Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-08
BOWD0IN COLLEGE.
Dec, 18 Date For University
OF Vermont Debate
BoWdoin Students Are Rapidly
Increasing in Number.
Prof. G. W. Knox Is College Speak
er For Next Sunday. :

The date for the debate between the
University Of Vermont and BoWdoin
has been definitely set as Dec. Is. The.
debate will take place in Memorial hall,
be: "Resulved, That the Federal Gov
ernnent Should Grant Financial Aid
to Ships Engaged in Our Foreign
Trade and Owned by Citizens of the
United States" Bowdoin has the af-
nrmative, and will be represented by
Jasper Jacob Stahl, 90, Of Waidohoro;
Ralph owen Brewster, '09, of Dexter,
Harrison Atwood. 'U9, of Auburn,
speaking in the order named iii the
opening. In tie rebuttal the order of
speaking will lie Brewster, Atwood and
Stahl The names Of the Vermont
speakers have Tot as yet been re
CelVed.
On Tuesday evening there will be a
practice debate in the debating room
of Hubbard hall between the Bowdoin
teams and u second team, consisting of
Daniel John Readey, 10, of Manches
ter, \. H.; Harold Hity Burton, '09, OF
West Newton. Mass; Harold New
man Marsh, 'O9, Of Woodfortis. At this
meeting the Vermont debate VIII be
discussed. This practice debate will be
open to the public and it is strongly
urged that the college attend. The
same motive should actuate the stu
dents in attending this practice debate
which lead them to the athletic field to
witness Il scrmmage between the frs
and second teams before a big game.
Or. Frederic Fl. Gerrish, LII. D., &c
viii speak next Thursday evening or
"A Study OF English F.ponyms" DR.
Gerrish is professor Of surgery in tn
BoWdcin Medical School, for over .
years has been an oVerseer of the col
loge, is d loyal Bowdoin man, and ont
who is an authority on many subjects
Last year he gave q most interestin;
and instructive talk on Though
1ransference, and in spite of the un-
usual subject which Dr. Gerrish ha.
chosen for next Thursday evening j
can he safely guaranteed that the tall
will be Very interesting.
IN the past three or four years Bow
doin has been increasing not only il
number Of students, but also in tho
percentage of students coming fror
outside the State Of Maine. A larg
Freshman class of 116 students, to
gether with an unusually large mum
bor entering Oh advanced standing thi
year, sWelled the enrolment in tn
college to 3iS, which is a gain of IA pc
cent. in the number Of students owe
last year.
Still more significant, however is the
increase in the number from outside
this State. For over quarter of a cen
tury prior to the year 1904, BOWdoil
drew less than II per cent. of its stu.
dents from other states. The portfol
of students coming from outside tn,
state was, in 1853, only 5i2 per cent.
in 1891, it was seven per cent; in 100
it vas eight per cent. 1t then increase
gradually to 1904, when it became
pcr cent.
In the last four years the increasc
| has been very rapid. From 1904 to 1870
the increase was from Il to % pc
cent. OF the $50 new students (ths in
cludes specials and those admitted ol
advanced standing) 33 per cent. ar,
| from outside of Maine so that in or,
year, the percentage of students in TIL.
whole college who are from without
the State of Maine has increased from
23 per cent. to IS per cent
| The college preacher next Sunda.
will be Prof. George William Knox o
| New York Prof Knox is one OF til,
! kceneSt thinkers on religious problem
il: the United States today A nativ,
Of New York state. a graduate of Ham
| llton College and Auburn Theological
Seminary, he went as a missionary L,
Japan in its first years Of operation
Socn he was called to be professor
ethics in the Imperial University o
Japan. He wrote several books in The
japanese language, including "a Brie
System of Theology" lie returned t
this country, was pastor Of the Presby
terian church at Rye. n. g., and later
became professor of the philosophy an(
history of religion in Union Theologi
cal Seminary, New York. AS a preache
his notable characteristics are acut'
insight, clear statement, Fascinating
and enthusiastic personality i'll a tin.
body, and great breadth of view.