Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-30
STATES CHIEF EXECUTIVE
AND BOWDO|N PRESIDENT
SPEAKERS ALUMNI BANQUET

they are possessed of. So the college
of today are keenly alive to their de-
ficiencies and are endeavoring to
overcome them.
President Stills spoke of the COM
mittees which he had appointed from
the undergraduates, the faculty and
the alumni to make a report on the
principal things Bowdoin needs in the
next 10 years. He spoke particularly
of the excellent report rendered by
the seniors which is in line with the
questioning spirit which prevails
among the youth of today in regard
to governmental, political and other
affairs of the day.
He declared that the faculty and
the student committees were agreed
in their reports that the faculty Of
the college at the present time is not
large enough to do the kind of work
that alumni, professors and students
want it to do. He outlined the de-
velopment of the conference system
which brings the faculty and UNDER
graduates into personal contact and
the need of supplementing the faculty
| in order to best carry on this sys-
tenn and give the faculty some time
| to devote to research and writing.
He told of the advantage of the
budget system in enabling the col
lege to meet its expenses, spoke of
| the need of additional free money that
can be put to instruction, and refer
| red to the need of a Union building
at the college.
1t was his contention that the self
expression in evidence by the youth
of today is largely froth and that the
youth is now as much devoted to the
! old ideals of the college as in the
past.
| Governor Brewster's Response
: In introducing Goverpor Brewster
the chairman happily alluded to the
Governors leadership of visiting
Governors touring our State, of the
pilgrimage to the Southland. to the
recognition accorded him and Maine,
of their taking him 10 prison as a
down-east Yankee but quickly re-
leasing him in response to his elo-
quent appeals.
The Governor aptly turned the
laughter in his opening, expressing
his pleasure in greeting some of the
old Bowdoin men who had so scru-
pulously guarded his footsteps as a
freshman at college, ana meeting
with the men of his college. who well
understand that those holding Of
fetal position are not plaster saints
and who are frank to say so. He re-
minded them of the difficulty one in
official position encounters when he
seeks to have the truth told of him
and of the good service telling the
truth may be.
Abiding to President Sills' re-
remarks respecting the questioning
mind of the student body in these
days, the difficulties met in trying to
adjust the curriculum to the needs
of the complex conditions confront
ing the student, he urged the i'm
portance of the problem of adjust
ment in such a tremendous demo-
crazy as ours. He would have col
lege men so trained in touch wi h
the affairs of government that from
among them and because of their
training we may take our leaders,
capable of comprehending the desti-
nation toward which a path may
into class leadership.
We do not want in this country a
centralized autocracy governing from
Washington. We must find the pro-
per line of demarcation between
I Federal and State authority. We
need the training of the college to
help us find it, and the Governor
closed with an eloquent tribute to the
service that has been rendered to him
by his alma mater.
Prof. Gates on Athletics
Introduced as a celebrated teacher
of true craftsmanship and exempli-
flying it. Prof. John NJ. Gates. pro-
fessor of physical training and ath-
letic director at Bowdoin prefaced
his remarks by saving that following