Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

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UFFICERS GF ADMINISTRATION Prey 2.111671 2' William DeWitt Hyde, D.D., LL.D. I?'easm'er Sarreffzzj' Q' Me frlfllflfy Ira Peirce Booker, Esq. Kenneth Charles Morton Sills, A.M. 1Cegz'sf1'a7' Ifcrozviw Charles Theodore Burnett, Ph.D. Frank Edward Woodruff, A.M. Lz'brarz'cz7z Czzmfor W' Me Ar! C0!!efz'z'01zs George Thomas Little, Litt,D. Henry Iohnson, Ph.D. ASSISTANTS Gerald Gardner Wilder, A.B., Assistant Librarian Samuel Benson Furbish, B.S., Assistant to Treasurer Isaiah Hacker Simpson, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds Hugh McLellan Lewis, B.C.E., Assistant in the Library Edith Ienney Boardman, Cataloguer Belle Thwing Atherton, Assistant Registrar A Caroline Tillson Robinson, Assistant Curator of the Art Collections ZI

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I PRESIDENT WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE WENTY-THREE years ago there were on Bowdoin's campus eight buildings , the grounds and equipment were valued at iS500,o0o, there were 35,000 books in the college library, there were thirteen men on the faculty, there were one hundred and thirteen students, and ,seven-eighths of the curriculum was made up of required courses. In that year there came to Bowdoin as Presi- dent, a young man, twenty-six years old. Born in Winchendon, Massachusetts, September 23, 1858, he had graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1875, and from Harvard in 1879. At Harvard he had been a member of the Everett Athenaeum, the O.K., and the Signet, in his Junior year he had been chosen to Pl1i Beta Kappa, and in his Senior year he had spoken at Commencement. He had-studied at the Union Theological Seminary in 1879-80, he had gradu- ated from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1882, and later he had taken graduate work at Andover and Harvard. He had married Prudence M. Phillips of Washingtonville, N. Y. in 1883, and for the next two years had been pastor of the Auburn Street Congregational Church at Paterson, N. I. In 1885 he was called to the Presidency of Bowdoin. Since then, he has become a Trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy, has done a great work for church union in the small towns of Maine as the organizer and first president of the Interdenominational Commission, and has written many articles and books that have attracted wide attention. K But from 1885 to 1908 he has always remained first of all, President of Bowdoin College. He took the college practically at the point where General Chamberlain had left it, and to-day there are on the campus besides the same eight buildings which he found here, an Observatory, a Science Building, an Art Building, a Library, and on the new athletic field a new grandstand, the grounds and equipment are valued at over 5iI,OO0,000, there are twenty men on the faculty, there are approxi- mately three hundred students, there are offered three times as many courses as are required for graduation, more than three-fourths of the curriculum is elective, and Bowdoin is on the Carnegie Foundation. To-day, as our President we have that same man, a man who has given his life to the college, a man who richly deserves the gratitude, respect, and love of every son of Bowdoin-William DeWitt Hyde. ZO

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OFFICERS or 1 TRUCTIO I PRESIDENT HYDE REV. VVILLIAM DEWIT1' HYDE, D.D., LL.D.-PRESIDENT A Stone Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy Born at Winchendon, Mass., September 23, 1858. Fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy, gradu- ated from Harvard University, 18793 studied at Unio11 Theological Seminary, 1879-80, Andover Theological Seminary, 1880-82, Andover and Harvard University, 1882-83. Pastor of the Congre- gational Church, Paterson, NJ., 1883-85. Called to the Presidency of Bowdoin College, 1885. Author of Practical Ethics, Social Theology, Practical Idealism, God's Education of Man, jesus' Way, From Epicurus to Christ, The Art of O1JtlH1iSIH,,,ilTll6 College Man and the College Woman. Member of the American Philosophical Association. Signet and O.K. Senior Societies at Harvard. lb B K Fraternity. 22