Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-01

lege. The ideal number of students for
college, he declared, Is in his opinion be-
happily within these :, limits He hoped
Bowdoin would always be small enough SO
that each individual shall have personal
responsibility for what he is and what he
does. He said that while the college is able
to help its students good deal, it could not
do enough with its present means. The old
conditions of college life that allowed the
students to earn money by teaching and in
other ways during long vacations had
passed. The college work is more exacting
and the vacations are not SO long, SO that
the student of today who attempts to de-.
pend upon his own labor to assist him has
very hard time indeed
As to Athletics.
The speaker went on to say that at Bow
doin athletics are not allowed to monopolize
the time of a student. The foot ball man
who expects to be supported and to do very
little studying will find no encouragement
there. He gave an instance of such case.
Onesof the most brilliant foot ball players
had been obliged to leave the college be-
cause his achievements in that line were
not sufficient to offset other failings, as is
the case in some colleges.
1t was added that Bowdoin gives its
students absolute liberty and then holds
them responsible for their conduct. There
IS no espionage whatever exercised over
the student. but If he goes wrong he is
ference between laying down just what the
students should do and holding him re-
sponsible for results.
DR.: Hyde said he believed that college
should provide home life, and that is
what. the fraternitfes do for the body of
students. The fraternities tend to build up
sentiment of exclusion which was the
result Of men living together and eating at
the same table. but he said that such OBJ
lection was being overcome by efforts that
were made to bring members Of the various
fraternities together in various ways. The
fraternity is becoming to be tremendous
moral influence for good it was declared.
For Sake Of Social Group. =.
"Yor can get man to do for the sake of
his social group with which he is identified
what he will never do for himself it was
asserted. That the speaker remarked, was
motive that helped the college much in
maintaining a high standard of excellence.
Seniors, In order to have their fraternity
given good record. look after the juniors,
and if they find they are not maintaining q
proper standard endeavor to urge them to
better efforts
Finally DR.. Hyde said I'VE ought to
make good Christians of men who go
through college. I mean Christians in a
broad and not in any narrow sense-Chris-
tians in the sense of recognizing the impor-
lance of their lives as influences on all
other lives they touch.''
He believed this effort had been success
full where the cid evangelical definition of
Christian had been the means of deter
mining\ who should be members of the
Christian association, this broader inter-
probation of Christianity had brought into
these associations many others. A year
ago they had thirty-five members who had
joined on the bass of the evangelical def
milton of the term Christian. Now they
have 165 members. these being men who
accept the Christian doctrine in the broad
sense.
He said the college would be improved by
having more money to devote to its work.
but they felt that they were moving in the
direction of the ideal college. All the forces
Of the college were cooperating to that
end.
Other Addresses.
Chief Justice Fuller of the United States
Supreme Court was only excused from
speaking by the unwritten law as an
nounced by DR.. PulsiIer of the Alumni AS
ISOLATION, although they were always glad
to hear from him.
Mr.. John B. Cotton told some stories Of
lively interest illustrating the life of the
college in his day and recalled Characters
ties of President Leonard Wood which had
greatly impressed him.
Representative Alexander of New York
amused the gathering greatly by a recital
of humorous incidents connected with the
history of BowdOin. The vigorous days
that aracteriZed the college fifty years
ago, he said, rendered a gymnasium I'M
necessary.
Gen. Ellis Spear had vivid recollection
OF Bowdon fifty years ago, and he said that
he felt the greatest affection for the veneer
able men who had taught the student body
in those days.
But say now said Gen. Spear, they
We're far aloof from us
The modern method of bringing the facul-
ty into sympathetic relations with the stu
dents and with their games we'll as their
studies he believed was in the right direc-
ton. He had seen DR.. Hyde, president of
the college. Pitch quoits with stu
dent. He could not imagine President Leon
ard Wood pitching quoits or anything else
with the boys. He observed young men
coming from Bowdoin in recent years with
morar purposes in life. He had known men
without these moral purposes who had
wrecked their lives.
DR.. A. X. p. Harvey. who had attended
the college when boy, expressed regret
that circumstances had prevented his con-
tinuance until graduation and contributed
a fund of good stories for the entertainment
OF the members of the alumni association
and its guests
Regrets Conditions.
Representative Stevens of Minnesota re-
GREETED that conditions of college life pre-
vent the boys from teaching as they did
of old, because in no other way that he
knew Of were So many lessons of human
character learned. He told of the early
hours of rising at BowdOin of the athletic
sports, of the methods of trimming and of
students trials and recreations many years
ago. Mr.. Stevens expressed qualification
that the boys of today are being impress
ed with the idea of responsibility.
Our people, said Mr. Stevens, have
appealed TO the national government for
many things they should do for themselves,
and for things that their states their To-
calities should 90. ] am afraid that the in
stitutons of learning generally are not
teaching boys their responsibilities as citi-
Zens.'
He said the scope of the government over
national affairs has been constantly grow
ing. 1t is we'll if this growth is not to
have i'll effects that citizens should be
taught their responsibility as citizens. He
was glad to know that Bowdoin College
was doing that.
Mr. George NJ. Whitaker of the Depart
ment of Agriculture was. called upon, and
said that he was enjoying his first opportu-
nifty to meet the BOwdoin Alumni in this
city. He tod of the fraternal efforts made
by the alumni in Boston to cultivate good
fellowship. He was glad to note that today
students at BOwdOn are placed more upon
their honor and responsibility than ever
before in maintaining the school of high
standard.
Rev Frank ScWau spoke of the work of
some of the larger colleges in their post
graduate courses. looking to Invention and
discovery, and said that while great claims
were made for them he was disappointed,