Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-10
PRES. HYDE
TELLS NEEDS
OF BOWDO|N
Larger Salaries, a
Swimming Pool,
Infrmary
Annual Report Of The College
Issued Tuesday

Brunswick, Me, June 9.-(SpeciaD.
Larger salaries for the members OF
the faculty, an infirmary, a swimming
pool. dignified entrance for the
Whittier athletic field, consulting
architect, additional scholarships, loan
funds and prizes, are the most imme-
date needs of Bowdoin college, ae-
cording to the annual report of Pres
issued today. President Hyde says
that the maximum salary for Bowdoin
professors is $541.66 less than the aV-
erage maximum salary paid in II
New England colleges. Bowdoin now
holds in trust or has held in trust by
others, subject to annuities, or use FOR
life, funds amounting to more than
half a million dollars, the income or
which when available will be sufficient
to increase the salaries of professors
to the extent of $500 each and for
time to take care of the inevitable
gradual increase in the general ex-
penses of the college Taking into ac-
count the increased cost of living, or
the diminished purchasing power of
money, the salaries of our professors
have not even remained stationary, but
have seriously declined"
The college needs a cottage hospital
costing something like $4,000 and an
endowment of $4,000 for an infirmary.
The need of a swimming pool is be-
coming each year more and more
pressing to make the college athletic
equipment complete. A wall with
gate and suitable provision for SELL
ing tickets at the entrance would be
a most welcome gift for the Whittier
athletic field. The establishment OF
large prize for work in European his
tory. scholarships of from $1,000 to
$4,000 and a large increase In the loan
fund are urgently needed.
The total gifts and payments on SUD-
scriptions received by the college during
the year total S94,559.79, OF which s9szf.zo
was for the payment of subscriptions TO
tho gymnasium fund. OF the remainder
$50 900 was received from the Edward
A. Drummond bequest, $500 from the
class of 1903 scholarship, $500 from Mrs'
Albion Howe bequest, sfsS.lS from joseph
p Merrill estate, $500 from George +
Davennort, $500 from Miss Jane g. Ma
son $500 from Mrs. Edith D. Files, $40
from Mrs. Elizabeth T. Lee $50 from Al
bert NJ. Rollins, $40 from Mrs. Kate u.
Rigys s64.4O from Mary Elizabeth Wood
bull beouest. $40 from F. L. SmithWick'
coo from Stanley Williams Hon. r. :,
7ovson made a gift of 500 to the Med
zeal School.
President Hyde reports the death Oh
Cen Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, LIZ
n trustee of the college since 1885, on
soh 9S 1914. of Hon. Enoch Foster,
,oemher of the board of overseers since
1909 on Nov Is, 1913; of George sullivan
Pawdoin. liberal friend and benefac'or
of the college on Dec. 16, 1913, and OF
,tiss Caroline Tilton Robinson, assistant
curator of the art collections, on Mareh
q, 1914.
In commenting on the discussion re-
e,oraine the size of the college, Wnlch
has been frequent at alumni gatherings
this wear, President Hyde says: on the
whole the present policy Of high academ-
10 and financial standards. together Win
alumni and undergraduate activity, CIV
,no rs a steadily rising quality ana STA
tionarv or only slightly rising numbers
should be thoroughly appreciated before
we venture on any radical departure IN
the effort to secure either a larger or
smaller number of students.