Bandain College Library Special Collections & Archives Home Page 1 of 2 Bowdoin Library / library / special collections & archives search George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives Staff, Services & Policies Welcome to the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections Collections & Archives at Subject Guides Bowdoin College. As an integral College Archives & part of the Bowdoin College Records Management Library and an active partner in the educational work of the Exhibitions College, the department Publications for preserves and makes accessible Purchase the 45,000 volumes of rare Research Resources Beyond Bowdoin books, 5,000 linear feet of manuscripts and College archives, 25,000 photographs, 500 historical maps, and related materials that comprise our George J. Mitchell Papers holdings. The department is named in honor of Senator George J. Mitchell, Class of 1954, whose own papers documenting a life of service to the Common Good were donated to the College in 1995. The collections are wide-ranging and include substantial manuscript sources, rare published works, and historical records documenting Bowdoin College. Manuscript holdings date from as early as the 13th century and are particularly rich for research into the early history of Massachusetts and Maine; anti-slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction; Arctic studies and Arctic exploration; Maine writers; politics and government; and Bowdoin College, its alumni, faculty, and presidents. Among the printed works (the earliest dated 1478) are several notable collections, including early American, Maine and British imprints, Hawthorne and Longfellow collections, fine press printings, and finely bound books. Some of the works now found in Special Collections have been in the College's possession since soon after its founding in 1794. 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Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives Staff email: scaref@bowdoin.edu / telephone: (207) 725-3288 Bowdoin College Library, 3000 College Station, Brunswick, Maine 04011-8421 © Bowdoin College 2002 Special Collections Home Search This Site Search Library Catalog http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/ 4/8/2003 BREWSTER, Ralph Owen (1888-1961) Guide to Research Papers Page 1 of 2 Biographical Directory of the BREWSTER, Ralph Owen, 1888-1961 United States Congress Guide to Research Collections Bowdoin College Archives Brunswick, ME http://www.bowdoin.edu/dept/library/a Papers: 1909-1962. 150 linear feet. 1774 & Present Correspondence (1923-1961), issue and legislative files, published and unpublished reports, nomination files, Biography campaign files, newspaper clippings, and photographs documenting his Research Collections early years (1909-24), gubernatorial Bibliography service (1924-1929), private practice (1923-34), service in the New Search House of Representatives (1935-40) and Senate (1941-52) and Post- Senate years (1952-62). Topics include the Truman Committee, House History Page interstate commerce, foreign oil reserves, Pearl Harbor, Republican Senate History Page Party issues, Maine potatoe industry, the port of Portland, pensions, and World War II. Finding aid. Columbia University Oral History Project New York, NY Oral History: Discussed in interview with Horace M. Albright. Maine Historical Society Portland, ME Papers: 1943-1946. 1 folder. Congressional papers, correspondence, and photographs. State Historical Society of Wisconsin Madison, WI Papers: In Americans for Constitutional Action records, 1955-1971. University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library Ann Arbor, MI Papers: In Chase Salmon Osborn papers, 1889-1949. Yale University Libraries http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=B000816 4/8/2003 BREWSTER, Ralph Owen (1888-1961) Guide to Research Papers Page 2 of 2 Manuscripts and Archives New Haven, CT Papers: In the Edwin Montefiore Borchard papers, 1910-1950; Charles Parsons papers, 1880-1965; and Tyler Gatewood Kent papers, 1940-1963. Research Libraries Information Network In addition to the institutions listed above, items are also cataloged in collections at: University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, VA. