1 20 4 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/16/97/TheBreeze_dec1926_DavisObit.pdf c034f428e269935351f972d5e049813c PDF Text Text ®E 51 liirzzz—■—il iMBli K——E ICmfa Will = ;=■ smB I I n loW <omml Wmtfer tn Irww Ann Santa, ’fiS Dmnibrr, I9E E 3© �BOARD OF TRUSTEES FRED E. EASTMAN, President Portland Rev. CHARLES S. CUMMINGS, Secretary Auburn A. EUGENE NICKERSON, A.B., Treasurer Portland, 58 West St ♦ EDWARD S. EVERETT, Auditor Portland THOMAS W. WATKINS, A.B., Ed.M., Principal, ex-officio REUBEN W. DUNN, A.M. Waterville Rev. WILBUR F. BERRY, D.D. Waterville, R. F. D. 39 Rev. GEORGE R. PALMER Portland ♦ Hon. WALDO PETTINGILL Rumford FREMONT L. RUSSELL, B.S., D.V.S. Orono CARTER B. KEENE, LL.M. Washington, D. C., McLachlen Bldg. Rev. HENRY E. DUNNACK, A.M. Augusta ♦ Dr. WILLARD A. PAUL Weston, Mass. Dr. RAY N. RANDALL Lewiston, 19 Sabattus St. Miss NELLIE L. SHOREY, A.B. Portland, 88 Vi Exchange St. Mrs. ANABEL SHAW SMART Portland, Box 663 Rev. DAVID B. HOLT, D.D. Auburn Rev. RALPH F. LOWE Augusta EDWIN A. STROUT New York, 150 Nassau St. JOSIAH W. TAYLOR Augusta HERBERT C. ELDRIDGE West Southport Dr. FRANK R. CLARK Newtonville, Mass. J. ORVILLE NEWTON, A.M. Kent’s Hill Rev. JOHN M. ARTERS Portland GEORGE E. KIMBALL Winchester, Mass. * Deceased > ? i �DEDICATION To the Memory of FRANCES ANN DAVIS, A.M., Whose loving, loyal, untiring efforts as teacher, advisor, and friend, won for her the love, admiration and re­ spect of every one who knew her this joint issue of the Breeze and Alumnus m respectfully dedicated. �Wanres Ann Sants It was many centuries ago that the old Greek philosopher made the statement, “ Those whom the gods love die young.” His real meaning remained an enigma until comparatively recent years, when Robert Louis Stevenson discovered it to be this: that those whom God really loves are never allowed to grow old, but always remain young in spirit, regardless of the number of years they are given to live. Miss Davis seemed to possess this gift in a wonderful degree. The writer did not have the privilege of knowing her until time had begun to take its toll from her body and her mind, but it was powerless to mar the indomitable youth of her spirit. Her joy in her contacts with the pupils never grew less, and she was always as happy as they at their return to school. No girl of eighteen had a brighter or more hopeful view of the future; in her mind each new year of the school was the best that the school had ever had, and each new stu­ dent body was a better one than any of its predecessors. In discussing school affairs she would not dwell upon the past, as people of her age are wont to do, but she would refer to the past only as it furnished a background for her faith in a greater future for the institution she loved so well. And greatest of all, her devotion to her Heavenly Father showed at all times, in both word and deed, the fervor of a new convert. It is because of this wonderful trait that Miss Davis her­ self was typical of all that makes Kent’s Hill what it is; her devotion to her religion, her faith in young people, her belief that the future will always be an improvement on the past, and her joy in giving her life to bringing that to pass, are the foundation stones upon which the Seminary stands today; they are the key-notes of its life and its service and its future. T. W. W. During the last three years of Miss Davis’ life, she had a secretary, a former student and teacher with her, to whom she dictated many letters for her beloved “ children ” and to whom she told many incidents of the school life of those children, as well as stories of her own experiences. She realized that she had but a little time longer here and in speaking of the Life Beyond, she said that her highest idea of Heaven for herself would be that there might be some there who knew a little less than she did and she might go on teaching. This love for teaching was such a part of herself that after she gave up class-room work she was happy in helping on a few backward students, and, still later, in teaching her suc­ cessor in alumni work that the alumni of Kent’s Hill are wonderful people — almost without exception loyal to the core, all bound together by Kent’s Hill spirit, all proud of their connection with the old school; that students of only one year here may cherish its memories as dearly as those who spent four or five; that the comedies and tragedies of their lives are more inter­ esting than written books, and, most important of all, they must be loved, individually and collectively with rare Kent’s Hill love. The facts of her life and the stories are as she herself gave them, some of them being taken word for word from her lips. Miss Frances Ann Davis was born in Indiana, Sept. 8, 1848, daughter of Charles and Esther Freeman Davis. Her parents moved to Hallowell when she was four years old. Her father was in failing health at that time and after his death she and her mother lived with relatives in Chelsea, Hallo­ well and Gardiner while she was get­ ting her education. In 186G, she came to Kent’s Hill to school, and the room she occupied the first night on the Hill was the one she chose for hers when she resigned as Preceptress and which she retained un­ til given the two rooms on the first floor, a few years ago. She graduated from the College course in 1868, one of a class of thirteen, of whom only two are now living. Mrs. Mary Chapman Quick, one of these two, writes: “ Fannie was very dear to me. Being several years older — more dignified and serious than I was as a careless, happy schoolgirl, she saved me from many a scolding from dear Dr. Torsey, whom we all loved so devotedly. Her influence was felt by the whole class. She had a kind word, and glad smile for all of us. Gifted beyond the ordinary, she has left behind a wonderful record. We cannot wish her back. Her life was filled with usefulness and she has gone to her great reward.” As long as she lived, she tried to keep in touch with these classmates and often spoke of them and the good times they had in school together. She spoke of a secret motto they adopted, which was known by the initials “ G. V. E.” As years went by this motto was forgotten, but the in­ terpretation of it given by those not in �4 THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS the secret, was “ Great Voracious Eat­ O, the brain it almost reels ers.” Only last year she referred to And the blood it half congeals this with the keenest enjoyment; the As it peals pleasant atmosphere having remained As it steals Upon the nerves from head to heels, with her all the years, though the de­ That brazen, clanging noise five seconds tails were forgotten. long It was during her schooldays that From the gong, gong, gong, the rising gong was installed in Samp­ To the smashing and the crashing of the son Hall. gong, “ It was after one of those times To the beating and the bleating of the gong.” that seem to come every so often, when After graduating, Miss Davis began the boys and girls get to oversleeping and being late for breakfast. Mr. to teach school. She taught in various Daggett was steward and he was a towns in Maine, at Oak Grove Semi­ man who always had a sense of nary and at Talladega College, a school humor. He was away and brought for colored girls in Alabama. She back this enormous gong. Then he says of this latter: “ The way I came got a boy to ring it who had no more to go South to teach in the colored idea of how to do it than nothing at school, was through a friend of mine all. So one morning we were all tre­ in Hallowell, a sort of button-hole mendously startled out of our sleep by cousin. It was a missionary enterprise the worst racket you ever heard. One and the Hallowell church wanted to of my classmates came into my room send two teachers. This friend went — ‘ Fan,’ she says, ‘ is it a gong, or two or three years and then I went have the water pipes burst 1 ’ She with her. This was about five years perhaps thought it was the end of the after the war and the negroes were world! ” still not used to freedom. They were This was the gong of which E. W. very interesting. They came right off Preble later wrote, and we reprint the plantations. The thought of those black people being slaves makes me from the Breeze : ■“ Hear the morning rising gong: shudder even now.” Her work with Heathen gong! the colored girls was considered by her How it comes re-echoing along, to be one of her richest experiences. Rifting ears and soul asunder She always maintained that colored With its loud and rattling thunder! folks were just as bright as white, and How it rumbles, rumbles, rumbles always did all she could in sustaining As it rolls from stair to stair! missionary work among them. Again, Hear the student how he grumbles, she went to Indiana to teach, her class­ And profanely, deeply mumbles, mate, Mrs. Harriet Park Keyes with As from bed he sullen tumbles, In a kind of wild despair; her, and from there to Illinois and ex­ Thinking deep, deep, deep, pected to teach again in the South; If a noise so fiendish loud and strong, but Mrs. Davis, her mother, had a Midst a noise so fiendish loud and strong, dreadful accident, dislocating her From a gong, gong, gong! shoulder and breaking her hip, so that THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS Miss Davis never went away from her after that to teach. “ Before I came to Kent’s Hill, my mother and I lived with my uncle, whose picture is in the old chest up on the fifth floor. You remember I told you about her accident. It was pretty hard work getting along. I found it was impossible to pay expenses for Mother and myself teaching a little country school with terms of eight or nine weeks, at $5 a week, so I asked Mother’s opinion of my branching out and trying to earn more money. She said she thought it was our duty to stay with Uncle. I let it go at that for a while, then one day I said: “‘Mother, if Father had lived would you have felt that it was his duty and yours to stay here with Uncle ? ’ 1 Why, no,’ said Mother. ‘Why not?’ I asked. ‘Why, he was the wage-earner of the family,’ said she, ‘ and of course he would go where he could earn the most money, and I should go with him.’ ‘ Then, Mother,’ I said, ‘ now that I am the wage­ earner, why aren’t you willing to go with me? Now, look, let me try, just try, to get a better situation and if I can get one, you come with me and look it over, and I promise you. that if you don’t like it, I will come back to Uncle’s and go on teaching the little school and never mention it again.’ “ The opportunity came for me here on Kent’s Hill and Mother saw at once how much better it was than the one I had, and she was perfectly will­ ing to come. And in her later days she often said how glad she was she wasn’t in a private home. She en­ joyed having the young life around her. And the young folks seemed to 5 like her and were always lovely to her. Of course she was in her wheelchair a good deal of the time. I have an apron my mother made here when she was eighty years old.” It was in the winter of 1882-3 that Miss Davis began her long work as a teacher. An old school-mate, Ellen Hatch, (Mrs. Charles Parker, whose death within a few weeks of Miss Davis’ own we regretfully note in this paper) was Preceptress. Miss Davis loved to recall those days and the romance that developed at that time. “ One of the teachers, Charles Parker, also a former student, was in­ clined to be very friendly. Miss Hatch was embarrassed by his atten­ tions and evaded them when possible, making sure of the companionship of one of her girl friends when there was danger of his offering his escort. But this friend soon surmised that the young lady really cared for the gentle­ man, though not aware of the fact. She therefore took him one side and counselled him to leave her absolutely alone and watch the effect. The effect was as he desired. When he next offered his attentions he was not re­ pulsed and when he offered himself, he was accepted.” The fall of 1883 was the time of the historic high wind that blew the roof from Sampson Hall, taking three chimneys with it. Miss Davis said of that time: “ My mother and I were sleeping down on the first floor — the third room as you come in. Suddenly this awful crash came — with nothing first. I said, ‘ Mother, there goes the chimney I ’ Mother was never a nerv­ ous woman at all and I said, ‘ Now, you lie right here and I will dress,' and �6 THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS I got into my togs as fast as I could and went out. Some of the girls were there and there were several boys in the girls’ hall. We had a very good steward, Edwin R. French. He was up there in no time at all, and so were the boys, and I will say this — that for every kind of emergency we have had thus far, we have had some of the best boys that anybody could ask for, whether it was the fire, or what­ ever. And I could back it with proof. Prof. McIntire and the other teachers went right up and inside of two hours the chimneys were under control and the students quieted down. “ One of the teachers, Prof. Strong, lived outside and did not know any­ thing about it until next morning. He was one of the most generous men you ever saw. Fie was very quick and any little thing would make him nervous. This was characteristic of him: We had a faculty meeting next day, of course, and he said to Dr. Smith, ‘Well! Well! What shall we do? What shall we do ? Put the roof back ? ’ ‘ Oh,’ Dr. Smith said, ‘ I think we had better allow the trustees to take care of that.’ Prof. Strong was ready to put his hand in his pocket and put it back.” Those were the days when all the buildings were heated with stoves. “ We had another scrape about six o’clock one morning. It had been the coldest night for the winter and I heard Mr. French step out in the hall and call to Frank Dow (who was cook at that time) : ‘Frank! Bearce Hall is on fire! ’ In two minutes’ time I heard Mr. Dow say, ‘Boys! Bearce Hall is on fire,’ and it wasn’t five min­ utes, and without one voice — I did not hear one voice — those boys were pattering along as fast as they could go to Bearce Hall. “ And the Principal of the school, Dr. Smith, said he thought to himself, ‘ Now what in the world are those boys doing! What are they up to at this time of the morning! Guess I had better get up and see.’ And before he got dressed and out — those boys had . the fire under control. I tell you now — that old building — I didn’t know till then how I loved it. When the ap­ praisers came, they said that no fire force could have done what those boys did. They acted as if used to it. They went right at it. I suppose the gentlemen teachers went with them; they always do. When we have any­ thing the matter here, Our Boys have measured right up to it. I KNOW they have. “ I think we want to be extremely careful. Oh, I tell you we want to get the best; I do not want them to make so expensive a school that we cannot ’ keep our same kind of students, I would a great deal rather keep our country boys and our country girls than to get a great lot of boys from the city.” Miss Davis was a member of the Adelphian society and was alwavs afraid of being thought partial to that society. That she had the interests of the Eromatheans also at heart is evi­ denced by her efforts in their behalf. When Ricker Hall was built the Eromatheans were promised a room in it for their society hall but the exten­ sive plan for the building had to be abandoned through lack of funds, I said to myself one morning, ‘Why couldn’t the two rooms at the end of THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS the fifth floor be put together and of the boys who was here while make an Eromathean room out of it? ’ she was Preceptress, writes, “ I am I reckoned that the ceiling would not sorry to say that I was called to her be as high and that it would not be in office many times because of some some respects as good as the Adel- breach of conduct, and often went in a phian Hall but it would be much better rebellious mood but invariably when I than nothing. I went my way to Mr. left her, it was with a repentant and French and asked, ‘ What is the reason contrite heart for I realized that the the Eromatheans cannot have the two only reason she took the time and rooms on the end of the fifth floor? ’ trouble to talk to me was because she And he went straight to work upon it really cared.” and the trustees voted that they should This quality of “ caring ” never have it, and that was the beginning of failed. When Our Boys were en­ Eromathean Hall.” gaged in the great World War, she One year was spent abroad, studying kept in touch with as many of them as and sightseeing. She spent her forty­ she could, broadcasting their records fifth birthday in Paris, where she was through the Alumnus and sending then studying, and her Paris note-book them messages of love and cheer to let shows that the calendar days as related them know she had not forgotten. to the opening of school at Kent’s She mourned our Gold Star boys as Hill did not pass unnoticed by her. sincerely as did their own people and Once in a while a tinge of almost kept their pictures in a drawer of her homesickness crept in and she bolstered desk. up her courage by resolving all over At the time of the Centennial cele­ again to get all she could from her ex­ bration, she was much interested in the periences, so that she could impart it arrangement of the Historical Room, to those who were not so favored as and wished very much that it might be she. The letters from Kent’s Hill continued as a permanent feature of meant a great deal to her there, even the school. These pictures are among as her correspondence with alumni did the treasures it contains. Another treasure is the reading desk in her later years. which Dr. Torsey used in chapel and As teacher in French and German, which Miss Davis kept in her rooms occasionally taking classes in other as long as she lived. She prized it subjects as need arose, it was one of highly as a relic of her schooldays. her gentle boasts that she had taught “ In those days the chapel was in in every room in Bearce Hall except Sampson Hall on the second floor; a the basement and the tower. And her door on each side of the building work was continuous, with the excep­ opened into it where the back corridors tion of her one year abroad, until fail­ now begin and the chapel was all the ing eye-sight and advancing age made it advisable for her to give up her back part of the building. There was teaching. For twenty years she served a very low platform between the doors as Preceptress and resigned from that and on it a black table, topped by a position of her own accord. One small slanting stool which served as a �8 THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS reading desk. On the wall back of this was a big brass clock.” And Miss Davis’ remembrance of Dr. Torsey was very vivid: “Dr. Torsey was a very broad-shouldered man, with the handsomest head I ever saw. He was the most magnetic man I ever met, yet he was simple and unaffected. I re­ member at prayer-meeting (we used to have prayer-meetings in those days) towards the close of the meeting he would lay aside the cape which he was in the habit of wearing and talk for perhaps ten minutes or so in a very kind, spiritual way, but in such a sim­ ple fashion that it was never beyond the minds of any of the students. And almost always I used to think, ‘Why couldn’t I have thought to say that my­ self.’ ” Another article which Miss Davis was instrumental in having placed in this room is the quaint and cumber­ some old signboard that used to swing before the Moody tavern, perhaps the only public house of Kent’s Hill his­ tory. The tavern belonged to Dudley Moody, one of the men who put Kent’s Hill on its feet financially in its early days, and the old signboard came to light when the Alhambra was demol­ ished. This ancient symbol of hos­ pitality meant much to Miss Davis as she marked the changes since it creaked and swung at the comer of the Mt. Vernon road. At the same time that this collection of historical articles was accumulating, newspaper men were seeking inter­ views and cameras were being used, much to the disgust of Aunt Fan. She said in this connection, “ I dislike more than anything else having my picture in the papers; it looks so absolutely idiotic. I want to keep in the back­ ground just as much as I can. I told ‘ J. O.’ that if he didn’t see to it that I wasn’t put into prominence in things, I would make things warm for him and I presume he has been shaking ever since.” This distaste at being in the lime light did not, however, apply to her “ children,” else this article would never have been written. The beautiful tribute that William Wood, of the class of ’92, wrote and which was -published in both Breeze and Alumnus, was printed with her full consent but was forbidden to go " out of the family.” During the last few years, she had what were formerly the steward’s rooms on the first floor ‘ of Sampson Hall and frequently said she was afraid she was wicked to be so con­ tent: being in the place she preferred to any other in the world, in comfort­ able rooms with her books; her friends coming in to chat; letters con­ tinually reminding her of other friends, and young folks surrounding her all the time. And the keen mind and strong will that knew when her work as Pre­ ceptress should be ended and enabled her to take a teacher’s position without rancor or ever making things unpleas­ ant for anyone continued to mark the times and the seasons until she knew her life work was ended and she de­ sired, under her Heavenly Father’s will, to be taken Home. She passed away July 7, 1926 and is laid to rest in the little cemetery at Kent’s Hill. M. S. H., ’01. j �THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS Call Me Not Dead (Extracts from Arnold’s translation from the Persian.) I can see your falling tears; I can see your sighs and prayers; Yet I smile and whisper this; I am not the thing you miss! Cease your tears and let it lie; It was mine, it is not I. i J-U' i V J; r ; <3, 1 Sweet friend, what the women lave For the last sleep of the grave Is a hut which I am quitting. Is a garment no more fitting; Is a cage from which, at last Like a bird my soul has passed. Loving friends, O rise and dry Straightway every weeping eye! What ye left upon the bier Is not worth a single tear. ’Tis an empty sea-shell — one Out of which the pearl is gone. The shell is broken, it lies there, The pearl, the all, the soul is here. Now the long, long wonder ends; Yet ye weep, my foolish friends, While the one whom you call dead In unbroken bliss instead Lives and loves you — lost ’tis true In the light that shines for you; But in the light you cannot see, In undisturbed felicity — In a perfect paradise, And a life that never dies. Farewell, friends, yet not farewell, Where I go, you too shall dwell, Be ye certain all seems love, Viewed from Allah’s throne above Be ye stout of heart and come Bravely onward to your home! 9 �10 THE KENT’S hill breeze and alumnus Miss Davis Miss Davis came to Kent’s Hill to teach in the winter term of ’82-’83. It has been my privilege to know her as a student, as an associate teacher and to have had her on the faculty during the years I served as principal. If I have been of some help and com­ fort to her in the last years of her life, this too, has been my privilege, for I owed her much. As a student I was a member of her class in Bible study, and what a teacher she was! We all felt that she lived daily the principles she taught us. It is what a teacher is, rather than what she teaches, that influences lives. We may forget the French’, but we cannot forget Miss Davis and her influence on the character of her students. She believed thoroughly in the princi­ ples of the founders and the builders of the school, and maintained that when the school forgets to emphasize those principles, it has small reason to exist. Yet her religion was liberal, sane, practical. She looked for the good in other folks and found it. Her love for students never flagged; her interest in them and their lives ever followed them. This genuine in­ terest in students and alumni won for her a unique place in their thought. She was Kent’s Hill’s premier teacher; first in the hearts of the school’s thou­ sands. She knew more alumni than any person living and loved them all. Great, kindly heart! it had room for us all. Love begets love, and Miss Davis was best loved of all Kent’s Hill teachers. Miss Davis lived to celebrate the centenary of the school. How she thought and labored to make the cele­ bration a success. Perhaps the effort THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS was too much for her strength; she was not so strong afterward. I am glad that her last years were so happy. Many times she said she was living where she hoped to end her years. The school was her life to the end. Miss Davis excelled in purity of character; in genuine interest in her students; in loyalty to the school and to her associate teachers. For twenty years she was preceptress, but no one ever heard her utter a word of criti­ cism of her successors. This noble woman of Kent’s Hill is dead; but being dead she yet speaketh. Death can not kill that which can never die, a noble character. J. 0. N. Miss Davis We are gathered for the funeral service of Miss Davis, a long time and honored teacher in this school. Our presence here is an expression of our respect and high regard for her. This is not a time for sorrow or lamentation. After years of intelli­ gent, sympathetic and highly efficient service in developing brain power and character, in life’s late eventide, after failing physical powers had made her pathetic, Miss Davis has graduated from this life and entered the larger life beyond. Let us lay away the out­ worn body, rejoicing with her that her crowning time has come. Miss Davis was the preceptress of this school when I became its president in 1902. She devoted herself without stint to all school duties, and heartily cooperated with me in efforts to achieve the purpose of the school. She was a wise and skillful teacher, steadily and in a kindly spirit holding her students to their best work. One day she came to me and asked what she should do with a student in whom I was very personally interested. I said, “ Show him no favoritism. Hold him steadily to his best work.” Later this student said to me complainingly, “ Miss Davis has it in for me.” “ That is not so,” I replied. “ She is doing just what I told her to do, just what you need to have done.” Still later he spoke to me in the highest terms of Miss Davis and expressed to me his sincere gratitude for what she had done for him. She ever sought the highest good of the students of the school, and watched over them with almost a mother’s love. There were always some thoughtless girls in the school to whom she gave special attention and care. One of these, I recall, thought her finical and unreasonably exacting. In later years I met this young woman, then married and the mother of a little girl. Speak­ ing of Miss Davis this mother said, “ I have a daughter growing up, and I should like to place her under the care of just such a teacher as Miss Davis.” The time came when Miss Davis thought she ought to lay down the duties of preceptress. No one, so far as I knew, had even hinted such a thing to her. She came and told me her purpose to resign. My attempt to change this purpose availed nothing. She expressed a desire to have a room on the fourth floor of the dormitory so that she might be out of the way, and added, “I do not wish to be a hindrance in any way to my suc­ cessor.” I urged her not to take a room on the fourth floor as climbing so many stairs would be too burdensome. “ Take any room in the building that 11 you want.” But she insisted that she wanted a room on the fourth floor and took it. Her successor always found a true and loyal helper in Miss Davis. She was a godly woman. She loved God and gave herself actively to the Christian work of the school, and contributed generously of her sub­ stance to church and reformatory work. It is very fitting that this brief service should be held in these rooms in this building where so large a part of her life work was done. We are not alone here. With us is an unseen multitude who as students in this school felt the touch and influence of Miss Davis’ life. They ever bless her in memory and today sorrow with us that we shall see here her face no more. Wilbur F. Berry, ’76. The Burial of Miss Frances A. Davis The skies above seemed mournful And shed such tender tears, While friends and close associates Of many blessed years Bore to its peaceful resting place And laid her form away Until the final summons Of The Resurrection Day, So white her soul, benign her life. Sweet, modest, and so rare; A host of friends arise to bless And praise her everywhere. She is not dead! One never dies Who lives so worthily; With honors crowned she changed this life For immortality. May many feel the sacred fire, And fan it to a flame. Fulfilment of her high desire. Her coronet of fame! Rw. William Wood, Wilton, Maine. (The Burial was amid the notables whose glorious lives are enshrined in the hearts and memories of a vast host of admiring students, at Kent's Hill, July 9th, 1926.) �12 THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS De-de What can one adequately say of the life and personality of Miss Davis? Everyone who attempts to will say it — and no one will say it. She was herself. As one of her most devoted friends said at her funeral, “ Her face betokens character.” And that is why language, which is de­ signed to express general qualities, fails to interpret this truly great woman. But, fortunately for many, perhaps most of those who will read this issue, it is not necessary to deliniate her; they know. By comparison we may say that, more than is the lot or the attainment of most people, her life was dominated by love. Her love was not that senti­ mental thing that can see no fault in its object. Lofty in standards, in­ tellectual and moral; keen in discrimi­ nation; and endowed with the saving grace of humor; she still loved, even where she could not approve. Hence it happened that she was wise. There is a much neglected verse in one of the epistles of St. Paul that says, not that knowledge is the basis of wisdom but love. Her advice was sought by old and young, and confidently. Sympathy and wise counsel were assured in advance. What a friend she was! And she had her reward ' “ For love is only got by loving.” Who —> ever had more lovers? Denied the blessing of children, she lavished her heart on fthe ’ children of «heT' children loved her, had KffU a • played with her, had little endearing nicknames for her ike the one above by which she is tao™ to a considerable group of THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS No material monument could com­ pare in perpetuity with that immortal spiritual reproduction of herself which she implanted in her pupils and her associates. B. O. McIntire. Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 23, 1926. Miss Davis as I Knew Her When Miss Davis first went to Kent’s Hill as a teacher, in the winter of 1882-3, I was a student in my junior year. I think I was the first girl to whom she spoke, asking some question about the building. That was the beginning of our acquaintance. I was in her French and German classes, and soon learned that nothing but thorough work and close attention was allowed there. Soon I learned that the careful, conscientious teacher was a warm and loving friend. Her room was always open to us, and she was never too busy to give the needed word of help or advice. Miss Davis’ first visit to me in my own home was thirty-five years ago. Since then she has come to me many times. It became her custom to spend a part of every summer with a few of us in western Massachusetts, who were her old boys and girls. As she came year after year, she entered into our family lives and shared our joys and sorrows, and watched our chi dren grow up. She called them her “ grand children.” .. When Leon McIntire was a sma boy, he called her “ De-de ”• e liked the name and wished all ier “ grand children ” to use it. Soon we all called her Dede. She was neve Aunt Fannie to us. — 'I loyal I think I never knew a more •Whatever person than Miss Davis. ’ • ■ - — she may have thought of various poli­ cies at Kent’s Hill, she always defend­ ed them. The only time I ever saw her show anything like anger, was once when someone made a remark which she mistakenly thought was' a slur upon Kent’s Hill. Like a flash she answered with a sharp retort. All the students were her children, and she believed in them like a mother. They might have faults, but she was sure that the faults would be over­ come. Indeed it was her “ word fitly spoken ” that set many a boy and girl in the way of overcoming. Dede’s last visit to me was in 1923. During her stay we were favored with calls from several old Kent’s Hill friends. Lyon and Lulu Norton came one day, bringing Professor McIn­ tire, and another day, Ada Femald Starks and her family brought Doctor Smith, who was visiting them. As soon as Doctor Smith and Miss Davis got together they were oblivious to the rest of us. They were so happy and planned so much for the Kent’s Hill centennial the next year. It was not to be as they planned. I am so glad that I was with Miss Davis a few days Commencement week this year. She was ven’ feeble and her memory was failing, but her love for her children never failed. She said to me, “ I often dream that I would like to have all my boys and girls here on the campus down below Sampson Hall, all together once.” I replied, “ You ’ll have them all to­ gether in Heaven, Dede.” “ Yes,” she answered, and seemed satisfied. I think there could be no Heaven for her if she missed one of her children. 