Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-06-26


and in addition have frightened up the
administration of the college at vari-
Gus points. bringing it into closer re-
lation with the alumni through the
Bulletin, and with the schools through
extensive correspondence, and making
its administration as systematic and
effective as that of a well conducted
business corporation.
The trustees and overSeers by their
direct action, and through committees
appointed for the purpose, have freed
the college from the last vestige of
legal denominatiOnal control. 1t was
an anomaly for an institution of lib
eral learning in the Goth century to be
compelled under penalty of forfeiture
of funds to select any of its officers or
teachers from single religious de-
nomination. From that intOlerable yoke
the college stands today, in that abso-
Lutte freedom which was granted by its
founders in the charter. At the same
time, while we are free from the legal
compulsion which ought never to have
been imposed, we are still free in the
same sympathy with the COngrega-
tional church we have always MAIN
tanned, ard we are free to establish
similar relations of sympathy with
any other denomination which in years
to come may prove itself a power in
the spiritual life of the community
and State.
AS the first fruits of this recovered
liberty we have been admitted to the
benefits of the Carnegie Foundation
which secures automatically to retir-
ing professors and the widows of de-
ceased professors who have served the
college long and faithfully, an ade-
quate provision for comfort in old age
Our alumni and friends have done
best of all. In response to an appeal
for increased endowment they have
pledged 1000, which, in addition t.
| S6600U received during the year, makes
a total increase in payment and
pledges within the year of $343. 600
SubtractinS from this fund the defici,
for the year and the Stone fund for
| feited as the price of our liberty, the
balance for the year leaves us consd-
| erabiy more than quarter of a mil
lion to the good. Not least among oul
| causes of rejoicing is the fact that $50,
| 600 of this sum comes from represcn-
tative of the Eowdoin family, and that
| $4,000 is to cndoW a professorship ir
| the name of Hon. Thomas b. Reed. In
| aSmuch as there have been times dur
| ing the PAST year when all thess
| things seemed us near impossible as
| right things ever can be, it is an es'
| pecial satisfaction to report them al
| this time as accomplished facts.
The year mas brought us a great sor-
| row in the death of Prof. Lee. BY his
| genial personality, his broad scholar
ship, his kindly interest in his student.
and his loyal devotion to the college
| he, like his predecessor, Parke
| Clcavcland, had become one of thu
! very few who had so lived in ant
worked for Bowdoin College that h'
was even more completely a part o
the college than most of those who ar'
born her sons. Such service and devo
ton the college can never forget. Al
ready his pupils and colleagues hav'
| placed upon the wallis of the Science
| building a tablet inscribed with thei
gratitude and affection.
This year also marks the placing o
q tablet at the entrance of Hubbard
| hall in memory of Hon. Stephen j
Young, honored and beloved as pro
| fcssor, treasurer and trustee.
The college also has it's tribute fo
| the conspicuous achievements of he
| living sons. Today we unveil a portrai
of one whose name has been on ou
catalogue for 60 years-for more than
| 40 years as a trustee and as prOfesso
and president of the college, as Gov
ernor of the State, and officer in th'
Civil War has won the gratitude ant
admiration of his college, his State ant
his nation. The portrait of Genera
Joshua L. Chamberlain will be pre-
Sented to us in behalf of numerous
donors by Hon. James p. Baxter, Lift
| D., president of the Historical SOciet!
| and a member of our committee on art
1t will be received in behalf of the col
lege by General Thomas II. Hubbard
LII. D., who, in Virgil's phrase ''sav
with his own eyes and bore a larg'
| part in those trying experience
where General Chamberlain achieved
| his fame.