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=B000816 4/8/2003 Ralph Owen Brewster Papers Page 1 of 4 Bowdoin / Library / I search George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives Staff, Services & Policies Ralph Owen Brewster Agency History / Papers, Biographical Note: Collections 1909-1962. Ralph Owen Brewster was born in Subject Guides Dexter, Maine in 1888. He was 150.0 linear feet. College Archives & graduated from Bowdoin College in Records Management 1909, summa cum laude and a Catalog Number: M200 member of the Phi Beta Kappa Exhibitions Series List: Society. He worked briefly (1909- Publications for Purchase 1910) as the principal of Castine Early years, 1909-1924, 2.5 High School, then went on to earn Research Resources linear feet. Beyond Bowdoin an L.L.B. (Bachelor of Law degree) Governor's papers, 1924- 1929, 46 linear feet. from Harvard University in 1913. George J. Mitchell Papers Private practice, 1923-1934, From 1914 to 1925 he was a 5 linear feet. U.S. House of partner in the Portland, Maine law Representatives, 1935-1940, firm of Chapman and Brewster. He 6 linear feet. entered politics and won election U.S. Senate, 1941-1952, 52.75 linear feet. to the lower house of the Maine Post-Senate years, 1952- legislature in 1916. In 1917 he 1962, 12.75 linear feet. resigned from the House and Photographs, 1926-1962, 6 linear feet. entered the U.S. Army, rising to 89.18 Newspaper clippings, 1922- the rank of Captain by 1918. After 1962, 14 linear feet. Memorabilia, [1922-1962?], the signing of the armistice 5 linear feet. Brewster returned to Maine, was 21/14/03 reelected to the Maine House of Container List Representatives, and in 1922 was elected to the state Senate, He Labuda was elected governor in 1924 and 200. reelected in 1926, but was M 200 is m 200 2.6 defeated in the primary for a third term. He was twice defeated for Mroc. the Republican nomination as candidate for the U.S. Senate and moved Dortland / http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/robg.shtm 5/21/2003 Ralph Owen Brewster Papers Page 2 of 4 to Dexter in order to run for the Congressional seat from the Third District. He lost the election in 1932, but won in 1934, serving three terms in the House of Representatives. He worked on legislation to provide old-age pensions; he also opposed President Roosevelt's New Deal. In 1940 he won a U.S. Senate seat, serving from 1941-1952. Brewster sat on several Senate committees, notably the Special Senate Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program (the Truman Committee), and the Joint Committee to Investigate the Pearl Harbor Attack. He lost his Senate seat in the 1952 primary and retired, maintaining an active interest in many conservative organizations. Brewster married the former Dorothy Foss in 1913, and they had two sons. Ralph Owen Brewster died unexpectedly of cancer in 1961. Scope and Content: Records are largely office files concerning contemporary issues, events and local and national political and legislative initiatives; and general office correspondence spanning the years 1923-1961. Other categories of material include published and unpublished reports and records of legislative initiatives; nomination papers and campaign files from numerous primary and election campaigns; and newspaper clippings from all http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/robg.shtml 5/21/2003 Ralph Owen Brewster Papers Page 3 of 4 pnases or nis career. inciugea aiso is a collection of photographs: most are official, and concern his Senatorial career. While governor of Maine, Brewster promoted Maine's industry, products and resources; and was chairman of the United States Governors' Conference from 1925- 1927. Brewster corresponded with many well-known state and national figures of the time, including Harry Truman, Percival Baxter, Robert A. Taft, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., James M. Mead; and was contemporary with Margaret Chase Smith, Richard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy. He served on several important congressional committees. Many of his activities involved investigation of the U.S. armed forces as a part of the Truman Committee, and on his own committee. Other significant issues that held Brewster's interest were interstate commerce, foreign oil reserves, Pearl Harbor, Republican Party issues, the Maine potato industry, the Port of Portland, and old-age pensions. In 1943 Brewster and Senators Russell of Georgia, Chandler of Kentucky, Lodge of Massachusetts, and Mead of New York travelled to the war areas to gather information on numerous wartime subjects including: international transportation, foreign landing facilities, distribution of supplies, state of machinery received from the U.S., http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/robg.shtml 5/21/2003 Ralph Owen Brewster Papers Page 1 of 19 Bowdoin / Library ... / I search George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives Ralph Owen Brewster Papers, 1909-1962. Early years, 1909-24 Series Description: 2.5 linear feet. Contains letters and some office files from Catalog Number: M200.1 Brewster's Portland law practice, Chapman and Brewster, from which he initiated his political Container List career. He became a member of the Maine legislature in 1916 and 1918, and of the Maine Senate in 1922. Some files in this group