Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-23
BOWDOIN'S WEEK
fcontinued from Page One.)

Holman of Pennington and Edward i.
Hale of Portland. The First Regiment
band will be on hand to furnish music
for ,he exercises of the day and the
dance in the evening.
Wednesday will be busy day,
though its program will be an exceed
inely miscellaneous one. In the morn
| ing Phi Beta Kappa, the honorary
| scholarship society which has had
branch at RoWdOin since 1925, Will hold
its annual meeting in Hubbard nan az
| 9 and receive into membership haif q
dozen Seniors ana half dozen juniors
an The basis of their rank. Inc men
from &c admitted at the end OF Junior
wear were Charles II. Bradford of
South Livcrmore, Philip +. Chapman
of Portland, Melvin r. Copeland OF
| Brewer, Walter A. Powers of Houlton,
| Clyde G. Shaw of North GOrham and
| I.obic X. Stevens of Kennebunk. An
hour later the graduating exercises OF
the Medical school will be held III Me-
mortal hail. the address being delivered
by Rev. Raymond Call<ins of Portland
| The class numbers IL young men TINS
year. In the afternoon there VIII be
| ball game on the Whittier field between
| BoWdoin ana the Portland team. Ihe
| latter organization is led TINS year as
| last by the well known Pop Williams
who was a famous Bowdoin athlete in
(! the class of '95. Jim Clark, who
/ was captain of last years Bowdoln
nine, is playing left field on Portland
and two of this years strong Row ION
nine, Sparks ana Stanwocd will play
| with Portland during the summer. 1t
| will be a good game and as It closes
the season Il big crowd will be in at
| tendance.
Wednesday. particularly the last
part Of the afternoon and early even
ing, is the chief time for the class re-
unions The 'anniversary" classes,
that is those graduating five, 10, l., 20
years ago, etc, have a particularly
good attendance. though scores and
hundreds from other classes are back
during the week. This year Jhe trophy
offcrt d by Il member Of 10 to the class
HAVING back the largest proportion Of its
members has aroused added interest
and there will be Il lot of gOOd-natured
rivalry for its possession. The classes
whose dinners and reunions Will be
most prominent this year are 1901, SO,
'41 SO 81 &c. IL &c and '5G. Most of
theS.. have engaged houses near the
campus as headquarters and will dis
uense generous hospitality to other
| classes and to their friends in general.
They will go for shore dinners to New
| Meadows, Gurnct, CaSco Castle or 9TH
el near resorts. Then everybody will
go 10 the reception by President and
Mrs. Hyde in Hubbard han which is a
wholly informal and thoroughly de-
lightful affair. Following this come
the alumni reunions in the various
fraternity houses which consumes
pretty much the rest Of the night.
There are eight fraternities, each with
q beautiful house of its own. Several
Of the fraternitieS date back nearly 20
years and usually have 100 or more
| graduates back at these reunions.
They are merry occasions when old
ana young are boys together and with
speech ana song ana story they make
the evening one Of the best Of the week.
| Thursday will b. Commence ment day
proper ANA the big day Of the week.
with the long procession. the exercises
in the church, the awarding Of degrees
and the announcement Of prizes, fol-
lowed by the alumni dinner in Me-
mortal hall with hundreds Of graduates
at the tables and many distinguished
ispeakCrs on the program. There are
six commencement speakers in the
church. chosen from the 20 members Of
tn" Senior class whose rank entitled
them to write parts. 1t is expected
that several honorary degrees will be
conferred upon prominent men who
will be guests Of the college.
During Wednesday ana Thursday
tn" boards of trustees and ovcrsecrs
VIII be III session transactinG the mass
of business that comes before them. No
college anywhere has 4 more dis
tinguishcd body Of men on its govern
ing board than are on the board of
trustees Of Bowdoin and it is a sight to
be remembered as TIL" boys see them 60
and come from their meetings. All Of
them, moreover. are graduates Of the
college. The board includes Chief Jus
tcc Melville Weston Fuller. senator w.
+. Frye, Con. John l.. Chamberlain.
Gen. Q. Q. Howard, Gen. Thomas II.
Hubbard Judge William l.. Putnam.
Chief Justice Andrew Il. WiSWel, Gen.
John Marshall Brown. Rev. John :.
SeWall. ID. D.. Rev. Samuel V. Cole. u.
D., ana Edward Stanwod, editor of the
Youths Companion. The board of
orersccrs is a much larger body. con-
tanning 40 men, also all alumni Of the
| college.
The alumni dinner Of Thursday af-
t"rnoOn is really the concluding event
Of the week. 1t will doubtless be
marked by announcements by Presi-
dent Hyde of much interest TO the col
lcgr and its friends, and the list of
speakers Will be of exceptional note.
some of the classes will hold their re-
union dinners Thursday evening. Fri
day and Saturday will be devoted to
the entrance examinations and to the
hacking M and departure of the
seniors. The number applying for en-
trance is larger than ever before and
ii is already assured that the FRESH
man class Of next September Will be a
record breaker.