13 If there are guardian angels, she is still watching over every one of us, for her love will never fail. Winifred Ware Bodfish, College 1884- Miss Davis was a friend to me for more than forty years, and it seems to me that no one ever had a better friend. First, she was my teacher, and a good one, too. Then I went back to Kent’s Hill to teach, and we were teachers together. Was there ever a better person to work with? When I had a home of my own, for a part of every summer till these last years, when she could not come, she was a cherished guest. How we all looked forward to the coming of “ Dede ”, as the children called her. How we miss her. The traits that made her such a loved friend stand out as we think over the days when we had her. Full of fun she was. Her sense of humor carried her over many hard places. Keen mentally, she saw all sides of a question, and was fair. Unselfish almost to a fault, she thought of others first. Loyal to the core, she did not drop unkind words or insinua­ tions. Her whole life and method of thought was built on honesty and sin­ cerity. Others will speak of what she meant to Kent’s Hill, how her per­ sonality has made a continuous influ­ ence, and has held together the best traditions of the school through all these years. We, her “ children ”, know that the influence of her rare life lives on in our hearts. Lulu Adams Norton, Col. ’86. �14 THE KENT’S hill BREEZE and alumnus I first knew Miss Davis when I was at the Hill as a student in the fall term of 1885 and the spring term of 1886. As it happened to me, if not most of the students, it was only a short time before naturally and more or less frequently I called on her, al­ though I was not in any of her classes. What attracted me to her is, no doubt, the same that attracted all the other students. I cannot define it and will not try to. For forty years I knew her and during all that time it was the most natural thing in the world for me, whenever at the Hill, to spend a little time with her. To me, the outstanding thing about Aunt Fannie was this: As I know, not only from my own experience, but from observation and from conversa­ tion with other of her boys and girls, she never made you feel “mean m—” ”, Whatever you did or whatever kind of a boy or girl you were, she never, by direct words or by implication, scolded or upbraided or criticised. You were always pretty sure that she knew what kind of a boy or girl you were, and whether you^ were doing right: or doing wrong. You were also sure !she loved you and believed in ;---- > you, and it was jjust absolutely impossible to call on her or be with her.■ or talk -----with her without going away withi an impulse or determination to live and to act and to be just as near to her ideals of living and action as possible. F. E. Eastman, '86. She was a wonderful friend and I shall never cease to be thankful for her sympathy and love. I have neve_ seen anyone who had such an inex­ haustible store of interest and helpful- ness on which her friends could al­ ways depend. Helen Guernsey Sprague. Her memory will live in the minds of the thousands of boys and girls she has helped to be better men and women. E. A. Strout, ’90. I know tributes will come from all over the land, and mine is from an ob­ scure person so far as the world goes, yet I feel I would like the Kent’s Hill world to know how Miss Davis impressed one, not always in full sympathy with everything inculcated by the institution during his short stay on the Hill. Learning of the death of an old friend is always saddening, because of the vacancy in life’s contacts. One finds that lasting friendships> are selJ-- made ’ 'late ■ •in life, and• the •’ impres­ dom sions of youth are lasting, hence we, who came under the benign influence of our old friend, feel this morning as though a part of life was gone. On the other hand, when one has reached the fullness of years, and the physical body has readied its natural decay, what a joy the release must be to the dear soul passing into the new life of restfulness and continued growth. So we are happy for her, gone to join her dear mother and loved ones gone be­ fore. Miss Davis was one of the quiet persons whose life was full of the best. No youth who came under her influ­ ence was forgotten by her, nor she bj him. Her sweet face with its kindly eyes, shaded by the glasses which seemed a part of her, can never be forgotten. Her many acts of kindli­ ness to the boy or girl, who came un- THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS der her care, never lose their influence in their lives. Although it was over 43 years since the writer first came in contact with Miss Davis at the Hill, that first inter­ view will remain a sweet memory. She was so kindly, so interested to help the boy in his latest phase of life. So sincere in it all, that he could but feel, in her, he had a real friend, and so it proved. Although as the years passed, activities of life took the boy, and the man, over much of this earth’s surface, far away from sight or touch with the Hill, yet I believe one of the strongest influences from that source was the influence of Fanny Davis, striving in her quiet way (never sanc­ timonious) to do some real good to a strange boy. I think more than 18 years passed between leaving the Hill and meeting Miss Davis again, and I think I saw her but twice in all after 1883. She was the same interested friend who wanted to know the details of the boy’s struggles with life, his happinesses, successes and failures. She had a word of commendation for what she saw as good, and the same smiling condemnation for what she deemed bad, in what he told her. The real qualities of a true friend, that be­ ing, so rare in life’s contacts. Al­ ways through the years she kept her interest. Now and then a letter, but very seldom even that, yet she never forgot, as shown by the reports of mutual acquaintances who through the years came in touch with both of us. It was but a few weeks ago, as she lay a helpless invalid, a friend called to see her. She made enquiry and sent messages of love and friendship, such as come from the truly unselfish one to those to whom she renders service. Such a life as hers, filled with good 15 works and service for others, especially youth, seems of the highest type one can attain. How much greater than the amassing of fortune, the gaining of worldly high position, the applause of the multitude? Her life was a ful­ filling of the Master’s ideals. Cer­ tainly I have known few followers of Jesus Christ who left a deeper impres­ sion of his life and teachings than Fanny Davis did on my life. She at­ tained the “ Christian Graces ” be­ cause she was first fully equipped with the “ Pagan Virtues ” and prepared to receive the higher qualities. I like the old Catholic expression, “ God rest her soul! ” O. O. Howard, '8-j. I do not really mourn Miss Davis’ departure except as I had cherished a grain of hope that I might, by some dispensation of Providence, see her again. Supremely blessed was her life and doubtless her death also. I have been estimating that possibly 8,000 or 10.000 young meh and women have come under her influence; probably 5,000 to 6,000 homes or more have been made better by her life and teach­ ing. She has achieved a wonderful triumph and now she has “ Arrived ” as the Africans express it when one of their number dies. Instead of speak­ ing of the “ Dear Departed ” they say, “He has arrived.” Good! God is not the God of the dead but the God of the living and death is simply get­ ting home. It will not be long, I am sure, before someone starts a Memorial to her dear name for the old School. I want to be in that, somehow. Jesse L. Rollins, '8S. El Cerrito, Calif. �16 THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS ""A Aunt unt Fanny anny,” as she was lovlov­ . o f Maine ’ s gems ingly called, was one c _ „ of womanhood. Her long connection with the old Institution she loved so well, and the very intimate relation she always held, especially with those un­ der her care and in the classroom, through that kindly Christian character temnerament. subtle and potent in and temperament, every way, will leave a trail of mem­ ory that will always remain with the old student body, and all in fact who knew her, as a choice delight. Always interested in the success of the students who went from the old Seminary, following even with enthusiasm the steps of success to which they had attained, she showed and developed a mind of wonderful resource in her last years. They will all miss her and feel sad at heart in the passing of a true “ friend ”. Kent’s Hill will miss her for the kindly influence that permeated the entire atmosphere of its surroundings j and I am sure that her reward is rich and glorious. Verily, she hath done what vvhot she could." W. L. Mower, ’90. in our thoughts, shedding its rays of inspiration and we are better men and women because of her. I can hear her say, as if it were yesterday, “ Children, is it really you? It doesn’t seem pos­ sible,” when some twelve or fourteen of us called on her one day during Commencement in 1925, and although we were all in our forties and cele­ brating a twenty-fifth reunion of the Class of 1900 (I, however, was of ’01), it brought tears to the eyes for ■ we were were still the boys and girls of we 1900 and although some twenty-five1900 years years had passed we still held the old place in that wonderful understanding heart of hers, Will Stahl, ’01. ----A Message from a Former Precep­ tress, Miss Rebecca Ellis Writing to one of our teachers, Miss Ellis said of Miss Davis: “ Seldom does one know of a life so rich rich as hers. hers. Never have I heard 6f one whose everyday life was the of absolute duplicate of the inner life of hope and belief Usually they are seemingly too often inconsistent. I count it one of the great privileges of Some way it doesn’t seem possible my life to have known her even for so that Miss Davis has left us, even short a time as I did.” though her passing was expected. The Old Hill will not seem the same. , -For twenty-four years, first in Her life was evote to her boys and teaching with her in the Seminar), girls, and . in the long lnng yyears “-c of c5 service and in ‘ these later times, in ‘ intimate at the little old school way down East association with her while living on in Maine, she won the love, admiration the Hill, Miss Davis has been a friend and respect of the hundreds of stu­ indeed. Her unfailing sympathy, dents who were privileged to be under broad outlook, good judgment, com her influence, and it was a ireal’ privi- bined with ............... her sense of humor, ma e lege although perhaps we did----not: reher friendship a unique experience in alize it at the time. As the years go my life. I miss her and always sha by her life stands out as a beacon light Alice Ray Divine- Kent’s Hill Bulletin Published quarterly in February, May, August and December Sole owner and publisher, the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Women’s College Entered at Kent’s Hill Post Office, Maine, as second-class mail Subscription, for the December and May issues fifty cents for year THE ALUMNUS Mabel Stone Harvey, ’01, Editor The Kent’s Hill Breeze Vol. XLV Fall Term, 1926 Number 1 Published Once Each Term at Kent’s Hill, Maine Terms — One School Year, Seventy-Five Cents Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter at Kent’s Hill, Maine EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief JAMES COUSENS, '27 Athletic Notes ALFRED SANBORN, ’28 Assistant Editors ANDREW ELLIS. ’27 LUCILLE NASON, '28 Student Organizations ALBERT RHAMES, ’27 FRANKIE ELLIOT, ’28 Managing Editor LEROY BLACK, ’27 Poetry THELMA GIBBS, ’27 Assistant Managing Editors ARTHUR EISOLD. ’28 VIRGINIA McFADDEN, '27 Art HELEN HARVEY, '27 Associate Editors Senior Notes BARBARA SAWYER, ’27 Junior Notes MARY FIELD. ’28 Sophomore Notes LUCY BEAN. ’29 School News WILLIAM ANDERSON. '27 Exchanges ALLEN JEWETT. ’27 Music MABEL MILLAY, ’27 Freshman Notes HELEN DALTON. ’30 Jokes PHILIP WALTON. ’27 GLADYS YOUNG. ’28 Alumni Notes LEANESS GAY. ’27 Faculty Adz’isor MABEL A. HARVEY, ’01 �18 n THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS ®. </ I: Athletic Notes Football started this year with a rush, about twenty-five men reporting for suits. Our new coach, Mr. Davis, and Captain Tapley immediately got down to business with the sole idea in mind of beating Hebron. After but two short weeks of fundamentals and ground work, and but one short scrim­ mage, we played our first game. This game was merely a practise one, how­ ever, to show the Coach what kind of material he had. The Notre Dame team had already played a couple of games and when we held them 0-0 we were sure that Kent’s Hill had the makings of a fine team. Lineup: Notre Dame Kent’s Hill Maheu, re le, Sanborn Paggnucci (Capt.), rt It, Richardson A. Roy, rg lg, Ainslie Belanger, c c, Harrington Bulger, 1g rg, Eisold H. Violette, It rt, Sullivan Poulin, le re, McInnis Pelletier, qb qb, Bryant R. Violette, lh rh, Leighton Dempsey, rh lh, Tapley (Capt.) R. Roy, fb fb, Curry Sub. for K. H.: Luce for Sanborn. Officials: Ref., Mahan, Springfield Springfield;; Umpire Umpire, Phillips, Bowdoin; Head linesman, McLellan^ K. H. * The following Saturday the Hill­ toppers journeyed to Bucksport to play E. M. C. S. in the first scheduled game of the year. Here we first en­ countered the deadlock jinx that was destined to pursue us the rest of the season. Aided by some very poor officiating, Bucksport held us 0-0 al­ though the ball was continually in Bucksport territory. Kent’s Hill de­ cidedly out-played the Bucksport boys by at least two touchdowns. There were no individual stars. Lineup: Bucksport Kent’s Hill Barrows, le le, Luce Cassidy, It It, Richardson Viles, 1g 1g, Snell Smith, c c, Harrington Parker, rg rg, Pendergast Connelly, rt rt, Sullivan Whalen, re re, McInnis Roderick, qb qb, Bryant Twombly, lh lh, Tapley Harriman, rh rh, Leighton Enman, fb fb, Curry K. H. Subs.: Black for Curry; McGinty for Bryant. The next game was the first home game of the year, that with the Maine Central Institute. The game was marred by many penalties, several of these costing Kent’s Hill a chance to score. The final score showed M. C. I- to be the better club by 14-6; Bryant scoring K. H. points. Lineup: M. c. I. J. Flatley, re Savage, rt Ferguson, rg McClay, c Andrews, 1g Luttrell (Capt.), It Lait, le Karkos, qb T. Flatley, rh Kent's Hill le, Sanborn It, Richardson 1g, Eisold c, Harrington rg, Pendergast rt, Snell re, McInnis qb, Bryant lh, Tapley (Capt.) O o > i �THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS Paiment, Ih rh, Leighton McLellan, fb fb, Black K. H. Subs.: Curry for Black; Cousens for Leighton; Ainslie for Eisold; Raichlin for Sanborn. Bryant Touchdowns: McLellan, Johnson, point after Luttrell. The following Saturday, Kent’s Hill went to Waterville to play their first college freshman game of the sea­ son with Colby. The game resulted in another scoreless tie. Kent’s Hill’s chances of winning were lost on ac­ count of the numerous inj’uries from the M. C. I. game. The game was featured by Freddie Leighton’s run­ ning back of punts and also by the fine catch of pass by McInnis. Lineup: Colby Christie, le Turner, It Draper, 1g Honan, c Rogers, rg Davidson, rt Griffen, re Williams, qb Pope, Ih Davis, rh Donovan, fb Kent’s Hill re, McInnis rt, Sullivan 1g, Pendergast c, Harrington 1g. Snell It, Richardson ' le. Raichlin qb, Bryant Ih, Tapley rh. Leighton fb. Curry The next week came another fresh­ man game, that with the Bowdoin Frosh. Kent’s Hill after playing rings around their opponents, emerged the victim of a few tough breaks. At the end of the first half. Kent's Hill had the ball on Bowdoin’s five yard line but the whistle blew before they could put it across. In the last two minutes to play, the Hilltoppers worked the ball down to Bowdoin’s one yard line when the whistle again blew, ending the game. The whole team played well. Bowdoin 7; Kent’s Hill 0. Lineup: Bowdoin Bird, le Garcelon, It Kent’s Hill re, McInnis rt, Sullivan 19 Haycock, 1g rg, Pendergast Chalmers, c c, Harrington Page, rg 1g, Snell Hirtle (Capt.), rt It, Richardson Shaw, re le, Raichlin Stiles, qb qb, Bryant Thayer, Ih Ih, Tapley (Capt.) Lancaster, rh rh, Leighton Soule, fb fb, McGinty K. H. Subs.: Curry for Bryant. Our next game was with the Maine Frosh, which Kent’s Hill lost through the educated toe of a former Hilltop­ per, Zakarian. Both teams were fairly even. Kent’s Hill’s line outplayed the Frosh. Me. 3; K. H. 0. Lineup: Maine Frosh Palmer, re Randall, rt Vail (Capt.), rg Zakarian, c Mayer, Ig Tsailes, It Lufkin, le Knight, qb Moran. Ih Brown, rh Moor, fb Subs., K. H.: Cousens. Murphy, Kent’s Hill re, McInnis rt, Sullivan rg, Pendergast c, Harrington 1g, Snell It, Richardson le, Raichlin qb, Bryant Ih, McGinty rh. Leighton fb, Curry Tapley, Loveitt, Next came a week of general pep­ ping up in preparation of the coming battle with our tradtional rivals, Hebron. More spirit was shown this year than in many previous years and so, in order to show appreciation to the backing of the student body, the team went to Hebron and played the “ Big Green ” off their feet, coming home the victors, 7-0. The whole team, as is always the case in a Hebron-Kent's Hill game, played a wonderful brand of football. Al­ though both teams played hard, there were but two penalties, both of these being for offsides, one on K. H. and the other on Hebron. Leighton and Curry pulled off some sensational runs; Curry dashing sixty yards for �20 THE KENT’S hill breeze and alumnus THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS the touchdown and then kicking the goal. Lineup: that the Hilltoppers were really out­ played. Score: B. A. 13, K. H. 0. Lineup: Kent’s Hill Hebron re, McInnis Kunty, re rt, Sullivan Piper, rt rg, Pendergast Giles, rg c, Harrington Wheeler, c lg, Snell Brown, lg It, Richardson Conroy, It le, Raichlin Williamson, le qb, Curry Lamb, qb rh, Leighton Kinsley (Capt.), rh Ih, Tapley (Capt.) Farrell, Ih fb, Black Ives, fb Touchdown, Curry. Point after, Curry. K. H. Subs.: McGinty for Black, Murphy for Sullivan, Bryant for Tapley, Cousens for Curry. Bridgton Academy Kent’s Hill Graham (Capt.), le re, McInnis Hutchinson, It rt, Sullivan Madossa, lg rg, Pendergast Creehan, c c, Harrington Long, rg lg, Snell Barry, rt It, Richardson Doyle, re le, Raichlin Deetjen, qb qb, Curry Kersey, rh rh, Leighton Holmesburg, Ih Ih, Tapley (Capt.) Juneau, fb fb, Black K. H. Subs.: McGinty for Black, Bryant for Curry. Touchdowns, Holmesburg 2. Point after, Deetjen. Our next game was another dead­ lock with the Bates Frosh 0-0. We again were forced by hard breaks to be content with a tie score. Leighton furnished the fireworks when he ran ninety yards through the whole Bates team only to be called back to Bates’ ten yard line for offsides. The whistle blew before the Hilltoppers could score. Lineup: Bates Frosh Kent’s Hill Secor, re re, McInnis Corney, rt rt, Sullivan Lizotte, rg rg, Murphy Lander, c c, Harrington Diehl (Capt.), lg lg, Snell Kilbourne, It It, Richardson Weston, le le, Raichlin Manning, qb qb, Curry Coults, rh Ih, Tapley (Capt.) Violette, Ih rh, Leighton Watkins, fb fb, Bryant K. H. Subs.: Loveitt for Bryant, Eisold for Murphy. The next ggame was the last scheduled game of the ---- ;year, with Bridgton Academy. Kent’s Hill seemingly went all to pieces when a Bridgton man picked up a loose ball and —I ran mnety-five yards for a touchdown. This was the only game of the year One win. Four ties. 0 0 14 0 7 3 0 0 13 30 Four defeats. K. H. 0 0 6 0 0 0 7 0 0 13 In conclusion, the coach and the team wish to thank the student body for their fine spirit and cooperation. They wish also to extend their thanks to R. C. McIlroy, ’01, of Lewiston, for the fine blankets which he present­ ed the Athletic Association just before the Hebron game and which no doubt aided them materially in defeating Hebron. The team could do no less after such a fine display of Kent’s Hill spirit by both alumni and students. The following men received letters at the football banquet: McInnis, Sullivan, Pendergast, Harrington, Snell, Richardson, Raichlin, Murph). Bryant, McGinty, Curry, Leighton. Black, Capt. Tapley and Manager Were vocal with sure prophecies Exceeding sweetest, fondest dreams! Bashful boys and maidens fair Pursued alike this luring light, And hope aroused put handicaps Highways and Alchemy (There are times when imagination runs riot, when roads are more than dirt, when Nature is vocal with voices divine, and when aspiring youth is unwittingly guided and guarded holy and eternal laws! This is just a picture of the highways of romance about Kent’s Hill!) Of every sort to fear and flight! Enarmored by a common aim They longed to make a common cause Of hopes and fears, success, defeat, Unconscious of Life's mystic laws! They saw, they met, they loved, were merged, For out of these sprang ties that bind To all that’s beautiful in life — From homes about and regions far, Youth saw a beacon on Kent’s Hill, The home — blest boon to human kind! And longed to know its mystic might, Companionships as dear as life, Commanding all succeeding days, And felt within its luring thrill! Created friendships that have paved They dreamed as youth have ever dreamed, Summary of the Season Notre Dame Bucksport Sem. M. C. I. Colby Bowdoin Maine Hebron Bates Bridgton Anderson. Leighton has been elected Captain of the team for next year. “Al” Sanborn, ’28. 21 And ventured forth as ancient seers; With gold those sweet, romantic ways I While others see the same old things. But whither bound they could not tell, With scant improvement, they assert; Or what beyond the distant years! Thank God for eyes that see youth still Along the winding ways they went, The woods, the fields, hills, dales and streams Make golden things of common dirt! William Wood, Class of ’92. �22 THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS our class may be increased during the rest of the year. Lucy Bean, ’29. Senior Notes on a very pretty design. We hope to Our class opened this year with the have them soon. membership enrollment at nearly sixty. We sincerely hope our year will be Officers for the class were elected the as successful as it has started out to latter part of last year and are as fol­ be. We certainly have a fine class! lows: President, Leroy Black; ViceBarbara Sawyer, 21. President, Barbara Sawyer; Secre­ tary, James Cousens; Treasurer, Vir­ Junior Notes ginia McFadden. Three of our num­ The Junior Class opened with an ber are away, two of whom we are enrollment of seventeen classified stu­ expecting will return soon. dents and three unclassified. Early in the fall the annual Senior Tuesday, October sixth we had a Cornroast was held on the shore of a meeting and chose our officers as fol­ cove of Echo lake. After hiking down, a fire was built and we enjoyed lows: President, Alfred Sanborn; ears of com roasted and marshmal­ Vice-President, Allan Horne; Sec­ lows toasted. President Roy Black retary, Florence Messier; Treasurer, gave us a short talk then Miss Mayo Edna Clements. We are very pleased to have two spoke, after which Alyse Yerkes gave a Uke solo. Coach Davis told us good athletes in our class, Fred Leigh" about the coming football season; Mr. ton and Alfred Sanborn. Our class has started well and we Watkins gave a short talk which was followed by a uke and harmonica duet hope to continue and do our best by Mabel Millay and Ellen Everett. throughout the year. Miss McQuigg and Ruth Kingsbury Mary E. Field, J28. favored us with readings and to con­ clude the program “ J. O.” told us a Sophomore Notes corking ghost story. Then we hiked 1 he Sophomore class is very g'3^ home. It certainly was a memorable to announce an enrollment of thirtj' event. . one members. We feel fortunate in We had quite a heated discussion having lost but one member, Roger over our class rings and finally decided Martin. We hope that the number o Freshman Notes The Freshmen have a class of thirty members of which four have been or are on the honor roll. Walter Harriman is the champion corn-grower of Kennebec County. This fall, just before school opened, lie went, with other boys and girls, to the Eastern States Exposition. This trip was a reward for being Champion and he also gets a trip to Orono this winter. Helen M. Dalton, ’30. MUSIC NOTES 23 has returned to Colby Academy, In her place we have Miss Edna C. John­ son of Buffalo, New York. She studied under Mrs. Frank Davidson of Buffalo, New York, and was her assistant for ten years. For the past two years she studied with Elizabeth Siedoff of Boston, an exponant of Tabias Matthay, of London, We have with us this year Miss Ruth A. Knapp, of Springfield, Mass., succeeding Miss Grace I. Schlief as teacher of voice and piano. She is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Boston, Mass., ’26. Her vocal training was under Clarence B. Shirley, and Charles B. Bennett. She studied piano under Howard Coding. There is to be a Glee Club organized under the supervision of Miss Knapp. The last of September the Musical Faculty contributed to an entertainment for the orders of the Eastern Star and Masons at Readfield. They also entertained at the reception to the principals of the Preparatory Schools in New England, and their wives, given by Mrs. Watkins at her home. In January there is to be a Faculty Recital. Mabel H. Millay. The Music Department opened this year with a good enrollment which promises a successful year. Miss Charlotte E. Armstrong, of Winter Hill, Massachusetts, our violin and piano teacher, is director of the Music Department in. place of Miss Florence M. Adel, who is at Hollins College, Virginia. Miss Armstrong came to Kent’s Hill two years ago and has been very efficient in her work. She studied at the New England Con­ servatory, and Institute of Musical Art, New York City, and for four SCHOOL ORGANIZATIONS years under Anton Witeh, former Con­ cert-Master of Boston Symphony Calliopean Orchestra, and two years under The members of the Calliopean Charles Martain Loeffler. She received __ xpiano .___ ____ o under Heinrich Society chose the following for their her training Gebhard and his assistant, May Moses, acting officers throughout the fall She is a member of the MacDowell term: Ivan Loveitt, President; MalClub Orchestra of Boston. colm Tapley, Vice-President; Earl Miss Stella Whitman was the piano Luce. Secretary; James Bernardini, teacher and with us only a month. She Treasurer. �24 THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS Weekly meetings have been held in “ Cal ” Hall and interesting programs have been enjoyed. Adelphian A special meeting was held Friday evening, Sept. 17, 1926 and the fol­ lowing officers were installed for the fall term: President, Thelma Gibbs; Vice-President, Dorothy Hill; Treas­ urer, Leaness Gay, and Secretary, Helen Dalton. The new members are fifteen in number this fall. The Adelphians and Eromatheans had a joint meeting in Adelphian Hall Nov. 12th and some Thanksgiving numbers were given in the program. Calliopeans and Adelphians The Calliopean and Adelphian joint public meeting was help in Deering Chapel on November 20, 1926 and the following program was rendered: Art. I Entrance March Art. II Invocation Calliopean Chaplain Art. Ill Reading of Records Calliopean Secretary Art. IV Address of Welcome Alfred Sanborn Art. V Piano Solo Florence Messier Art. VI Three Part Song Katherine Ladd Agnes Merchant Art. VII Reading Lucille Nason Art. VIII Vocal Solo Gladys Young Art. IX Debate Resolved: That — within five years the United States ------should1 grant independence to the Philippines. Negative Affirmative Gordon Harrington Paul Crocker Gladys Young Dorothy Hill Art. X Intermission Art. XI Rustic Songsters Alfred Sanborn George Moore Art. XII Reading Earl Luce Art. XIII Song Specialty Dorothy Hill Gertrude Reed Art. XIV Piano Solo Katherine Ladd Art. XV Closing Address Albert Rhames Art. XVI One Act Play THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS CONVERTING BRUCE Bruce Harrington Jack Webster Peggy Lee Beth Stuart Cale Curry Ivan Loveitt Katherine Ladd Margery Webster The meeting was proclaimed a suc­ cess by the large number of friends and townspeople who attended it. It ran smoothly from the start and cer­ tainly was a credit to the societies. Literati During the first week of the term, the election of officers was held and the following were elected: Douglas Brown, President; William Anderson, Vice-President; Allen Jewett, Secre­ tary; Kenneth Taylor, Treasurer. The regular meetings have been held each Friday evening, and they have been successful. - The new members have shown a willingness to do their best in handling whatever parts that have been assigned them. This spirit is looked upon as an omen of a success­ ful year. Eromathean The new officers for the fall term were elected Sept. 9th and the following were chosen: President, Lucim Adams; Vice President, Virginia Mc­ Fadden; Treasurer, Mary Field, am Secretary, Verna Fickett. The first regular meeting was held Sept. l'tl and part of the new girls visit • There are thirteen new girls who j‘”n ed the Eromatheans this year. „ start” The Eromathean Alumnae are ing a fund for a piano for the societ) and have collected about thirty dollar so far. Literati and Eromathean Literati and Eromathean Joint Public Meeting was held on Saturday evening, November 6th and the fol­ lowing program was rendered: Art. I Entrance March Literati Chaplain Art. II Invocation Art. Ill Reading of Records Literati Secretary Elizabeth Merrill Art. IV Opening Address Art. V Piano Solo Alice Yerkes Barbara Sawyer Art. VI Reading Art. VII Vocal Solo Ellen Everett Art. VIII Debate Resolved: That our present system of competitive athletics is detrimental to edu­ cation. Affirmative Negative Ruth Kingsbury G. Frankie Elliott Allen Jewett Myron Johnson Art. IX Intermission Mabel Millay Art. X Violin Solo Art. XI Topic Myron Johnson Art. XII Ukelele and Harmonica Duet Mabel Millay and Ellen Everett Art. XIII Song Specialty in charge of Joyce Brown Art. XIV Closing Address Stephen Jewett Art. XV Musical Sketch Y. M. C. A. The Y. M. C. A. meetings have made a good start under the presidency of Andrew Ellis. We found that the “Y” has been laboring under difficulties for the first few weeks because of other activities which have filled the interest of the fellows. Plans are being made for frequent socials during the winter months. Work has started on the Y. M. C. A. fund, and it is hoped that a substantial increase may be made on it before the closing of the school year. With the start that the “ Y ” has made, and with the efforts of the mem­ bers that are back of it we feel con­ fident that the organization will remain 25 an important factor throughout the year. Mr. Hamlin has been with us at two meetings, and gave us interesting talks which we all enjoyed — we hope you may be with us again, Mr. Ham­ lin. We were fortunate in having Mr. Newton for our speaker at our second meeting, and we are looking forward to the time when he may speak to us again. The meeting of November 18 was short, and Philip Greenleaf was elected secretary. Y. W. C. A. The new officers in the Y. W. C. A. are: President, Virginia McFadden; Vice-President, Dorothy Hill; Secre­ tary. Mary Field, and Treasurer, Verna Fickett. The first meeting this year was held in the Y. W. C. A. hall on Oct. 14th and Mrs. Hamlen spoke on the sub­ ject of future work. Mrs. Hamlen is the Y. W. C. A. counselor for this year. Meetings have been held every Thursday night and the girls are making up a Christmas box for the children in the Near East. Albert Rhames, ’27. Frankie Elliot, ’2S. CAMPUS NOTES Among the events of this term was the Annual Readfield Fair, held on September 23-24. Kent’s Hill was well represented by both students and alumni among the blue ribboners. Professor A. C. Russell, ’73, took 14 firsts and seconds on apples, with �26 THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS Hugh Smith, ’26, taking four. Most of listening to Josiah W. Taylor, a of the Baby Show prizes were given trustee of Kent’s Hill and the State to children of K. H. Alumni. In the Agent for Secondary schools. The Annual meeting of the Princi­ fancy work display Dorothy Riggs, ’24, took 13 prizes; Una Swift, ’22, pals of the England Methodist 5; Evelyn Peacock, ’26, 1, and Lucy schools was held on Kent’s Hill this Bean, ’29, 2. In the athletic contest, year. There are seven such schools. Mrs. Shaw; with Mrs. Smart of the Allan Home and Paul Sulmonetti won the 100 yd. dash in their respective Board of Trustees, honored us with a classes; Arnold Kidder, the running visit of some duration. They roomed broad jump, and Seth Lamson, the in the Annex and ate with the student body. Mrs. Smart visited a few