concern legislative initiatives regarding old-age pensions. Other files are personal. Records date from 1916- 24. The bulk of these files were removed by earlier retainers of the collection. Contains a group of personal letters from 1909-10. Arrangement:Arranged alphabetically. General Note: Restrictions: 2 Cal. Return to Collection Guide Early years : letters, 1909-11 Series Description: 0.5 linear feet. Contains a group of personal letters from friends, Catalog Number: M200.1.1 many from Bowdoin College, and relatives. Subjects include religion, personal relationships Container List and some political thought. Contains the only concentration of personal material in the collection. Arrangement:Arranged alphabetically by last name of author. General Note: Restrictions: Return to Collection Guide http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/robsd.shtml 5/21/2003 Ralph Owen Brewster Papers Page 2 of 19 Early years : general files, 1916- Series Description: 24 This series contains an incomplete set of files from 2 linear feet. this phase (1916-24) of Brewster's career. It Catalog Number: M200.1.2 contains correspondence and some office files from Brewster's Portland law practice, Chapman and Container List Brewster. Some files, from Brewster's service in the Maine State Legislature, regard legislative initiatives on old-age pensions. Other files are personal. Arrangement:Arranged alphabetically. General Note: Restrictions: Return to Collection Guide Governor's papers, 1924-29 Series Description: 46 linear feet. This group of files constitutes the bulk of the Catalog Number: M200.2 material created during Brewster's gubernatorial career (1924-29). The governor's office kept files Container List under several different headings: general files for daily office use, political appointment files, publicity files, and campaign and primary files. These were continually updated and interfiled during the five years that Brewster spent campaigning for and serving as governor. He collected and used various types of reference materials: statistics, reports, listings, background reading material, newspaper clippings and other resources. This material represents Brewster's efforts to support and increase the economic prosperity of Maine. The Interstate Commerce Commission and Maine State Highway Commission cooperated to achieve major trade and industry developments during this time. The Maine State Prison system, fish and game agencies, and the state shipping industry also benefitted from Governor Brewster's efforts. In addition, he was an active participant and organizer in the yearly governor's conferences, which spotlighted both Governor Brewster and the state. http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/robsd.shtml 5/21/2003 Kenneth C.M. Sills Collection Page 1 of 19 Bowdoin Location: Bowdoin / Library / Special Collections and Archives George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives Kenneth C.M. Sills Collection Correspondence, 1816 - 1954 [Nov] Catalog Number: M166.1.1 Box 1 Folder 1 1816 Oct 8 - 1822 Sept 9 2 1874 Mar 11 - 1889 Dec 3 3 1890 Jan 12 - 1896 July 13 4 1896 July 24 - 1897 Nov 22 5 1898 Jan 12 - Dec 24 6 1899 Jan 18 - Dec 22 7 1900 Feb 10 - Dec 23 8 1901 Feb 2 - Dec 5 9 1902 Jan 25 - 1903 Dec 16 10 1904 Jan 9 - Dec 27 11 1905 Jan 7 - Dec 30 12 1906 Jan 3 - Dec 2 13 1907 Jan 1 - Dec 29 14 1908 Jan 2 - Dec 2 15 1909 Jan 26 - Dec 26 16 1910 Jan 5 - Feb 28 17 1910 Mar 1 - Dec 27 18 1911 Jan 4 - June 15 19 1911 July 10 - Dec 28 20 1912 Jan 12 - Mar 13 21 1912 Apr 1 - Aug 18 22 1912 Aug 28 - Sept 3 23 1912 Sept 5 - 23 24 1912 Oct 9 - 1913 Apr 16 25 1913 May 12 - June 27. 26 1913 July 31 - Dec 31 27 1914 Jan 3 - Dec 27 Note: See Box 5, 28 1915 Jan 14 - July 4 29 1915 July 6 - Dec 24 to lders 71-78; 30 1916 Jan 7 - Mar 16 31 1916 Mar 24 - July 14 Box 6, 32 1916 July 19 - Oct 13 33 1916 Nov 2 - Dec 3 folders 1-3. 34 1916 Dec 5 -- Woodrow Wilson to KCMS, TLS 35 1916 Dec 5-17 36 1916 Dec 23 - 1917 Jan 15 37 1917 Jan 22 -- Kate Douglas Wiggin to Edith Koon, ALS 38 1917 Jan 29 39 1917 Jan 30 -- Woodrow Wilson to KCMS, TLS http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/kcmscl.shtml 10/4/2008 Arle Bates Papers Page 1 of 2 Bowdoin Location: academics / library / special collections & archives / manuscript collections George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives Arlo Bates papers, Agency History / Biographical Note: 1827-1977 (bulk Arlo Bates (1850-1918), a member of Bowdoin's 1870-1911). Class of 1876, was an author, editor and university professor. He edited the newsletter of 10.5 linear feet. the Young Men's Republican Committee of Massachusetts (1878-80) and the Boston Catalog Number: M9 Sunday Courier (1880-1893), then became professor of English at the Massachusetts ward Institute of Technology, teaching there