Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-02-10
Boston Colby Alumni to
Hold Banquet Feb. "a.
A Disastrous Blaze Prevented
in Nick of Time.
What the Students Have to Satisfy
Unusual Appetites-other Notes.

Waterville, Feb. 9. (SpeciaD-The
twenty-fourth annual meeting and
banquet of the Boston Colby Alumni
Association will be held at the Ameri-
House, Hanover street, Boston, Fri
day evening, February "a. The prin-
cipal speakers will be President Charles
Lincoln White, Judge Percival c.
Bonney, '63. Hon. Leslie c. Cornish,
-, and Hon. Edward Forrest Goodwin,
81.
The alumni trustees. who were elect
ed by a mail ballot, last year, and the
result announced at the meeting OF the
general Alumni Association. last June.
Will make their first report to the
alumni at this meeting. The officers
Of the Boston association have already
received many encouraging replies to
the letters they have sent out Last
year the attendance was the largest III
| the history of the association. aud this
years meeting promises to surpass it
in point of numbers as we'll as gen.
eral enjoyment.
There will be an important special
the Athletic Association, Saturday
afternoon. The chief business to come
before the committee will be the cleo
! ton of the baseball manager for the
coming season and the football captain
for next fall. confirming the nominal
| tons of Thomas A. Smart, o. of Dcx-
ter, for baseball manager and George
e. McNane of Portland, for football
| captain.
The new arrangements at the Colby
commons. by which the students are
| eating in the three main rooms seem
to be succeeding finely. c. w. Atch-
| ley, 'O3. who has had wide experience
| in hotel work, has been installed as
| head waiter and under him the routine
| of the dining room is working Splend-
idly.
To satisfy the curiosity of those who
are wondering what Colby mon are having
to eat these days. the menu is appended:
| Brca l<tast-Cerells, fruit three times Il,
week. meat or eggs or hashed meat hot
| bread of mullins fried mush coffee
| HinncI-Soup or chowdcr. roast beef or
| fish. plain potatoes, Vegetab leS, pudding or
| pie.
Supper-Cold meat. hot bread. cocoa Or
tea or milk. sauce. Baked beans and
brown bread Wednesday and Saturday
nights and Sunday morning.
| Ice cream once week.
| The price Of the board at the commons
is s. week; but at the end of the term
the students will be given a rebate of the
amount by which the actual cost differs
| from this sum.
|
| systematizing the work OF the students
who are employed d. the commons. The
commons is designed not only to furnish
| food to the students at reasonable rate
| but also to afford students an opportunity
to work their board. The past year fully
| 10 per cent of the students have found
employment at the commons in some ca
pacity.
That the plan is to continue under the
| present new regulations is a source of
| satisfaction to the whole student body.
What with few mnutns' start. would
have been the second destruction of South
college by fire occurred at about il o'clock
Wednesday night Two students entered
the building from out of doors and
sme!led an unmistalsa Ole odor of smoke
They traced it to the basement door
| nun WIFI tptiltu let Il NtluIle Oh smoke
into the lower hall. Rushing downstairs
and bursting open the door to the fire
room. where the heating apparatus is To-
Gated. they located the cause of the trou-
bic. wooden platform near the frcbox
of the boiler was burning briSily and
| would have attacked the woodwork in a
short time. The fire was put out with but
| little difficulty. In the meantime the
| alarm had been given throughout the
| building and the students came tumbling
out in rather picturesque attire but wcre
glad that the consequences of the blaze
| were not serious
| There will he two basketball games in
the Colby gymnasium. Saturday evening
one between Matte and Colby and the 9th
er between Westbrook Seminary and Col
by Second. The first game will be called
| at ) O'Clock.