half-mile race, in 2 min. 47 sec. The west side of Sampson Hall has classes and we trust that she found undergone a few much needed repairs. them satisfactory. Most of the rooms have been thor­ Miss Mayo, our Preceptress, was oughly overhauled. The corridors elected president of the “ Department have been papered, painted, and steel of Deans of Women and Advisors of ceilings installed. Girls ” of Maine, at the Maine Teach­ The farm buildings have been re­ er’s Association in Bangor. She was paired in general, especially the bam one of the principal speakers of the down at the Mansion where the new Association meeting, her address be­ floor has replaced the old, weaker one. ing, “ The Dean’s Debt to the Girl.” Thursday morning, October 14, at On November 17, she gave an address 8:50 Bishop Fred Fisher spoke in on “ Sounding the Joy Notes ” before Deering Chapel. Bishop Fisher was the Y. W. C. A. of Bates College. on a visit from India where he spends Miss Pauline McQuigg, our teacher most of his time. He brought out the of Expression, attended the Sesquifact, in his talk, that there are some centennial Exposition in Philadelphia very intelligent men in India and that during American Legion Week, when they will have to be recognized in the her father, Gen. McQuigg, ended his years to come. term of office as head of the Legion. At a later date we had the privilege Wm, Anderson, THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS At this early date, only a few have visited our department. We are glad to welcome our new friends and to renew our old friendships. Following is the list of exchanges, to date: "The Bowdoin Orient" — Bowdoin College, Brunswick. " Boston University News ” — Bos­ ton University, Boston, Mass. " The Bates Student ” — Bates Col­ lege, Lewiston. " Hebronian " — Hebron Academy. Hebron. "The Caduceus”— Norway High School, Norway. " The Herald ” — Gould’s Acad­ emy, Bethel. "The Messenger" — Westbrook Seminary, Portland. "The Noddler” — East Boston High School. Boston, Mass. "The Echo" — South Portland High School. South Portland. " The Oceanic ” — Old Orchard High School. Old Orchard. " The Stranger ” — Bridgton Acad­ emy, North Bridgton. "The Navillus" — Sullivan High School, Berwick. "The Clavis" — Jay High School, Jay. " The Anchor " — Anson Academy, North Anson. "Mountain View" — Weld High School, Weld. Bouquets for "The Messenger” — You have a long Literary Department for so small a paper. " The Navillus ” — We are glad to welcome you to our family. " The Stranger ” — A fine maga­ zine. Your snapshots make your pa­ per very interesting. " The Clavis ” — We wish to praise your cuts for the department headings. " Mountain View” — Welcome! Please accept our best wishes for your future success. “ Oceanic" — You have a well bal­ anced paper. Pictures help to make it one of the best. �28 THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS " The Herald ” — An excellent pa­ per. We would suggest more atten­ tion to the arrangement of the depart­ ment headings. “ The Caduceus ” — We are always glad to welcome this excellent paper. A. K. J., ’27. entered college this fall, and Miriam is a junior in high school. Miss Alice R. Divine, who ...UUC5 makes her headquarters at Chase Hall, is spending a part of the winter with relatives and friends in New York and Pennsylvania. former teachers Comparison of Length of Service of Teachers in the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College Dr. H. P. Torsey, President — 1844-1883 — 39 years. Professor Perley, Penmanship — 1847-1882 — 35 years. Phronie Robinson, Art — 18571879 — 22 years. Prof. F. A. Robinson, Mathematics —1857-1871 — 14; Normal Instruc­ tion — 1879-1883 — 4. Total, 18 years. Prof. J. L. Morse, Ancient Lan­ guage — 1862-1881 —19 years. Prof. Wilson F. Morse, Music — 1870-1880 — 10; 1883-1914 — 31. Total, 41 years. Mrs. Ella D. Morse, Music —18701880 — 10; 1883-1923 — 40. Total, 50 years. Frances A. Davis, French and Ger­ man — 1883-1926 — 43 years. Students of 1922-3 will be inter­ ested to learn of the engagement of Miss Marion M. Judkins, who taught piano here at that time, to Mr. James A. Howell, of Chelsea, Mass. Miss Judkins taught Latin this past year in Shrewsbury, N. J. Mr. Howell is a Bates graduate and plans to enter Union Theological Seminary, New York City, in September. Prof. Robert and Mrs. Helen Guernsey Sprague, of 32 Knowles Ave., Winter Park, Fla., enjoyed spending a part of the summer at Cayuga Lake, where Henry Guernsey, ’99, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., has a small place. They have been in Florida six years and Prof. Sprague has been teaching. Their daughter, Eleanor, graduated from Middlebur ‘y a year ago and is assistant dietici;an at St. Luke’s hospital in Florida; “ Bob ” THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS 29 The following is a copy of a letter suggestion of one of our former sent out to the alumni; its statements teachers that her old students place are so clear that no explanation is some testimonial in bronze at her needed. We only print it in case it resting place. may reach some who failed to receive It is planned to erect a rock-faced the letter itself. Before the last of Hallowell granite stone with a bronze the letters left the office, the first reply tablet bearing an appropriate inscriphad been received. It is indicative of tion. It is further planned to hang a the feeling of the majority: Dear portrait of Miss Davis in the school Mrs. Harvey: — Enclose check for chapel. We believe that a large number of Miss Davis Memorial and shall be glad to be identified with a loving the former students will welcome the thought to the memory of a real opportunity to have a small part in noblewoman, Sincerely, J. E. Am- carrying out these plans. No large contribution is called for, but we hope bach, ’97. for a wide response. Any sum not The Letter needed for the tablet and portrait will Dear Alumni: be added to the Frances A. Davis Our good friend, Miss Davis, e ec Fund, to which she has been a liberal ed to be laid at rest in the little cemetery on the Hill. It seems right that This letter may fail to reach many she should find her- last resting place who will wish to have a part in what near the school which she loved and we are doing. We enclose extra ad­ tvhich she served so unselfishly. Miss Davis’ boys and girls were her dressed envelopes which we hope you ------first and her last thought. It seems will pass to those whom you may’ in­ doing this eminently fitting that we carry out a terest. Remember we are < ' _ �30 THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS in loving memory of Miss Davis, the grand old lady of Kent’s Hill. Fred E. Eastman, ’86, John O. Newton, ’88, Thomas W. Watkins, Committee. by classes '69 ’72 Gen. Daggett May Visit Kent’s Hill ’56 Brig. Gen. Aaron S. Daggett, of 201 E. Capitol St., Washington, D. C., who has been in the U. S. Service ever since 1861, was a speaker at the meeting of the Maine Commandery of the Loyal Legion held in Portland, Sept. 1. He writes us he has a very kindly feeling for Kent’s Hill and would like to visit it again. This may be possible next fall. Mrs. Rose True Wilder, one of our ’59 oldest alumnae, of Hope, Maine, was present at the reunion of the True family in Litchfield. Another of our alumnae, Mrs. Cora True Cram, ’93, is the secretary of the organization made on that day. ’64 Last May a Boy Scout Troop of Portland honored the Rev. George R. Palmer by presenting him with a beautiful silk flag as a tribute from the coming generation to Lieut. G. R. Palmer of the 19th Maine Inf., one of the few surviving members of the Loyal Legion. ’65 The Portland Press-Herald calls at­ tention to the Laboratory, the home of Dr. C. A. Stephens, of Norway, as one of the show places of the town. This is where Dr. Stephens writes his famous stories for boys. ’68 Mrs. Carrie (Fletcher) Hawes, of 1816 N. Marengo, Pasadena, Calif., writes us of the doings of the “ Maine Club” to which she belongs, besides giving us information about a number of our alumni. Leroy T. Carleton, of Winthrop, known as the dean of the Kennebec Bar, has been re-elected for his 12th term as president of the Kennebec Bar Ass’n. He is also president of the Kennebec Law Library Ass’n, of which Charles W. Jones, ’75, is Librarian and Treasurer. J. Putnam Stevens has been elected first vice president of the Maine In­ stitute for, the Blind. Prof, and Mrs. Millard Parker, of Pasadena, Calif., met several K. H. people at the “ Maine ” picnic which they attended on Sept. 4. ’72 Mrs. Frank H. Boody (Addie L. Pennell), of 21 Lincoln St., Portland, was a caller on the Hill in August and gives us the address of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Pennell, ’72 (May Kidder, ’73), as Atlantic, Iowa, where they have been residents for some time. ’73 The special agricultural edition of the Kennebec Journal of Sept. 18, calls attention to the policy of Prof. Albin C. Russell in systematically planting young pine trees on waste land which he owns. ’75 Mrs. Sarah Day Spaulding, of Readfield, spent a part of the summer in Stoughton, Mass. '76 Mrs. Mary Hill Stone, of 712 Mor­ timer St., Santa Ana, Calif., writes us very appreciatively of her memories of Kent’s Hill. She has lived in Santa Ana since 1918, before which time she was in Colorado Springs for thirty-seven years. She writes us that she is lame but that if she were able to come to the Hill she would stay home and send the price of the jour ney to the school. We are proud to have such loyal, interested alumnae-. Mrs. Wm. B. Lovett (Abb* ’76 Sturtevant) of the College class 0 1876 writes us from 1705 11th Ave-’ ’72 THE KENT S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS Oakland, Calif., that she has lived in California since 1878 but it would have been one of the “ greatest joys of her life” if it had been possible for her to have been here in June. Her husband, a retired physician, was in the Civil war and they take an active part in Church, G. A. R., and W. R. C. work. George D. Bartlett, of Brooklyn, N. ’77 Y., spent the summer at Dixfield and visited the Hill. He regretted the im­ probability of his attending the 50th anniversary of his class, but his class at Wesleyan will celebrate their 45th, and Pratt Institute, with which he is connected, ■will have a special celebra­ tion about that time. In addition, he is anticipating a trip to Europe next summer. Dr. George M. Randall, of Daytona ’79 Beach, Fla., was in Maine this sum­ mer and spoke before the Rotary Club of Augusta, on the Florida develop­ ment and explained the closing of the chain of banks of the Bankers Trust Co., which occurred this spring. He is the author of a much quoted article on “ Factors of Longevity in the Semi-Tropics.” ’81 Mrs. Jennie Flood Kreger was toastmistress at the Banquet of the convention of Maine Federat’on of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs at Houlton in May. As a mem­ ber of the Republican State Commit­ tee she was the speaker of the evening, July 23, in Dexter. ’81 Prof, and Mrs. Herbert Russell, of Denver, Colo., have been visiting their son and daughter in California. The son, Herbert, lives and teaches in Santa Ana and Mabie teaches in hitten. They all enjoyed a short - visit with Mrs. Carrie Fletcher Hawes, of Pasadena. ’82 The work of Walter Franklin Pierce, Ph. D„ Executive Research Officer of the Boston Society for 31 Psychical Research, on dissociation, is considered by eminent authorities to be the most valuable thus far done in this field. ’83 Fred A. Bailey, 84 Buckingham St., Springfield, Mass. ’84 Lillian 0. Eaton, of Sabattus, was an August caller on the Hill. ’84 Oliver O. Howard, who has been “ lost ” to our files since he left New York, is located at 7 South St., Rock­ port, Mass. ’85 Mrs. Emma Hill McKellips has been located in Utica, N. Y., for the last two years. Her niece, Dorothy Hill, of Kennebunkport, is a senior in the school. Wm. F. Seaman, of 31 Milk St., Room 315, Boston, Mass., was on the Hill this summer. We read this saddening item in the ’86 Portland paper, “An elimination of a former champion in the person of Fred Eastman was the high light in the Presidents Cup play at the Port­ land Country Club. The man who put Eastman out of the running did it by the rather large margin of 8 and '85 6.” Through the generosity of Carter ’87 B. Keene, Freedom Academy has been enabled to secure a permanent home for the principal. This is the Keene residence in Freedom and will be known as Keene Hall, thus Perpetu­ ating the memory of one of the out­ standing representative families of the town. Mr. Keene has been spending the summer in Maine and was the speaker before the Portland Rotary Club, July 30th. He is assisting in the Maine publicity campaign. D. Edward Hamilton, of 55 So. ’87 Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena, '--'••r Calif., -Maine this spent his vacation in Maine tins sum.nd called on the nier and t... Hill in company ~~ with Fred A. Bailey, '83. ’83. �32 THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS Mrs. Sadie Jacobs Dunn, of Read­ field, is the librarian of the local Grange. This library is continually receiving accessions and has already reached a considerable size. Mrs. Florence Waugh Danforth, of ’88 Skowhegan, gave an address before the Maine Writers Research Club at its annual meeting at the DeWitt hotel, Lewiston, June 11, and has been ap­ pointed on the committee to prepare a Maine geographical reader for supplimentary use in the schools. She was also the speaker July 1st, at the first union service of the Centenary Meth­ odist, the Federated and the Bethany Baptist churches, a patriotic service in honor of the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of In­ dependence and the 100th anniversary of the death of Thos. Jefferson. Mrs. Danforth’s address was chiefly con­ cerning the life and work of Jefferson. Her interest in our school is shown by the way she was instrumental in getting new rugs for the girls’ parlors of Sampson Hall. With the aid of our alumnae these rugs were purchased and are much appreciated by the girls. '88 Dr. Thomas W. Luce, of Ports­ mouth, N. H., is president of the N. H. Medical Society and was one of the speakers at the 135th annual meeting of the society, held at the State Armory and Auditorium in . ------- -u Concord, in May. ’88 . Mrs. Stella King White, of Houlton, is the chairman of a committee of the Maine Writers Research Club, which is to prepare a new supplementary reader for the schools of the State. It w. 1 be a geographical reader which ’87 M s Wh>‘theaCh t0Wn ” the State' Mrs. White was also chairman of a committee for putting putting on on aa play play as a Houkon.f°r the W °man’Ss of Woman ’88 Mrs. Nellie French Rawson, 2507 22nd Ave. N., Seattle, Wash. ’89 Mrs. Bernice Grant Verrill called on the Hill Sept. 12. ’89 Dr. Sylvanus B. Newton has an office at The Rochambeau, 815 Con­ necticut Ave., Washington, D. C. ’89 Dr. and Mrs. Austin Hobart (Mollie Gardner) moved this spring to 710 No. Austin Blvd., Oak Park, Ill. ’90 Mrs. Mabel King Babcock, of 3 Meadow Way, Cambridge, Mass., has a son, Theodore, who graduated from Andover-Phillips Academy in 1925 and is now taking a four year course at Harvard. One daughter, Helen, graduates from the Academy of Speech Arts in Boston this year and her other daughter, Genevieve, is pre­ paring for Wellesley. ’90 Alice M. Wight, who is a retired teacher in Denver, Colo., is practicing Chiropractic in that city. ’90 Edwin A. Strout, of New York, vis­ ited his parents here at the Hill for a . few days in August. ’91 Thomas L., son of Rev. and Mrs. Herbert L. Nichols, of Skowhegan, is a student in B. U. College of Business Administration. ’91 Mrs. Gertrude Richardson Peaslee is living in Exeter, N. H. ’91 Willis O. Goodspeed, of Spokane, Wash., was on the Hill during last Commencement; having come as far east as Philadelphia with the Masons, K. H. easily drew him the rest of the way. ’92 Walter Gile, of Boston, spent his summer vacation with his mother ’n Readfield. During this time he direct­ ed a special movie and vaudeville show at Giles Hall for the benefit of the Masonic lodge of Readfield, and also gave entertainments at the Samoset Hotel in Rockland, in Monmouth, an Belgrade. He gave a very enjoya e THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS entertainment at Ricker Hall last spring which was much appreciated by the students. Judge Herbert E. Foster, of Win­ '92 throp, is vice-president of the Tele­ phone association of Maine. Mrs. Mabel Miles Cheney, of Lis­ bon, is the first woman representative to the Legislature from Androscoggin county and also the first Democratic woman representative in the State. She is lecturer of Androscoggin Pomona Grange and a well-known club woman. She is an elocutionist of note and her services as a public reader have been greatly in demand. The Woman’s Club of La Cres’93 centa, Calif., held a flower show this spring which they propose to make an annual event — calling it the Luther Burbank Show. At this first one the highest honors were taken by Mrs. Mary Fogg Carson, of Montrose, for the most perfect flowers. She dis­ played five baskets of roses — one vari­ ety in each basket. Mrs. Lilia Masterman Marston and ’95 son Daniel, ’20. of \ akima. Wash., were in town in June and left their names on the blackboard as a reminder to us of their visit. Mrs. Nettie Williams Ingham is ’97 now at 2624 Thayer St., Evanston, Ill., at which address it will be remem­ bered that Mrs. Annie Manter Huse is operated on for appendicitis this sum­ mer. Apparently he has fully recov­ ered. He is President of the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce and was Master of Ceremonies when the Farmington Chamber entertained the Auburn Chamber in May. ’93 ’97 to be found. The girls of Sampson Hall are very grateful Mrs. Fannie Bradley „ . '1 to to Mrs. ■ for her Hussey, of Norridgewock, part in securing the fine new rugs for the parlors. Miles Cochrane, of 502 E. Spruce ’98 St., Manchester, N. H., called on the Hill in July. ■" , of the Judge Sumner P. Mills, '98 Court, was Farmington Municipal C_. 33 Mrs. Blanche Gile Pratt, and son Richard, of Manchester, N. H., were in Readfield during August. State Lecturer Merle J. Harriman, ’99 of the Maine Grange, one of the orig­ inators of the New Eng. Lecturers’ Conference, was one of two speakers broadcasting from Portland on the eve of the annual conference at Orono, Aug. 15. This conference was quite an affair, beginning with an escort of State Police and ending with a three days’ trip through Aroostook Co. to say nothing of the good things in between. In September he won his seat in the Maine Senate and has been appointed chairman of the Grange Legislative Committee. Mrs. Annie Dolloff Haines, of ’00 Madison, has been appointed chairman of the Somerset Co. Republican Com­ mittee. She has a wide acquaintance with the voters of the county and is doing very efficient work by personal contact. Mr. and Mrs. Haines spent last winter in Florida and found the fishing there excellent. Wm. Morgan had a fine camp of ’00 boys at Maranacook this summer and they gave a double benefit show for Lafayette Lodge, F. & A. M. Both nights were largely attended and much enjoyed. Clyde E. Wilson, 91 Parade St., ’00 Providence, R. I. Mrs. Mary Clark Piper is at 5 Dal­ ’00 ton St.. Waterville, where Dr. Piper located after his post-graduate work at the Vniv. of Penna. ’99 �34 THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS ’01 Wm. F. Stahl, with 125 members of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce, toured the East in an all-Pullman train this spring, editing their own daily newspaper and carrying an extensive exhibit of Tulsa’s resources. In Balti­ more they were entertained by the officials of the U. S. Fidelity & Guar­ anty Co., of which Mr. Stahl is agent in Tulsa, and the “ Bulletin ” of that company states that “ ‘ Bill ’ Stahl was the lion of the evening, and in a very eloquent talk covered himself, the Company and Tulsa with glory.” '04 Prof. J. Murray Carroll’s work as debating coach at Bates has been greatly appreciated both by the col­ lege and the people with whom he has worked. At the last meeting of the Debating Council last spring, John Davis, Bates ’26, presented Prof. Car­ roll with a silver loving cup in behalf of the Varsity debaters. He is presi­ dent of the Delta Sigma Rho chapter of the National Debating Society. His debating team this fall defeated the Cambridge team which came over from England. '01 R. Crawford McIlroy made a gift to the Athletic Association this fall which was very much appreciated. The time of its coming was very much appreci­ ated also, being the eve of the game with Hebron. Fifteen red and gray blankets with “ Kent’s Hill ” woven in the border certainly helped win that most desired game. ’04 ’01 We have recently heard from Mrs. Agnes Emerson Sawyer, who still has a keen interest in Kent’s Hill. She and her husband, H. Russell Sawyer, have a summer place at Rye Beach, N. H. Mrs. J. C. Withington (Elizabeth Morris) has been a teacher in Buck­ field High School English department for over fifteen years. She was coach of the debating teams which won the Bates Interscholastic Cup for which K. H. competed. Her daughter, Con­ stance, was one of the debaters which defeated Waterville High, and enters Bates College this fall. ’05 John Manter, Bowdoin ’09, is teach­ er on the faculty of Cony High School and is assistant athletic coach, assisting Physical Director Pierce. Mrs. Man­ ter (Mary. Berry), Director of Voice at Coburn, was the soloist at the new Community House at Connecticut State College, Storrs, Conn., and also sang in Hartford in October. '05 Irving Moore, of New York City, who held the rank of Major in the World War, was in town this summer. He is with the Western Electric Co. at 195 Broadway. '05 Emma Strout, with her parents and ■’02 With Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Rand (Bessie Spaulding), of No. Anson, here at Commencement, was their son, Mark, a student at Bates, who supplies the pulpits at E. Livermore and No. Fayette. '03 ■ Leola M.. Robinson, of Red Bank, N. J., who usually spends her vaca­ tions in St. Petersburg, Fla., was in Bath for this summer. '03 Our attention is called to the not­ able address which Judge Robert A. Cony, of Augusta, gave on the Con­ stitution of the U. S. before the stu­ dent body of Cony High on the occa­ sion of their observance of Constitu­ tion Week. nephew, Edwin, motored to St. Peters­ burg, Ha., this fall, intending to p»ss thq winter there. ’05 The music pupils of Carrie Bradford presented a very pleasing re­ cital program at Penney Memoria Church, Augusta, June 12. THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS Mrs. Casper Wight (Florence M. Richardson) is living in Lakewood, Florida. Mrs. Maude Jacobs Antrim, of 545 ’08 Tillamook St., Portland, Ore., spent the summer in the east and made a short call on the Hill. Effie Noddin may be reached at 33 ’09 Andrews Rd., Bath, Maine. Philip H. Walters, Hoosick, N. Y. ’09 Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McCarthy ’10 (Laura Bean) have been living in Stoughton, Mass., the past year. The Alumnus extends sympathy to them in the loss of their six year old boy, Clifford, who died in July. Mrs. Marion Henry Thibault and ’10 son, Grant, of Rumford, spent part of the summer in Readfield. Paul Irvine and wife, of Montclair, ’10 N. J., were visiting Mr. Irvine’s sis­ ter, Mrs. Mary Oliver, on the Hill this summer. Paul is teaching and working for his master’s degree at N. Y. Univ. Faith McGinley, of Dorchester, ’ll Mass., was on the Hill in August. Rev. Harold G. McCann has been ’ll appointed district superintendent of the Bangor district by Bishop Anderson, and is living in Bangor. Philip M. Hobart, 972 No. Main ’12 St., Rockford, Ill. Students of 1909-15 will be inter­ '12 ested to learn of the visit to Kent’s Hill of Prof, and Mrs. Henry Boody, of Ripon, Wis., on Aug. 22. They were entertained at the home of May Cole who arranged for old friends and acquaintances to come in and meet them. Rev. and Mrs. Albert Belyea and ’12 two children, of Loda, Ill., were on the Hill in August. Wm. H. Sanborn, of 236 W. Hagler ’13 St., Miami, Ha., was recently admit­ ted to the practice of dentistry in the ’06 State of Florida. ’13 35 Rev. J. G. Bisbee, Warehouse Point, Conn. ’14 J. Earl Ultz, Mt. Pleasant, Penna. ’14 Harlan Dow is now located at Bath. This fall he motored to Florida with the Strouts. ’14 Erroll W. Rawson, who is studying at Cook Co. Hospital, Chicago, was among the first of the physicians and nurses sent to the aid of Florida after the. devastating storm this fall. ’15 L. Smith Dunnack, who has been preparing for the Maine Bar since his graduation from B. U. last spring, passed his examinations with the sec­ ond highest rank in the State. In Oct. he was admitted to practice at the Maine Bar and it is expected that he will locate in Augusta. Annie A. Nickerson, 5 Massachu­ '16 setts Ave., Worcester, Mass. The engagement of Karl Dow, of ’16 Texas, and Miss Doris Brown, of Readfield Depot, has been announced. Clifford M. Ferguson, a musician ’16 connected with Loew’s State theatre in Boston and with the Toll Music School and store at 52 Stuart St., who was a member of the 26th Div., 103d Inf., during the World War, has served a three year enlistment in Nat’l Guard, 101st Field Artillery, and is now in second year with the 211th Anti-Air­ craft Battalion, which has training grounds at Fort Terry, N. Y. When we last heard from him he was remain­ ing near the hospital for treatment after two operations for diseased jaw­ bone. The new address of Rev. and Mrs. ’17 Earl Bigelow (Erne Fellows, ’16), is Hodgdon. They had planned to be here in June but found it impossible. Elwood Bean, who has been em­ '19 ployed as bacteriologist and chemist by the State Department of Health in its . department of Sanitary Engineering for the past three and a half years, has �36 THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS 0 gone to Scituate, R. L, as resident chemist of the Providence Water Works. Mr. and Mrs. Merwin Snell, 72 So. ’20 Central Ave., Wollaston, Mass. Daniel J. Marston graduated from ’20 Wesleyan Univ, in June and after an adventurous trip across the continent to his home in Washington State has returned to Wesleyan for further work in Economics. Charles Smalley is attending the ’20 Boston College of Business Adminis­ tration. ■20 Will someone write us the where­ abouts of Louise Garland? ’20 Joseph M. Odiorne has a position as instructor in Biology at Western Re­ serve Univ., Cleveland, O., for this year. This past year he attended Har­ vard Graduate school at Cambridge, Mass. ’21 Marie Thyng is teaching art in Keene, N. H. ’21 Leota Schoff is a teacher in Spelman College, Atlanta, Ga., the only college for colored women. ’22 Seth A. Whitcomb graduated from U. of M. in June. ’22 Rev. Charles Whynot, of Liver­ more, is acting as librarian of the Liv­ ermore Public Library during the ab­ sence of the Librarian, Miss Nelson, who is spending the year in Europe. ’22 A member of this class writes: “ Is there any possibility of a reunion of the Class of ’22 this coming year? I know of three or four who would be interested and it seems as though all of us would like to meet again at K H.” How about it? Sure, there will be a reunion. Don’t you be the one to stay away! ’22 Julia Millett, Nashua, N. H. ’22 Jeannette Greeley is a senior in Simmons College, having spent the past year teaching in the high school in Harrington. ’22 Frank Lane, who graduated from Wesleyan in June and who spent the summer as counselor in a boys’ camp in Pennsylvania, has accepted an assistant professorship in Wesleyan where he will have an opportunity to work for his master’s degree. ’22 The Alumnus extends sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Swift in the death of their little son, which oc­ curred in November. '22 One of the winners of the much prized scholarships at Rice Institute, Texas, this year, was Philip Morrill. ’23 Charlotte A. Lane, who was at Camp Maqua in June, was obliged by an injury to her knee to remain at home during the summer. She is a senior in Bates and represented the college Y. W. C. A. at the New Eng. Field Conference in Boston this fall.She is also one of the new members of the Deutche Verein, the Bates Ger­ man club. ’23 Eva DeMariano, graduate of thq Domestic Science course at the Y. W. C. A. school in Boston, was dietician at the Girl Scout Officers’ Training Camp at Plymouth this summer. While spending her vacation at home she was summoned by the Director of the Course at the Y. W. C. A. school to assume her duties during her ab­ sence for a few weeks. Following this she took a position as Domestic Sci­ ence teacher in the grade schools of Boston. ’23 Ruth Tuck is in Plainfield, N. J-> where she has employment. ’23 Elmer Campbell, Bates ’27, has been elected president of the Student Press Club for the year and is also a niem her of the Bates social function com mittee for the year. ’23 Stuart K. Skillings is salesman f°r the Ripley & Fletcher Automobile Co., of So. Paris. 37 William Weed, who acted as shift teachers ” of the Normal department boss in a mine in Zacataces, Mexico, of thfe School of Music. for several months, has gone to Tam­ ’25 William Kirvan received his appoint­ pico to work for an oil company. ment to the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in July and is now at his Faith L. Blake won the woman’s ’24 studies as a middie. prize in the Bates Sophomore Prize Robert Wilson, of 1689 N. 54th St., Speaking Contest this fall, her selec­ ’25 W. Philadelphia, Pa., is working with tion being Alfred Noyes’ poem, “The the F. H. Bartlett Tree Expert Co. Highwayman.” and enjoying the Sesquicentennial Ex­ State Highway Police Officer, Fos­ '24 position in his spare time. ter King, figured in a bad accident Aug. 4, in Lewiston, when his motor­ Class of 1926 cycle and an auto collided. Foster Grace M. Palmer is attending the Malden was thrown through the windshield of (Mass.) Commercial school and making the car and received a bad gash on his forehead, and minor injuries to her home with her sister, Mrs. Pierce. The various parts of his body. His ma­ Palmers have sold their place on Kent’s chine was considerably smashed up. Hill, much to the regret of the citizens. Virginia Fifield, Arlene Farnham and He has gone on an automobile trip to Mildred Jacobs are all teaching in Mt. Southern California. Vernon, after attending the summer school Donald Stevens entered Bates col ­ ’24 session at Farmington Normal. lege this fall. James S. Lunn is in the Military Acad­ Aurice Daicy is attending Bliss ’24 emy at West Point, appointed by Congress­ Business College in Lewiston. man John E. Nelson. Dorothy Smith is doing Library ’24 Roland Flinn occasionally received a Bureau work in Hartford, Conn. ’25 , Helen Waltman is doing nursing at headliner in the Portland Press-Herald this summer on account of his pitching. Togus. George Merrill is taking p. g. work He has entered the Morristown, N. J., pre­ ’25 paratory school. at the Hill. Evelyn Fenlason is attending Castine Rodman Palmer is pledged to the ’25 Normal school. Phi Delta Psi fraternity at Bowdoin. Arnold Kidder is taking p. g. work at ’25 Henry Cullinan is one of the the Hill. His brother, Bernard, is one of assistant cartoon editors of the Bob Cat, the humorous publication of the the entering class this fall. Thomas E. Barry, Jr., and Miss Dorothy students at Bates. Mullaly, of S. Portland, are married. The Alumnus extends sympathy to ’25 Vira Nickerson and Lois Gunn are at­ Clarine Hubbard in the death of her tending Boston University. father, Milo Hubbard, who passed Truth Sawyer and William Laite are in away early this fall. Boston, attending Bryant & Stratton Elda Lermond is attending Nasson ’25 school. Institute, in Springvale. Roy Cascadden is at Bates this fall. ’25 • Eleanor Peacock has been studying LeRoy Millett is in Nashua. N. H., in at the Coburn School of Music and the chemical dept, of the woolen mill. played in a recital given in the Coburn John H. Lee is at Colby and a member auditorium this spring. Early in Sep­ of the freshman football team. tember she gave a fine recital on the Prescott Wight and Monnis Flagg were pipe organ of Torsey Memorial church. She is reckoned among the “ student- married Nov. 8. ’23 �38 THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS Sewall Pettingill is pledged to the Psi Upsilon fraternity in Bowdoin college. Harland Knight, Eldon Randall, Louis Davis, Edwin Hanscom, Woodbury Adams, Arthur Lewis and Lavon Zakarian, 25, are at the U. of M. Mary MacMaster is taking a Home Eco­ nomics course in Rochester, N. Y. Pauline Marsh is at the Conservatory of Music in Boston. G. Francis Studley is at Farmington Normal. Bertrand Knapp is in the University of Minnesota. Albert Lindsay is at home in Monmouth. John MaDan and Stanley Allen are at­ tending Springfield (Mass.) Y. M. C. A. College. Virginia Martin is working in Augusta. Elizabeth Merrill is taking p. g. work at the Hill. Edward Miller is at Rensselaer Polytech­ nic Institute. Katherine McIlroy, Lewiston. Milton Nickerson, Swanville. William Noonan is with Reginald Seavey working at Life Ins. in Hartford, Conn. Ray Nusspickel is taking the Pre-Dental course at Tufts. William Palmer, after a trip to Southern California, is back east as far as New York. Norman Perkins, Kennebunk. Walter Ripley, doing electrical work in Augusta. Kenneth Sanborn, Monmouth. Mason Shaw, Sec. of Agriculture Wm Jardine, and 11,998 others, took the 7th degree of the Grange at the National Con­ vention in Portland in November. Hugh Smith, Readfield. Merle Staples is in Wentworth Institute Boston. ’ Dorothy Stone, No. Haven. Theo Varney, Vienna. Prescott Ward is in Morristown School, Morristown, N. J. Walter Barnard is at home in Readfield, taking a correspondence course in elec­ tricity. Stephen Casper is with the N. Y. Con­ struction Co. in Albany. Marian Collyer is at the Leland Powers School of Expression. Percy Dean was selling automobiles in Taunton, Mass., the last we heard of him. Mary Dodge is at a private school in Connecticut. Clayton Dolloff, W. Mt. Vernon. Peter Dunn, Readfield. Cecil Eaton, Vienna. Evelyn Foss has a position with Murphy, the Furrier, in Lewiston. Freda Foss, Mt. Vernon. Gordon Gleason, Canaan. Helen Higgins is at Keene Normal School. Harold Hill is attending Mass. Institute of Technology. Worcester Hilton is at home in New­ buryport, Mass. Cecil Home, Berwick. Clifton Jackson, Leeds. Frank Irwin was at Tailwood Inn during the summer but we have lost track of him since. THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS and was at Panama three years. He is now employed at the Penley Packing House. They will reside in Auburn. Roy C. Giles, '16, and Miss Alice E. Hutchinson were married June 29. They are living at Readfield Depot. Mrs. Catherine Tracy announces the marriage of her daughter, Helen, to Thomas J. Cronin, ’22, on Sept. 6, at Lew­ iston. The Lewiston Evening Journal gave a very detailed account of the wedding of Eloise Florence Lord, ’21, of Auburn, and George H. Chase, of Cambridge. After Oct. 1st, they are at home at 15 Highland Ave., Cambridge, Mass. John H. Raynes, ’23, and- Miss Eunice E. Bacheller were married in September, in Brookline, Mass. They will reside in York Village. Charles E. Dartnell, ’25, and Miss Pauline Gray are married and living in Sanford. Stuart K. Skillings, ’23, and Miss Alice M. Lewis, both of Norway, were married Oct. 4th. Willis C. Hobart, ’79, of Skowhegan, and Miss Grace M. Wood, of West Med­ ford, Mass., were married Oct. 20, in West Medford. They will reside in Skowhegan. MARRIAGES Halbert K. Swift, ’23, and Miss Beatrice Ferallo, of Wakefield, Mass., were mar­ ried in June. Wilbur Luce, ’14, and Miss Ethel Jones, of Gardiner, were married July 16Wilbur has just returned from taking a two years’ course in a western college. Edward J. Tingley, ’10, and Miss Mil­ dred Fogg, ’22, were married in Readfield in July. Mildred graduated from Thomas Business College of Waterville and has been employed in the office of the Indus­ trial Accident Commission at the State ouse. Edward joined the army in 1922 BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gay (Lila Bourne, *18) of East Readfield, have a small son born Aug. 30. The young man has been named Carlton Bourne. ’21 Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Leahy an­ nounce the birth of a baby girl, Bar­ bara Frances, Feb. 17th. ’18 Orange Blossoms A sudden sweetness from the orange blooms Ploats through my sunny rooms. It makes me dream of May-flowers sweet, That bloomed beside my childish feet In old Maine forest glooms. 