until his house death in 1918. Professor Bates was a prolific writer, publishing Helped Strue ,Long at Dorris poems, essays and books throughout his career, among them The Torch Bearers, written for the 1894 centennial of Bowdoin College. His 1882 marriage to Harriet L. Vose lasted until her death in 1886; they had one son, Oric. Scope and Content: The papers consist of literary drafts, short stories, plays, essays and poems; photographs http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/abg.shtml 8/30/2006 Arls Bates Papers Page 2 of 2 of Bates and members of his family; correspondence (1829-1977, bulk 1870-1911); lecture notes and class material from M.I.T.; newsclippings and reviews; financial records, primarily concerning his publications; and other records. It is supplemented by books and pamphlets by or edited by Bates. Cite as: Arlo Bates papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library. Access Restrictions: None. Special Collections Home Search This Site Search Library Catalog Maintained by George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives Staff email: scaref@bowdoin.edu / telephone: (207) 725-3288 Bowdoin College Library, 3000 College Station, Brunswick, Maine 04011-8421 Bowdoin College 2004 http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/abg.shtml 8/30/2006 PETERS, John Andrew - Biographical information Page I of I Biographical Directory of the PETERS, John Andrew, (1864 - 1953) United States Congress PETERS, John Andrew, (nephew of John Andrew Peters [1822- 1904]), a Representative from Maine; born in Ellsworth, Hancock County, Maine, August 13, 1864; attended the common schools; was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1885; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Ellsworth in 1887; judge of the municipal court of Ellsworth 1896- 1908; member of the state house of representatives in 1909, 1911, and 1774 OF Present 1913, serving as speaker in 1913; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Forrest Goodwin, and Biography reelected to the four succeeding Congresses (September 9, 1913- Research Collections January 2, 1922); judge, United States District Court for Maine, 1922- 1947; delegate at large to the Republican National Convention in Bibliography 1916; vice president of the board of trustees of Bowdoin College; New Search died in Ellsworth, Maine, August 22, 1953; interment in Woodbine Cemetery. House History Page Senate History Page Copyright Information Bowdoin College Library - Research Guide - General American History Page 1 of 10 Bowdoin / Library academics / library / research guides search Maine Newspapers @ Bowdoin List Supplied by Maine Newspaper Project Title Years Format Location Advertiser-Democrat Main Advocate of Freedom 1838-1841 Micro. Micro. 1838-1841 Micro. Spec. Coll. 1838-1841 Print Spec. Coll. American Advocate & General Advertiser American Advocate V. 3-14 1812-24 Spec. Coll. American Advocate & Kennebec Advertiser American Patriot Androscoggin Free Press Annals of the Times Aroostook Herald Bangor Daily Evening Times Bangor Daily Gazette 1904, 1940-54, Bangor Daily News/Bangor Daily 1958, 1972, Micro Main Micro Whig & Courier 1974, 1978, 1997- Recent (print Main http://library.bowdoin.edu/rguides/amerhist/maine2.shtml 1/22/2004 Bowdoin College Library Page 1 of 2 Bowdoin / Library academics / library / catalog Previous Record Next Record I Return to Browse I Another Search I Start Over MARC Display Export I Search Maine Info Net TITLE sanborn fire insurance maps Search Title Sanborn fire insurance maps. Maine [microform.] Imprint [Teaneck, N.J.] : Chadwyck-Healy, 1983 LOCATION CALL NO. 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National Park Service Title Annual report of the Director of the National Park Service to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ended and the travel season Imprint Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1931- LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS Govt Doc I 29.1: 1931 AVAILABLE Govt Doc I 29.1: 1932 AVAILABLE Phys descr V. : ill. ; 23 cm Publ dates 1931- Continues United States. National Park Service. Report of the Director of the National Park Service to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ended Freq Annual Note Vols. for 1935-39 combined Report year ends June 30 Vols. for "reprinted from the Annual report of the Secretary of the Interior." Subject National parks and reserves -- United States -- Periodicals Add'l title Issue for 1961 has title: Annual report of the Commissioner, National Park Service, to the Secretary of the Interior Issues for have title: Annual report National Park Service annual report 1995 Previous Record Next Record / Return to Browse I Another Search MA Start Over I MARC Display I Export I Search Maine Info Net Telnet to Phebe I Search Tips I Maine Info Net I Maine Info Net Help ../frameset&FF=tannual+report+of+the+director+of+the+national+park+service+to+the+secreta2/5/2003 SILLS OF BOWDOIN THE LIFE OF KENNETH CHARLES MORTON SILLS 1879-1954 HERBERT ROSS BROWN President Sills of Bowdoin. Portrait by Leopold Seyffert, N.A. