Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-06-24
Alumni, Dinner and Com
mencement Exercises.
Degrees Conferred and Years
Prizes Announced.
Fifty eight Young Men in Gradual.
ing CIass-Dcgree Of Lit D. for Kate
Douglass Wiggin, Second Woman
Evor Honored by Bowdoin.

brunswick. Me-, June 23-(SpeciaI).
This has been commencement day at
old Bowdoin and never in all it's cen
tury of life did June furnish, a more
glorious day: the closing exercises
of the week. There were none OF the
clouds and showers Of Tuesday and
Wednesday,, nor was there anything
else to mar the success of the day.
Fully 500 alumni were back to march
in the procession to the church and to
enjoy the alumni dinner, the class Of
1904 So strong, received its diplomas,
several honorary degrees were COM
ferrcd. the classes of 1874 and 1894 ans
nounccd substantial gifts or money I'd
the college. and a dozen bright and elot
quent speeches were made at the DIM
ner by distinguished alumni
Promptly at 1890 the procession waS
formed in front Of King Chapel with
Llewellyn Barton 'S4 of Portland as
marshal. Behind the band, the seniors,
the faculty and the governing board
came the classes in their order and the
long line reached the length Of tha
central path and well down Main street
to the church. The air was filed with
the cheers of the younger alumni
cheering each other and giving the
various class wells for the past 20years.
At the church the program was as
follows:
Music
Prayer
Music r..
John Hay and Our New Diplomacy.
MyrtOn Andrew Bryant
:. William Edward Lunt
Music.
The Asiatic Reaction of the Twentieth
n;1 century; Arthur Carlton shorey
MARSHALL Perley Cram
The Presidents Panama Policy.
Philip Maclean Clark
Conferring of Degrees. ~.-
Prayer.
Bencdiction.
The members of the class were as
follows, Bernard Archibald. Houlton;
Emery Oliver Beane, Hallowell: Henry
Eugene Beverage. ThomastOn; John
Merrill Brigham. Dexter: Ernest Lord
brigham, kennebunk; Andrew Myr-
ton Bryant. Cumberland Mills: George
William Burpee, Houlton; Frank Har-
old Byram. Freeport; Gilman Hutch
ins Campbell, South Portland; Millard
Fillmore Chase, Brooks; Thomas Emer-
son Chase. Auburn: Philip Maclean
Clark, Portland: William Frederick
Coan, Auburn; Marshall PerIey Cram,
Brunswick: Theo. Woodman Cunning
ham, Bucksport; Samuel Trask Dana,
Portland: Chester Burge Emerson,
Pennington. N. H.; Harold Josselyn
Everett, Portland John William Frost,
Topsham; Will Day Gould. Kenne-
bunkport: Clyde Franklin Grant, Fort
Fairfield: Howard Cousens Griffin,
Bangor: Chester Truman Harper.
Christiana, Pa; EnEene Pablo Durant
Hathaway, Wellesley. Mass; Emil
Ferms, Turner Center. Galen Went
worth HiIL Buxton; George Everett
Kimball. Northeast Harbor. -
Clifford Elmer Lowell. Westbrook;
William Edward Lunt. Lisbon; Merton
Asa McRae. Machias: George. Dudley
Martin. Camden; Harold Elmon Mayo,
Hampden Corner; AfphonGo Clyde
Mcrryman, Frceport; Herbert Henry
Oakes. Auburn: Cyrus Franklin Pack
ard. Lewiston: Harry Lane Palmer.
Skcwhegan; Wallace Merton Powers,
Portland: George Colby, Jr. Puringtun,
Pennington: Fred Lysander Putnam.
Houlton; Wilbur Garfield Roberts. Al
fred: Harold Wood Robinson. Auburn:
William Thomas Rowe. Portland: Fitz
Edward Sargent. Falmouth Foreside:
Harry Clayton Saunders. Portland: Al
fred Loomis Sawyer. Fort Fairfield;
John Frederick Schneider. Bangor;
Walter Howard Sexton. Biliericn,
Mass; Arthur Carlton Shorey. Bath:
Edward Durgin Small. westbrook:
Ralph Stanley Smith. Newburgh: Aus
tin Edward Spear. Rockland: Harold
Charles TTott. Portland: George Bur-
gess Whitney. Marlboro Mass: Geralf
Gardner Wilder. Pembroke; Walter
Kcene Wildes. skowhegan.
President Hyde announced that the
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