39 The pink arbutus and my childhood’s past — Nor youth nor fragrance last — But ’stead of May-blooms I have orange flowers, And nobler gifts to match my nobler powers. Heaven’s greater joys haste fast. Nellie Hatch Parker, ’65. Pasadena, Cal. DEATHS Hon. Waldo Pettingill Hox Waldo Pettingill, member of th*e Board of Trustees since 1902, died at his home in Rumford at the age of eightytwo. He was prominent in the upbuilding of Rumford, had served as county commis­ sioner six terms, state senator in 1890, member of the Governor’s Council 1893-4, representative to the legislature in 1900 and and served as chairman of the Sturgis Commission under Gov. Cobb. He was known as the Father of the Town of Rum­ ford. Mr. Fred E. Eastman, president of the Board of Trustees, in writing of Mr. Pet­ tingill, says: “ As I recall him over quite a span of years, it seems to me that his judgment was invariably sound. He never was hasty in his statements or decisions but when he did speak his advice was fol­ lowed. He was a progressive man and never hesitated to vote along the line of any improvement that seemed to the ad­ vantage of the School, even if it took con­ siderable courage to venture. He was also most generous in his gifts of money, never failing to respond when called upon. The fact of his connection with the School, well-known as it has been, was of great value to the school. He was devoted in a wholehearted way to his Church (the Methodist Episcopal) and I believe he took great satisfaction in supporting this School because of its connection with and because of the support it always has received from those in our State of that denomination. It really seems to me that it is impossible to fill the place of such a man as he was. His going is a distinct personal loss to me. �40 THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS Nathan Webb, ’87 Alumni of the ’80s are sorry to learn of the death of Nate Webb, in Pasadena, California, Sept. 3, following a year or two of poor health. Mr. Webb entered the Seminary in the spring term of 1887, rooming with our Trustee, Carter B. Keene, Esq., of Wash­ ington, D. C. Nate was popular in school and wielded a heavy stick in the baseball team. He was a member of the Literati society. After leaving school he taught successfully in several places and was for some years the principal of China Acad­ emy. About fifteen years ago, Mr. Webb moved to California where he worked as a carpenter. For some years he was on Mount Wilson, where he had charge of the building of the Carnegie Observatory and associated buildings. As is well known, this Observatory houses the largest telescope in the United States, the hundred inch reflector, the massive steel units of the observatory had to be taken to the summit of Mount Wilson, 6000 ft. in ele­ vation; no small feat in engineering in itself. Nate’s sound common sense pre­ vailed over all obstacles. On completion of the observatory, Mr. Webb purchased the bus line from Pasadena to Mount Wil­ son, later expanding the business to include two other lines, operating in all some thirty or forty large busses. In this busi­ ness he associated with himself, his daugh­ ter, Ola Webb Hendricks, ’09, Mr. Frank Hendricks, his son-in-law, and his brotherin-law, Edward Hamilton, ’87. The fail­ ing health of Mr. Webb led to the sale of this successful business. A further sad loss came in the death of his daughter, Ola, who had been such a staunch support’ While a student at Kent’s Hill Mr. Webb met Miss Ella Hamilton, ’87, whom he later married and who survives her hus­ band. Mrs. Webb has the profound sym­ pathy of a wide circle of friends in the double loss of Ola, whose death occurred last January, and now her husband. Ola was in the prime of her life, with seemingly everything for which to live. Active, energetic, possessed of the sound common sense of her father, she was his righthand supporter. She had a cool head and when the need arose, could drive an eighteen passenger bus up Mt. Wilson with the best of the drivers. She left her husband, Mr. Frank Hendricks, and two children, Frank and Mildred. ’65 Within a few weeks of the death of our beloved Miss Davis, one of her lifelong friends, Mrs. Ellen Hatch Parker, of Pasadena, Calif., passed away. Mrs. Parker was Preceptress here for several years at the beginning of Miss Davis’ teaching and kept her interest in the school as long as she lived, though she never returned even ■ for a visit. She was born in Maine, Dec. 9, 1843, and died in Pasadena, Calif., July 15, 1926. In 1871 she married Charles H. Parker, who had also been a student and teacher at Kent’s Hill and who died several years ago. She was much interested in the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the First M. E. Church of Pasadena. Her love for our school is shown in the following lines: — " To far off lands our feet may stray But wander where we will The loveliest, dearest spot on earth Will ever be — Kent’s Hill.” ’67 Mrs. Henrietta Freeman Sampson, of Manchester, passed away Sept. 18. Word has been received of the death of a much loved friend of the school, Mrs. Olive Soule Parker, who passed away at the home of her daugh­ ter, Mrs. Alice Parker Elmslie, ’85> 2452 Aver Ave., Milwaukee, Wis.> on May 23, 1925, at the advanced age of ninety-seven. After the death of MrParker, in 1880, Mrs. Parker brought THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS 41 her three children to Kent’s Hill and to attend to his pastoral duties and his for several years was matron of the death came as a great shock to his Boys’ Club, known as the D. O. E. friends and the residents of the com­ Those boys were very dear to her and munity. she remembered and loved them even '76 Frank T. Daisey, of Wilton, passed to the last year she lived. away Dec. 13, 1925. Death was due to *73 Fred N. Abbott, of Lawrence, Mass., pneumonia and complications. died at his home Oct. 11, after, a long ’83 Mrs. Flora Rodick Pineo passed illness. He had been deputy sheriff of away in September at her home in Bar Essex Co. for twenty-seven years and Harbor. was one of the best known court at­ ’84 On July 21, Hollis R. Jacobs, a taches in the State. He is survived by prominent and respected citizen of Mt. his widow and one daughter. Vernon, passed away at the home of ’73 Rev. Melvin E. King, who passed his son, C. W. Jacobs. away last March, was a member of the ’88 James D. Merriman, of 31 W. 76th Maine Conference for twenty-seven St., New York, has passed away. A more extended notice will be given in years. He travelled extensively, study­ the next issue. ing missions in India, China and News of the sudden death of Percy Japan. He held an office in the soci­ ’93 A. R. Dow of Oakland, Calif., has ety for Anglo-Saxon study in London, been received. He was for many and his book on the subject has been years a leading voice teacher and much quoted and highly recommended. chorus director of Northern Califor­ Col. William M. Ayer, of Oakland, ’73 nia. He is survived by his wife, Edith passed away in May after a long ill­ A. Clary, '93, and three children. ness. He was a well-known edge-tool Dr. Anson M. Andrews, a practicing manufacturer and was always inter­ ’97 physician of Gray, was instantly ested in tire industrial development of killed Oct. 4, when the automobile he his town and state. He was president was driving was struck by a Lewiston of Cascade Nat’l Bank from 1906 to car. He had been in practice in Gray 1924 and served on the board of ever since his graduation from Bowdirectors of Messalonskee Nat’l Bank, doin Medical School in 1901. He was M. C. R. R. Co., Central Maine Power health officer of the town for several Co., Cascade Woolen Mill and Madison years. He leaves a widow and two Woolen Co. He was the recipient of sons, John and Egbert, both students many public honors serving terms in at Harvard, besides a brother and two both the State Senate and House and sisters. on the staff of Gov. Hill as lieutenant­ The funeral of Thorne H. Johnson, colonel. He was best known in the '13 who died in Rouen, France, June 9, State as a member of the State High­ was held at his home in Wayne. He way Commission. He was particular­ served as radio operator in the ly interested in Freemasonry. His Merchant Marine during the World widow, a sister and three brothers sur­ War. For the last three years he was vive him. chief officer on several of the best Rev. J. R. Remick, veteran preacher ’76 tankers of the Standard Oil Cb. of N. of the Maine Methodist Conference, J. He would shortly have been eligible died suddenly at his home in No. Yar­ for his papers as a captain on the high mouth in July. He had been in fail­ seas. The Standard Oil Co. says of ing health for some time, but was able �42 THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE AND ALUMNUS him, “ He was an excellent officer in the company’s fleet and a very loyal and reliable employee; his loss is greatly felt.” He was a Calliopean and a member of Asylum lodge, F. & A. M., in his home town of Wayne. ’18 Ruth Dorcas Gates, of Dixfield, passed away Aug. 16, 1926. After at­ tending school here she went to Nasson and to Simmons and was a Home Economics teacher until her health failed and she was obliged to return to her home in Dixfield. '78 Mrs. Ellen (Dunn) Spaulding, of Belgrade, passed away this fall at the age of 72 years. Her husband, Frank P. Spaulding, ’78, and a daughter, Mrs. Frances Hanna, survive her. The school has lost a staunch friend in the death of Wm. C. Robin­ son, of No. Anson. Mr. Robinson was widely known as the famous rail­ road builder of Alaska; and also well known for the keen interest he took in orcharding, which he made his hobby after his return to Maine. The Alumnus extends sympathy to his widow, Mrs. Evie Gray Robinson, ’83, and family, two of whom are also old students of the school, Mrs. Carrie Robinson Wing, T3, and Miss Kate G. Robinson, all of N. Anson. As the Alumnus goes to press we learn of the death of our trustee, Dr. Willard A. Paul. Further notice will be given in the next issue. PLEASE MENTION THE BREEZE VmEM PATRONIZING ADVERTISERS Wherever You May Live — Whatever Your Wants — Eastman Mail Order Service Is at your command and will serve you to its utmost with the resources of this big, well-stocked and progressive department store The Miss and Young Man can Entrust to Us for Prompt Filling Orders for Dress Accessories, Personal Requisites and Sports Clothing. 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SALT PORK LARD HAM BACON SAUSAGE A U. S. Inspected Establishment We have everything in the way of MEATS and FANCY GROCERIES for that Spread. E. W. PENLEY, Auburn, Maine �PLEASE MENTION THE BREEZE WHEN PATRONIZING ADVERTISERS “NEW ENGLAND’S FACULTY, 1926-27 OWN” Packers and Producers of Fine Foods Law Offices of THOMAS WEBB WATKINS, A.B., En.M. Harvard University Principal CHARLES ELMER HAMLEN, A.B. Bates College Assistant Principal, Mathematics SUSAN GERTRUDE MAYO Boston University Preceptress. English JOHN ORVILLE NEWTON, A.M., ’83 Wesleyan University Science HARRIET ROBBINS WILLIAMS, TO George Washington University Classics FLORENCE AFTON FROST, A.B. Bates College French and Spanish PAULINE McQUIGG Curry School of Expression English, Oral Expression, Physical Director for Girls MABEL ANNETTE HARVEY. '01 University of Maine Librarian, Alumni Secretary CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG Director of Music Department, Violin, Orchestra, Piano CABOT DEVOLL KENDALL, A.B. Broven University R. 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Title A name given to the resource Kets Hill Breeze and Alumnus Joint Memorial Number to Frances Ann Davis Subject The topic of the resource Frances Davis Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 1926 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/16/96/The_Breeze_1883.pdf fc8856753df08cc9744b12ed81d7711d PDF Text Text CT Vol. I. KENT’S HILL, ME., FEBRUARY 17, 1883. No. 3. * SWIHAET MAM * A ---- ---------------JSlS. FEMALE COLLEGE. Of" |LJ t TT] p l ■d ; ■> I i rp? iw t ty> 'it a8|fF r -a ; ’ RTv ■ SA ■ A-yAAP A'u® i A i. CTaCT r.;. OF ZB O AR D . a. k? >;w \ty . INSTRUCTION. Rev. EDGAR M. SMITH, A.M., President, Metaphysics. FANNIE A. DAVIS. A.M., HENRY E. TREFETHEN, A.B., French and German. Greek and Latin. REBECCA R. FLETCHER. A. FITZROY CHASE, A.M., Art Department. Mathematics and English Literature. ADA C. Ml'RCH. WILLIAM C. STRONG, A AL. Piano Music. Natural Science. FRANCIS A. ROBINSON, I’n.D., A. F. CHASE, A.M., Librarian. It. B. Dunn Professor of Normal Instruction. M. LENORA ADAMS, A.M., Preceptress, EDWIN R. FRENCH. Latin. Steward and Assistant Treasurer. —MA- COURSES OF STUDYM A College Course for Ladies. A Classical Course, Preparatory for College. A Scientific Course. A Normal Course. Musical Courses. An Art Department. A Commercial Department. c �THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE. im am Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College.—Courses of Study, &c. THE COLLEGE COURSE LIBRARY. Was established in 1860. The degrees of A.B. and Its graduates are A.M. are regularly conferred, and in other tilling important positions as teachers, t_ departments of activity. The Library numbers over 4200 bound volumes and over 3000 pamphlets. It comprises works in every department of literature, and is increased by constant additions of books, pamphlets, and photo­ graphs. Every facility is afforded for profiting by the use of this important ally in school life. THE SCIENTIFIC COURSE Is a substantial and practical preparation for busi­ LOCATION. ness and agricultural pursuits, and an forms a good ; ■ • The Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female Col­ foundation for professional training. o has entered’ upi jon its sixty-third lege ‘ year. It is lo­ THE CLASSICAL COURSE Hill, in the town of Readfield, Me. I cated at Kent’s Hill. ' It is two miles from Readfield Corner and four miles Affords a thorough preparation for any college in i 11,1111 LU which >, LLLU.il the mu stage u>un,.o from JLlCilUlieiH Readfield JL/ejJMl, Depot, to makes two New England. Its graduates take high rank at trips daily. With the finest school buildings in New Wesleyan, Harvard, and other colleges. England, surrounded by extensive play grounds, fields, and woods, with nine lakes in view, and THE NORMAL COURSE mountains in the distance, a more beautiful and Gives such special preparation for teaching as is healthful spot it would be difficult to find. There have usually afforded by Normal schools, in connection been few cases of serious illness, and never an epiwith the other advantages of the Institution. demic during the history of the school. THE ART DEPARTMENT, *4 1. KENT’S HILL, ME, FEBRUARY 17, 1883. THE KEJWHvJlIIdi <■ BREEZE. PUBLISHED THE FOURTH AND ELEVENTH WEEKS OF EACH TERM, AT Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College. 'I MORAL INFLUENCES. Under the direction of Miss Fletcher, is very popu­ Strong religious influences prevail continually. A lar, and is producing works„ of rare merit. Instruc. , ,, . I large proportion of the students, from term to term, turn is given in Elementary Drawing and Perspective; are°’earnest Christians, ~ ■ ■■ . and, the teachers take a perDrawing in Pencil, Crayon, Charcoal, and Pastel; ' sonal interest in the religious welfare of their pupils. Painting in Oil and Water Colors; Painting Paintin from : The. rrovernment is simnle. The Rvstem system of government simple, narental. parental, and Nature; Finishing Solar Prints in India Ink and ■ uniform.. Indulgence in cards, tobacco, or liquors Crayon. is strictly prohibited. No pains are spared to guard ; the morals of the school, and, as it is remote from MUSICAL COURSES. . cities and villages, temptations are as few as possible. Instruction is given in Vocal Culture, and upon the \ Parents may feel that their sons and daughters are Piano, Organ, and Violin. There are three Courses : I as safe here, physically, intellectually, and morally, a Scientific Musical, a Piano Course, and a Course as they could be anywhere. in Voice Culture. Miss Ada C. Mtirch, who has given great satisfaction in former years, is giving j BOARDING HALL. instruction upon the Piano the present term. j ! The rooms in Sampson Hall are well ventilated and COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT. ' very pleasant. They are furnished with everything needed by the student, except sheets, pillow-cases, A Commercial Department has been planned, and, it i towels, and toilet soap. Carpets, ornaments, &c., is hoped, will soon be in full operation. Instruction I are not provided. The table is supplied with an is now given in Book-Keeping and Penmanship. abundance of wholesome food. It is not too much to say that better board is furnished by no similar inCABINETS AND APPARATUS. . stitution. Good rooms for self boarding or for boardThe Institution has a valuable cabinet of minerals, ; ing in clubs, can be found near by, at reasonable classified, catalogued and numbered, and accessible I prices. Also board in private families. of nearly I for examination and study; a collection < EXPENSES. 1000 shells; 101 species of Marine Invertebrates | from the Atlantic coast; a Magic Lantern with ver- ; : The necessary expenses per student, for room rent, tical attachment; a Porte Lumiere; 400 Lantern | Slides for illustration in ('hemistry, Geology. Physics, i board, fuel, lights, and tuition, during the school Biology, Astronomy, and History; Modern Charts year, vary little from the following figures : In Sampson Hall §150.00. for the different departments; Physiological Models ; In Clubs 125.00. Metric Apparatus; Globes; Air Pumps; both a Fric­ Self Boarding 90.00. tional and a Toepier Holtz Electrical Machine; a In Private Families 175.00. Microphone; a Morton’s Apparatus for decompo­ sition of light: Lissajours’ Forks; a compound Mi­ CALENDAR. croscope ; a Spectroscope, by Browning Brothers of London; a Helio-tellus; an Engineer's and Survey­ The Academic year consists of three terms of thir­ or’s Transit; and a Telescope, with five-inch object teen weeks each. glass, constructed by Alvan (’lark & Son of CamThe Fall Tekm commences the third Monday of bridgport. Mass. The Laboratory is well equipped August. with chemicals, a lathe, and tools for working in The Winter Term, the first Monday of Decem­ wood and metals. The value of the cabinets'’and ber. apparatus is not less than four thousand dollars. The Spring Term, the second Monday of March. Vol. I. ■ *1 I J. W. Corson,.......................... Editor. Miss Cora G. Knight.......... . . . Associate Editress. C. W. Richards.................... Local Editor. Miss Winifred Ware......... .... Personal Editress. W. H. Perry,......................... .... Business Manager. O. A. Tuell Financial Agent. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. O. A. Tuell, President. Miss Winifred Ware,....................................... Secretary. Miss Cora G. Knight, J. W. Corson, C. W. Richards, W. H. Perry. TEEMS.—One School Year, Fifty Cents ; Sinyle Copies, Ten Cents. Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at Kent’s Rill, Me. 1 •> PRINTED AT THE JOURNAL OFFICE. LEWISTON. ME. EDITORIAL NOTES. ••I •J i. t We rejoice at the active interest manifested in the “President’s Mansion.” and hope and expect to see. at an early day. a spacious and substantial residence for our President added to the already beautiful college row. But why will not some generous friend, with an eye to the san­ itary needs, set on foot a scheme for the erec­ tion and furnishing of a gymnasium ? This want has long been felt, and is showing itself in the early disability of some of our graduates. With the increase of mental labor required of us, some provision for exercise becomes a hy­ gienic necessity. The Faculty cheerfully grant every consistent opportunity for recreation, and are constantly advising us to take regular exer­ cise. But in the winter months, especially, there is an utter absence of facilities. Often, for several days, it is not suitable for the ladies to leave the college grounds. A “chapel march.” and a “game of bean-bags.” now and then, are not sufficient. While some of a roving ( ?) turn of mind doubtless take sufficient exercise, many No. 3. of our best students have their future efficiency materially lessened by the want of regular and, if necessary, of compulsory participation in gym­ nastic drill. Hand in hand with the high moral and intellectual cultivation of our institution, should go that careful attention to physical train­ ing, which can only be realized when rooms are fitted for this especial purpose, and the students are required to avail themselves of their privi­ leges. The winter term, although it is especially adapted to study, is an eventful season, The term so nearly passed is no exception, One of the leading events is a change in the ranking system—a change we consider a reform. The present method is based upon the scale of Kill. This has an advantage over the previous system, with 5 as a basis, as it makes finer distinctions. Monthly reports are now made out and handed to those whose rank is below the minimum, or indicates a doubtful standing, and are sent to the parents of minors. In some way. too. the ab­ sences are considered and reported. It was sol­ emnly remarked that nearly all excused absences are supposed to occur on account of sickness, and that in some instances (?) it is highly im­ portant that parents should know how sick their children are 1 No efforts are made tending to create a rivalry among the more advanced stu­ dents ; but these on inquiry can learn their standing at the close of the term. We hope the next change will be a ranking of compositions. To incite to greater effort and accuracy in that line would be a means of profit to us all. In our present number we wish to say a word about our preceptress. Miss Waterman. Besides being a graduate of the Maine We-leyan Semi­ nary and Female College, Kent’s Hill, Me., with the degree of A. B.. and a recent student at the Berlitz School of Languages, at Boston, she came to us well recommended from former �22 THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. ! fields of labor. Since she has been with us she illustrated. This habit affects one physically has more than sustained her reputation, and re­ and mentally. Many think it a mental growth only, and, as we have mentioned, that it can be flects credit upon the institutions where she was checked at pleasure. They do not realize that educated.—Derby Academician. ! a physical uneasiness is being created which drink alone can quiet, that the increase of the desire to satisfy the longing corresponds to the Sibyl E. Abboft, A.M., of Clark University, j --!x__ xi —x xu«««. io /vvnnf rloTnonr] | growth Of the latter, 1111(1 as one yields to this Atlanta, Ga., writes that there is great demand desire, his will-power becomes too weak to for money for carrying on successfully her sew­ ing classes, in her Home Missionary work. enable him to overcome his habit, although he Send on your dollar to her, if you would be sure may earnestly desire to do so. He is then truly a slave to habit, bound fast by galling chains. that it will do immediate good. ; The habit of using tobacco, and others of a I similar nature, also illustrate the power of this We publish in this issue, by kindness of Mrs. law. But it is not these more obvious habits alone George W. Jewett, the letter of resignation of Miss Phebe Paine, the second Preceptress of which influence us, and which should be guarded this institution. In a subsequent number we against. The habit of being disorderly and expect to present to our readers a biographical slovenly, if formed in youth, can never be thor­ oughly overcome; and it is equally true that sketch of this worthy woman. one who is trained to habits of order and clean­ liness retains them through life. Erratum :—On the thirteenth page of our last Aside from habits being repulsive in them­ issue, in Dr. Allen’s excellent article on Father selves, they influence the possessor generally. Sampson, read “Female Department” for i While all persons who are neat and precise in French Department.” | personal appearance are not of strictest moral | principles, as a rule, persons who are slack in • that particular and others are slack morally, and stronger efforts and more patience are required THE POWER OE HABIT. to improve them morally than the class before We generally speak of a habit as a trifling | named. affair, and often excuse an act by saying it is If we form habits of systematic study in our only a habit, which is intimating that it is a mat­ school-life, the work of our after life will be sys­ ter of little importance and can be easily over­ tematized, and a student who neglects his work come. Yet one who has by thoughtless, fre­ or who studies carelessly will, as a businessman, quent repetition formed a habit understands to neglect his affairs or transact business loosely. quite a degree the strength of it, when he. makes You may say, a young man may be of a busi­ an attempt to break the fetters by which he is ness turn of mind and would attend well to busi­ bound. He becomes discouraged by his oftness, but he has no love for study. No one repeated failures, and, for a consolation, attrib­ will ever find an occupation which he will enjoy utes his defeat to the fact that he did not fully in all its details, and the success of it as a whole conclude to give up his cherished habit, and not will depend upon the accuracy of the parts. It to any weakness in himself, thinking when the is only by the habit of exactness that one will decision is once made, the separation will be attend thoroughly to the unpleasant •features of easy and immediate. Thus he is deceived and his work. returns to his habit only to find the next effort By allowing ourselves to treat serious sub­ attended with ignominious failure. Another at­ jects lightly, we become irreverent; and by tam­ tempt may be made, but ere long he becomes too discouraged and weak to renew the conflict. pering with sin and looking upon it with allow­ The In the use of intoxicating drinks, we see that ance, we grow away from truth and God. need of forming our habits with care is easily a habit is formed by a repetition of the same act, and the power of habit is also strikingly seen, for they decide our “ weal or woe.” One s habits may well be called his character. UP THE HILL. BY WILL JONES. The heart of school-life always lives In its own world. God never gives A paradise more fair To earth, than earth’s own school-days bright, With all of love, and all of light, And all of life, but care. Wide, wide old world, whose hopes arc hills!