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS New York and London 1964 PREFACE Upon his retirement as president of Bowdoin College in 1952, Kenneth C. M. Sills read with quizzical amusement a sketch of his career in Time: "A former Latin instructor famed for his fidgets (he used to tear whole handkerchiefs to shreds while teaching), 'Casey' Sills mellowed into a pleasant, paunchy 'ex- scholar," famed for his love of Dante, for eating (so goes the legend) eleven lobster stews at a sitting, and for liking to run his piny campus just as if Longfellow were still there-"Excel- lent teaching in wooden halls is much better than wooden teaching in marble halls." " Had the author of this news magazine item been a Bowdoin undergraduate, he would have received a familiar Sillsean come- suppance: "What reporters have to say to us is always interest- ing, sometimes important, but not necessarily conclusive." The president acknowledged that as a young administrator he may have fussed unduly with his handkerchief, but his campaign as a Maine Democrat for the U.S. Senate in 1916 had taught him to speak without conspicuous embarrassment. As for the tradi- tion of his fondness for lobster, he conceded that repeated de- - nials had not prevented the legend from becoming a campus myth. He demurred, however, at the intimation of wanting to run a nineteenth-century college. To critics of the requirement of Greek or Latin or mathematics for twentieth-century Fresh- men, he replied, "A first-rate thing is never dead." And, at the end of his presidency of thirty-four years, he continued to re- gard excellent teaching, whether in halls of wood, brick, or marble, as Bowdoin's chief distinction. "In SO many postwar viii Preface Preface ix plans," Kenneth Sills remarked in 1945, "the teacher is the for- ments of the needs of the college but also of the generosity of gotten man. We do not intend to forget him at Bowdoin." donors when a president exemplifies as well as endorses the This biography of President Sills is, in some respects, the por- values of a liberal education. trait of an anomaly. Primarily a scholar-teacher, he trained him- It will hardly tempt a prospective reader to turn the pages self to become an able executive. Never a fluent speaker, he of this book if he is warned at the outset that its subject doubted often gave seventy-five formal addresses and scores of informal whether an adequate biography of a college president is ever talks in a single academic year. Despite increasingly heavy and likely to be written. His own life, he told a colleague, had been complex demands upon him, he found time annually to teach a full and exciting, but he felt that its drama would seem pale large course in comparative literature and to correct all the within the covers of a book. When his friend, Dana Ferrin of papers himself. A stanch Democrat in a state which often viewed Appleton-Century Crofts, urged him to write his memoirs, he such political loyalty as a mild form of insanity, he worked protested that the subject was altogether unpromising. His ha- harmoniously with Governing Boards whose membership was bitual reticence shrank at the prospect of making critical com- overwhelmingly Republican. Although he considered his posi- ments which might seem invidious or malicious. The responsi- tion to be "a very high one," he was SO indifferent to the trap- bilities of a college presidency had too often required the giv- pings of official status that for a long time after his election he ing and receiving of pain for him to wish to run the risk in seemed content to conduct college business without a private his retirement. His lifelong habit of calculated speech could office or telephone. not be easily abandoned, yet he knew that only by "speaking These anomalies might easily be multiplied. President Sills out," by naming names, and by identifying situations could the was an Episcopal layman without formal theological training, emotional intensities of the inner drama of his career be con- yet none of the seven ordained Congregational ministers who veyed. A dozen fragmentary manuscript pages found among had preceded him in office was more devoted to the Church. his papers indicate that he had made the attempt. When he read Although he faced the difficult experience of following a them to his wife, she objected that what he had written seemed "giant," and believed William DeWitt Hyde was "the greatest strangely impersonal and that the protagonist rarely appeared president Bowdoin ever had or is ever