Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-29
IIaiuue Fast Day Pro-
qram by Students.
o.u Team Wins Two Of Five
Games on Trip.
,.,.t m the College Annual is About
Completed.

oono April -tSi)e:iai).-Ine SUI
body at the University decided
.-,,, Thursday morning that they
admit care to celebrate Fast day in the
.r laid down by the faculty. The
ingram was to be regular college work
eth the addition of some special chapel
o;e.e Early in me morning how
,,o- probably before Gaybreak. the
,baDel seats disappeared from chapel
o,a Of daybreak Were to be found all
.be campus, some of them as far
half mile away. The few students
ho started to attend Rotations were
,orfronted with Il sign on every door
.,nounciug Fast Dlv Proclamation"
.,o classes." Keep away" etc. The
-asult was that the students cut IN Il
t.dv and held rousing Fast day serv-
oa down under the evcrgreens. Not
oootant with this innovation the band
uas collected and about 200 of the stu
dsnts marched to Orolo and gathered
.,ourd the soldiers monument. tn"
.vsrcises here consisted of speeches
made under protest by such members
# the faculty as were rash enough to
a,oear out. and some of the town not
abes were impressed. All took the
ratification in good part and one MEM
! ~, Of the faculty said, Il think we can
! appreciate your point of view in the
/ natter" College yells aud cheers. and
music by the band furnished a variety
j 10
we'll as the students. The services
elosed with a benedictiOn to the pros
party of Maine and ali adjourned till
two o'clock, when over 200 students ac-
ror.panied by the band attended the
matinee in the Bangor Opera house.
Tie audience was largely made up Of
L of NJ. supporters ana they gave fully
~ much entertainment as the play
which vas being put on the stage.
The baseball team arrived at Orono
on the evening train rrid2y, ready for
the first home game on Saturday.
While they were defeated in three Of
the five games played they We're by no
means discouraged. The first game
played against Phillips Exeter was
won by Maine to o. Mitchell pitching
and showing up in fine form. The
second game with Dartmouth was a
cean beat for the Maina boys IA to l.
The Hanover aggregation was beaten
last season by Maine 50 they doubtless
had trorhe up their sleeves for Maine
this year. Frost started ;r to pitch this
game but vas in bal condition and had
to be taken ont. Tn" first Vermont
game WAS not 4 bad game with the OK
eeptiOn Of three costly errors in one
inning which netted FIVE runs to tn"
Vermont. In this game Mitchell AGAR
Showed great improvement over last
year The last game. and the most
heart breaking of all. vert to Vermont
by score of to !. 2 home run by Yer
mont's star pitcher in tho tenth inning
winning the game FOR the home team
In this game Frost showed up i'm his old
form. allowing few hits and striking
out good bunch.Thn game with Mid
debury was won. . to 8.
In every game except the ono with
Dartmouth the fielding support was
good. The stick work in these games
vas done by Collins. Mitchell and Cor
don while most everybody landed on
Rpnlhach nj times. IN the first game
at Burlington.
Work has begun on the grading of
The grounds around the new Beta
house. The old terra 20 LEA will be car
ned out and enlarged upon and it is ex
pecfed that the grounds will be in 4
iairy rrescntable condition by com :
mencement. Work IS also being done
around the two other rev buildings,
me sigma Alpha Epsilon house and
Lord Hall.
work on the Prism the annual pub
iShed by the Junior class is fast near
Hg completion. and it will probably be
r'ady for delivery about June first
hiitor-in-chief Ruttcrworth and artist
sherfnan are now hard ut work on tn J
E'S' section of the book which contains
'"e Snnds" and alrsndv the printers
''e setting up the last pages of the
"oS' which contain the advertise
ments.
Seven hundred copies are to nc
Tn'ed this year in the first edition and
"ty VIII doubtless all be sold il the
'ets already received are any indica-
"0n' In will contain 3,5 pages and
mS other things will include twenty
"ii'lonal pages in thu fraternity sec
u'u. TWO full-page half tones of thu
r'OleSSorS of the last year. and a great
m'Hy new views Of the campus and
university life.