— Our life must climb o’er granite ills Up to the snows of age. We, while the storm has raged without Heavy with clouds of fate and doubt, Have hidden from its rage. While climbing up the steep hill-side, O’er fallen hopes and icy pride, We saw a shelter here, Here, where from all the strife we turn And how to live and struggle learn, To conquer fate and fear. As, ’mid the cloud-crowned Alpine peaks, Some sheltered bower concealment seeks From avalanche and storm; So here, our school-days, ’mid the rocks, Hide from the great world’s battle shocks, And keep their young hearts warm. Fight on, O world! ’tis God’s decree! Fight on, O world, till wrong shall tlee Before the might of right! Fight ou till slavery shall die; Fight on till tyranny’s great lie Shall feel the sword of light! ( 5 Strike, nation of the Plymouth sires; Strike, nation of the lightning wires; Strike home on your own crime! Strike with the blows of Vicksburg, till The ringing of your sword shall till The history of time! Then Gilmore, kindle your Greek fire Beneath rebellion’s funeral pyre; Its glare shall light the world To burn the yoke from off the slave! And over treason’s war-trod grave The old star-spangled ting shall wave With every star unfurled. But, O my Country, in your strife. Forget not whence your earnest life Its first great lessons learned: Forget not whence the spirit came That lights the centuries with tlame, And guides us to a better fame Than men have ever earned. Forget not that our schools to-day Shed round our hopes the brightest ray That through the darkness beams; Forget not that, with truth and right, Our schools strike for us in this fight, And. through our struggles shadowed night, Their brilliant armor gleams. Our schools are there where science throws Its magic thunder on our foes O’er breathless sea and land; Where knowledge bids its lightnings flash, Its lines to charge, its columns dash, Its shells explode, its .love-bolts crash Where rebel towers stand. Our schools are where the engineer, Boring through midnight death and fear With his unerring mines, Beneath the very earth to gain The victory force might seek in vain,— Volcanoes sleeping in their train. Pushes his steady lines. Our schools are where New England’s sons By ruined railways stack their guns, And, with their hands of skill, Rebuild the breathing king of steam Upon his iron throne supreme, Once more, with dreaded Yankee scream, Rebellion’s soul to ehill. Our schools are where bine rank and file March over many a weary mile ; And each, of thousands there, Is fit as well to take command As he who leads the brave young band ; Musket or sword alike, each hand Would well know how to bear. Then land of schools, so blest by God Even now, while ruin rides abroad Over our bleeding life, Though we are stricken by his will, Thank Him, our schools with blessings, still, The best of reinforcements, fill Our armies in this strife. Thank Him that every mournful call For men to march and light and fall Our struggling country sounds, Our schools of their young lives outpour Still their “ three hundred thousand more” To triumphs, graves, or wounds. But oh, for more than earthly good, For more than patriot-given blood, Thank Him who over-rules Our life, for that by which is wreathed Our life around with blessings breathed By Heaven upon our schools, Which, through a Christian school of prayer, Thrills while it builds its altar there, And faith rears its strong tower; Thank Him for that unseen, unheard, Ungrasped by mortal thought or word. That only God-known power, The power that scatters doubt to-day; The power that makes the doubter pray To Him he had detied ; The power that, with God’s blessing, rolls The Christ-tido over sinning souls Made sinless by that tide. 23 �24 f THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. Thank God, His hand has reached us here, Down through the storms of tins wild year, Down through the cannon’s hreath, Down through the universal moan That earth sends upward to His throne From war and woe and death. Down the bright light path from .above, Through all the clouds, our Father's love, From Heaven’s great heart sublime, Has come to bid our soul-strife cease ; Through earthly war has come God’s peace Down the wild hills of time. It found our school-life hidden here Away from the wide world of fear As in a hermit's cave; It turned aside to our retreat, It came to us a mercy-seat, It came, it came to save. It filled our sheltered life with light, And made our school-days here more bright Than all our other life; It made the future’s sea of care Seem less the rough wave of despair, Less billowy with strife. Green hill of hope, green hill of hope, At thy dim base we used to grope Our weary, lightless way; But Faith climbs with us up the height, Up from the doubting, from the night, Upward into the day. But now we leave this scene so blest, We leave this happy term of rest From life’s great seething toils; We leave the teacher and the taught, Each, for himself, to trace his lot Through fate's mysterious coils. We go to climb life’s hill again, To crowd and push with other men, To slip, to fall, to rise, To hurl ambition's daring form Against the cliffs, against the storm, Against the angry skies. But oh 1 with strength we here have earned, With faith and prayer we here have learned, To climb our hill we go ; Though winter, down the icy steep With wildest blast, shall blinding sweep His avalanche of snow. No blow, no fall, no tempest’s wrath Shall drive us from our upward path While wo remember all Our school-days’ counsels ; and our life Shall be the nobler for each strife, The stronger for each fall. Then, when behind us, many a year Looks backward to our terinslay- here, Their eyes with tears shall fill, ’ And their great, beating hearts shall swell ith thanks as they remember well Our rest upon The Hill. 1863. THE KENTS HILL BREEZE. AN OLD-TIME REPORT. Board of Trustees of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary : Gentlemen,—As the year is rapidly receding, its last sands falling from the glass of time, I am reminded of my duty to-day before you, the intellectual and moral improvement of the Fe­ male Department of your Institution during the past year, and its present situation. It is with feelings of deep interest that I now address you, knowing it is the last time ‘I shall be thus privileged, as I now resign the situation with which you have so long honored me. Pain­ ful as it may be to some of the best feelings of my nature, I rejoice that I can approach you at this time, and in this manner, with a heart truly grateful for the confidence you have reposed in me; and as it regards the performance of the duties that have devolved upon me, with a con­ science void of offense toward my beloved pu­ pils, yourselves, and my God. I am pleased that I can speak of the contini nance and increasing prosperity of this depart­ ment. One hundred and two young ladies have entered the past year; all of whom have attend­ ed to the higher branches of education with the exception of two. Twenty to Natural Philoso­ phy,—thirty *to Chemistry,—twenty-two to Bot­ i any,—twenty-one to Natural Theology,—ten to Mental Philosophy,—twenty-one to Moral Phi­ . losophy,—nine to Rhetoric,—six to Algebra,— five to Latin,—forty to French,—sfour to Span­ ish,—one to Italian,—twenty-four to the Orna­ mental Branches,—three to Music. History, with the more common branches of Arithmetic, English Grammar, and Geography, have by no >• means been neglected. Their progress in these various pursuits has been highly gratifying to their teachers. The habits of close application, patient thought, and thorough investigation of subjects presented to • the mind, which characterized many of them, ; would do credit to the most learned and scien­ tific scholar of any age. In no study was their I improvement more conspicuous than in English composition, and their themes evinced not only • t native talent but mental discipline. I speak in general terms, for among so large t. ‘The students In Spanish wire Elizabeth J. MooilylMrs. IT 1 B. Abbott), Mary V. Wheelock (Mrs. Sturdivant), Mary L. Em­ ery (Mrs. Edward Cooke): and who was the fourth? Can any reader of the Bbeeze give the names of members of other classes? * a number will be found almost every variety of character. But as it has ever been the object to give a high intellectual tone to this department. and this tone is perceptible to all: every one that entered was desirous to raise themselves to it, in order to breathe freely its atmosphere ; and I was daily gratified at beholding efforts to burst asunder the chains of indolence, and overcome incorrect mental habits. If it has been an object to raise the intellect­ ual character of this department, there has, I trust, been a still greater to give stability, strength, and power to its moral and religious being. In this, I feel we have succeeded, for we have been aided by the unerring Spirit of God. I have seen its renovating influence, changing the fretful disposition to the mild and patient; the proud to the humble. A large part of the young ladies are professors of religion, and in my daily intercourse with them, although I saw much to lament, yet I discovered in the most of them, to use the language of Scripture, that growth in grace which is necessary to the happiness of the Christian. * One of our num­ ber left us to commence the arduous duties of a missionary, for which her deep piety and respect­ able talents eminently fit her. The changes of the past year have brought the two departments more in contact than formerly. and the result has been more favourable than I anticipated, for I confess I had many fears. Such an intercourse, if properly man­ aged, is productive of mutual benefit. It re­ quires wholesome restrictions and they should be laid equally upon both parties. It increases the responsibility of teachers, but if they are judi­ cious, (and such may yours ever be.) and dis­ tinguish accurately between truths and mere idle gossip, to which they should never willingly list­ en. there will be no difficulty. This, gentlemen, is the state of the Female Department of this Seminary, I believe my partiality has not given to it false coloring, but I have presented it before you as it is. It opens a field of labour to the diligent, faithful teacher which promises an abundant harvest. If I mistake not. a proposition was made at your semi-annual meeting to discontinue it alto­ gether. Such a proposition could not be the re­ sult of mature reflexion. Do you not wish to educate your daughters, your wives, your teach• Can any cue furnish the name of this missionary ? 25 ers, your missionaries? Where can this, and where has this been better accomplished than at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary ’ Have we not sent all these forth from our institution, and are they not usefully and religiously performing the duties ■which devolve upon them? Perhaps it is urged that this department does not support it­ self. It ought to. In 183,5 it paid all its expen­ ses, and there was a balance left in the treasury. Since then there has been an accession of salary of thirty-live dollars, but the increase of pupils and their permanency should overbalance this. If it does not, could not an increase of tuition remedy the evil? You will perhaps think me presumptuous in thus writing, but as it is the last time that I shall address you, I trust you will pardon me, and at­ tribute it to its true cause, the deep interest I feel for your Institution. Although on the eve of departure to a distant State to engage in the arduous duties of teaching, my feelings towards it remain unchanged, and I shall ever rejoice in its prosperity. Respectfully yours, Piiebe Paine. Portland. Dec. 30. 1830. CHARLES LAMB. “ Goodness blows no trumpet, nor desires to have it blown. We.should be modest for a mod­ est man, as he is for himself.’’ So wrote Elia, as he called to mind the inscriptions on the tomb­ stones in the old burial-place at Forty-Hill. But men yet yearn with cheap benevolence, ami will jt) so to the end of time, Lamb has gone, we trust, where the good Lambs go. Against being imide ridiculous by those who term him gentlehearted, he can no longer protest that his “sen­ timent has vanished,” that his “virtueshave done sucking.” Therefore we may venture to say, or repeat, something more concerning the man made up of queer points, whimsical, way­ ward, generous; too restless to sit and think. but overflowing with a wit sensible beyond the thinking of other men; nervous, ludicrously unsteady in his speech, but delicate and adroit in managing his pen. with which he portrayed both his outer and his inner life in a graceful idiom peculiar to himself. The odds and ends of life in this world of ours sometimes change places in a surprising manner. The masters of that great India House, �26 THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. then ruling its millions in the East, are long keep the wolf from his door. He planned north since dead, and would long ago have been for­ and south, east and west, that he might busy the gotten. but for the memory of their eccentric mind of his sister outside and above the thoughts clerk. As he perched upon his stool in a corner of herself. We enjoy those beautiful stories of their counting-room, during a. long and weary i drawn from Shakspeare’s plays by the united service, he never dreamed that the future would labors of the brother and sister, and do not al­ interest itself in his quiet existence, in the ways remember that this volume is one of the calamity that shadowed it, or in the genial spirit fruits of his filial care. To Coleridge he wrote, that refused to be overcome. Besides, he had a “ I am wedded to the fortunes of my sister and great horror of publicity. His appearance was my poor old father.” But in giving up all for always as if trying to contract to the smallest these he never saw anything heroic. Only once possible size, while these efforts were as continu­ did he utter a cry of complaint, and this never ally rendered useless by the wide-reaching kind­ reached his sister’s ear. To be sure he did not ness of his heart. His was an odd physique : a always stand erect beneath his burdens. Some­ slight body, with stooping, almost humped times. when her life was deep in the darkness of shoulders, and mounted on legs which Tom Hood the cloud and he was left to grope in its shadow, called “ immaterial.” and Lamb denominated he turned aside to solace himself with intoxica­ “ spider’s strings ” ; his head, which Hunt de­ tion. Poor fellow! her disorder was his desola­ clared worthy of Aristotle, was covered with tion. Once he said to Coleridge, to whom he at short, bristly, black hair, always frightened in times uncovered his grief : “ My heart is quite its expression; he had a hooked nose set be­ sunk, and I don’t know where to look for relief. tween eyes uneasy and •• sharp as if they would I almost wish that Mary were dead.” pick up pins and needles ” ; his mouth continu­ It was a good thing for Lamb, as it has been . ally changed its expression, yet seemed always for many others, that his daily drudgery at his to wear a smile “ sweet as ever threw sunshine desk and his frequent efforts as an author kept on a human countenance ”; then there were him from much brooding; but better was his quips and cranks in the puckers and corners of kindness of soul which shone about him while he his face, and in the lines that joined them were lived, and yet breathes through his works. written looked-for jokes beyond numbering. Here we find the refinement of his strength, the This is the more wonderful when we contem­ sweetness of his greatness. This has secured plate the misfortunes that never ceased to dwell him the affection and sympathy of generations. with him—first, penury ; then, madness. A taint Forced to the cares of life before his time, he of insanity taught Lamb himself the “ happiness yet kept a boy’s heart in a man’s bosom, of six mad weeks.” His sister, Mary, had been delighted in the sports of children, and played repeatedly attacked by the disease, and one day, mad pranks with the merriest of them. He de­ when Charles was in his twentieth year, during a sired never to be “weaned by age,” and had no season of depression, as they were dining to­ taste for “ fruit mellowed by time.” He never gether, she seized a knife and stabbed her mother got past a fondness for fairy stories, “ Punch to the heart. This was the tragedy which de­ and Judy,” and practical jokes, of which his termined his conduct through life. Here began life was as full as his essays, of wit. In his his noble battle for the protection and salvation fondness for books he was always young. He of his sister and the maintenance of an aged loved old-fashioned stories, dim as dreams, father. It was a battle with himself, for he was snuffing after their odor which, to his sense, was never very far from the brink of the abyss into fragrant as “ the blossoms of the tree of knowl­ which he had once fallen; a battle with poverty, edge that grew in the happy orchard.” He monotony, and grief, waged in defiance of a cherished great love for the green earth and thousand difficulties. For forty years he en­ : the fallible beings who inhabit it. To death, he dured incessant fear and frequent recurrence of confessed an intolerable dislike. In the future his sister’s madness. He relinquished a matri­ I he could never see anything consoling. It was monial engagement with a lady to whom he was I j no comfort to him that “ Alice with the golden ardently attached. He bowed himself without | hair” should also be a goblin, . He clung to old stint to the routine of his desk, that he might j books. old faces, and old friends until they THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. became a part of himself. Could he enjoy them there? and how should he know that a ghost could laugh even at-the best of jokes? Misanthropy owned nothing of his His soul Can more beauty lie beyond that • Than our eyes this side do meet? Can there be. such scenes of splendor As no mortal visions greet ? nature. Vain the asking, vain the wishing Tims to know and question why. But our longings still grow deeper As the days and years go by. “ Yearned after all the joys of social life And softened with the love of human kind.” In his writings, how near he* comes to us. He is a visible spirit, “immortal company in book-shape.” Often at the confessional, his . essays are a sort of embodied personality. True, he deals in common-places and with the i trifles of humanity, but he stirs them with such i a freakish zeal, and lightens them with so rare a humor. It is commonplace material, but most uncommon handling. One would say he was not a poet, but his prose was as alive with poetic fire as the wake of a ship with phosphorescent gleams on a midsummer’s night. Of his own frailties he makes a jest, and, with a peculiar mental twist, so briskly covers his troubles that his sad experiences are well nigh hidden by his genius and his heart-aches provoke a smile. We ; accept as truth what he says of himself, that he thinks he is happy when he knows he is sad. Yet the salt of his sayings has often in it the ■ dampness of tears. He keenly criticises, He slashes with his i sarcasm. At times he heaps up. as if to the limit of language, his withering comparisons: j and, after all, he never fails to assure his victim that he would deeply grieve should he chance to : a 1 leave a wound. De Quincey said be was ’ “ Diogenes with the heart of a St. John.’’ BEYOND THE SUNSET. EMMA F. S'EWTOX. When long shadows fall behind us As we watch the sun’s last ray Passing slowly from our vision At the close of some fair day, And the fading tints of sunlight Linger there so lovingly Lighting all the west with splendor Picture beautiful to see, While the long bright day dies slowly O’er this world of joy and woe, And the gloom begins to gather As the shadows come and go— Then the question oft arises, As we wait the coining night What is there beyond the sunset. Far beyond our mortal sight'.’ 27 And of all earth’s lovely pictures Not the fairest can compare With the loveliness ami beauty We feel sure are over there. Whether mansions of such splendor As no earthly eyes behold, Towering high with lofty turrets Made of silver and of gold. And the streets of that fair country Bright as jasper, crystal clear, And the gates of pearls and sapphires— Fairer than we dream of here, Or in green and flowering meadows. Peaceful streams tlow softly by. Where without a fear or sorrow Earth worn forms may gently lie. O’er those scenes of perfect beauty Winter no rude blasts can bring, But there reigns eternal Summer And bright flowers perpetual Spring. We shall some day reach the sunset Pass beyond the glowing west See the fair land that we long for,— May we find there perfect rest. WILL JONES. William II. Jones was born in Searsmont. I Me., July 27, 1812. His father dying before he j was two years of age. and the family being in i indigent circumstances, the lad was early de­ pendent upon his own resources. These were of no ordinary character, lie early showed a keenness at his studies which gave him a prom• inent place in his classes: and his genial, social qualities, combined with a decision of purpose, made him an accepted leader among his asso’ ciates. He was first a student at Kent’s Hill in 1861, and left his books in response to Presi­ dent Lincoln's call for the first 75,000 men. to serve as a private in Company F, First Regiment. ' Maine Volunteers. At the end of three mouths, when the regiment was mustered out. he re­ enlisted in Company 11, Twenty-first Regiment, Maine Volunteers, in which he was appointed sergeant. From this regiment he was trans- I �I] I, THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE. 28 THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. ferrod early in 1863, to the command of a de­ LOCALS. tachment of the Signal Corps, and served with Banks's Division in the vicinity of New Orleans Colds and blue goggles are both in season. and Baton Rouge. During this time he was a Doesn’t this weather remind you of “spring, correspondent of northern papers, furnishing sketches of army life and occasional poems. gentle spring? ” What was that about rank? “Not satis­ While in Louisiana, he was seized with malarial fever, and. for a long time, there was slight i fied?” Well, that’s queer. hope of recovery. At length he was able to Lizzie A. Gowell is spending a few days on return home, his physical powers shattered and the Hip. she returns as a student next term. his mind despondent. His two years of army We had the rare pleasure of listening to a life had reduced the athlete to a skeleton. After sermon by President Smith last Sabbath. a time he resumed his studies at Kent’s Hill. Never applaud in chapel. None of the acHis health continued to improve. His old love tors are prepared for an encore.—Princeton Ti­ for his studies was renewed, and his mind was ger. Ditto here! more hopeful. In the language of the Ancient Mariner, we On the evening of October 11, 1863, while can say, “Water, water, everywhere, (that is, attending a prayer-meeting in the old chapel of frozen water,) but not a drop to drink.” the Seminary, he became powerfully wrought upon by the influence of the Holy Spirit. He Sickness has prevailed to quite an extent rose to express a request for prayer, but, before among the students, this term; but thanks to it could be uttered, he received evidence that his good nursing and homoeopathy, the sufferers are sins were forgiven. His was the first conversion all convalescent. of the term. A wonderful revival succeeded, in Students are advised to keep their room whose labors he bore an active part. Scores doors locked and an eye on their valuables. were won to Christ. It was at the elose of this Some one is inclined to do a little prowling about, term, at the last gathering of the students, that and evidently with no good intent. he read the poem which appears in this issue of The programmes for public meetings this The Breeze. term have been fine specimens of typographical The remainder of his life was characterized skill, each society making a special effort to ob­ by earnestness and efficiency as a Christian sol­ tain something new and attractive. dier. On the 25th of November following, he Hereafter will you please state with what again enlisted, and recruited for the Seventh number you wish your subscription to commence ? Maine Battery, a veteran corps, in which he was Our supply of No. 1 is rapidly decreasing, first sergeant. During his life in camp, he or­ and unless otherwise instructed, we shall start ganized prayer-meetings, which he conducted your “ sub ” with the current number. with good success. In the following March, he We understand that arrangements are nearly was attacked with typhoid pneumonia, and, after completed by which to secure competent instruc­ a brief sickness, died April 1, 1864, in the hos­ tion in all the branches of our musical courses, pital in Washington, D.C. As a student and scholar he gave promise of during the Spring Term. Such instruction, we success. lie was an easy and graceful writer, are authorized to say, can be relied upon. and in poetry displayed originality of thought “ Old General,” who has aided many a weary and skill in versification. He won friends with­ and homesick student over the Ilill, has gone to out an effort, and retained them by his generosity a better land. His place is filled by another of spirit, and his devotion as a Christian. member of the equine race, and he is enjoying the reward of his labor. O immortal shade—rcjuicscat in pacel Student (in answer to a tap at door)—“ Come in. if you are good-looking.” Prof, (entering j; Applications for rooms in Sampson Hall are speaking hastily)—“ I answer to that de- constantly being received, and the expectation scription every time.” It is reported that that *8 that there will be a full attendance next term, student merely says “Come.” now. Some of the old students who have been teaeh- aud ..... - J _ . 29 . ing are back already, and many more report tion is all right.” We think the above a very “coming.” ' creditable report for the gentlemen, one of which For some weeks past, our steward has been they should be proud, and determined that the obliged to procure soft water front the ponds, next report does not take from its honor. necessitating the labor of a man. two horses, a The additions to the Library since our last double sled, four barrels, a pail and tunnel, be- issue as follows : ...are ....................... Calliopean Society, from sides lots of patience and muscle. However, we Mrs. M. T. Ludden. 1 volume: Literati Society, are supplied. from Herbert E. Cobb, 1 volumes; Adelphian r* J T• J ■!/ ' Another red-letter day for the editorial corps. Saturday evening, Feb. 10th, we had the pleas­ ure of taking tea with Mrs. 0. F. Parker, at the Mansion. We had a delightful time, and send through the Breeze, to our hostess, our best wishes and sincere thanks. How can any one resist subscribing for the Breeze? Every old student knows that an edi­ tion is published every day in the year, besides two extras each term, which are of special inter­ est, and all for fifty cents. Leap years, we give still another extra. and our premiums are—but there—you’ll find the business manager’s address on first page. The authorities are disposed to strictly en­ force the ten o’clock rule. Although this may not be agreeable to us all, we can but admit that it is a wise rule. Many of the students are ■ overworking themselves, and will see and feel the effects of it in after years, unless cheeked soon. But, would it be unwise to allow the stu­ dents one evening a week for their own. as far as lights are concerned? Just a word about that feather bed, for the benefit of non-residents. On Jan. 23. 1883, a feather bed was stolen—or rather abducted—by some of the ladies; concealed in the room of two innocent youths, by two gents, urged on by the ladies; taken charge of by the innocent youths, and sto—abducted again by the ladies, and finally returned to its owners. The result ? Oh, the joke is still on the ladies. Cut lingers,” ete., you know. The following is the record of volumes drawn from the Library during the fall term of 1882 : History, Biography, and Science, 110 By Ladies: B69 Poetry and Fiction, By Gentlemen: History, Biography, and Science, Poetry and Fiction, Total, ---- 379 409 105 ---- 571 (63 So you see, boys, that “ our side of the ques- Society. 10 volumes: lion. Eugene Hale. 3 vol­ umes. 1 pamphlet: Hon. S. D. Lindsey, 1 vol­ ume ; Rev. S. Allen. D.D.. 2!) volumes, 280 pam­ phlets : Rev. R. E. Bisbee, 10 volumes; John Haines. Esq., 1 volumes; Prof. A. F. Chase. 3 volumes; R. C. Pingree. Esq., 1 volume; by purchase. 8 volumes; Dept, of Interior, U. 8. A.. 9 pamphlets: Alden Chase. Esq.. 21 pam­ phlets: C. W. R., 1 pamphlet; II. M. Blake, M.D., 13 pamphlets; Society of Friends, 2 pam­ phlets ; total, 71 bound volumes. 327 pam­ phlets. The lectures of the term have been interest­ ing and instructive, but poorly attended—to the discredit of those who think that they must stay at home and study. Rev. R. L. Green, of Great Falls, N. IL. lectured in Deering Chapel. Jan. 18th. on “ Mind Your Own Business,” under the auspices of the Literati. The second lecture of the terra was delivered Jan. 25th. at the same place, and under the auspices of the Calliopean, by Rev. J. M. Williams of Portland. His sub­ ject was “Queen Victoria’s Reign.” Next Tuesday evening. Rev. Thomas Tyne, of Au­ burn. will lecture for the Adelphians. on “Causes of Failure.” He has the reputation of being a good lecturer, and. undoubtedly, will in­ struct and entertain us. LITERATI. The Literati public meeting was held in the chapel of Sampson Hall. Friday evening. Feb. 2. The literary productions showed a good degree of literary ability, and were well delivered. The music was line. Following is the programme: Introductory—Promenade Polka. i": :iic. Prayer—Prof. Trefetheu. Reading Records. Essay— Freedom of Thought. L. JI. Powers. Piano Duo (Selected). Misses Knight and Furncl. Discussion—Resulted. That our civil oilices should be tilled by competitive examinations like those of China. Affirmative. Negative. II. S. Rich. E. S, Furnel. I. P. Ware, If. F. Preble. Duct—The Pilot. Coe/ki'-J/itbird. Messrs. Kennedy and Chenery �30 THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. Poem—Life’s River. L. H. Sanford. Oration—The March of Civilization. F. W. Moore. Piano Solo (Sefectal). Miss Ada C. Murch. Litera?—Editors: W. H. Perry, W. E. Morse. Quartet—Laugh, hoys, laugh. II. Sorer. Messrs. Kennedy, Chenery, Allen, and Preble. Miscellaneous Business. Adjournment. ADELPHIAN. The Adelphians gratefully acknowledge the receipt of a beautiful statuette of Venus ds Milo, a gift from the Honorary Branch of the society. To be thus remembered by our older sisters is very pleasant. The usual public meeting was holden in Sampson Hall. Friday evening, Feb. 9th. The audience considered it an especially enjoyable meeting. Below is the programme in full: Introductory— Piano Solo—Whispers from Erin.— IF. .S. Rock-straw. Susie’M. Jewett. 1. Reading of Scriptures. 2. Reading of Records. 3. Proverbs. 4. Poem—’Tis Night brings out the Stars. Emma Frances Newton. 5. Vocal Trio—Mermaid’s Evening Song.—Glover. Misses Furnel, Clifford, and Knight. 6. Discussion—Resolved, that Poets have done more than Historians for the good of Mankind. 7. Male Quartet—“ The World is what we make it.” —C. A. White. Messrs. Kennedy, Chenery, Cole, and Preble. 8. Paper—Calliopean. Editors: R. P. Kelly and F. L. Chenery. 9. Miscellaneous Business. 10. Adjournment. It is but justice to state that Mr. L. U. Cole was chairman of the Calliopean Committee of Arrangements, and that R. P. Kelly should have been on committee instead of C. W. Richards, ALUMNI. [This department of our paper will receive special at­ tention, and addresses of, or any information concerning, the alumni or former members of the institution will be gratefully received by the Personal Editor.] Daniel Gould Harriman, A.M.: Born July 9, 1833, in New Sharon, Me.; parents, James S., and Cynthia. A student at Kent’s Hill in 1858-60. Member of Calliopean. Taught public schools: 1851, Arrowsic; 1852, Farmington and Dresden; 1853, Pittston and Brooklin; 1854, Sedgwick and Brooklin ; 1855, Brooklin Center and Brooklin, opp. Sedgwick Vil­ DISPUTANTS. lage : 1856, N. Boothbay and Mercer; 1857, Blue­ 4ff.—Forensic, Lulu Grace Adams. hill; 1857-8, New Sharon ; 1858-9, Kent’s Hill; Nerj.—Forensic, Fannie Etta Noble. 1859-60, Pittston; 1860, entered Wesleyan Uni­ 7. Piano Solo—Nocturne and Wedding March. —Mendt Issolin. Miss Ada C. Murch. versity ; 1864, graduated at Wesleyan Univer­ 8. Recitation—Jane Conquest.—Milne. Cora Grahame Knight. sity ; 1864-6, taught Mental and Moral Science •J. Quartet—There’s Beauty Everywhere.—,S'. Laurence. and Belles Lettres at Kent’s Hill; 1866, July, Misses Furnel and Clifford, Messrs. Kennedy and Preble. entered law office of Davis & Drummond, Port­ 10. Essay—” O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us, land ; 1867, March, admitted to Cumberland Bar, To see oursels as others see us! ” ,, .. . Clara Alberta Lunt. and practiced, lirm of Bonney & Harriman, till 11. Piano Trio—Airs from Mozart’s Operas.—Czerm/. Misses Murch, Knight, and Furnel. September, 1868 ; 1867-8, member of Board of 12. Paper—The Adelplnan. Education, Portland ; 1868, removed to Brook­ Editresses: Cora Alice Wilson, Clara Emolie Burgess. lyn, N. Y., and has practiced law in the cities of 13. Vocal Duet—Hunting Tower.—Demar. ,, ,, _ . Miss Clifford, Mr. Kennedy. Brooklyn and New York up to present date, 14. Miscellaneous Business. ■ 1883, Married, May 29, 1867, Miss Sally A. 15. Adjournment. Ingraham of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; child, Henry I. Ushers—Evie H. Gray, Carrie E. Graves. Ingraham, born 1871. P. O. address, 19 Park CALLIOPEAN. Place, New York City. The Calliopean public meeting was held in Hosea B. Eaton, M.D.: the chapel of Sampson Hall, Friday evening, Born March 24, 1822, in Plymouth, Me.; Feb. 16, 1883. On account of the illness of parents, Parker Eaton and Mary Seymour ManMessrs. Richards and Corson, the essay was son. who settled in Plymouth in 1820. Student read by Mr. Pedro Gillot and the oration was at Kent’s Hill in 1840. “ Newell, Hamlin, Gould, omitted. The order of exercises was as follows : and myself boarded ourselves in the east end of the little missionary house in the orchard, at an Introductory—Satanic Call Galop.—Schachit. , ,, .. ... Messrs. Phillips, Furnel, and Sawver. expense of thirty-one cents, each, per week.” 1. Reading of Records. After leaving the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, at­ 2. Essay—” Simon says ‘ Thumbs Up.' ” tended Newport Academy, and taught in Hamp­ 3. Soprano Solo—” Days of Youth."— den, Etna, Jackson. Stetson, and Northport; 1845, received degree of M.D. from the Maine 4. Discussion—Resolved. That the Unffed^Ntates1 <lrll< *’ Medical School, Brunswick; 1845-52, practiced would not be justified in aiding Ireland. DISPUTANTS. medicine in Rockport; 1852, attended lectures 4ZT.—W. O. Rogers and F. G. Merrill. in the colleges and hospitals of Philadelphia and -Vc'/.—G. W. Earle and E. Whittemore New York: 1853-64, practiced medicine in 5. Cornet Duo—“ L’Etineelante Polka.—E, Deraiisurt. . n .»e • •* Messrs. Phillips and Sawver. Rockport; 1864 volunteer surgeon in Union 0. Oration—“ Spirit of Revolution in France.” army; in 1854 left allopathy for hom<eopathy; J. W. Corson. 1870, President of Maine Homoeopathic Medical THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. i Society, and Vice President of the American In­ stitute of Homeopathy; 1865-83, practicing medicine in Rockport; 1883, member of Maine Legislature. Married, Jan. 16, 18-18, to Miss Martha W. Glover of Camden, Me. Children : Joint Parker, born Nov. 21, 1849,—died, 1851 ; Martha W., born Jan. 8. 1852; married Albert F. Piper. M.D., Thomaston, Maine: Hosea B., Jr., M.D.. born Sept. 17, 1855; student at Kent’s Hill. 1873-74; practicing in Rockport (Camden).; Thomas Glover, A.M., L.B., born Feb. 17, 1858; received A.M. at Amherst; L.B., from Boston University School of Law; member of the Suffolk (Mass.) Bar; Professor of Com­ mercial Law in Law School of St. Paul. Minn.; practicing law in St. Paul. Minn, 1*. O. address, Rockport (Camden). Me. Alden Blossom, M.D.: Born Feb. 24, 1820, in Turner. Me. ; parents, Alden B. and Lydia Stevens. A student at Kent’s Hill in 1837-9 ; a teacher in public schools in years 1838 to 1843 ; 1843. graduated from Medi­ cal School of Maine : 1843-83, engaged in prac­ tice of medicine and surgery in Boothbay, Me.; 1883, member of State Legislature. Has held the following otliees: Superintending school committee. 