likely to have," he imme- in the center of the stage. Finally, despairing of forcing himself diately proved his fitness by relying on the momentum gen- to say what he felt should remain unsaid, he laid the project erated by his predecessor while quietly initiating an educational aside. program of his own. Perhaps few college presidents possessed "Blessed is the college," Kenneth Sills once remarked in a less of the managerial temperament or had more impatience chapel talk, "whose annals are uneventful." Certainly the Bow- with modern gadgets to increase efficiency, yet even fewer doin of his day knew no such beatitude. He was destined to achieved his detailed mastery of the operation of his institution. guide his Alma Mater through two world wars, a major depres- Never entirely happy as a fund-raiser, he nevertheless recog- sion, the dislocations caused by the conflict in Korea, and the nized the truth of President Robert Hutchins' dictum that a ensuing armed truce. As he neared his seventieth birthday in college which is not short of money has run out of ideas. The 1949, he saw clearly that the Second World War marked a fivefold increase in Bowdoin's endowment during his admin- great divide in Bowdoin's history. He realized that his successor istration is evidence not only of Kenneth Sills's persuasive state- could not return to the earlier simplicities which had enabled Preface Preface xi him virtually "to carry the college in his head," to move easily urged the need of a full-length biography and graciously fur- from reading financial statements in his office, to lecturing in nished me with reminiscences of the years he shared with Ken- the classroom, and to conducting daily chapel. neth Sills in Portland, Cambridge, and New York. To Professor Amid the present complexities, such a concept of the college Elliott I am grateful not only for a critical and sympathetic president-omniscient and omnipresent-is seen by President reading of the manuscript but for personal kindnesses far too Emeritus Henry M. Wriston of Brown as surrounded by the numerous to recount. Grateful homage is also due to the mem- aura of a myth: "He is at once the illuminating teacher, the ory of Paul Nixon, Kenneth Sills's incomparable dean, who great inspiration, the awful disciplinarian, and the kindly, warm- allowed me to draw upon his recollections of almost daily asso- hearted friend who loans students money, forgives academic ciation with the president for twenty-nine years. Debts such as deficiencies because of profound faith in youth." In Academic these are a pleasant duty to acknowledge, even though they can Procession, a report of his experiences of more than thirty years, never be repaid. Dr. Wriston encountered only two men in this century who Without the help of members of the Governing Boards and might be said to approach the image: Ernest Martin Hopkins faculty colleagues, past and present, this biography could not of Dartmouth and Sills of Bowdoin. It is the purpose of this have been undertaken. The president and Trustees opened all biography to tell the story of Kenneth Charles Morton Sills college records to my scrutiny, and the administrative and and of the college whose ideals he embodied as professor, dean, library staffs went far beyond the line of duty to facilitate and president for forty-six years. their use. A committee of Trustees and Overseers, which did This is a Bowdoin book, and it is a measure of the personal me the welcome honor of suggesting that I write Sills of Bow- impression Kenneth Sills left on Bowdoin men that all of Bow- doin, has been unfailingly and continuously helpful from the doin was eager to have a share in fashioning it. Since few biog- beginning. Its members and a faculty representative (Messrs. raphies have owed SO much to so many collaborators, I cannot Earle S. Thompson, William D. Ireland, Philip G. Clifford, begin to name all those who have assisted me. Scores of them Clement F. Robinson, and Professor Thomas A. Riley) gave who are mentioned in the text have already received my thanks, the manuscript a careful reading and have encouraged me at but it is pleasant to thank them again on the threshold of what every stage of its progress. Nor may I omit mention of my is the result of a joint and friendly enterprise. gratitude to President James S. Coles, whose knowledge of the Of those who died before the manuscript reached the printer, habits of at least one member of his faculty prompted him to I owe the heaviest debt to Professors Emeriti Wilmot Brook- arrange for a generous leave of absence to enable me to write ings Mitchell, William Witherle Lawrence, and George Roy a major part of the book. Elliott. The first of these was a member of the faculty when A few other friends, whose help was SO extensive that it Kenneth Sills entered college in 