Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-23
COMMENCEMENT At soWDoIN.
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| (C0nt1nue0 rom rage One.)
those of the college; provided a new
physiological laboratory, and added II
new instructors to it's teaching force.
| Our greatly improved facilities, and
corresponding expansion OF courses
have produced during the past few
years a considerable deficit. This the
trustees and overseers are determined
to stop at the earliest possible mo-
ment. To this end a beginning has been
| made in the increase of our endowment.
In this work it is impossible to reap the
full harvest in the same season that
the seed is sown.
| Subscriptions absolute or condition
al have been received as follows:
| Frederick H. Appleton. $1,000; Ernest
l.. Bartlett, $500: George w. Blanch-
ard, 500; John Nj. Brigham, SIS: John
NJ. Brown, $1,000 w. Brown, $1,000;
Austin Cary. 5000: Hugh Chisholm.
$1,000; Henry d. Cleaves, $500; Thomas
L. Coe, $1,000; w. E. Currier, $50: Will
liam J. Curtis, $4,000; Frederick o. Co
nant $500; Henry E. Cults, 800; Thorn
as r. Croswell, $25; Frank Dane, SIS;
| Nathaniel V. Emerson, $50; Frederick
A. Fisher, 5000; Francis Fessenden.
$1,000; Frederick II. Gerrish. $1,000; Mrs.
George F. Godfrey. IS; John J. Her.
rick, $1,000; Joseph w. Hewitt, SOS; Ed
ward F. Holden $50: Melville f. In
gals, $1,000; Frederick A. Kendall, 500;
Seth Nj. Milliken, $1,000: E. B. Nealley,
5000; f. NJ. Nelson, SIS; Thomas X.
Noble. 800; George Payson, $500; E. l..
Pickard. $500: William c. Pond, $40;
George c. Purington, Jr.. SOS; Fred E.
Richards, $500. John S. Sewall, 500;
Kenneth c. NJ. Sills, $25: Edward STAN
wood. $500; Franklin A. Wilson, $500;
Albion S. Whitaker, $3.50: George NJ
Whitaker, $50: Glass of 1889, $780,
| While these are the first fruits of re-
cent efforts. they are by no means all
that may be expected from them.
Much larger sums have been promised
in a general way. or provided for in
wills. In addition to these solicited
contributions, we have received during
the year over $50 900. During the year
two requests have come to the col
| lcge; one by the will of John c.
| Coombs of the class of 1869, which will
ultimately give the college 1T the low
est estimate $l5O.OOO: the other by the
will of Robert C. Winthrop. Jr., which
gives to the college $4,000.
| Thus in spite of our annual deficit for
the past few years. We continue to find
Yourselves better off financially at the
| end of each year than we were at its
beginning.
| The boards have refused to raise the
tuition to the point charged by insti-
tutions which give instruction and IA
cilitics of equal cost elsewhere; desir-
ing to keep the college as at present
a place where rich and poor met on a
perfect level; and where no poor stu
dent who has brains worth training
and hands that are willing to work
need ever leave for lack of money.
The hundredth Commencement finds
Bowdcin College with every dollar of
its funds securely and proftably in
vested, with every chair effectively
filed; with every building that we need
ami most Of them far better than we
every hoped to have: with every alum
nus loyal; with every undergraduate
enthusiastic; with its rating i'm the edu-
cational world among the best institu-
tions of its kind: and a record of dis
tinction achieved by its sons unap-
preached by any college of its size.
The next speaker was Governor Cobb
q. The 400 alumni came to their feet
| with cheers and it was some minutes
| before the Governor was able to speak
He said that the only drawback of the
commencement season was the fact
| that he was called upon to speak. He
then alluded 10 the fact from that his
official position it would not be fitting
for the occasion to pass by without Il
tribute from him 70 the Maine insti-
tutions of learning, standing as they
do for the development of intellect and
character. BOwdOin'S record, he said
stands today. for one Hundred years Of
scholarship. Despite territorial limita :
tions and various other circumstances
with WI iCh she has had to contend, she
never lost sight Of her ideal-hign
standards of learning and respect for
law.
| The next speaker was General Oliver
Otis Howard. 80 President Hyde in his
introductory remarks paying graceful
tribute to General Howard and the
class to which he belongcd-the class
Of Frye and Scwall.
| General Howard spoke of the home
Influence that tends to send men to col
lege and said the point he wished to
make was to advise the graduating
class to marry women who would be
loyal to Bowdoin. He spoke good
word for the old academies that fitted
men for college in his day and at the
end told a story of an interview with
Abraham Lincoln in the darkest days
of the Civil War. who when asked as
to its outcome said that he believed the
North must win-nOt because OF the
magnificent loyalty of the North or of
the splendid generalship of the gem
erals, but because of higher power
which had guided that Union through
the years wou''l not suffer it to be dis
trupted. Gen. Howard said that he be-
lievcd the same of BOwdOin's future.
Though there might be times when
policies were to he questioned and Sc
riOus problems might arise OF vital con-
Germ to the welfare of the old institu-
ton. his was the firm conviction that Il
college with such a record as Bowdoin
would not be allowed by the higher
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