Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-05
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CC ~ rs unrest IN mOurnful melody
Each ra;s, SURF ana now less noisily
| youth - vain VI
Re-echoes in our ears. How Thankful, wa
fo' f fnrse sun woodland days where we
for lIfeiong voyage may store our minds
with Earnings truth!
president John Leland Crosby. End
VI Bangor presided over the exercises
anu now gave his address, which
caused much amusement by the refer
ences to 1903 in the short class HISTORY
given. He spoke as follows:
president Crosby spoke as follows:
Friends of Bowdoin College and of
the Class of 1910. It is my very pleas
ant-duty to welcome you on behalf of
TINS class to it's Ivy Day exercises.
Since the year 1865, A years ago. il
mas been the custom at Bowdoin to set
aside day which belongs peculiarly
TO the Junior class. The Class of 1910
mas arrived at that day, and heartily
welcomes its guests to the festivities of
the occasion. For although there is per-
maps a little sadness in contemplating
that but one year of our allotted four is
ieit 70 us here, yet IN this day all is.
as ltshould be. good fellowship, min
gled with pleasant memories of the
happy days we have spent together.
Ii any of you were so unfortunate as
to be present at the Ivy Day exercises
of the Glass of 1909, you probably re-
oeiVed the erroneous impression that
the aforesaid crowd of worthless was
all there was to it, anyhow This is far
from the truth. l do not need to ask
YOU to glance behind me to see the ia
ces of the noblest, most removed and
lilustrious ella IS that has ever entered
these gates of learning, for the di-
rection and admiration of your looks
has assured me that you have already
srasped this self evident truth.
we arrived on the scene of our fu-
ture labors and triu.nphs September
u, 1906. Our advent was received with
shouts of joy by the sophomores, who
were evidently greatly pleased at see
ing a band Of youths a bit greener than
themselves. Their joy even took the
form of makingl strange noises on our
doors with clubs of wood. In an in
credibly short tine we were shown fur
Their uses of these instruments which
are too painful to recall. But we re-
covered sufficiently to mere than re-
turn the compliments by beating them
at the manly game of football THIS
was the first Of a long series of athle-
tic honOrs which has attended us
throughout our course, and it was fit
tinSly celebrated by 4 nightly eXpedi-
ton to Bath.
The vicissitudeS and triumphs of
freshman year We're over all too soon,
and June IS found us on our way to
Portland to SOlemniZe the event of our
coming into our majority by proper
exercises. With Stubby McGlone as
POSTMASTER, and Jimmy Draper, Nose
Woodward, Harry Mac, Tom Commins,
Kid Weeks, George Maconbe Cy Ro-
we'll and Rodney Ross RECALLING us with
illuminating ideas on the faculty, our
soLhomores, athletics, the glorious
class of 1910, etc, we spent a pleasant
evening at the Lafayette, the blue of
our class and our stout canes being
much in evidence, with fun and hilarity
unchecked. Tie exercises were brought
to close by a triumphant dance
around the Statute of our famous
graduate. ... I..
Tho next fall we We're back early to
attend to our duties in respect to the
freshmen. From our revercd sophO
mores we had learned so well the les
son'of humility that 1911 is admittedly
the best trained class in college, In
fact, we did such an excellent job, that
the faculty, through fear of succeeding
classes lowering the high standard of
the r;izoos we engineered, positively
forbade, last fall. further practice of
this gentle custom. But who of our
class will ever forget those pleasant
sojourns we took. especially that mem
orablc Casco Bay party, with String
Hansen leading the cheering on the car
notneward bound
1t was last spring also that the ath-
leteS of our class came into prominence
Ivy winning as many points in the
Maine intercollegiate meet as our near
est rival and then scored enough
points at Rrookline to place us second
in the New England Intercollegiate
meet With such removed athletics as
Morrill,. Goliath, Edwards, Slocum.
Warren. and Dcming. the class has
made its mark in athletics. for five of
these men now hold State records.
This second stage Of our college jour
ney was brought to as brilliant close
AS was our freshmen year. with ban
uuct at the Falmouth. If 1 recollect
Alright. the speeches which were pre-
pared fer that august occasion We're
never delivered. possibly because the
fellows all wanted to take in the show;
certainly this is plausible eNplana-
ton.
This year we have lived fully up to
the flattering expectations which were
formed for us on the basis of the wor-
thy exploits of our first two years, and
we venture to predict that at the close
of the coming year there will be much
weeping and gnashng of teeth on the
Bowdoir campus at the departure tc
the outside world of the glorious Glass
of 1910.
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