Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-03
SONS OF BOWDOIN
ALUMNI BANQUET LAST NIGHT
AT RALEIGH HOTEL.
President Hyde of the Institution and
Others Deliver Addresses
List Of Guests.

present, and the evening was spent in re-
lating pleasing "reminiscences Of the days
when ''all were boys together" Mr.. VIM.
e. Spear of Rockland, Me-, was toast
master, and in a happy manner introduced
the various speakers.
President Hyde of Bowdoin was the first
speaker. He started a laugh by relating
an incident of Bowdoin professor near
the college grounds recently meeting q
native who was half farmer and half fish
erman. After a predatory colloquy, In
which the native took bearings, he ex-
claimed:
''Will you tell me whether digging clans
is hshing or AGRICULTURE"
DR.. Hyde informed the alumni that the
college plant at Bowdoin was the best in
the United States. He told of progress
made with the erection of buildings for
educational, social and athletic purposes
In religion, science, art, literature and ath-
letics the college now had buildings as
fine as money and generosity and good
judgment could furnish
He said the progress in methods of in
struction had been equally gratifying. The
old-fashioned system of discplining stu
dents had been done away with. There
were no more interrogatorles and no more
trials. Influence of older men in college
fratern1tieS and elsewhere were brought to
bear on recalcitrant students and was
proving most satisfactory. Ninety per cent
OF the discipline was through that means.
Ex-Governor Powers Pride in Bowdoin.
Ex-Gov. Powers made a hit by referring
to his pride in the institution
Il am proud of the educational institu-
lions OF Maine" said Gov. Powers "They
are credit to Maine people," He told
how a prominent Maine jurst had stated
the argument for small colleges when lie
said:
If you send your boy to large coll
iege he will go through more college, but
If you send him to a small college you
VIII get more college through the boy"
Gov Powers also referred to the long
INST OF famous graduates of Bowdoin, as
surpassed by no other college on the con-
tinent. Maine had many things to boast
OF, but none of her glories excelled the
educational glory of Bowdoin College.
Search for North Pole.
Commander Peary, a graduate of Bow
dom, talked of the north pole and his eff
forts to find It, He said:
your chairman has privately asked me
TO paint, as strongly as my imagination
Will permit, the great superiority of Maine
over the Arctic regions as a place for a
home Pile it on as strongly as Won can
feary, he said. Do the best you can to
make the Maine men contented with their
lot
Personally, to be frank with YOU. I
would prefer residence near the north
pole Tor the next two years to a residence
In Maine, but l will endeavor to obey
orders. wv
There are some places In the Arctic
regions That are worse than some places
IN Maine, and there are some places in
Maine that are worse than some places In
the Arctic regions 40
1 have slept as cold and uncomfortably
IN log camp under the slopes of Katah-
dln as L ever did in the Arctic regions
ana pack of wolves coming out one
moonlight night as I was crossing Mill
nockett lake with bag of flour on my
BACK ana only pocket knife about me
ANNOYED me moA than I have ever been
north, or polar bear.
ana L nave been almost as hungry
CHASING moose in the woods north Of
katahdin as l ever was chasing tba no1a
In the Arctic regions H
ana yet, If man were suddenly trans.
ported from the north pole in December
January or February, when the winter is
working smoothly up there. to Portland
ana ne consulted his own comfort as re
CARDS clothing. he would be promenadinr
ooEsress street in a costume CONSISTING
OF a straw hat only
An Arctic Incident
TO note briefly one of my Arctic exneri-
ences: On the 9th of January. 1899 aftar
siedse journey in the very midnight of the
great Arctic night; journey over an nm
known frozen road, of such rouehness as
you can scarcely imagine; reduced to a
dlet OF raw dog, I stumbled into Fort Com
ger the abandoned headouar ters of ~
Lady Franklin bay expedition. with hotL
ieet seriously frozen. For six weeks T law
there on my back, a helpless crinnIe
through the utter darkness, living principal,
~ upon corn meal and moIa sseS. nv, 90,
panions trying to inject a little we rrntb III
the deadly cold by burning empty boxes ana
barrels, until the faint rays of retnrnina
daylight In the latter part of February ner.
miles to the south. NV
Lashed down to a sledge, my feet and
legs wrapped in muskox' skin, that Jour
ney OF 80 miles was made in eleven
marches of from twelve to eighteen bo,,rs
each, humping and pounding over The
broken ice of the Arctic sea. The mean
minimum daily temperature during that
march was 531a degrees below zero. The
temperature the day we reached the shin
was % degrees below zero.
Notes the Contrasts.
Honestly, gentlemen, Maine really is In
some respects better place for a steady
residence than the north pole. It is true
there are no doughnuts and maple sirup: no
cunners; no clam bakes; no mince pies and
milk; no Bowdoin College up there, but. on
the other hand. there are no taxes; no ice
bills or water rates; no Maine law; no law
yerS unless one takes them with him
which heaven forbid.
And nowhere in the Arctic regions can
you see such light as shines in June across
the blue waves and dancing white caps of
the hundreds of bays and inlets from Kit
terry to PASSPORT; nowhere in all the Arctic
regions can you hear such sounds as rise In
August from the thousands of meadow and
upland hay fields; the burr of the moving
machines, the tinkle of the whetstones
against the scythes, mingling with the songs
of the oriole and the bob-o-link; nowhere in
the Arctic regions can you see such splen-
dor as in October clothes the state from
kittery and Eastport to river St John with
the flaming glories of the maple, oak and
sumach.
'Granite-ribbed. pine-clad, wave-lashed
the old pine tree state is the grandest Of
them all
With her the Adam and Eve myth has
been repeated.
Fashioned from her imperishable ribs
stately buildings adorn the country from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the
gulf to the lakes, and in those buildings
governors and senators, sons of Maine sons
of Bowdoin, have steered states and nation
through political storms rivallng the fury
of Arctic billiards..
THE only fault have to find with Maine
is that the Creator omitted to locate the