1897 and knew the Bowdoin would be churlish of me not to cite it here, include Professor scene intimately for seventy-six years. His remarkable memory Emeritus Thomas C. Van Cleve, whose Bowdoin tenure spans enabled him to enliven the prosy minutes of countless faculty the last years of the Hyde administration and all of Kenneth minutes and to salvage many details which otherwise would Sills's presidency. Almost every page of this book bears witness have been unremembered. It was Professor Lawrence who first to his counsel. My thanks also go to Glenn R. McIntire, former Henry M. Wriston, Academic Procession: Reflections of a College President bursar and now assistant treasurer of Bowdoin, whose helpful- (New York, Columbia University Press, 1959), pp. 174-75. ness belies the myth that financial officers sometimes forget that xii Preface a college has a heart as well as a head. Particular acknowledg- ment is due to Professor Nathan Dane II, a successor of Presi- dent Sills in the Winkley professorship of Latin, who supplied valuable information about "Casey's Lit.," to Mr. Harry G. Shulman and to the late Kosti Ruohomaa, who provided the photographs, and to Miss Mabel Matthews, who typed the manuscript with skill and unfailing cheerfulness. CONTENTS Indebtedness of a personal kind is owed to the Percolators, a coffee club whose members began teaching at Bowdoin as I young instructors under President Sills's benign direction. Their A Portland Boyhood: 1880-1897 1 wide hospitality permitted me to read the entire manuscript, 2 Undergraduate at Bowdoin: 1897-1901 28 chapter by chapter, at successive meetings. The lively and in- 3 formed criticism of these loyal colleagues-Edward S. Ham- University Years: Harvard and Columbia, 1901-1906 46 mond, Cecil T. Holmes, Fritz C. A. Koelln, Athern P. Daggett, 4 Bowdoin Professor and Faculty Secretary: Reinhard L. Korgen, Samuel E. Kamerling, and George H. 1906-1910 64 Quinby-saved me from many blunders. Their suggestions, and those from a patient Griselda who refuses to be named, deserved 5 Dean of Bowdoin: 1910-1917 90 to bear fruit in a better book. I am also grateful to the far-flung 6 Scholar in Politics: Casey Runs for the Senate, 1916 118 family of Bowdoin alumni and friends who responded to ap- 7 peals for information. Perhaps nothing is more characteristic of Dean, Acting President, and the First World War 142 Kenneth Sills's humanity than the fact that many letters, often 8 The Young President: 1918-1919 169 from men and women in humble walks of life whose words are 9 Administering Bowdoin in the 1920S: I too intimate to be quoted, described acts of such rare thought- 200 IO fulness that each writer believed his experience must have been Administering Bowdoin in the 1920S: II 227 unique. II Lights and Shadows in the 1930S 261 Mrs. Sills, with the graciousness that all Bowdoin has come I 2 to associate with 85 Federal Street in Brunswick and 134 From the Depression to the Second World War 298 Vaughan Street in Portland, entrusted me with her husband's 13 The President and the Second World War 338 letters, papers, and-most important-her memories of a blessed 14 Continuity and Change: 1945-1952 life. My deepest debt of all, however, save for the dedication, 368 must remain unexpressed. 15 President Emeritus: 1952-1954 405 H. R. B. Index 429 Brunswick, Maine February 21, 1964 A group of photographs appears after page 142. Bowdoin College Library Page 1 of 2 Bowdoin / Library Previous Record I Next Record I Return to Browse I Another Search I Start Over I MARC Display Export Search Maine info Net TITLE report of the forest commissioner System Sorted Search Record 1 of 3 Author Maine. Forest Commissioner Title Annual report of the Forest Commissioner of the State of Maine Imprint Augusta : The Commissioner, 1892-1896 (Augusta : Burleigh & Flynt, printers to the State) Location Govt Doc Maine F 75.1: LIBR HAS 1891,1894 Latest Received: LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS Govt Doc Maine F 75.1: 1891 NON-CIRC Govt Doc Maine F 75.1: 1894 NON-CIRC Phys descr 3 V. ; 24 cm Publ dates 1st (1891)-3rd (1896) Cont'd by Maine. Forest Commissioner. 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Bourd Coleg Note: No commisents in Vol. 3 (1894-95) 6/13/05 o Huward Graduates Magazine 1896: Dorr, Bizelow, + Dava. 1897 KISCS r.' 9, p.603 (Feve 100 1898, 1900+1901 V-10, pg.649 (Few 1902) 189718 Board of Overseers Repats in tas, Visiting Committees for 1902. W.S. Bigelou Dana, + OA Depts. J.B Warner For the Courses of Instructor join Dorr. Photosophy Same for G.B Dorr, R.C. Cabot, In 1904 1903 R.C. Joseph Lee, T.W. ward, R.H. Dana Robbns added. Nots:- P. Bowditch can on Divinig School U.ritz Cameth-and Peaboy Museum 596 vol. 2 or \ pg.590- "Prenider Eliot Tublee, learch 20, 70th b-dg. 1.127 Jone, 1904. Tab images: 1853 / 1869. commette Note: Boesseus of Unsitor In 1905 Photogy ha W.R. warren up law T.W.Ward. Sam comn. for 1906. San in 190F. vol. 14. RfDec. 