Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

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The Bow Join Bugle, 1910 Association of Sagadahoc, Knox and Lincoln Counties President, Arthur T. Parker, '76; Secretary, Henry W. Cobb, ‘00, 123 North Street, Rath, Maine. Association of Oxford County President, Hon. Addison E. Herrick, 73; Secretary, Frank Kimball, 79, Nor- way, Maine. Kennebec Alumni Association President, Dr. W. S. Thompson, ’75; Secretary, John C. Minot, ’96, Augusta, Maine. Bangor Alumni Association President, Franklin A. Wilson, ‘54; Secretary, Dr. Bertram L. Bryant, '95, Bangor, Maine. Association of Providence, R. I. President, Alfred M. Mcrriman, M. D.; Secretary, Alfred P. Ward, ’96, 171 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I. London (England) Association President, Harold S. Stetson, ’06; Secretary, Leon D. Minchcr, '07, 19 Kensing- ton, Gardens Square, Bayswater W., London, England. 27

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CAMPUS HISTORY FOR over a century Bowdoin men have come, spent four happy years here, and then gone out into the world, honouring through life their Aiwa Maler. When normal, vigorous young men are grouped together in the close acquaintanceship of college undergraduate life, there must inevitably be outlets for their combined energy. Nowadays this energy vents itself largely in athletic sports, but forty and fifty years ago when there was no gymnasium, Whittier Field, or chance for athletics such as we now enjoy, this pent-up vi- tality appeared to a greater extent in mis- chievous pranks, many of which are remem- bered and will be re- membered because of the very whimsicality of their conception and ex- ecution. From -several of the graduates of forty odd years ago, we have ob- tained recollections of college life at the Bow- doin of their undergraduate days and incidents connected inseparably with these recollections, incidents which happened half a century ago when on the campus there were only Massachusetts Hall, the three dormitories, Maine, Winthrop, and Appleton, Adams Hall, and King Chapel, and when each student obtained his water from wells on the campus and maintained his own heating plant in his room, using the banisters and the attic floor for kindling. It is with the hope that this series of anecdotes, all of which are included in the ten years from 1859 to 1869, may both prove of interest to the present undergraduates and younger graduates, and may also bring back to the older graduates, memories of the Bowdoin which they knew. 29