Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

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CAMPUS HISTGRY NE hundred and six years ago, there began in the wilds of Maine the career of Bowdoin College. In the long years since 1802, change after change has transformed our bare, rough campus with its single hall and President's home, into the shaded, smooth quadrangle that is now bounded by a complete set of college buildings. As each change took place, it changed, the college life of its period, and we have undertaken to give a little history of each of our campus - - buildings, so that when we think of the 'fgood old times we may im- agine the surroundings as they were. It is our hope that with this ar- ticle as a preface, the future BUGLE boards will gradually collect, in this their natural place, the thousands of stories that cluster about our old Bowdoin campus. In the fall of 1798, four years after the granting of Bowdoin's f charter, there was laid CLASS OF 1378 GATEWAY the foundation of her first college edifice, a building then styled simply, the house for the use of the college. Hampered by lack of cash and credit, the Boards were four more years in, completing this sumptuous edifice, which was at the sametime to furnish accom- modations for a hall, for a chapel, for a library, for recitation rooms, and for living rooms not only for all the students, but also for the President and his family. By vote of the Boards the building was named Massachusetts 'Hall in' honor of the state which granted the college charter, and with its dedication began the career of Bowdoin College. For the dedication ceremony, the Hall was deco- rated with oak boughs, and from one of these, the story goes, there dropped an acorn, which was later swept out at the door. Here the acorn was picked up by

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34 The Bowdoin Bugle 1909 George Thorndike, a boy of thirteen who had just come to enter college, and it was planted by him beside the steps. From there, after it had sprouted the next spring, it was transplanted to one of the little plots of President McKeen,s garden. Mark- ing each year with a circle of solid oak, the little acorn through sunshine and storm has slowly grown up with the college, until now it 'is the custom for each of our graduating classes to hold their farewell exercises beneath its shade. Massachusetts Hall was the home ofthe President for only two months, but it was the home of the stu- dents until the erection of 'Maine Hall six years later. Three times a week at the rapping on the stairs of the President's silver headed cane, the recitations were held in the stu- dents' rooms, rotating from room to room on successive weeks, it devolv- ing on the host to borrow sufficient chairs for the classes. It may be added that in these rooms, if the report is true, other scenes were sometimes witnessed, less worthy of the place and of the characters of scholars and gentlemen, and less grateful by far in the 'retro- spect, at which scenes the President sometimes appeared unexpectedly, and always with his cane, sometimes attended by other members of the government. ' MASSACHUSETTS HALL 77 I n 1 8 o 5, t h e chapelexercises were transferred to a wooden structure built for the pur- pose, in 1808 the students' rooms were removed t o Maine Hall 5 b u t always until 1906, Massachusetts Hall has been used for recitations. It was for many years, the Chelnical laboratory OLD FIREPLACE IN MASSACHUSETTS HALL in which Professor Cleaveland, 'fthe father of American Mineralogy, lectured and experimented, with the open fireplace and its crane as part of his apparatus, and