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 1918 REV. W1LL1AM DEVVIT1' HYDE, D. D., LL. D., PRESIDENT. Stone Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy. Born at VVinchendon, Mass., September 23, 1858. Fitted at Phillips Exeter Academy, graduated from Harvard University, 1879, studied at Union Theological Seminary, 1879-80, Andover Theological Seminary ISSO-82, Andover and Harvard University, 1882-83. Pastor of the Congregational Church, Paterson, N. I., 1883-85. Called to the presidency of Bowdoin College, 1885. Author of Practical Ethics, Social Theologyfl Practical Idealismj' 'fG0d's Education of Man,'l Hjesus' Way, From Epicurus to Christ, The Art of Optimism, The College Man and the College Womanf' 'fThe Teacher's Philosophyf' Member of the Ameri- can Philosophical Association, member of the Boston Authors' Club. Signet and O. K. Senior Societies at Harvard, 'ID B K Fraternity. HENRY LELAND CHAPMAN, D. D., LL. D. Professor of English Literature. Born at Bethel, Me., July 26, 1845. Fitted at Gould Academy and Gorham Seminary, graduated from Bowdoin College, 1866, Bangor Theological Seminary, 1869. Tutor in Latin at Bowdoin, 1869-71, professor, 1871-75, professor of Oratory and English Literature, 1875-97 , professor of English Literature, 1897 -. Has published various poems and addresses. President of the Trustees of Bangor Theological Seminary, trustee of State Normal Schools, and of Bridgton Academy, senator of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity. Member of the American Society of Modern Languages. A A CP and fi B K Fraternities. HENRY JOHNSON, Ph. D. Longfellow Professor of Modern Languages and Curator of the Art Collections. Born at Gardiner, Maine, june 25, 1855. Fitted at Gardiner High School, Phillips Andover Academy, graduated from Bowdoin College, 1874, studied fourteen months in Paris, and a year each in the Universities of Goettingen, Leipsic, and Berlin. Studied Shakespearian Text in England, 1890, French Literature and Institutions in Paris, 1895, and Christian Archae- ology in Italy, 1905. Head of the Department of Modern Languages at Bowdoin, 1877-81, college professor, 1881-82, Longfellow professor, 1882-, librarian, 1880-85, curator of the Art Collections, 1881-87, I8Q2-'. Edited Schiller's Ballads, 1888, and Shal-:espeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, 1888, and author of 'WVhere Beauty Is and Other Poemsfl 1898, metrical trans- lation of Les Tropheesf' The Sonnets of I. M. de Heredia, 1910, a volume of poems, 1910, and an unpublished translation of Dantels Inferno and Purgatoriof' 1910. Dante Society, 1884. Z XI' and IP B K Fraternities. 16