Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-16
Seminary Has an Attend :
ance Of ~ Students.
Membership Equally Divided
Between Boys and Girls.
Forty Students Will Graduate on
Thursday Evening.

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During the years in which l have
been connected with KentS Hill Sem1-
nary" said President Wilbur F. Berry
this week, there las been steady,
continuous growth, in attendance and
in facilities for work. We have had
no phenomenal or sensational uplifts,
neither have we taken any backward
steps. The growth has been normal,
and healthy, and yet in the past seven
years the attendance has increased
3Ses, and we now have an attendance
of 172 students The membership is
divided about equally between the boys
and girls, and the class which will
graduate this coming week will num-
Der forty
The alumni and friends who come
back to Kents Hill this week will be
pleased with the general appearance
of the place. Much work has been
done in the past few years in improve
ments and for the beautifying of the
grounds and buildings. Handsome
steel ceilings have been put in Samp-
son Hall and Bearce Hall, The Society
room of the Calliopeans have been
newly furnished and decorated, ana
through the generosity of Alden j.
Blethen. of Seattle. Washington. the
Presidents house is undergoing ex-
tensive repairs. Hard wood floors arc
being laid new and modern plumbing
installed, and the exterior of the house
is being newly painted. SO that the
President will find a tidy and COM
Portable home, when the new school
year begins.
TO one not familiar with the place,
the Maine Wesleyan Seminary on
Kents Hill presents Il most inviting as
pect. Situated on the crest of a
magnificent hill. in the little village.
the campus and buildings OF the Semi
nary are wonderfully well located.
From the four sides of the rectangle,
scenery such as only Maine can sup
ply. spreads panorama before the
vision. Woods. fields. lakes, distant
mountains, combine to charm the eye.
And it is always cool on Kents Hill
the breeze never ceases to blow, AMI
the air is always sweet and fresh, y
says resident there.
Surrounding the campus are located
the several buildings; Sampson hall,
the dormitory and boarding house; ;
Bearce hall, containing the recitation
halls, chapel, museum. laboratories,
reading room and society hall for the
gentlemen; Kicker hall with art
rooms, library, music rooms, gymnas-
ium, and assembly hall. These are the
buildings most commonly visited, but
beyond these are found two immense
big barns, model buildings of their
kind. which together with hen houses.
a large piggery. horse barn and other
outbuildings. are used in the support
of the model farm run by the Semi
nary. of which less is known.
This new barn. is one Of the sights
of the place. 1t houses more than
forty-five handsome cattle. Holsteins,
and headed by a fine young bull
"Elmwood." Six big draught horses
are needed to carry on the work of the
farm; 300 hens furnish none too many
eggs for home consumption. and from
the dairy comes over one hundred
pounds of butter. weekly, all used at
the Seminary. The creamery is sup
piled with new and modern outfit, and
the churning is done. by tread
worked by young calf. funny
sight it is to see him reluctantly take
his place and patiently trot up and
down, turning the big wheels that
work the churn.
One of the great attractions of Com
mencement week was the Art
reception in Kicker hall The ex-
hibition which is displayed in
the art rooms is surprisingly good. to
the visitors Each student at the
Seminary is expected to give a certain
time to the course in art work and
some remarkably fine things are done
by students who have by this means
discovered an hitherto unknown talent
Among the pictures this year already
on the line. will be specially noticed a
still life of a quiet corner in a quaint
old room: "a fruit piece, of shiny red
apples some magazine cover designs
original. that are particularly good. in
black and white; a black and white
study of Il kitten; Il marine in which
the surf is finely painted; another, of
quiet harbor. with sails at rest; and
much work i'm the purely mechanical
drawing that is very meritorious
These things will show for themselves