Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

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VOL.6'7 BOWDOIN BUGLE 1913 WILLIAM DE WITT HYDE ' - AST Commencement marked the completion by William DeWitt Hyde of twenty-six years of service as President of Bowdoin College. During this period, covering more than a quarter of a century, his loyal and earnest devotion to this college has made possible for it a remarkable progress. In the fall of 1885, when William DeWitt Hyde, then a young man of twenty-six, but six years out of college, left a pastorate in Paterson, N. J., to assume the presidency of Bowdoin, the College 'possessed an equipment of eight buildings, which with the campus itself represented about 35oo,ooo, an endowment fund scarce worthy of the nameg a library of 3o,ooo volumes : a faculty of twelve men 9 a student body of one hundred and nineteen 9 and a curriculum almost wholly made up of required courses. To-day, through the efforts of its President, Bowdoin boasts of thirteen buildings, arranged about one of the most attractive of college campuses. A fourteenth, the new gymnasium, is in process of. construction, and, when completed, will bring the value of campus and buildings to a sum in excess of 5r,2oo,ooo. An endowment fund of nearly 553,000,000 has been collected, which supports a faculty of twenty-six and provides many' of the benents of larger institutions for the student body of some three hundred and twenty men. On the shelves of the college library are over 1oo,ooo volumes. More than one hundred and thirty courses are included in the cur- riculum, nine-tenths of which is elective. Such is a brief statement of the progress of Bowdoin College under President Hyde. lt is through his persistent energy, backed by the enthusiastic support of the alumni body, that these results have been obtained. He has refused countless offers of higher positions in order to continue his work here. He has spent his life with the College: he has given himself to Bowdoin. As undergraduates we take this opportunity to express to him once more our deep appreciation of the untiring efforts which have made Bowdoin what it is. 14

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VOL.67 BOWDOIN BUGLE 1913 OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION Pn'sz'a'mf NVilliam DeVVitt Hyde, D. D., LL. D. T 1'eas1zrc1' Ira Pierce Booker, Esq. Asszklazzl fo Mc Trcaszzzw' Samuel Benson Furbish, B. S. Dam Kenneth Charles Morton Sills, A. M. L illm rimz George Thomas Little, Litt. D. A sszlrmvzt L Z.b7'!Z7'Z'lZ7Z Gerald Gardner VVilder, A. B. Assislezfzl in fha Lilimvjy Hugh McLellan Lewis, B. C. E. Cumzor :yr the Af! C0!fZ6'f2.07Z.S' Henry Johnson, Ph. D. Asszlvlavzl Curatof' qf the Aff! Collecliofzs Caroline Tillson Robinson Recorder Frank Edward Woodrtlff, A. M. Clerk gf Ike Faczzlgf Henry Bissell Alvord, B. S. Crzlczfogueff Edith Jenny Boardman 5-66721077 Alice Curtis Little 13

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