Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-13
Bowdoin College.

day 10 the Alumni of the college.
AT the beginning of the Presidents
Report appears a tribute to the late
senator. William Pierce Frye of the
class of 1850, also one to John Smith
Sew;Ill OF the same class. President
Hyde also pays a notable mark of re-
spect To this class when he says
sixty six years ago a class of 80
entered this college. a small class as
university and college and even High
school classes run to-day. Yet out of
that class of 81 have come William S.
Gardner, judge of the supreme court
of Massachusetts,; John n. Jewett a
leader of the Chicago bar; Charles
Carroll Everett, dean of the Harvard
Divinity school: General Oliver Otis
Howard. the Christian soldier; Senat-
or William p. Frye, the incorruptible
statesman; and the last to leave us,
Professor SewaH. Bowdoin has sons
whom she recalls with honor and af-
lection in every walk of life: soldiers
scholars. merchants. manufacturers,
lawyers. physicians, statesmen, ex-
plorers. but none whose character she
holds in deeper reverence than that
of Professor Sewan"
President Hyde also refers to the
death of Hon. Franklin A. Wilson, LII.
d. saying: In him geniality, courtesy,
strength, and humor were combined
to form charming personality"
The gifts during the year have been
especially numerous, owing to sub
scriptions for the new gymnasium
The total amount is ST. S65oo this
being divided into gifts and bequests
for general use. s14905.25, gifts for
the Edward Mason Medical DISPENSE
ny. sf,S75.00; gifts fer the Medical
school and endowment fund, s2,497.o0;
gift for the Gen. Thomas Worcester
Hyde Athletic Building, $11,666.67;
gifts for the gymnasium, $41,9S10S
President Hyde refers to the large
gift of Mr. George s. BoWdoin a re-
preventative of the family of the
founder of the college, and that of
Hon. John s. Hyde who contributed
money to pay the entire cost of the
Cen Thomas w. Hyde athletic build
ing.
In addition to these monetary gifts
received during the past year the col
lege has received from their friends
other causes of qualification. For in
stance, by the will of the late Dr. Al
bion S. Whitmore the Medical School
will receive his medical library in
Guiding all books pamphlets, journal
and periodicals relating. TO the subject
of medicine or surgery" Furthermore.
after the termination of a trust in be-
half of his relatives, the college VIII
rece i've a sum of $1,000, the said sum
to be known as the class of 1875 fund,
and Lambda Chapter of zeta Psi fra
teruity will receive $500.
BY the will of the late Miss Almira
K. Hasty the college receives a
scholarship fund of $1,000, preference
in the awarding of this fund being
given to students of Portland and
Cape Elizabeth. On the death of Ger
tain beneficiaries. the college will re-
ceive fund called the Elihu Hasty
Fund. Two thirds of the income OF
this is to be used for the use of the
Medical school, and the remaining
one-t third will be added To the fund it
self until it amounts to $4,000 when
the entire income will be expended for
the use of the Medical school
From the estate of Mrs. Mary II.
Heath, the college will receive in the
future, after certain conditions have
been fulfilled. bequest of about $50.-
geo, made in the memory of Edward
G. Conant. other requests are from
the late Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wood
hull Perry, $4,000 less the Inheritance
tax of the State of Massa chusetts;
from the win of the late Dana Este;
valuable art specimens and a scholar
ship of $2.533.75; from an anonymous
friend, a fund of 81. 900 for the use of
the Edward Mason Dispensary; by the
will of the late Miss Inez A. Blanch-
ard. $4,000 to establish an Edward
+, Moody scholarship in chemistry.
In this report, President Hyde also
announces that the Medical school has
been able to meet the conditions nee
essary to receive the money offered
by Hugh j. Chisholm for the Edward
Mason Dispensary. This was made
possible by the aid of the finance
committee of the college
President Hyde also deals at SOM
length with the new non fraternity
club recently planned for. heartily
commencing the proposition, and also
the new course in English established
at the beginning of the second semes-
ter.
one of the most important an
nouncements in this report is that the
faculty faVors. the institution of Il
new Music Department Mt Bowdoin
which would furnish means of train
ing the glee club, and also instruct thu
chapel choir, which has been the
cause of considerable discussion
among the students this year II thu
overseers and trustees should approve
this plan in June, it is proposed to
give one or two courses in music which
would count toward degree.
President Hyde also recommends
change in the plan OF giving the pro-
fessors opportunity, once in seven
years, for outside study and travel
In speaking of the student body, In
his remarks on the record of the year.
President Hyde says: "On the whole,
the year has been The best the col
lege has ever had. The magnificent
loyalty of the students has been
shown, not only in their most gener-
Gus subscription toward the new gym
nasium, but in Willingness TO drop
whatever would injure, and adopt