38 years; town clerk, town agent, and town auditor, at various periods ; examining surgeon for invalid pensions. 21 years: exam­ ining surgeon for soldier’s of Lincoln County during the rebellion ; army surgeon one year; census enumerator in 1880. Married, 1850. Miss Weltha L. Willey ; Children : Thomas Jefferson, born 1850. captain of a vessel plying between Charleston. S. C., and the West Indies ; William Emerson, born 1856. druggist at Boothbay : Nel­ lie Narcissa, born 1859. marriedM illiam Thomp­ son, M.D., resides in Hallowell. P. 0. address. Boothbay, Me. 31 at New Haven. Conn. Iler husband is librarian of Yale College. ’68.—Mary E. (Harriman) Leavitt, A.M., resides at Gorham. Me. ’68.—Rebecca J. Webber, A.M.. is the wife of Dr. Sawyer of Bryant's Pond. ’68.—S. Helen (Keith) Frost. A.M.. is the wife of a lawyer in Westford. Mass., and is a correspondent for the Zion's Herald. ’68.—Ella R. (Pike) Emery. A.M., spent last year in Germany with her husband, who is a teacher in the Boston public schools. ’71.—Henry Straw is a jeweler at Guilford, Me. ’71.—Ainslie E. Woodsum, A.M.. has a fine settlement over the Baptist church in Rockland, Mass. ’72.—Roscoe L. Greene is stationed over the M. E. church in Great Falls. N. II. His wife is Ella F. Wilson, ’72. '72.—Fred V. Chase, A. M., is studying law with Hon. J. II. Drummond of Portland. ’72.—Millard M. Parker. A.M.. is in Southern California. He is slowly recovering his health. ’72.—Nettie R. Bailey, wife of Capt. Lewis, is at sea with her husband. ’72.—Albert M. Card is practicing medicine in Aina. ’71.—Charles B. Porter. M.D.. has just been appointed Supervisor of Schools in Corinna. ’74.—Emma E. Clark takes charge of the Art Department of Bucksport Seminary. ’74.—Emily S. Hathorn is the wife of Levi W. Staples, pastor of the M. E. church at Chic­ opee Falls, Mass. ’74.—Nellie S. Robinson. A.M.. is the wife of Prof. Pillsbury, Principal of the High School in Springfield. Mass. ■48.—John S. Cushing, M.D.. has a success­ ’71.—Sadie E. Marble is teaching music at ful practice in Skowhegan. her home in Wilton. ’60.—Daniel Snow is a merchant in Mont­ ’75.—A. Mont Chase is a druggist and job printer at Bryant's Pond. gomery, Ala. '75.—Caro M. (Young) Palmer. A.M., is ’60.—Lore Alford is a lawyer in Waterloo. assistant in the High School at Skowhegan. Iowa. ’75.—'Mrs. Sarah E. Longley Wright, is ’60.—Benjamin F. Bryant is practicing law I visiting the family of Charles Russell, M. D., in La Crosse, Wis. ’60.—Chas. J. Clark is Presiding Elder of Fayette. ’76.—Wilbur F. Berry is pastor of the M. E. the Portland District. Address. Portland. Me. church in Saco. His wife is Livonia S. French, ’61.—Joseph T. Woodward is U.S. Consul at ’79. Coatieook, Province of Quebec, Canada. '76.—Eleanor (Hathorn) Holman is the wife >64.—Wilbur F. Lunt, U. S. District Attor­ of a lawyer in Athens. ney. resides in Portland. ’76.—Wilbur F. Randall is book-keeper in >68.—Sara F. Leonard, for six years a teach­ John Boyle’s wholesale duck and canvas house. 199—205 Fulton St.. N. Y. er in Andover, Mass., has resigned her situation, and is resting for a time with friends at her old ’77.—Samuel F. Marsh, A.B., is instructor home in North Monmouth. in Latin and Greek in Chamberlain Institute. >68.—Etta S. (Stone) Haskell. A.M.. resides Readout, N. Y, �32 THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE. PERSONAL. THE KENTS HILL BREEZE. LADIES’ SEWING CIRCLE. N. JEWETT, President, Mrs. E. J. Abbott; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. E. A. McNcar. L. A. Sukeforth was on the Hill, Jan. 13th. HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Prof. Robinson is in the Legislature this win­ President, Mrs. IL E. Bisbee; Vico Presidents, ter. His classes are distributed among other Miss M. L Adams, Mrs. N. Jewett, Mrs. A. A. members of the Faculty. Sampson; Treasurer, Mrs. W. C. Strong; Record­ Fremont L. Russell has finished his school in ing Secretary, Mrs. A. A. Gordon; Corresponding Rumford, and returned to his studies at Orono. Secretary, Miss M. F. Park. Capt. Keyes, editor of the Farmington Chron­ WOMAN’S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—AUX­ icle, and his wife were on the Hill, Feb. 1st ILIARY BRANCH. and 2d. President, M. Lenora Adams; Vice Presidents, Ada E. Gifford has been spending a week Rebecca R. Fletcher, Winifred Ware, Henrietta Johnston; Recording Secretary, Emma A. Flood; with Mrs. Trefethen (Aliee R. Porter, ’81). Corresponding Secretary, May F. Park ; Treasurer, Z. B. Rawson is teaching in East Machias. Cora G. Knight. I). G. Luce has nearly finished his .school in CALLIOPE AN SOCIETY. New Vineyard. President, Rev. E. M. Smith; Vice President. G. A. Stuart was present at some of the rec­ II. C. Whittemore; Secretary, Pedro Gillot; Treas­ itations, Feb. 4th. urer, E. E. Dunn; Meetings every Friday evening. The Examining Committee have made their LITERATI SOCIETY. regular visits. Rev. E. S. Stackpole was here President, 0. A. Tuell; Vice President, L. M. last week. Powers; Secretary, S. H. Cobb; Treasurer, I. P. Emma L. Roberts is visiting at the college. Ware; Meetings every Friday evening. She is on her way to Lowell. Mass. ADELPHIAN SOCIETY. Rev. Chas. Munger preached for Rev. Mr. President, Miss Winnie F. Dutton; Vice Presi­ Lapham. Sunday, Feb. 11th. dent, Miss Cora A. Wilson ; Secretary, Miss Laura Pres. Smith took a trip to Boston, week be­ E. McIntire; Treasurer, Miss Evie H. Gray; Moot­ ings every Friday evening. fore last. Clara March is paying us a visit this week. POST OFFICE. Mail closes, east, 2.10 p.m.; west, 8.15 a.it. Mr. Corson is engaged in canvassing and Mail arrives, east, 11.15 a.m. ; west, 5.15 p.m. makes occasional visits to the Hill. Wm. Appleyard spent Feb. 2d and 3d on the Hill. He is about to enter the Massachusetts CHOOL COMMITTEES Institute of Technology, Boston, to study in the department of Practical Design. AND TEACHERS We acknowledge the receipt of the following exchanges: Bon-Tin Orient, The Beacon, E‘R,. . f - 'V Echo. High School Solecism, PhiRhorlr . Ac■ttlwj Trio. Huguenot, High School Re ■ High CloA Corona, and the Derby PRATING BAND. WOMAN’S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. President, Mrs. A. F. Chase: Vice President, Mrs. E. J. Abbott; Recording Secretary, Mrs. F. A. Robinson : Treasurer, Mrs. H. P. Torsey ; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. J. B. Lapham. ’ r’ I I -----dealer in----- -------- AND-------- FINE® GROCERIES, MILLINERY, FLOUR OF ALL GRADES, Spanish and Oriental Laces. Scarfs, Fichus, and neckwear of all kinds. Selected Teas, Pure Coflees and Spices, Butter MATERIALS FOR KENSINGTON AND FANCY WORK. and Cheese, Choice Syrups and Molasses, Foreign and Domestic Fruits, JEWELRY AND SILVER WARE, CONFECTIONERY, Etc., Etc. CANNED FRUITS IN VARIETY. ONE !• PRICE ONLY. Hair Dressing and Bartering Promptly Attended To. KENT’S HILL, MAINE, f* (Successors to Dresser, McLellan & Co.? -----PUBLISHERS OF----- ■ 1 Law and Miscellaneous Books, ! Patterson’s Elements of Grammar, MANUFACTURERS OF BLANK BOOKS, A concise, practical treatise on Grammar In a single volume. It presents the subject in a fresh, vivacious, anti attractive style, freed from <lrv technicalities. STATIONERS. --------AND------- i PRICES SATISFACTORY. GIVE US A CALL. MRS. L. E. ARNOLD. - Readfield Corner. WANTED—U. S. COINS. DOLLARS—f'.ihi; it niu-t be fine. 17.H, f,,-n to '-D; .51..U. .’S. t-fl ta Sll.jdi. hd, ,51. $ < L > ■> X 17. •. 'fl. yr. 1N>>. 1. 2. ;1. A>,SL25 toeach. L'.'\‘mill cig; \ li ■ tits?:: 15 eta:17":'..’. stars 1 ring. 1<Y A C- ‘ Trade Dollar. 1SY. M. i?i ■'<» each HALF DOLLARS—I7.G a. ‘.‘7. to ; M < ... h IPM. l«‘l. 2. lAiMiniP.e I edge and Lq.. - ■ I.;.', U • . • I. 75c< nt-«to $1.'■) i iuh. !■-.>, unh i) ..\c< <! <?’, QUARTER DOLLARS—and 27. •> 17.'. G.'J.Di alto 6-’. 1g.oxerI ' . t •' 1 - c;. a. 1a*. i. v. ithmitu! nr.V4,c|. 120 Ci Nr PIECi:.S--U7«'.- .-.cc!ilL b.Tnn.I 7’ *2 .*:•.•I'.t h. DIAIES-K >. . ■ (•>.i> I .2, - vents to §2each. l.ML’, 7, J| und r, ;>•, g> 3 CENT SILVER Lt. t• >. Y . •. The Maine Reports: Plaisted & Appleton’s Digest of Maine Reports: Spaulding’s Practice in Maine Courts: Bolster’s Town Officer, and Town Valuation Books: Waterman’s Maine Probate Practice; Oliver’s Precedents: Oliver’s Conveyancing: Legal Blanks, including a form for Wills. m.25crntst ifl Si lilM.aXl . 150 .0. is II. IX ind 5’ L. !:i Ncvnt • Cl.‘’'v.u'i.according to ductu .■ !« Nickel ' HAL’’ CENTS«St ■ »!>•< 1; III., » . ■. CM. ■ II. I'Kcnt-i to $1 each; tx’l, ; k Hi? to 43 and We also keep on hand every variety of SCHOOL TEXT-BOOKS, DICTIONARIES, BOOKS OF REFERENCE, ETC. Coubespondbnce Solicited. F. A tine assortment of Black Cash­ meres, Ladies’ Underflannels, Cotton and Woolen Goods. WE PUBLISH , published. WARREN Fancy Soap, Perfumery, Brushes, Stationery, etc. ^URIN L. DRESSER & CO.. I Contemplating a change in Text-Books should examine DIRECTORY. Sheldon’s Modern School Reader, i-t episcopal church. P;L;to;-. it . J. 15. Lapham: Trustees, Dr. n. IN FIVE BOOKS. P. Torsey. 15. ’A. Harriman, N. Jewett, F. M. Rob­ inson, A. F. Chase; Preaching Services, 2 p.m.. Sunday : class Meetings, (>.30 P.M., Saturday : 1 Strongly bound, handsomely Illustrated, and models of typo. Prayer-Meetings. (i.Bu p.m.. Wednesday and Sungraphleul an(1 “rtl8tic beauty' day: Students' Half-Hour Meetings, 6 p.m., Tues­ This is the latest series, at it is emphatically the best day and Sunday. President, W. II. Perry; Vice President, F. W. Moore: Secretary, 0. A. Tuell: Meetings, Satur­ days, 4 P.M. II pANCY GOODS Libraries and Teachers supplied at a liberal rate of dis­ count. special rates given to Lawyers making up their Libraries. ADAMS, aurin 47 Franklin Street.. .BOSTON, MASS., l. dresser & co., No. 47 Exchange Street, PORTLAND............................... MAINE. OLD SANBORN & CARTER. STAND. NEW ENGLAND AGENT. < EE. L. SMITH, □□Hector cf Fine ani Bare American Coins, 130 & 132 Commercial St, Portland, Me. �THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. SAMPSON HALL t W a dLd® f Buildings Large L AS and Commodious. Rooms Light and Airy. Accommodates 125 Students. <BOARD,i * Including Room, Wood, and Lights, S40 per Term. R. FRENCH, Ste ward. It is the purpose of the Trustees, and will be the en­ deavor of the Steward, to furnish every convenience and comfort the house affords in order to make a pleasant home for Students while prosecuting their studies here. A CCIDENT AND LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES, X In the TRAVELERS. of Hartford, or the CONNECTICUT MUTUAL LIFE COMPANY, of Hartford, are written by B. W. HARRIMAN. Also agent fertile HOME FIRE COMPANY, of Now York: Vsets, $7,000,000. IMPERIAL, of London'. Assets. In this country. $1,000,000. And for the NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE, and am other kind that mav lie wanted. aTi'DEN'ls* can raise monev for school expenses easier on an Insurance police than in am o’thcr wav . Over tliirtv policies have been written by mo for students going to college. REAL ESTATE BOUGHT AND SOLD. JJ’ W HARRIMAN. Kent’s Hill. Me. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Breeze Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kents Hill Breeze Vol.1 No.3 Description An account of the resource The Kents Hill Breeze. Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 17,1883 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/16/90/The_Breeze_Oct_1891_.pdf 20704373a19a1faeff33bb75381b82b3 PDF Text Text w �THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. -S.-w—■ Ci 'Al'T 'll i I IJ ' ' Isd-S'r B O A. R D OF INSTRUCTION. Rev. EDGAR M. SMITH, D.D., President, Elocution, and Eliphalet Clark Professor of Metaphysics. HENRY E. TREFETHEN, A.M., Stephen Allen Professor of Greek and Latin. GERTRUDE L. STONE, A.M., R. B. Dunn Professor of Normal Instruction. LYON L. NORTON, A.B., Mathematics and Astronomy. WILSON F. MORSE, SAMUEL N. TAYLOR, Pn.B., Henry P. Torsey Professor of Natural Science. Musical Director. MRS. ELLA D. MORSE, Piano, Organ, and Theory. MINNIE L. HOBBS, ADELBERT F. CALDWELL, A.B., Rhetoric, Literature, and History. FANNIE A. DAVIS, A.M., Preceptress, French and German. LULU G. ADAMS, A.M., Latin. Art School. CARTER B. KEENE, Book-Keeping, Commercial Law, Commercial Arithmetic, and Penmanship. A. F. CALDWELL, A.B., Librarian. GEORGE B. PIERCE, Steward. COURSES OF STUDY. A College Course for Ladies. A Seminary Scientific Course. Music Courses. A College Preparatory Course. A Normal Course. An Art Course. A Seminary Classical Course. A Course in Common English. A Commercial College. �THE _ Kifrg ini iiiiiB KENT’S HILL, ME., OCTOBER G, 1891. Vol. X. HERE is a lack of perseverance among many students. At the beginning of each PUBLISHED TWICE EACH TERM AT i term we repeatedly hear the expressions, “I • intend to make this the best term I have ever The Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College- : spent on Kent’s Hill,” “ I am not going to waste a minute this term.” But alas for some, editor: they fall by the wayside. The first few weeks Vernon B. Swett, ’92. may find them present at all the exercises and associate editors: well prepared in recitations, but as the time Emma M. Davis, ’94, Joseph L. Hoyle, ’94. comes for hard work they neglect the moments business manager: and meet in class with poorly prepared lessons. Fred C. Norcross, ’93. Sometimes we hear one say “ I have worked well so far, now I am going to have some fun.” A Terms.—One school year, fifty cents; single copies, ten cents. I student may set his standard for good lessons Subscribersnot receiving the Breeze regularly will please notify the Business Manager, and also when they change their high at first, but as he fails to fully accomplish address. The Breeze will be sent to all subscribers until ordered dis­ I his scheme, he becomes discouraged and drops continued and arrearages paid as required by law. off as the weeks pass. Is this right? Will it Payment of advertisements will be made on receipt of first not form a habit of negligence, which will concopy containing the advertisement. All desiring back numbers of the Breeze may receive such i tinue through life? on payment of five cents per copy. A good example of perseverance was shown I in connection with the Senior ride. Indications Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter at Kent’s Hill, Me. i pointed to a pleasant day, but the evening was 1 all excitement on account of the team. The , driver had dissappointed them. Nevertheless Editorial I^resziss. ! some of the gentlemen persevered and found another driver, so that they were able to start at A GAIN the Breeze goes forth under a new six o’clock the next morning. /A. administration and sends greeting to all who love Kent’s Hill. We feel that we were ' WONDERFUL tiling is the imagination, not born with a quill in our hands, nor were we yet it should be cultivated. It often leads born to edit such a paper as the Kent’s Hill us to take the wrong view of things. A student Breeze, but remembering that “Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and others ( is put on the list for Public Rhetorieals for the have greatness thrust upon them,” we submit to • first time, imagination comes to the front and urges that it is too hard to face the school, that the euevitable, and endeavor to do our best. We have the same object in view as those it is unnecessary to place one’s self in a position to who edited the first Breeze, viz.: “ It is designed be criticised, and that enough good can be to fill the place usually allotted to college and ' obtained from private recitations. Senior year seminary papers.” If the subscribers to the comes and then neglected opportunities stare him Breeze desire more personals and alumni they in the face. There is one class of students who will aid us greatly by sending us any such they suppose themselves to be always in the right. may have, for it is difficult for us, who have In the recitation room they assume an air of been here but a short time, to learn the where­ wisdom, and, although often found in the wrong, abouts of old students. “It is your paper; a strong imagination helps them over all embar­ rassments. In the society of their fellow-students help to make it successful.” THE KEjXT’H •> JHLL <• BREEZE. 71 PRINTED Jii iff I III No. 1. THE JOURNAL OFFICE. LEWISTON. ME. �~2 THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. they are ever free with their opinion, regardless of restrictions and the rights of others. On the other hand is the humble student, endowed with an imagination in the opposite direction. Imag­ ining that all eyes are upon him, and that all minds are ready to criticise any flaw in his work, he hesitates in all that he undertakes. Often little things which come in his way, and which, if seized with the determination of making the most of them would be of great profit, are allowed to slip away. The person whose imagi­ nation is not concentrated upon himself, but who bends it in the direction of great thoughts, may well be admired by all. Hobbs has studied for some time under the best artists of Boston, and comes to us well fitted for her work. We feel fortunate in securing such a teacher. We are indeed proud of our teachers and only regret that they do not receive the recom­ pense due their labors We would not neglect to mention the change in stewards. Mr. Pierce, who was here for three years, has left us and Mr. Norcross takes his place. While we were sorry to lose our former steward we welcome the new one. WHERE IS THE STEAM HEATING? O INCE the last Breeze was issued there have been many changes here. The class of ’91, with whom we associated, have left us for the stern realities of life, and many new students have come in to take their places. We notice quite a change in the Faculty. We regret deeply to lose Professor Strong, who has labored so long for us, but wish him success in his new field, and congratulate the high school at Westfield, Mass., in securing such a teacher for its Scientific Department. We also miss Miss Meyers, whom duty called to her parents. She will ever be remembered as a friend to those who knew her. Although Miss Beede was here but one term, she gained many friends aud was much liked by those who became acquainted with her. She has been traveling in Europe for the last three months, and as she returns to this country we wish her only the best of success in whatever work she undertakes. While feeling the loss of our teachers who have left us, we are glad to welcome the new members of the Faculty, and hope to do this not only in words but in actions. Professor Taylor, who takes Professor Strong’s place, is a graduate of Wesleyan and has been in the electric light business for several years. We find him very pleasant and all wish him success. Professor Caldwell, Colby, ’91, is a descend­ ant of the first principal at Kent’s Hill, and takes the place vacated by Professor Tasker. He has already’ won many friends and we predict the best of success for him. The Art Department is under the direction of Miss M. L. Hobbs, of Salem, Mass. Miss HIS is a very pertinent question, and one which the students and friends of the school have a right to ask. Last June the trustees decided that steam heating for Sampson Hall had become a necessity. Accordingly a commit­ tee of their number was appointed to take the matter in charge aud report at the adjourned meeting of the trustees in July, with a view to putting in the plant during the summer vaca­ tion. As a considerable part of the cost of this enterprise must be met by subscriptions, the alumni, at their annual meeting on Commence­ ment week, voted to co-operate with the trustees, and raise §1,000 from their number. For this purpose a committee of the alumni was appointed ; and this committee set about the business of col­ lecting funds in real earnest. Their plan was essentially this: to ask the alumni to furnish the radiators necessary for the heating in Sampson Hall. The matter was presented at the alumni dinner, and the responsibility of collecting money for sixteen radiators was assumed. When the trustees met in July, however, it seemed necessary for several reasons, but es­ pecially on account of the short time before the opening of the fall term, to postpone the heating by steam till next year. So the whole matter was re-committed to the committee of the trustees, with the understanding that this commit­ tee employ an architect and secure plans for the building and also obtain bids for the work of putting in the steam plant. The report of the committee will be presented either at a special meeting of the trustees, called for that purpose, or at the annual meeting in June. The intention is to have all the necessary arrangements com­ pleted before the next Commencement, in order �THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. i II ... I 1 i 3 I We would comfort, soothe, support, elevate, that the work may be begun at the very first 1 With a gentle touch and a kindly word. of the summer vacation. Do good, with strength of mind and heart innato Meantime the committee of the alumni is Live well the life, and knowing its great end Be lowly faithful; try to reach the goal, improving this extra time in canvassing the And break out to the busy, earthly world former members of the school for funds to help The deep perfume of a true woman’s soul. on the work. Quite a number of the alumni are Sylvia 11. Schaffer. now acting as collectors in their several classes; but all who would be glad to contribute some- ’ THAT SENIOR RIDE. thing cannot be reached by class collectors. To ; HE '92 class has been on a bust. The all such we would say that subscriptions may be Faculty expect many of us some day will sent to the treasurer of the Alumni Association, have busts on pedestals, but this one was on the Prof. L. L. Norton. Subscriptions range from Augusta & Gardiner Electric Road and the Ken­ 81.00 upwards. The gift of a single radiator nebec Central Railroad. There were thirty-two (825) will be most gratefully acknowledged, i of us and we left Sampson Hall at 6.15 Satur­ but it is hoped that every one will give some­ day morning, September 19th, with Mr. Roscoe thing. Folsom, of Readfield, in the box. As we left the Hill, we gave the ’92 class yell. THE VIOLET. As we bounced along through misty meadows Through the airy fairy-land of fancy, and over sun-kissed hill-tops, everything from a Full of fleeting castles of the air, Where fond hopes, unrealized, fall shattered, rooster to a meeting-house was welcomed by Or, taking form, arise with beauty rare, that heart-rending yell. Down we go, past Came to me one evening in the twilight farm-houses and over hills, from which are seen A legend, ancient, but of heavenly source. While the countless hosts of glittering stars Winthrop. Baileyville, Monmouth, and the fast One by one appeared in silent concourse. receding Kent’s Hill brain factory. The hills of Long ago the angels, discontented Franklin County loom up in the distance, while That the earth was shut out from their gaze, spread out before us lie the quiet waters of Made them windows in the dark blue heavens, From which into the darkest night their rays Maranocook. After admiring the beautiful Shed kindly light on land and waters deep. scenery and singing our class yell for about Then—as the shadowy, ancient, legend goes— three hours, we arrive in Augusta just in time to From the place where now the bright stars twinkle. Fell the blue; down into flowery meadows. take an electric car as it was passing along State Whence the modest fragrant, little violet— Street. Swett and the writer got up front and Almost hidden under tall, green grasses at once entered into conversation with the motor­ On the banks of merry, noisy brooklet That, flowing o’er stones and pebbles, splashes— man, who seemed pleased to have a party of Took its color. True, 'tis meek and lowly; young people on board. From the questions But its lowliness is strangely powerful. asked any one would have supposed we were Bards sing of its perfume—mysterious— Poets speak of the influences that lull thinking of buying that road. To sleep and calm forgetfulness, like One of the party, glancing up the hill as we Lethean waters. While its subtle power entered Hallowell, wanted to know who lived in liaises those bowed down by grief and suffering, those large brick buildings. He was surprised Haughty heads bend low to pluck this flower; For its timid, simple beauty, somehow to learn that those are the State Industrial Wins its way into the hearts of all. School buildings. Our six miles’ ride on the And it matters not what age or station, electric was soou over, and now over the river, Each one in worship at its shrine must fall. A small cluster of such little blossoms lunch baskets and all, into the Kennebec Cen­ Goes out from these classic walls of learning, tral Station on the Randolph side. Until train Out into the world’s tumult and conflict — time Wood and Craig amused the party by per­ And reluctantly enough we ’re turning — Not abore the rushing, struggling masses forming on stilts hired of small boys. Although Proudly to lift our heads, as if to say: they were not in practice, their feels—no ; feats, “ It is I, step aside ! ” But rather that’s it—were worth seeing. Out of hearts full of sunshine shed one ray. All aboard for the National Home, and out One beam that will brighten, expand—refleet Our lives — pure, simple, and unassuming. we go through the wilderness, passing but one We would not in the world's tierce strife mingle, sign of habitation till our eyes catch sight of the But, perchance some one wounded and bleeding. stars and stripes floating over the National And weary, with courage and hope all gone, �4 THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. Home. We were met at the station by Mr. W. park, we prepare to make a tour of the Home. E. Goodspeed, a member of the last graduating First, under the direction of an officer, we visit class at the Hill, who is station agcut at the the dining-room, which seats 700; next, the Home. We arrived at 11.30, and as the girls, kitchen, where 220 gallons of coffee are made especially Miss Vail, were hungry, we proceeded twice a day, and seven barrels of flour are used to dinner. Headed by the lunch bearers, we for white bread alone. Then we will step into marched up the hill till we came to the band­ the laundry, where all the washing and ironing stand near the cemetery, where we halted for is done by machinery. From here we will visit refreshments. The only word on the dinner is the library and reading-room, and, after regis­ that we did justice to it and to ourselves as well. tering,-will proceed to ask questions. Here are A word on the cemetery. It is situated on the 3,000 books, 53 dailies, 134 weeklies, and 24 hill back of the Home, and nearly a half-mile monthlies. Into the billiard hall next, where all distant. Every grave is marked by a little kinds of sports are in progress. Strange to say, grassy mound, a square marble slab giving the the last men to leave this place were those Meth­ name, age, company, and number of the soldier odist ministers, Craig, Wood, and the best boy buried there. Fifteen years ago only twenty­ in the class, Thomas. Then we just looked seven graves had been dug on that hill-side. into the bar-room, where nine kegs of beer are Now over one thousand fallen heroes are there, consumed every day. In the hospital we found sleeping their last sleep beneath the starry flag a man who had lain on his bed nine years. they died to save. Surely, Some pretty hard cases in that hospital, where 200 are sick and dying. “Here lie the brave who sink to rest, By all their country’s wishes blest.” At 4 o’clock we had the pleasure of listening For them, to a very fine concert by the Home Military Band. The programme was as follows : “The neighing steed, the trumpet’s blast, The din and strife are o’er.” While the rest of the party were strolling through the cemetery, Davies and the writer hastened to the Home to hear the noon concert by the National Home Military Band. This band, under the instruction of Prof. B. W. Thieme, is probably the best in the State. Join­ ing our party after the concert, we strolled out past Governor Stevenson’s fine residence to the deer park. The two bear cubs attract our atten­ tion for a moment, and theu with one accord we pay the monkey a visit. We have no sweet­ meats, so Wood pulls out a piece of chewingwax and gives a piece to his monkeyship. The monkey chews and the Seniors laugh. The efforts that monkey made to sufficiently masti­ cate that chewing-gum would have brought tears from the Goddess of Liberty. There were thirty deer in the park, and, after admiring them for several minutes, we prepare to leave. As we go out the gatekeeper says, “ This is the prettiest party of ladies that has visited us during the summer.” That man not only displayed good judgment and an eye for beauty, but he got tipped by Woodman, Foster, and other wealthy Seniors. The boys were afterward told that this was the best-behaved party that had been to the Home for two years. After our visit to the Reeves March—Captain Stevenson, Lenthen Overture—Festival, Baseler Fantasia—A Happy Thought (first time), (Tuba solo, Signor Anastasia.) Wagner Grand Selection from Tannhausor,, Tito Mattei; arr. Claus Roman za—Non-e-ver, Potpourri—High Jinks, Beyor The excellent rendering of the programme was enjoyed by all, and special mention should be made of the tuba solo. We found in the Home a gentleman who* was once a member of the school and helped haul Dr. Torsey’s buggy down the hill—and back again. At 5 o’clock the party starts for home, arriving at Augusta at G.30. A few moments later we were on the big cart, checked for Kent’s Hill. We stopped munching sandwiches long enough to salute with our yell Hon. J. Manchester Haynes’s fine residence on Western Avenue. Another yell for Camp Burleigh and three cheers for the Governor, and our experience with Augusta is at an end. But what a time we have on our way home, with our singing, laughing, and joking. Wc learned something, too. We didn’t know before that Methodists believe in close communion, but, if those young Methodist ministers we had on board are worthy exponents of Methodism, we �THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. are sorry to say that either Methodism isn’t I manufacture and were partly rubber, so we in­ opposed to close communion or some of those tended having them classified as rubber goods, young pulpit orators practice rather than preach. ; On learning that the duty on rubber goods varied Davies, Dodge, Fifield, and the writer got on the from 35 to 40 per cent, (exorbitant, we back seat when we started, thinking that was thought,) we decided to stretch our consciences the place for a good time, but. as fate would just a little, and feign ignorance. The French­ have it, the four most dignified Seniors—Swett man consulted his books about an hour, but and Foster, Misses Vail and Rice—were on the could find no heading under which he thought seat iu front of us, so we didn’t dare to have the goods might be suitably classified, and as it any fun or nonsense. While the others were was almost time for the train to go, he marked having a good time, we counted the stars and the baggage and informed ns that we must go to moralized on the vanity of the universe. Three the Custom House at Montreal, where the goods and a half hours’ ride “through the friendly would be appraised. silence of the quiet moon,” as Vergil would say, Chuckling, we resumed our journey, and two and we reached Kent’s Hill, feeling that our of us settled for a good night’s sleep, while the Senior ride had been a complete success. other, who unfortunately had a morbid fear of H. W. F., ’92. “so many French,” sat bolt upright all night and carefully guarded the chattels. The next morning we awoke much refreshed to find our A SUMMER’S EXPERIENCE AT MON­ companion’s eyelids, seemingly hung like a TREAL. doll’s, drooping as soon as the head was out of Z~\NE morning shortly after- the close of the the perpendicular. V.Z spring term, three of us, two of whom Soou the noted Victoria bridge, spanning the were Kent’s Hill students, started out to make St. Lawrence, and Montreal were in sight. We our fortunes. The question how to make a arrived in the city about 6 a.m., and after break­ great deal of money in a short time had for fasting proceeded at ouce to the Custom House. some time occupied our minds, and when the We first encountered our United States officers, time arrived to start, after weeks of discussing who gave us this wholesome advice : “ Swallow and profound thinking and endless corresponding, your scruples and report the value of your goods each felt certain that positive wealth was almost small, and you will have then sufficient duty to within her grasp, and all that was required of pay.” After waiting some time the Canadian her was a little effort. Montreal was to be the commissioners arrived, and after having made victim of our ravages. the usual pretence of searching the baggage, It w’as a bright sunny day