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Interesting Reports
From Bates Bulletin.

lewiston. Me, June 25.-(SpeclaD.-
The commencement number OF tue
Rates College Bulletin is now out. TINS
number contains the annual report OF
President George Ga6Chase together
with the reports of the various de-
| nartments. Extracts from the report
of President Chase will be of interest
10 the public in general and are print
ed below.
The deaths of ten graduates were
recorded within the year. they are
Everett A. Nash 10; William O. Col
Inns 70; Almond l.. Woods 80; Rufus
II Douglas 80; Ella Louisa Knowles
Haskell "a: Ivy H. Smith 80; Albert
NJ. Jones 90: Perley E. Cole "a; Guy
C. HAYNES 'Os; Wynona c. Pushor '0S.
THE total number of Bates gradu-
ates to date is 1850; f04S men and 5oz
women. The total number of gradu-
ates living is 141S; 936 men and 4SS
women. If we add the members OF
the class of 1911, the total number Oh
living graduates would be 1916; l0s'
men and sol women. 1t Will be seen
that slightly more than one-thlrd OF
the living graduates are women. or
our 1913 graduates, 55l have gone out
in the last seven years. and 1888
within the last II years. They are
distributed through all quarters OF our
globe and are doing efficient work in
every part of the United States, Can
ada, Mexico, Central America, South
America. the Philippines, in Turkey,
India, China and Africa. Nearly AZ
per cent. are engaged in educational
work. in which by common consent
| they are not surpassed in efficiency
and influence by graduates of any
other college.
Decided improvements have been
made in the ventilation of our build
| ings by the introduction of compare
lively inexpensive means. The
chemical laboratory has been still fur
Their improved and equipped. and
every available foot of its area has
ben utilized for student work.
From the beginning of her history
Bates has been in the thought. pur-
pose and efforts of her founders ana
friends a thoroughly Christian instituc
ton. In spirit, purpose and life
Bates has been thoroughly democratic
She tolerates no artificial distinctions
The young man who shovels ashes
saws wood, or waits on table. that he
may procure the means to pursue his
studies suffers no disparagement as
candidate for the presidency of his
class or of his society"
Mention is made of the Carnegie
science subscription, and the new
science building which has been be-
gum: II, am glad to tell you that our
great need of art material and of
works of art has been generously
recognized by several warm friends.
During the winter we received from
| Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Charles c. Ames of
Boston an ideal bust of Christ 1t
was executed in Florence many years
| ago by Hiram Powers, and was for
| long time in the home of the late
| Governor Walcott of Massachusetts
and subsequently in the home of DR..
Ames. 1t is among the works of
noteworthy merit by Powers, and is
highly valued by us both for it's own
excellency and its embodiment of the
excellencies of a particular school of
art Our urgent need of means for
illustrating the development of art
and giving our students in our art
course an opportunity for approaching
the work of many of the worlds great
est masters has been in the past, but,
most helpfully met. through the gem
crosby of Miss Annette P. Rogers of
Boston, who has given several large
photographs that were carefully Sc
fleeted by her in Europe. They are
iaypallant comics of calahrataI lS