Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-20
Judges Find Difficulty Naming
Winners Of Alexander Prize.
Hop Tuesday Evening in Memo
rial "Wednesday Busy Day
Tennis Matches, Buffet Luncheon
and Alumni Assn Meeting.

Brunswick. Me-. June 19-(SpeeiaD
-Th, Bowdoin Commencement pro-
srart was continued Monday evening,
wbm the Alexander prize speaking
contest was held in Memorial hall The
hsll was well filled with graduates,
Students and townspeopIe The speak
ms all did finely and so closely were
they matched that the judges found it
rather difficult to pick the winner. The
program was ,as follows:
Music
The Spell of the Yukon (adapted).
Service
Robert Devore Leigh.
The Monroe Doctrine. Thurston
George Franklin Eaton
The Final Scene from Manfred" Byron
, Cedric Russell Crowell
Music
The Knight of the Spike Sole Boots, Day
John Lawrence Hurley.
The Duty of the American Scholar,
Curtis
Paul Howard Douglas.
Hkssmus 0Brien, lie Fanu
John Edward Dunphy.
Music.
From Henry the Eighth Shakespeare
Arthur Deehan WEIGH
Spartacus to the Roman ENJOYS.
Loring Pratt.
The Explorer. Kipling
Merton william Greene
Music
Announcement of Judges Decision.
Alternates Burleigh Gushing Rodick
Edward Oliver Baker, Ralph Levin
Buell.
Large numbers of the alumni are
arriving in Brunswick on every train
and by the time of the exercises Tues
dav tc tad ha fruf tor ~
house will be well filled. The only ex-
ercise on Monday was the Alexander
prize speaking held in the evening.
The winner was Arthur ID. WEIGH
of Portland; with Robert Lee of
Seattle, Wash. second choice.
The judges We're: Alpheus Sanford.
rs. Boston, Rev ..aia0nf Dana of
Hallowell: Prih.. H. M. Bisbee, 80.
Phillips Exeter. Exeter, n. H.
Tuesday is Class day, when some of
the most important exercises will be
held. In the morning at 10 O'clock the
SenioES.xkaars by Robert Martin
- Honlton. will march into
hall, where the following
&&rcises will be observed:
Music.
Willard Hallowell Curtis
"a fsS$s Music.
Orb = Joseph Curtis White
Music.
Poem. Charles Boardman Halves
Music.
At 8 o'clock in the afternoon the exer-
cises will be contirued under the Thorn
dixie Oak. The following program will be
observed in the afternoon:
Music.
Opening Address. Lawrence Mcfarland
Music.
Glass History. William Henry Clifford
Closing Address Arthur Harrison Cole
Music.
These exercises will be Immediately
followed by the singing of the Class
Day. ode, of which the words and mu
sic were written BY Chester Elijah
Kellogg. After this the pipe of peace
is snoked by each of the Seniors. who
arg seated in circle in front of Me-
mesial hall. The cheering of each hall
follows, after which each Senior bids
hht classmate farewell shaking hands
with each of them.
The Commencement hop. which is
che of the best dances of the college
Year. will be held in Memorial hall on
Tuesday evening. Most of the Seniors
and many. graduates and undergrad
vi
tout doubt the floor will be well filed
with dancers. Chambers Orchestra of
Portland will furnish the music for an
order of "a dancers. The patronesses
will be: Mrs. William Dewitt Hyde.
I Mrs. George C. Riggs. Mrs. Henry
8 johnson. Mrs. Charles C. Hutchins
Mrs. Roscoe j. Ham and Mrs. William
~, Davis, all of Brunswick.
ednesday will be very busy day
on&the Commencement program. In the
forenoon from II to r. tennis matches
will be played between teams repre-
senting the aluHni, faculty and under
graduates At $50 P. M. buffet
luncheon andG meeting of the Alumni
Association will be held in the Sargent
Gymnasium.
At O'clock in the afternoon the
Bowdoin Dramatic Club will give an
outdoor performance, portraying
scenes from the Twelfth Night and
from The Piper
In the evening the campus will he
Illuminated and a band concert Will
be held. Immediately after the con-
cert. the alumni are invited to re-
ception given by President god MRS.
Hyde in Hubbard hal. .p q II d