and our hearts began to consider the dutiable goods. They were light and cheery to correspond. Our enter­ detained us a few hours, then announced that prise was strictly secret and of course we are they were unable to classify the goods, and that telling it now in confidence. A kind friend had the appraisement office was closed. At once we provided a bountiful lunch, and with the excep­ became rebellious and insisted that it was neces­ tion of several times meeting some of the stu­ sary to have our baggage that day. After recon­ dents, the complete enjoyment of the day was sidering the matter, and detaining us another unruffled. The scenery was that typical of hour, they informed us that we might take the Maine and northern Vermont and New Hamp­ goods through as we had been detained so un­ shire—beautiful lakes and ponds, nestled between reasonably. Of course we acquiesced in their mountains and hills. ideas of unreasonableness, but in reality were About 9 p.m. we arrived at Island Pond, glad of the delay. where we were informed that all baggage would Our next consideration was an abiding place. be searched. For this we were prepared. We After much ado throughout the day, night found had a large quantity of dutiable goods, and had us in an institution which is appropriately called before, decided to be strictly honest and make by the street boys, “Young Women’s Christian no attempt to smuggle. At once we proceeded Assassination Rooms.” Early next morning, to inform the custom officer (a Frenchman) and with great eagerness, wc went to work. Each, to pay the duty. The goods were an American throughout the day, had an instinctive feel- �6 i THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. ing that her spirits waning, but not until evening did either give expression to them; then one openly declared she was disappointed and did not like it, yet she was determined that her distaste should not get the ascendency of her duty. Bat by the next afternoon she had not only her dislike of the work to contend with, but that most hope­ withering of all ailments — homesickness — had taken complete possession of her and she was no longer her own master. What was to be done? She declared she was going home, yet there was not enough ready money among us to purchase a ticket. There was a check in reserve, but we had no one to identify us. Surelj’ there was no alternative but to pawn her watch. This we intended to do, but in the meantime we secured, otherwise, a few dollars, so that we were euabled to procure the ticket. She left us at 9 r.M. A little later you might have seen two rather quiet girls walk­ ing to Drummond Street, for they had not quite enough money to ride. Leaving you to surmise what may have been our fate, during the remain­ der of our stay (nine weeks), we will proceed to tell you what we sawr and learned of Montreal. It is situated on a triangular shaped island, of the same name, surrounded by the St. Law­ rence and Ottawa rivers. The two rivers unite at the eastern point of the triangle, and flow through the same channel. The waters, how­ ever, do not intermingle, but remain visibly separate. The city has a population of more than 186,000. Over one-half arc of French de­ scent, and about two-thirds are Roman Catholics. The principal attraction of Montreal is its churches, which number about seventy-seven. St. Peter’s cathedral demands first attention. It is patterned after St. Peter’s at Rome, of which it is about half the dimensions. The church has been building since 1868, and it will require about a quarter of a century longer to complete it. The cathedral of Notre Dame, patterned after that renowned edifice in Paris, is the most beau­ tiful church in the city. It is said the church cost over §6,000,000. Much of the ornament is of gold. There are many of those dark, life-like, sacred paintings, which appeal so strongly to the emotions, also a number of beautiful and valuable pieces of statuary. One piece particu­ larly attracted our attention : our Lord on the cross, the wounds in his body, and the blood oozing from them, the expression of agony de­ picted on his whole countenance, enhanced by the dim cathedral light, faces one almost as real. There are two towers on the church, 227 feet high. In one are ten large bells, chimes ; in the other is the Bourbon bell, the largest in America. It weighs 24,000 lbs. It requires eighteen men to ring these bells at once. A small party of us went up in the tower one day. We ascended in the elevator and received no little attention from the one in charge. One of the girls remarked, “He wants to be tipped;” another, “ Let him want.” When we stepped on the landing below he remarked, “Twenty-five apiece, please.” Another notable attraction is Mount Royal Park, on the top of Mount Royal. The ascent is made by an inclined plane. There is an observatoiy in the park, from which, it is said, one can see one hundred and twenty miles down the river. The cemeteries also are on Mount Royal. Victoria bridge is a curiosity. It is made of twenty-five iron tubes. An interesting fact regarding it is that thirty thousand tons of nails were used in its construction. There are several libraries in the city, an art museum, and an extensive museum connected with McGill College. A large portion of the population of the city are of English origin and maintain English cus­ toms. There is very little association between the French and English, the former being too liberal for English conservatism. The French have intermingled somewhat with the Indians, and the language they speak is a confusion of French and Indian dialects. We might continue to tell you much about the habits and customs of the people, but our Breeze will not waft too much chaff. One of the Adventurers. WHAT WE DID AT OUR REUNION. NE who knows anything of Kent’s Hill students would never have mistaken the company hurrying along Commercial Street, Port­ land, Tuesday morning, July 21st, dodging the drops of rain, laughing merrily, and keeping up a lively conversation. The occasion was the first annual reunion of the class of ’89. As one of that favored number I will try to give the readers of the Breeze some idea of how we passed the time. Amid talking, jesting, and story-telling, we soon came in sight of the �THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. i 7 steamboat landing where South Freeport’s beau- ' society, were some of the items filling out our tiful little steamer, the Phantom, was already bill of happiness. Not the least important inci­ dent of the sail was the firing of the cannon by waiting for us. Probably the boat never carried a happier or our President. Though small she had no diillmore hilarious crowd. Rain and such trifles as culty in “ pulling the string,” and thereby our President’s falling over a coil of rope and making a loud noise (something she was never precipitating herself into the arms of a sedate- known to do on Kent’s Hill), Some malicious looking stranger on the opposite side, were not person was heard to remark that he didn’t know sufficient to cheek our spirits or our tongues. which jumped the farthest, the cannon ball or As Mr. Mallet, through whose kindness and the fair string-puller herself. generosity we were entertained, came on board Music was next in order, and though “ Annie and warmly welcomed us, we felt sure that Rooney,” sung by those on one side of the boat, nothing would be wanting to make our reunion a and “ Forty-three Cats Hanging on a Wall,” on success. the other, might not satisfy the fastidious taste of Scarcely had we left the wharf when the a prima donna, it was perfectly satisfactory to clouds and fog lifted, giving us a glorious view us. All pleasant things must end, however, and of the island-dotted bay. Eyes and tongues evening found us back at the point, as ready for were kept busy as Mr. Mallet pointed out the supper as if we had not eaten for a week. many places of interest, and almost before we After the evening meal came a business could realize it our two hours’ sail was over. meeting, conducted, as Mr. Mallet sarcastically Wolf’s Point, owned by Mr. Mallet, and our des­ remarked, on purely business principles. One tination, came in sight, and the cannon on board of the important articles unanimously decided the Restless was sounding forth its welcome. upon was the admission of Mr. Mallet as an Soon we were treading the historic ground of the honorary member of the class. Every ’eightyPoint, but stories of the past and dead and gone niner hopes he will feel duly honored at being heroes were as nothing to us compared with the thus recognized by our illustrious band. The heroes who with so much care had prepared for meeting closed with three ringing cheers for the us a bountiful collation, spread beneath a large new member, and the class yell, given in true tent and where we could hear the waters of the Kent’s Hill style. As ten o’clock came, still bay rippling on the rocks. The class of ’89 true to the rules of our Alma Mater, we did not was always prompt at meals, especially some of keep our lights burning but retired for the night, them, and this time was no exception. the gentlemen to the cottages on land and the Conversation only lagged while we were young ladies to the yacht. I cannot speak for filling the aching void within. After having the gentlemen’s rest that night, but the ladies satisfied the pangs of hunger, we observed with were frequently disturbed by shrill screams as satisfaction that while much had been eaten, some one of the number learned to her sorrow plenty remained. Next came a stroll (we did that there was a roof situated not more than ten not go in couples) over Mr. Mallet’s fine farm feet above her berth. of three hundred acres, watched his twenty-four Bright and early the next morning most of us acres of oats waving in the breeze, and looked were on deck, but a few, for certain reasons over his big barn, which, by the way, is the I which those few will understand, were delayed largest in Freeport. and were scarcely in time to bid the gentlemen As we returned to the tent the smooth waters good morning. Soon came breakfast; then the of the bay and our host’s beautiful yacht seemed | question arose, “ How shall we get back to Port­ inviting us to a sail, and it was not long before land?” “On the yacht, of course,” answered we were all on board, ready for an afternoon of our host, and we, one and all, agreed with his Bidding farewell to the beautiful solid enjoyment. And such an afternoon 1 We decision. attempt to describe it, but description falls far Point, we were soon under way, and as the short of the reality. A perfect day, a fine : yacht, with her private pennant Hying (which is breeze, a yacht and crew not to be surpassed, ' of the same design as the Adelphian Society, inspiring scenery on every hand, and a company pin, star, and crescent), bounded over the waves, of people perfectly satisfied with each other’s we could not help wishing she would go more �8 THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. slowly, for we began to realize that our reunion was over and the time to separate was at hand. All too soon wo reached the Forest City, and as we clasped hands for the final good-bye, we felt that we had been favored in every way and especially in having for our friend the one who had so royally entertained us and who is so honored in his native State. The words of one We of our number may well close this article : will vote for Mr. Mallet and the class of ’89 forever.” An ’Eighty-Niner. Is,o Gals. Fair days! Hallo, Emma!! Tennis all the rage. Base-ball “ non est.” Senior meetings are becoming stale. Do you know how you look when you chew gum ? Miss Maud Wyman has charge of the “ Little Seminary,” this term. Professor Tasker is taking a course at the Boston School of Theology. Mr. G.—“How much will you bid for the “ Wotnati’s Home Journal?” “ ‘ Agricola ones fascit.' The farmer eats an ox,” said a student in Vergil. Were there as many potatoes dug as there were Freshies and Sophs to dig? It looks as though base-ball and foot-ball had retired from the scene of action. This is the largest term in the history of the present management of the Commercial College. Rev. Charles Munger, of Old Orchard, preached a very forcible sermon, Sunday, September 13th. N. S. Basset, assistant professor of Greek at Colby, was the guest of Professor Caldwell a few days recently. The halls are very quiet, this term. The word “demerit” strikes terror to the heart of a Sampson Hall inmate. Miss Clara Cushman, a missionary to China, expects to pass through this place about the middle of next month, on her way to Bucksport. The sidewalk presents a deserted appearance during the noon recreation hour. Socializing does not seem to be the pastime that it once was. Rings or spoons, which shall it bo ? “ I looked at John. John looked at mo.” Monday night. Scene: Sociable on Bearce Hall steps. Bell rang once ; President appeared ; sociable disappeared; ladies exit right, gents left. We were pleased to see the genial counte­ nance of our former steward, Mr. Pierce, for a short period, one day, recently. Mr. Pierce is still at his home in Monmouth. The Juniors have met and elected the follow­ ing officers: President, W. G. Stickney ; VicePresident, Clara D. Merriman ; Secretary, Lillian Wilcox; Treasurer, S. A. Norton. The Calliopean Society will hold their publicmeeting Friday evening, October 30th; the Adelphian Society, Friday evening, November 6th; the Literati Society, Friday evening, November 13th. Professor Caldwell (to student in analysis) — “ What will you be when you graduate from this school?” Mr. D.—“I shall be an alumna." Professor (to Miss L.)—“Is that correct?” Miss L.—“No; he will be an alumni." Evi­ dently she would have him be a host in himself. The position our best business colleges are tak­ ing against the old method of increasing their attendance by agreeing to find places for all their graduates is indeed praiseworthy. No school can honestly do this, and business men in want of help are slow to apply to a school that has entered into such a compact with its stu­ dents. The annual report made to- the trustees last Commencement showed a gain over the previous year of 33} per cent, in the number of different students. This is very gratifying from the fact that students are beginning to see that not only business men but everybody ought to know how to write a plain hand, to open and close a set of books, to reckon accurately and rapidly, to avoid litigation through a thorough knowledge of commercial law. We have been pleased to receive visits, although brief, from the following former stu­ dents : Messrs. L. R. Gibbs, F. E. Russel, C. H. Tilton, A. E. Nickerson, J. H. Underwood, Dutton, J. O. Newton, W. C. Akers, W. C. �THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. Perry, A. H. Greene, Chester Sturtevant, Mr. Miner, and Misses Fannie and Addie Hoyt, Carrie Miller, Edna Wellington, Lena Adams, Ellen Wilson, and Winnifred Stone. We were also glad to see A. L. Lyford, who formerly had charge of the Commercial Department. It was in the Anabasis class. Professor Trefethen closed his lecture with these words: “Now, boys, if you ever find the article with the word Raurdeus 1 will treat.” In the Anabasis class, a few days later, Puffer’s hand went up and Professor said, “Well, Mr. Puffer.” Mr. Puffer said, “Didn’t you say that you would treat us if we ever found the article with “ Well, here it is,” said Rankin;?” “ Yes.” Puffer, and sure enough he had found it and Professor Trefethen was sold for the first time. He treatedffj. The sociable given by the Ladies’ Circle and Missionary Society, September 16th, was a very pleasant affair. Miss Vail gave a solo, with guitar accompaniment by Misses Eastman, A. and L,, which was pleasing to all. Later Miss Stone presented familiar volumes from the library. The titles of the books were personified by students and were guessed by representatives from the Senior, Junior, and under classes. Some of the volumes presented showed ingenuity on the part of the one who thought of them, and true Yankee spirit in the one guessing. When accounts were balanced it was found that Mr. Swett, one of the Senior representatives, had won. His prize, “Paradise Lost,” (pair of dice lost), will be a very suggestive souvenir. The Seniors then took the opportunity of introducing their new yell: Willi-ga Walla-ga Wolla-ga Woo, Willi-ga Walla-ga Wolla-ga Woo, ’Rah! ’Rah! Kent’s Hill, Kent’s Hill, ’Ninety-two. When so much is being said about souvenir spoons, one would naturally ask where they were first seen. The idea originated in Europe, but to an unknown jeweler in Salem, Mass., belongs the credit of having made the first one iu this country. Knowing that his town and witchcraft were closely linked together in Puritanic days, he stamped a witch, broom, high hat, and all, upon the handle of his spoon; and just below the figure of the witch were three crossed pins, the “ pins of torment.” Shortly after this a New York jeweler got out a spoon with a little 9 statuette of Peter Stuyvesant, wooden leg and all, upon the handle. This idea spread to other towns and now there are over 500 different designs sold, and new ones coming out every week. Kent’s Hill is not without her souvenir spoon, for Mr. McNear has made a very unique little spoon, with Bearce Hall engraved on the handle. Those wishing a souvenir of Kent’s Hill will find this just the thing. See advertise­ ment for particulars. At chapel, September 21st, President made a speech that would have done credit to TFe&ster. The subject was: What day should be Holden as a holiday? At once motions were given at Goodspeed and Wednesday afternoon decided upon. In the morning Fogg gave signs of a Poor day, but the Keen sun soon Pierced the mist. Mr. Cunningham was obliged to Cram, as Jfoor room was wanted in his team. All went well and the students arrived at the fair ground without Hastings, where the Kent’s Hill yell was given. Then they proceed to enjoy themselves. At one of the stalls was a fine Flora of wax flowers, some Ruby ones placed LuceXy among Green leaves, looked fine. Many students availed themselves of so fine an opportunity for purchasing. Next they Dodged into the grand stand and beheld the horses fastened into all sorts of Crafts. Belles were numerous, since it was hard Pullen under the wire at the same time. As the shades of twilight gathered, they started for the Hill, the least 117u’t tired, where they arrived before the doors were Locked without the aid of a Smith. It is quite a common occurrence for members of our Faculty to spend vacation time in doing special work in their departments. This summer Miss Davis and Miss Stone attended the Martha’s Vineyard Summer Institute, the oldest and largest of the numerous summer schools now in existence. Miss Davis took not only the advanced class work but private lessons also in both French and German. She speaks in highest terms of her teachers, who were from the Berlitz School; and Miss Stone says that the professors used just the same terms in speaking of Miss Davis’s work. Miss Stone took the course in Methods. She says that she was pleasantly dis­ appointed with the work and that it was thoroughly enjoyable and of much practical value. Ou leaving the summer school, Miss Stone went directly to Fryeburg, Me., where she �10 THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. had an opportunity to put many of her new ideas into practice, as she had charge of the Sunday-School Department at the Chautauqua Assembly held there. Her lectures and illustra­ tive lessons continued through the assembly, and were, we are glad to say, remarkably successful. HI u m n i. [Any Information concerning former members of the school will be gratefully received by the Editor, and any errors will be gladly rectilled ] ’67.—Mrs. George E. Clarke (Carrie Straw) resides in Algona, Iowa, Box 13. ’72.—E. P. Wing is practicing medicine in Lynn, Mass. Non-grad. ’72.—James W. Higgins is pastor of South Street. Non-grad. ’72.—L. W. Staples is pastor of St. Paul’s M. E. Church, Lynn, Mass. This is one of the oldest and largest churches in the city. Resi­ dence 249 Chatham Street. Non-grad. ’73.—Edward P. Coffin is a lawyer in Skow­ hegan, Me. ’74.—Emily S. Hathorn is the wife of Rev. L. W. Staples, Lynn, Mass. ’75.—Joseph H. Tompson is now pastor of the M. E. Church at Wakefield, Mass. ’76.—Ellie J. Hathorn is the wife of lawyer J. H. Holman, Athens, Me. Non-grad. ’76.—Chas. A. Littlefield is pastor of the Asbury M. E. Church, Springfield, Mass. Nongrad. ’76.—Norman Rideout is a banker in Mays­ ville, Cal. ’79.—p. E. Luce, M.D., is practicing at Bel­ fast, Me. ’79.—Sybil E. Abbott is now residing in Cazenovia, New York. ’80.—Nellie F. Murphy is now the wife of E. L. White, Lynn, Mass. ’81.—Ernest L. White is doing a successful Life Insurance business in Lynn. Non-grad. ’81.—Evans A. Carleton is studying law with his brother at Winthrop, Me. ’81.—Miss Jennie P. Flood and Capt. W. R. Kreger were united in marriage at Benton, Me., Sept. 23, 1891. Captain Kreger, who is one of the ablest captains on the New England coast, is to command the fine new schooner “Sarah C. Ropes,” just built and launched at Bath, Maine, and belonging to the fleet of E. S. Crosby of that city. The newly married couple will leave Maine as soon as the vessel is ready for sea. We extend congratulations. ’83.—Winnie F. Dutton is at her home in New Sharon, Me. ’84.—Mattie II. Russell returns for the third year to Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina, Kan., as teacher of modern languages. Miss Russell passed most of the summer vacation with relatives in New England, spending three weeks at the “ Martha’s Vineyard Summer Insti­ tute” in the study of French and German. ’85.—Irving M. Luce is principal of the High School at Liberty, Me. ’86.—W. E. Morse is principal of the High r School at Giklersleeve, Ct. Mr. Morse taught in a similar position last year at Shrewsbury, Mass., with the best of success, and during the summer vacation took the course in methods at the “ Martha’s Vineyard Summer Institute.” ’86.—Ada M.Furnel is teachingat Bucksport. ’87.—Mildred Whittemore is teaching in the Hallowell High School. ’88.—J. Freeman Jenness is in the University of the Pacific, California. ’87, ’88, and ’89.—Kent’s Hill has reason to be proud of the record some of her graduates are making in Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. During the past year C. C. Stevens, ’91, L. R. Gibbs, '92, W. C. Akers, ’93, and L. B. Jones, ’93, have been awarded prizes for excel­ lence in general scholarship. L. R. Gibbs was also the successful contestant for a prize given on a competitive examination in psychology, and L. J. Norton, ’93, received the prize for excellence in Sophomore mathematics. ’88.—Mr. S. L. White and wife (Stella M. King), of Caribou, are being congratulated on the birth of a daughter. ’88.—Winnifred P. Stone, who has taught very acceptably at Bridgton Academy for three years, is now filling the position of teacher of mathematics in the High School at Quincy, Mass. ’88.—Belle E. Greely is now teaching in Marysville, Cal. ’89.—Addie Denning and Bernice Grant are teaching in the Freeport High School. '89.—A. L. Westcott spent the summer vaca­ tion at his home in White Rock. He expects to finish his course at Boston University this year. ’87 and ’89.—The following is a clipping from the Braintree Observer: “ The young pas- J �THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. tor, Rev. George A. Sisson, of the M. E. Church, i South Braintree, was married at Westbrook, Me., : Thursday, July 30th, to Alice H. Foster, daugh- | ter of Mr. T. J. Foster of that town. The cere- j mony took place at the residence of the bride’s 1 parents, and was performed by Rev. A. W. i Pottle. Immediately after the ceremony a wed- ! ding breakfast was served and the newly married couple, after having received the congratulations i of friends, left on a trip to the White Mountains. , Wednesday evening, arrangements having been I perfected by the ladies connected with the church, ; a grand reception was given Mr. and Mrs. Sisson, -on their arrival at the parsonage, on Summer Street, South Braintree. The occasion being re­ garded as an auspicious event in the history of the church, the building was completely crowded with members and adherents, eager to extend a ' warm and heartfelt welcome to their young pas­ tor and his young and estimable wife.” ’91.—Herbert L. Nichols is in the theological department of Boston University. ’91.—F. Howard Pember has entered Tufts College, to take the course in electricity. ’91.—John A. Ford is in Bowdoin College. ’91.—Bert Searls and George Lapham have ’ entered Wesleyan University. ' ’91.—Willis E. Goodspeed is ticket agent for the Kennebec Central R. R. at Togus, Me. ’91.—Winnifred Miles is at her home iu Lis­ bon, teaching in the high school. ’91.—Grace M. Wyman is teaching the High School at Machias, Me. ’91.—Nettie A. Brown is teaching the High School at Clinton, Me. ’91.—Effie M. Kempton is at her home iu Turner, Me. ’91.—Mae E. Palmer is at her home in Saco, Me. ’91.—Addie W. Packard is at her home in Manchester. ’91.—Evie M. Hanson has been giving les­ sons in art, at her home, iu Hiram. ’91.—Carrie E. Miller is in the office of the Maine Benefit Association, Auburn, Me. ’91.—Addie W. Packard is in Manchester. No doubt all will be pleased to hear of the marriage of Rev. Horace L. Crockett and Miss Abbie Lord, both former students here. The event took place July 21st. We wish them the best of success. 11 P crso nal. Wm. H. Newell, who was here, 1873—74, is now mayor of Lewiston, Me. S. C. Caldwell, who was here about 1850, is now editor of the A”eic Tort Weekly Tribune. Mrs. Dr. Kelso (Annie Caldwell) is a verysuccessful physician at Bloomington. Ill. C. O. Stickney is shipping clerk for the Maine and New Hampshire Granite Company, Redstone, N. H. Elmer E. Spofford is in trade at Green’s Landing. H. Leeman Butler is in business at Mt. Vernon. Miss Nellie L. Butler is now at her homo in Mt. Vernon. Arthur C. Paul is head clerk in a drug store in Boston, Mass. Clarence Wescott is at his home in White Rock. Rev. C. Edson Owen, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Gardiner, Me., made us a call this term. Frank G. Butler, who has recently returned from Europe, is in the jewelry business in Bos­ ton, Mass. Herbert L. Hunton is a lawyer at Oakland. John E. Beau is at his home in Jit. Vernon. Dr. S. H. Chase is a dentist at Livermore Centre. Orrin A. Tuell is a member of the law firm of Heath & Tuell, Augusta, Me. W. Annie and A. Blanche Wilson are at their home in Leonardville, Deer Isle, N. B. Frank E. Nickerson is at Bangor, Me. Fred M. Barrows has a situation as weigher and book-keeper in a grain mill at Delano, Minn. Z. B. Rawson is a lawyer at Seattle, Wash. Percy S. Knowlton is editor of the Deer Isle Gazette, Green’s Lauding, Me. Dr. Hermon W. Small is supervisor of schools at Deer Isle, Me. G. M. Warren is a lawyer at Castine, Me. D. B. Hobart is living at Madison, Me. Will Hobart is in the real estate business, Minneapolis, Minn. Wallace Cushing is a drummer and makes his home in Boston, Mass. C. E. Jones, who spent a large part of the summer with B. Woodside, has returned to his charge at Maryland Ridge, Me. �12 THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. Samuel F. Davis is now living at South Paris, Maine. Wallace Marble is running a store at Harmony, Me. W. W. Cochrane is at Potter’s Valley, Cal. Charles Hunt is in the office of the superin­ tendent of schools, Augusta, Me. Mrs. Eva (Dowen) Grindell resides at Cor­ inna, Me. Mary H. A. Thompson is teaching at Dexter, Maine. Benjamin Woodside is at his home in Bath. Mr. Will Baker and his sister, Miss May Baker, who were here in 1884, were at the Martha’s Vineyard Summer Institute this year. Mr. Baker has been for the past two years prin­ cipal of the Grafton High School. His sister is teaching in Attleboro’, Mass. Wilmot P. Lord preached this summer at Ogunquit, but is now in Bath. H. J. Noble is canvassing in Rockland, and W. H. Kcnnison in Union. Miss Fleda M. Pillsbury spent the summer vacation at Scarboro. Emma Hinkley is at her home in Bowdoin­ ham, Me. ’92.—Lillian French spent the summer at Sorrento, but expects to teach this fall. ’92.—May Small is at her home in Bowdoin­ ham, Me. Sadie Hawes is at her home in Readfield. Miss Annie Johnson is teaching at Cape Elizabeth. S. Evelina Smith, ’92, is at her home in Brunswick. Edith M. Foss, ’92, is teaching at Mt. Vernon. Harry E. Stetson, ’93, is at his home in Limestone. Ralph W. Bickford and George M. McGaffey are working at Bar Harbor. Ralph L. Norton is in Coburn Classical In­ stitute. Harry W. Saunders is at Lancaster, Mass. Edward S. A. Crockett is at his home, 1 Deme Street, Boston, Mass. John C. Pierce is assistant secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Sioux City, Iowa. N. B. Woodsum is at his home in West Peru, teaching a free high school. Eva M. Richardscn is at her home in South Paris, Me. Lillian L. Carr is at Farmington, Me. George E. Clark is book-keeper for Ranger,Stevens & Co., Farmington, Me. Linda Graves enters Colby College this fall. Lenora Whittier spent the summer at Rangeley, Me. Bert Cobb is working in Arthur Peaslie’s grocery store, Gardiner, Me. Charles W. Whitney, who was one of the participants in Dr. Torsey famous chaise ride, is at the Soldiers’ Home, Togus, Me. Mr. Fred M. Kimball, who graduated from the Commercial last spring, was drowned in Lake Maranocook during the summer vacation. He was a very worthy young man, and his lossin greatly lamented. As we turn the leaves of our numerousexchanges much pleasant and useful reading presents itself. Lack of space will forbid lengthy discussions of its merits and demerits. The Cadet contains a very interesting articleon “ Manuel Training in Education.” The May number of the Cony Student fur­ nishes a number of interesting articles, the most noticeable of which is entitled '••Maine Colleges for Maine Students.” The following is a bill handed in by the repairer of the Cathedral of Milan in 1763, clipped from one of our exchanges: Correcting the ten commandments, Embellishing Pontius Pilate and putting new ribbon on his bonnet, Replumed and gilded the left wing of the guar­ dian angel, Washed the Servant of the High Priest and put carmine on his cheek, Adjusted two stars and cleaned the moon, Put a new tail on the devil and mended his loft hoof, Re-bordered the robe of Herod and adjusted his wing, Put new stones in David’s sling, enlarged the head of Goliath, and extended his legs, Decorated Noah’s Ark, Mended the shirt of the Prodigal Son and cleaned his ears, Total, 85.153.02. 4.18 5.12 7.15. 7.17 4.00 3.00 3.00 4.00 845.79 The Academian comes to us with several. excellent articles. We are always glad to hear from our Western friends. �THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. DOSTON UNIVERSITY Wesleyan University National and International Growth. Middletown, Conn. Tho past year bearers of university degrees from eighty-three American and Foreign universities, col­ leges, and professional schools have pursued professional and other advanced studies in Boston University. Its 1020 matriculants came from twenty-one Foreign, and from thirty-seven American States and Ter­ ritories. To students of literature, philosophy, science, law, medicine, theology, cosmopolitan Boston offers many advantages found in no other city. The University has 116 Professors and Lecturers. For free circulars and information respecting the Free Scholarships address the Registrar, 12 Somerset Street, Boston, Mass. 'T'HREE Undergraduate Courses of Study—Classical, Latin-Scientific, and Scientific. The work of the last two years is largely elective. Post-graduate courses in various departments of Literature and Science. The Astronomical Observatory, the Physical, Chemical, and Biological Laboratories, and the Museum of Natural His­ tory afford ample facilities for instruction. The Library numbers about 37,000 volumes. Free tuition in the case of worthy students who need pecuniary assistance. Twelve competitive Scholarships, varying in amount from 550 to $155, annually awarded in each class. Room rent in the college buildings from S12 to $3G per year. Board iu clubs from $3.50 to S3.50 per week. Ladies admitted to equal privileges with gentlemen. Board and lodging provided for the ladies, iu a house close to the college grounds, under supervision of a com­ petent matron. Examination for admission, commencing at V A.M., Thursday, Juno 25th, and Wednesday, September Itith. For further information, address pq- JEWETT, DEALER IN FINE GROCERIES, Rev. B. P. RAYMOND, President. Flour of All Grades, Confectionery. HAIR DRESSING AND BARBERING PROMPTLY AT­ TENDED TO. Kent’s Hill, Maine. ®OLBY {UNIVERSITY, Co-ordinate Colleges for Young Men Young Women, WATERVILLE, MAINE. All varieties of Commercial and Blank PRINTING, Programmes, etc.. Visiting Cards, Printed Letter Heads, Envelopes, etc., by Mail, at VERY LOW PRICES. Samples, prices, and estimates cheerfully furnished. NEWELL WHITE, Printer, SEARSPORT, ME. ENT’S HILL LAUNDRY. Laundered and Plain Work neatly and promptly done. PRICES VERY REASONABLE. ROBT. TRIPP, Proprietor. r~pHE Seventy-Second year begins September 23, 18*J1. I Two prizes aro offered to the class entering at that time; one prize of fifty dollars, and a second prize of twenty-five dollars, for excellence iu preparation for college. The income from nearly 5100,000 of Scholarship funds is annually distributed to students requiring pecuniary aid. The regular classical course of New England colleges is varied, after the second year, by special elective studies. The department of Chemistry, Physics, and Natural Sci­ ence aro all equipped with apparatus and cabinets. Tile observatory is in charge of a practical astronomer. Regular training is given in the Gymnasium, which has been recently supplied with over 51200 worth of the most approved apparatus. Additions are constantly being made to the Library, which now contains 23,000 volumes ami 10,000 pamphlets, catalogued and classified, so as to bo most helpful to tho student. •< For requirements for admission, catalogues, and in­ formation regarding scholarships, address ALBION W. SMALL, Ph.D., PRESIDENT. �THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. r , f ■ * (■ , <,?