Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-08
BOWD0IN
Bowdoin Leads in Graduates in
New Maine Legislative Body
Over AZ College Graduates
Ping LANG May Be New Chin
csc Student.

Brunswick. Me. Jan. G.-( Special -
Of the 43 college graduates in the new
Maine Legislature, Bowdoin leads the
list, with 16 of her sons in the law
making body. Colby end Harvard come
next. with five men apiece. while the
University of Maine has four and Bates
three. The honors for the high State
positions are pretty evenly divided be-
tween the four Maine colleges. Cover
nor Milikcn is a Bates man. The presi-
dent of the Senate, Taber ID. Bailey of
Bangor. graduated from Bowdoin in the
class of 1896. Speaker Bonney matricu
lated at Colby in 1892 and the new Sec
rotary of State is graduate of the
University Of Maine. The percentage of
college men in the Legislature is sur
prisingly small particularly in the
lower branch, where only 20 out Of the
1J1 men hold degrees. In the Senate the
percentage is larger, with IA out Of the
5! men graduates of a college or uni
versity. The Bowdoin men in the Senate
are Taber d. Bailey, SO, of Bangor,
Pres dent of the Senate: Rupert ii.
Baxter. '94. of Bath; Chester a. Boynton,
| 10. of Whitefeld. and 4. \. Merril', "a,
of Skowhegan. In the lower branch. of
the Legislature are the following gradu-
ates of Bowdoin Percival +. Baxter. 90.
of Portland; Ralph o. Brewster. 90, of
Dexter; Frank /. Brown, '95, of South
Portland: John A. Corllss. 01, of Bridg-
ton; Freeman d. Dearth. 81, of Dexter;
Frank G. harrington, "a, of Augusta;
Frank Q. burlington, 80. of Mechanics
Falls: Fulton j. Redman, OF. of ELS
worth: Warren G. Sawyer. Medical, 81,
of Madison; G. +. Williams, rs Of
Auburn; Phillip y. Stubbs, '95, of
Strong, and Emery G.. Wilson, '9S. of
Portland. Several other colleges out of
the State are represented in the Legis-
lature. Among them are Amherst Hav-
erford, Massachusetts Agricultural Col
lege, New York University, Boston Uni
versity, Syracuse University and the
University of Tennessee number of
the men are graduates of the Harvard
Law school.
Bowdoin will probably have another
Chinese student in the person of Mr.
Ping LANG of Canton. China, a graduate
of the Using Hua college in Pekin, who
arrived in this country last fall with the
60 other young Chinese students who are
studying at American colleges by rea-
son of the Boxer Indemnity fund. Mr..
Liang entered the Massachusetts Agri-
cultural college last fall for the purpose
of studying agriculture, but he has
taken an interest in economics, and will
transfer to Bowdoin as soon as he re-
ceives permission to do so from the
Chinese Educational Bureau at Wash
ington Young LANG is already at
Brunswick, where he is very anxious to
get started. but cannot register until he
gets written permission from Wash
ington 1t is possible that he may be
refused his request. as the Chinese bu-
reau has always made 1t firm policy
not to send more than one student to
small college. In that case, LANG will
have TO transfer to one of the univer-
stiles LANG came over with the same
party as did Huan Shsng Tang, who en-
tered Bowdoin last fall and who is doing
exceedingly well at the Brunswick insti-
tuition. He is the first Chinese student
ever to enter Bowdoin.