Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-26

John Ralph Hamel Is, of Portland;
Abraham Seth Schwaryz Is, of Port
land; Theodore Burgess Forbes II, of
Portland
Commencement Dinner
After the exercises the Commence
ment dinner was served at the new
gymnasium, plates being laid for more
than 500 alumni and invited guests At
the head table with President. William
Dewitt Hyde were Rev, Edward ~
Packard '62 of Stratford. CT, Leon NJ.
Forbes 92 Of Portland, Hon. Frederick
A, Powers 10 of Houlton, Hon. Clar-
ence Hale go of Portland, Hon. Galen
c. Moses Sc of Bath, William G. Beale
II of Chicago, Hon. William L. Put
nam So of Portland, President A
Lawrence Lowell of Harvard Univer-
sity,, Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard 81 of
New York City. President Samuel V
Cole "A of Wheaton College, Edward
Stanwood 81 of Brookline, aMss, Joel
Nj, Marshall so of Bar Mills, DR.. Fred
erick Fl Gerrish of Portland, Hon. Fa-
vius H. Ray 81 Of Portland.
's4 Wins Trophy
President Hyde at the close Of the
| dinner announced that the David F.
Snow reunion trophy had been won by
| the class of 1894 with rs per cent. of
| its members present; 1879 had 70 per
cent. and 1889 had II per cent. of their
members present. The class of 1909
had the largest number OF members
present to ever represent a class at a
Rnxu6nin
registered. The Friar scholarship Gun
was awarded for the eighth consecutive
time to the Delta Epsilon fraternity.
The other fraternities stodo as follows.
| Kappa Sigma, Kett Psi. Beta Theta
| P1. Theta Delta Chi, Alpha Delta Phi.
Delta Kappa Epsilon, Bowdoin Club.
Psi Epsilon.
President Hyde then spoke as fol-
lows:
Gifts and Requests.
President William Dewitt HYDE.
VINO presided at the Commencement
| dinner announced the following gift
and requests of the college and the
names of the new members of the fac
ulty.
Financially this has been a great
year. We have received $50, 600 from
the bequest of Edward A Drummond
$4,000 from the bequest of Mrs
Ephraim Cummings; $4,000 in sub
scriptions to the new gymnasium
S2500 from the classof 1903; and S2500
fro mother donors; making in all near
ly $780, 900 In addition we have had
positive assurance of $4,000 from the
bequest of Dr. Frank Hartley, and half
million from the bequest of Edwin B.
Smith. Esq, of New York
Not only is this a good year, all our
years are good; we have no lean ones.
The habit of giving to the college is
growing. In the seven years since we
began our last campaign for increa sed
endowment in 1907, our income produc-
ing funds have nearly doubled: hav-
ing increased from $1,192,000 in 1907
to s2,312,0o0 in 1914. While this en-
dowment has been doubling, the alum
nj and friends of the college have cree
ted this splendid gymna SUM and ath-
letic building at cost of Sis, O00 Put
ting together all we have received in
buildings and endowment; and all that
is surely on the way to us IN the set
Element of estates, the college has
ildue III seven years IL gam or Sl,t0U,
900, a pretty substantial sum when you
consider that this seven year period
began with an actual and is ending
with a psychological depression in
the business world.
! What have We to show for it? New
courses in music, fine arts and munich
pal government The preceptorial
method of instruction in half a dozen
departments: intensified or extended
instruction in all departments; more
teachers, better paid more likely to
remain. More scholarships and re-
munerative employment for needy and
J deserving students: so that no vigor
Gus and resourceful student need stay
away for lack of funds. A spirit of
hard, honest work among the students
responding to more inspiring and in
diVidual instruction: cleaner morals
resulting from harder and more inter
estng work; wholesome fraternity
| life or its equivalent made available
at moderate cost to every student; a
student body that manages its own af-
| fairs honorably, uprightly, effectively
and both through studies and through
college life gets training for effec-
| tive and beneficent conduct of affairs
We have a college so thorough and