■>. ■ oooooooooooooo ooo 11 : iimi:;i;i;!:;i.'uViiLi;rb!JHnim!insimiinuimii!irji:!!iiuiiiiuii:i!iinii!iuinain^ OF /\LL KIJWS Executed tuith neatness and dispatch, in the highest style of the art, and at moderate prices, at the office of the Lewiston-Journal. |b waiuMMIaHHatUiawiawHaUiiaMianwa>ni«m>auaa>n>Bnuai>ua'mauneiHiai«uB<>ua»nai<uaii>ia<a>ainraiuiannBNiiai»>Biinan.>e»naima>>ueiu<a<H>annaiui8n*iam>airaaii>'a>iiia*»iaHiiaiuiai<iir 1 3 ------------ —<e- laiHiaimauiiauiiauuanuauiiaiuiauiiaiiiiaiiiiaiiuatiiiaiiiiaiiiiaiiiiaiKiauiiaiiiiaiifiaitiiainiiunaiiiiaiiiiBiii WE MAKE A ---------‘SUCH AS »■■ ■ t . o o O - Programmes. Catalogues. Addresses. o)g<o (a oXJ Sermons. Town Reports. Etc.. Etc. 0X3 Don’t send out of the State for Printing, for we guarantee to give satisfaction. ooooooooooo A L SPECIALTY OF irst-Glass Book ar\d College Prirdirxg, I I I O V oo o �THE KENT'S HILL BREEZE. Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College. GENERAL ADVANTAGES. Buildings and Gitot nds.—The buildings are A COLLEGE among the finest, and the grounds extensive and For women. It was chartered as a college in I860, attractive. Hampson Hull is a well-appointed board­ and confers the degrees of A.B. and A.M., in course, ing-house, with rooms light anti pleasant, furnished ; with spring-beds, and accommodating one hundred upon its graduates. : and twenty-five boarders. Teachers and steward sit ■ at the same tables with students. About one-third of A FITTING SCHOOL ; the students usually board in this hall, lharcc Hall For any college. ; is a large and elegant seminary, containing recitation The course is designed to cover the maximum i rooms, laboratories, library, reading-room, chapel, requirement for admission to any college; students art rooms, society halls, etc. Methin Hall, which who^wrqllire Jess than that amount will find classes also stands upon the campus, is a beautiful home for 'Adapted to their needs. Students are also prepared the President. The value of buildings and grounds for Professional, Scientific, or Technical Schools. is about §107,0011. Endowment.—The invested funds of the institu­ A SEMINARY tion amount to about §120,001), and more will soon Of high grade. It has physical, chemical, and biolog­ i become available. The income from this source is ical laboratories for practical work in these sciences. j about six thousand dollars annually. That is to say, It is well supplied with philosophical apparatus and students have given them each year, in the way of cabinets. It affords the best advantages for the instruction, about six thousand dollars, besides the study of French and German. Metaphysics, Political use of buildings, grounds, and equipments. Library and Reading-Room.—The Library con­ Science, and Elocution also receive careful attention. tains about six thousand bound volumes, and is sufficiently endowed to insure a uniform and healthy A NORMAL SCHOOL. growth. Its contents are selected and arranged with o o Training classes for teachers are formed each i a special view to the needs of students and teachers. term, and are opeu to any students who are qualified J The Reading-Room is well appointed and supplies to enter them. The village school is used as a i the papers and periodicals of the day. “ model school ’ for observation and practice. Ibis SSocieties ocieties.— .—There There are are three three literarv literarysocieties, the department is in charge of a Normal graduate. ' c.llli(>peau and tlw Lit(.rati for gentlemen, and the • Adelphian for ladies. Each society hold- a private A CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, meeting on Friday evenings, and one public meeting each term. Each occupies a beautiful ami elegantlyWith a variety of full musical courses. Piano, organ, furnished hall, of which it has exclusive possession violin, cornet, voice, harmony, and tuning are all taught. The Conservatory is furnished with new and control. Variety of Work.—It will be noticed, from what pianos and a double-bank organ with pedals. A Phil­ follows, that a great variety of work is done. This harmonic Club and chorus classes are formed every • affords wide opportunity lor selection, while at the term. same lime contact with those of different tastes ami AN ART SCHOOL. pursuits is favorable to symmetry of development. A four' years’ course in Fine Art has been estab­ EXPENSES lished, and the most approved methods introduced. ; The institution was founded by benevolent men, The department occupies four rooms, and is well : ,, , . supplied with easts and studies. Perspective and to enab,e younS s,nal1 nK‘a,,s ,o t’b,:“" an education; ami it has never lost sight of that linear drawing, crayoning, pen-and-ink, modeling, object. Ils extensive appliances and large endow ment water color, and oil painting are taught. .... j enable it to iurmsh a high grade oi instruction at a I comparativelv low cost. While students of means A COMMERCIAL COLLEGE , ,to expend. more liberally, ... ,, ..those ol find.1 opportunity Was organized in 1884, and has proved a valua- limited resources tire able to live economically, ble auxiliary. The usual commercial branches are Boarding in clubs, self-boarding, and self-help make taught, together with Business Practice, Short-Hand, it possible to reduce expenses to a lower figure than and Type-Writing. Students may devote their time ; would be favorable to health and progress. .V>< / wholly or in part to this department, and are entitled person of fact and < if rgi/, it ma;/ safely I • '.‘id, need to all the privileges of the seminary. I fail of an education through lack of nuan.>. This institution is u �THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE. | piNE JOB PRINTING *fvrnw Jlvrai) U ft(3. ----- AT THE----- I Teleffrapliy, Book-keep- ' Banking, PenmanHsliip, Correspondence, y))j //Arithmetic, <&c. Young men and women taught to earn —a living and given a thorough ; :><^preparntion ‘paration io for honorable posilort. reasonable. Timo short. Dr^ZXtions. Terms re * Businessmen supplied died ll^Xlnstruction thorough, assistants on short notice. No k'with competent — ------------------catacharge for situations5 furnished. Address for cati logue, Eastman College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. | .V,. ; f/N !; vy ’ i>r<l I> : I WATERVILLE .MAIL ©FF1GE. Fine Printing of all kinds. STUDENTS! COLLEGE AND PAMPHLET PRINTING A SPECIALTY. ---- GO TO------ R. MCDONALD’S Fine New Presses and a Large Lot of New Job Type. — FOR — Best Quality of Tailoring AND ALL KINDS OF GENTS’ FURNISHINGS, At Prices Lower than at any other Tailor’s in the State. READFIELD CORNER, HO! ALL KENT’S HILL STUDENTS. I MANUFACTURE THE Kent’s Hill Souvenir Spoon And have on sale at my store two beautiful designs. Orange Spoon I sell at $2.50, and the Coffee at $1.25. Both have a Beautiful Engraving of Bearce Hall on the handle. Will send them to any address for the above-named price with the cost of registering added. SAMUEL McNEAR, Kent’s Hill, Me. Boston, New York, Chicago, Chattanooga, and Los Angeles TEACHERS’ AGENCIES Waterville, Me. ^^ORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, WORCESTER. MASS. A Polytechnic School, educates Mechanical Engineers, Civil Engineers, Chemists, Electricians. Designers, Draughtsmen, Teachers, etc. For Catalogue apply to IL T. FULLER, PRESIDENT. MAINE. r The WING & WING, E. CLARK Has recently opened A NEW STOCK OF GOODS, Consisting of GROCERIES, FLOUR, FEED AND COUNTRY PRODUCE, Confectionery, Canned Goods, BOOTS, SHOES, AND RUBBERS, KENT’S HILL, ME. URTIS & ROSS, ■r . + PbjotoQraptisrs EVERETT 0. FISK & CO., Corner Lisbon and Ash Streets, LEWISTON, MAINE. PROPRIETORS. EVERYTHING IN ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY: 7 Tremont Place, Boston; 6 Clinton Place, NEW Tonic; 106 Wabash Avenue, Chicago; 4«i Richardson Block, Ciiat. tanooga; 120} South Spring st., Los Angeles. 100 Page Agency Manual Free to Any Address. Crayons, Pastels, Inks, and Water Colors. We Make a Specialty of CLASS WORK, doing a greater amount of business hi this Uno than any other studio hi the State. He arealways pleased t.> see visitors, and Invite you to examine our work. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Breeze Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Breeze. October 1891 https://archives.kentshill.org/files/original/16/89/TheBreeze_Oct.1901_.pdf 2d6f9d83c5a305a0ca63b8fbf41d0e4d PDF Text Text I w I II £ fI T.‘. - A . ■ . A A A'?/ ' . ,-c’j . ' . ■ '■ A ■ - ■ '? ■' i A; ■ - ! - '--■A A".2 !: ■ ■ 'A ' A. Ax Bv < A' ■ ' lA.-A? !i I ''' h 'A- •' A'A'A■" u ■■■■ 8A S'‘\ W ! . ; AA AA A 'v/ \\ A/' '■a'- Ii'-': ■'2 •< - < ■ r-- A aA-, ..■■•■ A' . ( '■> -;A ; fAc AA;;/;' t? ■ ■■ 1 x-Lf-Av-. - A *1 ’■ -I---- \ ... s.-.t A-? A' r £ .- i . ■ ■ I a ■ S ■ J ; J - ■ i ' >' 1 ■: .A | i i,- ' \>A X £ ' A_.,J X V I I ! ’ • . j V, . a a w■ .J ■-y'y .• October, 1901, �Flagg & Plummer, Leading Photographers, Are now in their new studio, LEWISTON JOURNAL BUILDING, and are better prepared to do everything in the line of Photography than ever. Our rooms have been furnished new throughout with the best, making it a studio that will compare with any in New England. Everything is new. We will make a specialty of College and School Work, as in the past, and can assure better satisfaction than ever. We have the most IMPROVED ELEVATOR SERVICE. SEE Our New Life-Size Royal Bromides. SEE The Latest in Water Colors. SEE Our Bromide Enlargements from 4x5 Negatives. SEE Our New Rooms, whether you want Photos or not, it will do you good. Picture Frames Made to Order. We shall carry a larger stock of PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS FOR THE AMATEUR than ever. Remember the place, The New Journal Building. For Superior Work try the Globe Steam Laundry, 26 and 32 Temple Street, PORTLAND, MAINE. Higgins & Campbell, Agents, Kent’s Hill. �Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College. BOARD OF INSTRUCTION. Henry Emerson Trefethen, A. M., President, Eliphalet Clark Professor of Philosophy and Social Science. Frances Ann Davis, A. M., Preceptress, French and German. John Orville Newton, A. B., Henry P. Torsey Professor of Natural Science. Mary Amanda Muzzy, A. B., Greek and History. Albin Charles Russell, A. M., Mathematics and History. Arthur Huntington Nason, A. B., R. B. Dunn Professor of Normal Instruction and English. Albert Irving Oliver, A. M., Stephen Allen Professor of Latin. Wilson Fay Morse, Mus. Doc., Director of Conservatory of Music, Science of Voice Culture and Art of Singing. Mrs. Ella Deuel Morse, Mus. M., Piano, Organ, and Theory. Elmer Ellsworth Peacock, Commercial Department. Lucy Catherine Chapin, P. B., Art Department. Harriet May Piper, Oratory and Physical Culture. Lewis Henry McKenney, Steward and Assistant Treasurer. �O’NEILL’S 6th Ave., 20th to 21st St., New York. Ha Uiba Straight pront Corsets The best product of American Skill, Surpassing in Wearing Qualities and Fit, and equalling in Finish the Best Imported Gored Corset sold in New York, and 50 per cent. Cheaper in Price. They are Strictly Hand-made, French Gored, Bias Cut, and all Whalebone, and we guarantee every pair to give entire satisfaction, both as to fit and wearing qualities. The University of Maine. A Public Institution Ma-intained by the United States and the State. The Undergraduate Courses are: Classical, Latin Scientific» Scientific. Chemical, Agricultural, Preparatory Medical, Civil, Me­ chanical and Electrical Engineering, Pharmacy, (4 years), Pharmacy (2 years), short and special Courses in Agriculture. Expenses are very low. The tuition charge for these courses is §30. Loans cover­ ing tuition are provided for needy students. Rooms in the dormitory are free. A new dormitory is provided for women. Military drill is required of men students. The school of Law is located at Ban­ gor, and maintains a course of three years. The tuition charge is §60 a year. The diploma fee is the only other charge. For illus­ trated catalogue and circulars, address A. W. HARRIS, President, Orono, Maine. �G. W. CROSBY, KENT’S HILL, General Merchandise, And Student’s Supplies at the JEWETT STORE. Gymnasium Supplies, Base Ball Uniforms, Field Day Outfit tings, Etc. Class Caps, Jerseys, Sweaters, Spike Running Shoes, Tennis Rackets, Nets, Tether Ball Supplies, etc. /Horace Partridge St Co., 84 Franklin Street, - BOSTON, MASS. DOANE CANDAGE, Agent, at M. W. S. & F. C. C. P. ROWELL, Jeweler and Optician, All work neatly and quickly done and returned. WINTHROF 3, G. IVIAir-'JEZ- W. BA TES, D. D. S., OFFICE, WINTHROP, BANK - BLOCK, - MAINE. 4 �Ube IRent’s Ibill jBteege. Vol. XA. October, Mo. 2. JEbftorfal JBoarb. artbur tbun ting ton mason, a. E., II. B. Dunn Professor of Xornial Instruction and English, Ebitor«ln«Cbicf. XouiBC SturOivant Cbasc, College, ’o2. ttobert aicxanbcr Cone, Seminary, ’o3. Ebitb mas alien, Seminars, ’o2. Ifrcbcric alien SbcpbcrO, Seminars, ’o3. Venncssa morrtll Brown, a. B., College, ’99. aoelaibc Denning IRcwton, a. ID., College, ’89. Elmer Ellsworth peacock, Principal of the Business College, Business manager. tRoscoc tbiram ttemtek, Scm., ’03; BenjaminXUclIington Errant, Sent., ’05; assistant Business managers. THE KENT’S HILL BREEZE la publiahed at Kent’a Hill, Maii\c, oi\ tl\e firat of each month during the achool year, by the atudetyta of the ?lai(\e Wealeyan Seminary and Female College, under the aupetviaion of the Faculty. The aubacription price ia fifty cciyta a year, ten centa a copy. Entered at The Kent’a Hill Poat-officc .secor\4-cla.3-3 (natter. A class consisting of the editors of the Breeze, and of all others interested, has been formed for the purpose of conducting the paper along the lines explained in the preceding issue. This class meets every Monday evening at seven o'clock for discussion of all parts of the editorial work, from the writing of the articles to the corx rection of the proof. The method is to take up a single phase 25 �of the work at each meeting, to discuss types illustrative of what is required, and to draw from them the principles to be followed. Work of the kind discussed is then assigned to each member of the class to prepare and pass in for the inspection of the Editor-in-Chief before the next meeting, It is hoped in this way to make the Breeze-work of material value to the students generally, by giving them full opportunity to develop their ability as writers and to receive practice in all branches of magazine work. —E, M, A., '02, The Breeze has received with much regret the resignation of the Assistant Business Manager, Mr, William Loren Libby, '03, who is prevented by illness from returning to the Hill, To the assistant managership thus made vacant, and to the additional assistant managership not before filled, appointments are announced herewith: Mr, Roscoe Hiram Remick of the class of 1903, and Mr, Benjamin Wellington Bryant of the class of 1905, ■^'V The Breeze takes this opportunity to acknowledge the art contributions in this number s the cover-design by Miss Jessie E, Baker, *02, the initial “A" by Miss Lois Trefethen, the head-piece for Athletics by Mr, Willard J, Rand, the head-piece for Music Notes by Mr, Russell F, Conklin, '05, all of whom are taking work in the Art School; and the sketches of Yoshizawa O Toku San by Mr, Joseph C, Chase, '98, now an art student in Brooklyn, N, Y, —A. H, N, 26 f ■ �"CaleS Of SOWOohl. Like a breath from the Whispers ing Pines comes the new cook or Bowcoin tales. The covers design, a glimpse through the pines with the twin towers of old King's chapel in the distance, outlined in bold relief against the background of a crimson sunset's glow, cannot but awaken a thousand memories in the mind of every Bowdoin man. If the book's exterior promises good things within, a casual glance at its mechanically perfect pages gives intimation, and a perusal of its contents, confirmation, of the abundant fulfillment of the promise. The stories are written for the most part by men who have achieved success in the world of letters and political life, and their narrations are of more than passing interest to the general reader. To the Bowdoin alunv nus, their interest must be absorbing, so faithfully and so well do the Tales reflect the Bowdoin life and the Bowdoin spirit, —F. A. S., '03. 27 ��UJosbigawa ® Uoku San. TOKU SAN, a young Japanese girl, spent the summer on the Hill with Miss Mattie Russell, who is well known in our school. Yoshizawa O Toku San, for that is her full name, was for eight years in the Aoyama Girls' School in Aoyama, Japan. After her course there, she came to Herkimer, N. Y„ for the kindergarten training which she expects to use in missionary work on her return to Japan. Though she has been in this country only a few months, she is well able to converse in our language and has made a good beginning in the study of music. One evening in August, she, with her teacher, Miss Russell, gave some interesting scenes from Japanese life and showed us a large number of curios. No one who met her could fail to be impressed by her marked intelligence and sweet courtesy i and she has aroused in us all a deeper interest in her country and her people. We hope her life may be full of happiness and success. —Louise Sturdivant Chase, '02. 29 �1 IM i "Si WJR.^S^ The foot/ball season is now fairly under way. There is great enthusiasm, and the season bids fair to be successful in every respect, A number of games have already been ar/ ranged, with the prospect that several more will be added to the list in the near future. Notable among these is the game with E, M, C, S„ October 12, An indication of the general interest felt in contests between these two schools is shown by the fact that one of the city dailies recently devoted considera/ ble space to a review of past contests and the prospects in the one about to take place, With this and the other games to be played, the enthusiasm should be kept at white heat, Carl Roberson Green has been elected Captain of the team and will undoubtedly prove the right man in the right place. He is well known in foot/ball circles, having been captain of the Coburn team of last year, which was probably the strong/ est team Coburn has had in years, Here's success to MrGreen and his team. —E. A, C., '03. 30 �4 This year has opened pleasantly in many respects, but the religious outlook Is encouraging above all else. Many of the new students are giving earnest help in the Christian work of the school, and the size of the Y. M. C, A, and Christian Endeavor far exceeds that of last year. The officers for these young people's orx ganizations are as follows t in the Y, M. C, A., George Everett Mansfield, '04, Union, is President; Herbert Clinton Ayer, '02, South Paris, Vice President | Isaiah Scott Voter, '02, North Anson, Secretary ; Henry Howard Richardson, '03, West Scarboro, Treasurer, The Christian Endeavor officers are i President, Sarah Willis Russell, College, '04, Nor^ wood, Mass.) Vice President, Marion Turner Bishop, '02, Leeds i Secretary, Evelyn Alice Holman, '03, Athens i Treasurer, Waitie Carruth Butler, '03, Warren, it 31 �The first meetings of the literary societies were held in their respective halls, Friday Evening, September sixth, and the following officers for the term elected; Calliopean, President, Edmund Melvin Campbell, '02, Kent's Hill ; Vice President, George Llewellyn Pressey, '03, Rockport; Secretary, Herbert Clinton Ayer, '02, South Paris ■, Treasurer, Ralph Foster, '04; Adelphian; President, Harriet Bessie Spaulding, '02, North Anson; Vice President, Winniefred Julia Albee, '02, Manches^ ter; Secretary, Sarah Willis Russell, College, '04, Norwood, Mass,; Treasurer, Mae Abbie Taylor, '04, Kent's Hill. Literati ; W, C, Doane Candage, '03, Seal Harbor; Vice Presx ident, Isaiah Scott Voter, '02, North Anson; Secretary, Robert Alexander Cony, '03, Augusta ; Treasurer, Olin Sewall Pettine gill, '03, Wayne, Eromathean; President, Maria Emery Morse, '02, Barre, Mass,; Vice President, Martha Praul Henry, '02, Readfield; Secretary, Marion Turner Bishop, '02, Leeds; Treasurer, Margaret Emerson Drisko, '02, Addison, The Alumnae of the Adelphian Society have recently made that society a gift which supplies a long^felt need. The glass set, bowl and cups, with the accompanying dishes and lamp, are very beautiful, and have already added much to the enjoyment of the society. Through the Breeze we return our thanks for these acceptable presents, —L. S. C., '02. The Eromathean Society is united in its wish to extend a vote of thanks to the Eromathean Alumnae for the useful present received from them. Signed in behalf of the society, —Marion T. Bishop, Sec. 32 �The reception tendered to the new students by the four literary societies, Friday evening, September sixth, was a very enjoyable affair. Immediately after the election of society officers, the students of the Seminary and College assembled in the gymnasium to welcome those for the first time in their midst and to enjoy a general good time. The four newly elected presidents received informally, and an order of five marches was then carried out. The new students were each in the care of some older student, and all thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Music of the usual high standard was furnished by Professor Morse, Mr. Pettingill, and the Misses Chase, Baker, and Reed, —S. W. R., '04. At a recent meeting of the Athletic Association, it was voted to so amend the constitution as to require that members of the base-ball and foot-ball teams shall play in three games instead of one before they can wear the much coveted “K. H." The officers of the association for the year are i President, Olin S, Pettingill, Wayne ; Vice President, Richard Allen, Columbia Falls; Secretary, Enoch C, Rollins, Round Lake, N, Y.j Treas­ urer and Manager, William C. Doane Candage, Seal Harbor; Assistant Manager, Frederic A. Shepherd, Rockland; Foot-ball Captain, Carl Roberson Green, Waterville; Student members of the Athletic Committee, Messrs. Candage, Shepherd, and Green, The Faculty members of the Athletic Committee are Professors Newton, Peacock, and Oliver. —R. A. C., '03. 33 �■ HlumnL J, Fred Merrill, a Kent's Hill alumnus, and ex/mayor of Rockland, Me., died of heart failure, July 20, 1901, Ex/73, W, O, Fuller, Jr„ of Rockland, has written a book of humorous sketches entitled "What Happened to Wigglesworth," The Dickermans of Boston are the publishers. The book is having a large sale, '88, Frank Russell is residing in Springfield, Mass, '00, R, C, Gleason is at his old home in Union for a short vacation. He is employed as assistant chemist by the Boston Woven Hose Co,, Boston, Mass, 'Oh Miss Agnes G, Emerson is teaching school at West Garland, '0L John E, Boultenhouse of South Portland has ma? triculatcd as a student at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn, '01, Ansel C, Denning enters Bowdoin College this fall, '01, Emery F, Hannaburgh, formerly Alumni editor of the Breeze, will enter Wesleyan the present year, '01, Miss Lettie Searles is employed in the First National Bank, Bar Harbor, '01, Russell E, Blaisdell is now at his home in Franklin, ,01, Milton C, Drisko is teaching in the Addison high school. An alumnus of whom Kent's Hill is justly proud is Sam/ uel Stickney (Harvard '01) who sailed from San Francisco Sept, 36 �12, for Manilla, where he will serve three years as one of the corps of teachers who will instruct the Fillipinos, Mr, Stickney entered Harvard in the fall of 1897. In his very first year at Cambridge he became very prominent in the life of the college. He was elected to office in the debating club of the freshman class, and was a member of his class base-ball team. His prestige secured for him a place as a member of Kappa Gamma Chi, In the succeeding years of his college course, Mr. Stickney devoted less time to athletics, but sports did not lose his active interest and aid. He was a member of the Harvard second nine. During his college course he gave the romance languages special attention, and was able to render valuable service to the authorities of the college when, in the summer of 1900, the Cuban teachers attended the Harvard Summer SchooL Now his special advanced studies will be of great value in his new field of labor, Mr, Stickney was business manager of the Harvard Illus^ trated Magazine, and made a complete success of that publican tion, Mr, Stickney's many friends congratulate him on his apx pointment and wish him the highest success in his work, —E A. S., '03. 37 �lErcbanges. MONG the exchanges we find sex lections in prose and verse that could not be mentioned except in words of praise. But as prose is not easilyquoted in this department, the space will be devoted to poetic selections, * I In the Wesleyan Lit. is found the following poem, entitled XTbe IPopagers. The waves roll long on the beach, And the foam leaps high on the shoal; The pines bend low and sigh Like the wail of a murdered soul. Now out through the surf runs the boat; Trim in on the sheet I make fasti Hark, how the wild gulls scream. We’re back to free life at last. Out through the white-capped waves, Scorning the danger there, With a shout of the wild, the free, Away from the land we bear. A crash—a leap of the foam, The good boat shivered, and we Go down to the soft white death, Still, still in the arms of the sea. s t I I 38 —Loren Palmer. * �I Here is a poem from the Harvard Illustrated Magazine that is very daintily conceivedi Gbe Sanbs of tbe Sea. The sands of the sea are many, love, And the waves of the sea are deep, And they toss the sand of the sea about, Hither and yon, and in and out, And they cut in twain the sedges stout That up through the waters creep. The sands of the sea are many, love, And the waves of the sea are deep, And I think with grief on the Now and Then, For never shall I come back again To peaceful lands and the towns of men, Though ever my sweet-heart weep. The sands of the sea are many, love, And a shroud for my last long sleep, For the doom of the ocean sweeps o’er me at last, And the clutch of the sea it hath caught me fast, But never my love for thee hath passed, Though the waves of the sea be deep. —R. T. Hale. *-v The Willia^ns, Lit seems to abound in good verse; take for example €be 'C&eirb ftousician. The pent-up might of the waves that roll At sea, or their fury in the fray Ashore, is music to the soul Whose joy of life hath fled away. 39 �i FINE JOB POINTING WATERVILLE MAIL OFFICE. Write to us for samples of Programmes and Folders of all kinds College and Pamphlet Printing a Specialty. Fine New Presses and a Large Lot of New Job Type. The Mail Publishing Co., WATERVILLE, MAINE. N. T. Worthley, Jr., Graduate of New York School of Optics. < ©ptical SpecialistPORTLAND, —===3^MAINE. 478 1-2 Congress Street, Has arranged to visit the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female Col­ lege, for one or two days in each term, for the purpose of examining the eyes of the students of this institution and prescr.bing glasses or advising proper treatment when the eyes are found to be defective. All examinations are free of charge. ' Exact date of next visit will be announced in chapel at an early date. Boston University Law School. Over 30 Instructors and 400 Students. Opens October 2, 1901. for Leaflet: “Where to Study Law.” SAMUEL C. BTDNTNTffiTT, DELAJNT. Send F. A. HANDY, - - SHOE DEALER., Everything in the Shoe Line furnished at short notice. Shoes Repaired while you wait. No trouble to show goods. READFIELD, - - MAINE. * �Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College. This institution is A COLLEGE For women. It was chartered as a college in 1SGO, and confers the degrees of A. B. and A. M., in course, upon its graduates. A PREPARATORY SCHOOL. For any College. The course is designed to cover the maximum requirement for ad­ mission to any college; students who require less than that amount will find classes adapted to their needs. Students are also prepared for Professional, Scientific, or Technical Schools. A SEMINARY Of high grade. It has physical, chemical and biological laboratories for practical work in these sciences. It is well supplied with philoso­ phical apparatus and cabinets. It affords the best advantages for the study of French and German. Metaphysics, Political Science, and Elocution also receive careful attention. A NORMAL SCHOOL. The technical work in Pedagogy embraces a thorough consider­ ation of School Management, the School Laws of Maine, Psychology as applied to general methods, methods of teaching special subjects, and the History of Education. A CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC With a variety of full musical courses. Piano, organ, violin, cornet, voice, harmony, and tuning are all taught. The eonservatorv is fur­ nished with new pianos and a double-bank organ with pedals. Au orchestra and chorus classes are formed every term. AN ART SCHOOL. A three years’ course in Fine Art has been established, and the most improved methods introduced. The department occupies four rooms and is well supplied with casts and studies. Perspective and linear drawing, crayoning, pen-and-ink, modeling, water color and oil painting are taught. A COMMERCIAL COLLEGE Was organized in 1884,,and has proved a valuable auxiliary. -----------r j. The usual commercial branches are taught, together with Business Prac­ tice, Short-hand and Typewriting. Students may devote their time wholly or in part to this department, and are entitled to all the privileges of the seminary. X1 1 1 ZX , »X XX <X M 4* *X — — —3 —x *x rfx ■ ■ xxx «X « �Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Female College. GENERAL ADVANTAGES. Buildings and Grounds.—The buildings are among the finest, and the grounds extensive and attractive. Sampson Hall is a well-ap­ pointed boarding-house, with rooms light and pleasant, and accom­ modating one hundred and twenty-five boarders. Bearce Hall is a large ana elegant seminary, containing recitation rooms, laboratories, reading-room, chapel, society halls, etc. Ricker Hall is an elegantly equipped structure, containing the gymnasium, library, art rooms, and the conservatory of music. Blethen Hall, which also stands upon the campus, is a beautiful home for the President. The value of the buildings and grounds is about §107,000. Endowment.—The invested funds of the institution amount to about 8120,000 and more will soon become available. The income from this source is about six thousand dollars annually. That is to say, students have given them each year, in the way of instruction, about six thousand dollars, besides the use of buildings, grounds, and equipments. Library and Reading Room.—The library contains over eight thousand bound volumes, and is sufficiently endowed to insure a uni­ form and healthy growth. Its contents are selected and arranged with a special view to the needs of students and teachers. The read­ ing-room is well-appointed and supplies the papers and periodicals of the day. Societies.—There are four literary societies, the Calliopean and Literati for gentlemen and the Adelphian and Eromathean for Ladies. Each society holds a private meeting on Friday evenings, and one public meeting each term. Each occupies a beautiful and elegantly furnished hall, of which it has exclusive possession and control. Variety of Work.—It will be noticed, from the preceding page that a great variety of work is done. This affords wide opportunity for selection, while at the same time contact with those of different tastes and pursuits is favorable to symmetry of development. EXPENSES. The Institution was founded by benevolent mon, to enablo young people of small means to obtain an education; and It has never lost sight of that object. Its extensive appliances and large endowments enable It to furnish a high grade of Instruction at a comparatively low cost. While students of means And oppor­ tunity to expend more liberally, those of limited resources are able to live eco­ nomically. Boarding In clubs, self boarding, and self-help make It possible to re­ duce expenses to tho lowest reasonable figure. No young person of tact and en. crgy,'t may be safely said, need fail of an education through lack of means. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. 1 I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Breeze Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Breeze, October 1901