Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-24
BOWOOIN COLLEGE,
The Annual Thanksgiving
Recess Begins Today.
Beta Sigma Chapter Gives an
Informal Dancing Party.
BoWdoin Students Interested in
Rochester Missionary Convention.

Brunswick, Me-, Nov. 23.-(Special).
The Thanksgiving recess for Bow
doin students begins this year on
Wednesday, Nov. "a, and extends to
$40 Monday morning, Nov. 90. Nearly
every man is planning on going home
or spend the recess with some friend
BY o'clock tomorrow it is expected
that very few students will remain on
the campus. This year, as has been
the rule for the last few years, it will
be impossible for students to obtain
leave Of absence on days immediately
preceding or following the recess. eX-
cept that students living in towns
where there are no Sunday trains, may
have permission to return on the first
train Monday morning, by applying to
Professor Kenneth c. NJ. Sills, secre-
tary of the faculty. BY this means a
full attendance is secured at all recita-
tons Immediately preceding and fol-
lowing the recess.
Beta Sigma Chapter of Beta Theta
ri Fraternity held an informal dancing
party tonight in its pleasant home on
McKeen street as a Publication before
the Thanksgiving recess. Among
those present were Miss Helen Rich
ardson, Miss Lula Barbour Portland;
Miss Carrie Sparks, Miss Therese
Newbert. Augusta; Miss Litchfield,
Miss Marion Lowell, Miss Mckee, Miss
Bliss of Lewiston; Miss Holly, Miss
Pinsree, Bath; Miss Frances Little,
Miss Mabel Davis, Brunswick.
The chaperones We're Mrs. Frank
Roberts, Brunswick; Mrs. Stephen
Gardner, Calais; Prof and Mrs. Paul
Nixon, Brunswick: Mr. and Mrs. AL
gernon Chandler, Prof William Snow
and Miss Snow, Brunswick. The COM
mittee consisted of G.. Cony Weston
10, Augusta, chairman; Leslie Brum-
NETT, II, RoXbury, Mass, and Law
renee Davis II, of Boston. Music was
furnished by kendries Orchestra.
Dancing was enjoyed until 1 o'clock.
RoWdoin students and especially the
members of the Bowdoin College Chris
tan Association are much interested in
the missionary convention to be held at
Rochester, n. Y, from December % to
January > and delegates from the
faculty and the student body have
been chosen to attend. This is the
fifth Student Volunteer Convention
held for all the colleges in the United
States and Canada. over LOCO in
situations will be represented, and it is
expected that the number of delegates
will exceed 5000. Colleges as far dis
tHnt thn mi Of
the University of Colorado will send
representatives.. 1t can safely he said
that it will be tho most important col
lego gathering of its kind ever held.
The object Of the convention is 10 as
semble together representatives of our
colleges to discuss problems of mission
arv interest. Probably half the dele
gates will be planning to become mis-
sionaries. The remainder will be those
most interested in the home support of
foreign missions, and the increase of
interest in colleges. The
speakers will be the acknowledged
leaders in these subjects, and among
them may be mentioned Robert f.
Spoer. always prominent at the North
field Conference and John r. Mott, who
has just returned from Il visit to the
colleges of ten European nations.
Missionary interest was never SO
keen throughout the country as 1t is
this year. The recent gift of five mil
lion dollars to Presbyterian missions
indicates this aroused interest. This
winter the Laymens Missionary Move
ment will hold conventions in every
city in the countryA- Portlands will be
baI n, IN IN a
of 5000 delegates at Chicago
this spring, when President Taft will
be a prominent speaker.
Missionary interest is also on the
increas here at Bowdoin. A. Hiwale,
'o9 will he partly supported as Bow
doin's special missionary in India. Dur
ing the second semester Mission Study
classes will be held throughout the
college. Accordingly it seems wise for
Bowdon to send a full delegation to
this Rochester Convention, so that the
work here may be improved by sugges-
tons from similar work in other col
leSes. Four years ago at Nashville.
Tenn. Bowdoin was unrepresented but
this time five delegates will be sent.
Because of the limited size of the con-
vention hall, this is all that Bowdoin
is allowed. At the last meeting of the
Christian Association. the following
delegates were elected: -Professor
Kenneth c. NJ. Sills. Mr.. James L. Nc
Conaushy, Secretary of the Bowdoin
Christian Association, Harold w. Slo-
cum, 10 of Albany, n. Y; William c.
Allen. IL of st Paul. MINI. Frank A.
Smith. IL of Calais.
There has been considerable discus
sion among the undergraduates at
Bowdoin as to how the $1,000 gift
which Bowdoin has just received by
the will of the late John Steward Ken
nodv would be used. Some assumed
that this would be made the starting
fund for the new gymnasium of which
Bowdoin is in such need but the money
will not be used for this purpose. The
sum was given for general purposes
without any restrictions as to ITS use
and to spend money given in this way
For a gymnasium does not seem best to
those who have charge ofits outlay.
The trend of college philanthropy IS
usually towards the spectacular. Rlch
men who give money to COLLEGES