Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-29
GOWNS OF BLACK j
And Bobbing Lines Of Nor
taboards Feature Of Week.
Jealaal Man ai.,Baies and Bow
dbin, and Mhai He Saw.
Even Rewdoin Led by a Wom'ar-.
Politics and Gossip.

On TIE Road, June rs, Especially r.
M6rtarsboards and owing gowns of
black in long and bobbing, professions
are piotufed ia~my mind as write.
Wednesday ! stumbled upon the
Bates Commencement March to the
city hall in Lewiston as it turned
down Park from Maine street, and
Thursday. the Traveller watched the
Commencement parade at Bowdoin.
Somehow the former suggested to my
mind Votes for Women for grace.
full feminine figures walked beside the
masculine forms and becoming mortar
boards We're coquettishiy perched on
wonnanly tresses knotted in Grecisin
euils While IL added to the interest Of
the classical march to see the gradu-
ating sirls with the youthful men both
ON equal footing On the bricks of life
for similar scholastic prizes in the
tightly rolled and blue-ribbaned Sheep
skins" it somehow seemed to strike Il
diseoFdi in the harmony of the fine June
Commencement day. Prejudice, Pref
udioe. to be sure college men as a rule
have this prejudice. for. don't you see,
the girls in the coed colleges pay s1cil
strict attention to business that they
walk off on Commencement day and
ctlser red fetfer DAYS of fire sconrsei
with altogether a dispreportionats
share of Cum magma laudes" and 9TH
er honors-which. the girls heing bar
red, they might have had all ~ tllcmr
selvesl
1t was different at Bowdoin With
clrandler's great band heading the long
parade of gowns and boards and 4 stin
longer line of alumni bringing up be-
hind. no girls We're to be seen and
proud man had all the glory TO him
self. But alas, he didn't For up at
the very head of the masculine and
therefore dignifed line, escorted by
one Of the faculty. and bearing eff the
honors of the historic and entirely
hens College. was-a woman The
woHfan. In the eyes s,f many overtop-
ping in intellectual greatness even the
governors and admirals and statesmen
in the line, VAS Kate Douglas Wiggin.
an honorary alumnus. or alumna-of the
school. The lady,s presence in Itself
gave little touch of sarcasm and re-
raonstrance to the Bowdoin law prohi-
iting the presence of the gentler sex as
students of the institution.
ARpetite That's Champion of Maine
The trolley car was on top OF one of
The LishRn bills Along the western
horizon and rapidly reaching the ze-
NTH were clouos that formed II black
blanket that hid the azure sky Light
ninss. zaaaAsd- and -torrerlial rain de-
seef.ded and the car came tn II crawl
and then a sudden stop. All windows
weres closed and every one on board
was thankful that 1t WAS not an open
car In the wide vista II was q grand
scene of j summer tempest. ON the
sandhill OF Shiloh iinpressiyelg THE
White walls of that retreat arose Tic
Traveller was Withdrawn froH his re-
cctions Of Natures manifestations of
her power by the talk of the motor
men anent another employe of the r,
A 4 w, Who being on special Outs
for the linc was ordered by
Headquarters TO rem a n " h ere
he ives and get dinner at the
nearest eating shop, charging up his
lunt h TO the office of the road. He did
so pnd tho total cost of this employees
''feetiY was $3.50 He is a robust eater.
the trolley men said. He has been
known IL devour for a between meals
not 10 he mentioned as astronomical
fe*t for this same Young gentleman
of he T.. A. & w Was once ''time,tr
at. meal in which he devoured with
arfst ppet,te that remained with him to
theeefd &c the meal. the following me-
nu-sT fried eggs. one pound Of fried
ham. two losves of bread. one piece of
cussafh pie and for drinkahleg seven
cups OF coffee. On Wager he has beer
able to more than duplicate this feat.
Why Old Massachusetts" Was Paint
cd Red.
MaEFsolInsetts Hall is the original
college building on the Bowdoin Cam
pus. II is pewly painted a most vivid
REQ. Herein Thursday the Class of 81
wasrs established fer its 18th reunion.
Colonel + c, PIummer of Bath one of
the members Of the class is authority
for the statement that the College offi-
cIais. when they assigned the building
to the use of 81, and recalling the
.nissnv. times that class had painted
No 4dpin 4 carmine tint in its college
sdavs. forthwith gave the order fbr
Old Massachusetts to he painted its
present color especially becauss therein
was 81 to. hold it's silver renuion this
week. F.s ~
Political Gossip in Second District.
Three weeks ago ! met one of the
most 1evel-headed politicians in the
Second district He is well known all
over Maine for his lack of party
prejudice and likewise for the possess
sion of as1arge assortment of horse
sense. Mentioning politics. he said
Things are pretty well mixed just at
present. and 1t looks to me as though
Taft would be. licked and the Re-
publican party go to smash in No
vember In State election in Septem-
ber I'm not so sure but that Fred win
viii out" This gentleman, although
a Republican, voted for Colonel
RHisted two Scars ago. The Tray
elier in Lewiston, Wednesday, met
thisS politician and again listened tea
his Ghat upon matters political ThfsA
time he remarked: Il am now of the
opinion that the Republican party
viii win out in the fall elections and 4
defeats the Democrats both in this A
State and in the nation. BY electionI
time things will be smoothed over, the