennebec rivers After reaching nearly the top of the Casino and climbing up the winding stairs. we stood drinking in the beauty of the scenery. | At the joining of the rivers, we could see the pretty heart-shaped island and | Tn the distance the mighty arm of the ocean opened wide to receive the rivers after their merry meeting "A short car ride and we were once more at Old Bowdoin. hurrying to Me morial Hall for the Ivy Exercises.' At 2'So the building was filled to overhowing This hall, with its beautiful colored windows softening the light. has along the sides of it's interior walls, bronze tab-