Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-27

Professor Files is also member OF the
Commission on Rural Life.
The head Of the department OF gov
eminent, Professor Orren G. Hormell is
doing a tremendous work for the i'm
provement of town and State govern
ment in Maine. He is an expert on
municipal government and is continue
ously in demand by cities and towns all
over the State to assist and advise in
revising and writing charters. arrang-
ing adequate financial systems and
generally to untangle governmental
knots of all sorts. His special hobby
is the budget plan of which he is
strong supporter. Shortly he will pub
fish an exhaustive study Of the budget
system in addition to a smaller
pamphlet which he has already pub
lished on the subject. Aside from the
bulletins which he has written. Pro-
lessor Hormell has contributed eX-
tensively to the Political Science Quar-
terlies and Reviews, and written many
of the definitions and articles In the
Encyclopedia of American Govern
ment" In his Office in Hubbard Hal
he has collected one Of the most COM
plete assortments Of documents and
material for the study of governemnt
that any small college can boast of,
and his collection of specimen ballots
| is unique in it's completeness. Az
/ present he is assisting Auburn, Au-
gusta, Lewiston, Portland and many
smaller places in improving the local
government The Dean of the College
Kenneth c. NJ. Stills, is doing a pollu-
cal work of a sort that few professors
| do.
| Another BoWdon professor VINO mas
been in the limelight of late is FRO
fessor Roscoe j. Ham of the German
department. Besides being rare
German scholar and author Of the text
book "Einleitung In Der Deutsche
Sprache," Professor Ham has been en-
gagged in work abroad in connection
with the war. He returned last sat
urday from Petrograd where he has
been serving under the American am
bassador to Russia as a special envoy
dealing with the Red Cross work in the
Russian Capitol He has not yet re-
turned to Brunswick being in Wash
ington this week making a report OF
X,
interesting one when it is told. He
has been away an entire semester put
will take up his teaching duties again
! the second semester. He VIII probably
give a series of lectures to the stu
dents and townspeople relating his ex-
periences in Russia and the conditions
of the war as he found them.
| In the field of science Bowdoin has
! some active men. Marshall T.. Cram
| Ph. D. Of tho chemical department Is "A
member of the State Board Of Health
and State expert in legal matters re-
curing the services of a chemist. lie
figures in most of the State murder
cases in which chemical analysis of
remains is necessary. DR.. Frank y.
4 Whittier professor of hygiene and
head of the physical department of the
college is also a State expert and Is
called to testify in the courts. He Is
best known for his research work
along meteorological lines. He also is
a leader in social welfare work in
Maine. Professor Charles &. HutChins.
professor of physics and astronomy
has made an \-ray machine and is an
expert in spinning quartz fibre. Re-
Gently he made motor sled which
flies along Merrymeeting Bay at the
rate of forty miles an hour. 1laiSer, in
| his five volume "Handbuch der Spec
ltroscopic" quotes him half a dozen
times as an authority on the spectre
scope lie has written articles for the
American Journal of Science.
/ Many professors are doing things in
the literary line. President Hyde is
| still writing his widely read books. the
latest being Are You Human" DR..
Henry johnson, a member of the Dante
Society, recently published a transla-
ton of Dante that ranks at the top of
the list of TRANSACTIONS of the works OF
the great bard of the Middle Ages. 1t
| is notable fact that two of the best
English TRANSACTIONS of Dante were
made by Bowdoin men. The other
translator being no less than Henry w.
ILongfellow of the elias of 1925. Pro-
1 fessor Paul Nixon has been engaged
| in translatng many of the ancient
classics into English and is still work.
ing on the plays of Plautus. Profess
sor William Hawley Davis just has
book off the press called English Es-
saysts." Professor George X. Elliot
PHI. d. recently published an essay on
Our Progress Idea and the War
This is by no means a complete cata-
llogue of the achievements of tho Bow
doin faculty. but merely mention of
what some Of the members have done
recently. 1t certainly goes far to prove
that college faculty does things be
sides lecture, and conclusivcly rcfutes
the Shavian theory that he who can't
do, teaches.