Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-04-03
SONS Of BOWDO|N
At ANNUAL DINNER
"PreCious Memories" Recalled
at Meeting of the College
Alumni Association.
PROF. FILES ENUMERATES
NEEDS OF INSTITUTION
Addresses by Representative Alex
ander, Admiral Peary, Gen.
Spear and Others.

Precious memories as former Repre-
sentative Alexander characterized them,
were recalled last night at the thirty
second annual banquet of the Bowdoin
College Alumni Association of Washing
ron. held at the Continental Hotel.
Names of professors who taught the dis
tingllish ed men at last nights gathering
proved to be still names TO conjure
with'-among them Cpham, Cleveland,
Smythe Lee and Robinson-and accounts
of what is going on at the college today,
brought by a member of the present fac
ulty Prof. G. T. Files, were listened to
with deep attention.
Senator johnson of Maine, the presl-
dent of the organization. was toastmas-
ter and. in addition to Prof Files and
former Representative Alexander adj
dresses were made by Admiral Robert
. +. Peary, the discoverer of the north
pole; Representative F. c. Stevens, Rep
resentative John A. Peters, DR.. Wood
bury Pulsifer, Ellis Spear, jr.; Charles
r. Bull, jr., and others. Gen Ellis spear
presented memorial account of the lie
and character, as we'll as of the civil war
record, of Nathaniel A Robbins, class OF
-. John w. Butterfield told OF the late
John White Chickering, class or a. ana
Rev. DIR. Frank Sewall described the as
tlnSulSheO
Noble class of 81. who was a chaplain
in the United States Army. All OF the
speakers are Bowdoin men, and pa
triotic Maine spirit characterized the re-
marks of ALL
The principal interest of the evening
conferred in the address of Prof tlles
known to the students of the present day
as ''Georgie''. Prof. Files said in part:
Address by Prof. Stiles.
L am sorry President Hyde could not
be here with you tonight, but his absence
gives me the opportunity to tell you that
we of the faculty vie with you In adnlra-
ton and love for William Dewitt Hyde
As students we of the class of 1888 lived
with him through all his difficult years
of struggle. l have seen nm IN all
phases of his work, for twenty years,
even at times with the tears rolling down
his cheeks in sorrow because he could
not carry out some piece of advancement
Tor Bowdoin College. And now We see
him at the climax of his work, ABSOLUTELY
sanguine of the future of Bowdoin Col
lege.
But YOU want to know of the col
lege as it is today. Twenty-Five years
ago we had JIG students. Today we
have 35;, growth nearly three-fold
That has been gained by concedlng not
one jot or title of an honest admlnlstra-
ton. We have remained small because
We have been, perhaps, ultra-conserVa-
tive in maintaining a very high stand
ard of scholarship for admission but do
not know that any one regrets tnat We
have not grown to a numerically large
college
In ten years that l was in the office
of Bowdoin College. 1 can say l know
that no one man ever found a back door
to Bowdoin. We could have doubled our
numbers by letting down the bars, but We
have chosen not to do so.
"A second and most important feature
of the present situation of the college is
the finances of the institution. At the
present day the college has in interest
bearing funds more than S2,500,o00. not
counting the gift of 100000 received in
the last three months. But you must not
think that We do not need any more
money for we shall have a deficit this
year
Needs of the College.
Nov, there are two great needs for
Bowdoin College. One is the need of
scholarships: the second is larger salaries
for the faculty. Thirty years ago they
told me that Bowdoin was a rich mans
college. but there were then many more
rich mems sons IN Bowdoin than there
are today. With the exception of three
or four I do not know of son of a
rich man at Bowdoin now. The majority
of the students of today are the sons
of well-to-do men, but a very large pro-
portion of them are men who are earning
every dollar they need as they go through
the college.
I'VE have applications for three times