1905 Facy Inge "Emerson Hall" opposite The Solad Satisfaction rf Life, address by c.w.slit et Howard Union, 10/3/05. G.H.Dorr clan of 97. X No reports theoforth First Year reported in H.C-U. Beginning of Comuttee? no endever in Dec. 97 get Scologg + grogyal Report W.M.Dair] '69 of GBD going Davis, Shaler, to Smyth Forsyths, to Boutwell in Rock Mt, region. Vil 4 (1895-96) : Rg. 378. History later of Hady Publing Elub's. Centennal," RP 378 399 Not cel. long on Philosoph (246-247) is metra of facility need Bowdoin College Library Page 1 of 2 Bowdoin / Library Previous Record Next Record I Return to Browse I Another Search I Start Over I MARC Display I Export I Search Maine Info Net TITLE harvard graduates magazine Search Title The Harvard graduates' magazine Imprint [Boston, Mass. : Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association, 1892-1934] Location Main Periodical LIBR HAS V. 1-42 1892-1934 LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS Main Periodical v.1 (1892-93) AVAILABLE Main Periodical v.2 (1893-94) AVAILABLE Main Periodical v.3 (1894-95) AVAILABLE Main Periodical v.4 (1895-96) AVAILABLE Main Periodical v.5 (1896-97) AVAILABLE Main Periodical v.6 (1897-98) AVAILABLE Main Periodical v.7 (1898-99) AVAILABLE Main Periodical v.8 (1899-1900) AVAILABLE Main Periodical v.9 (1900-01) AVAILABLE Main Periodical v.10 (1901-02) AVAILABLE View additional copies or search for a specific volume/copy Phys descr 42 V. : ill. ; 25 cm Publ dates Vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct.-Dec. 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Novacy 1402 1890 407 (not earlier 1910,1911 1913, 1115 Bainnjit America franch I V01-6 (Proc) the 1918, (1220 1923, 1939* of Dorr Listed as Member, Urs.C.Dorn 1890- 1896 189g 1900, 1903,- - Chech agai vol. 25 (Prur) Indix to Dorr/Door (1411) 5 last puh listor offer util 1946. 6 No obit for Dorr. EOOSTERIOI Care Pub in 1945, oz FirstSearch: Libraries that Own Item Page 1 of 2 FirstSearch SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIV Libraries that Own Item This screen shows libraries that own the item you selected. Staff View Options Comments Exit Home Databases Searching Results Hide tips List of Records Detailed Record Marked Records Go to page Current database: WorldCat Total Libraries: 181 WorldCat E-mail Print Return Help Title: Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research Author: American Society for Psychical Research Other libraries hold this item; please check with your librarian for more information. 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Is this 99th Congress Bill $ 720? No, S4957 is what I need July 28,1916 smm. take it Proclamation in chrono. 1916. N166. 1.1 Box5: 1942 Feb 4 - May 18 (1917-42) 2 11/19/03 25th Annurison of Sills administrat. May letter of appie etc.(alam in rent folder), Includ in from A J. Croxin Because atage? - 1942 , Aug. 12- - Sept 12. letter from Sills to write on Casmos Club stationary dated 8/28/42 -Clush - it University Club of Boston . Sills requests it . Thid Dorr ? Also stayed at Haivors Club (718/43)et.) - 1943 Sept. 5-14. Letter on "The thele Heep Northeast Harbor Main 32 stationary 9/5/43 date is addic his and hand From this george C. Shattack - 1944, Jan 1-29 Rsusion@ 150th Ann. of Bowdoin E'lleg Culchrativ set for June 24th - ILL The Tercenter ner of Harvard College 3 green. Bowdoin College Sesquicentendial No mention of worr's death end of1944- Page 1 of 2 Ronald Epp From: "Caroline P. Moseley" To: "Ronald Epp" Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 6:17 PM Attach: cmoseley.vcf Subject: Re: Bowdoin College President Dear Mr. Epp, We have reviewed the section of President Sills' correspondence that is arranged alphabetically and have found no letters from George Dorr or from Sills to Dorr. There is also a large amount of chronologically arranged correspondence for Sills. It would be helpfull if you could narrow down the date range a bit before we look through this material - is one year more likely then any other? For most collections, looking through a five year sequence wouldn't be a problem, but Sills was quite a voluminous correspondent! Sincerely, Caroline Moseley > Ronald Epp wrote: > > Dear Ms. Mosley: > > I am currently preparing a biography of George Bucknam Dorr The (1853-1944), founder and first superinetendent of Acadia National Park. > > Mr. Dorr's last will and testament lists the President of Bowdoin > College as a Trustee in the execution of his will. I am curious > whether there may have been correspondance located in your archives > between the Bowdoin College President (c. 1940-1945) regarding Mr. > Dorr or any correspondance between the two from the earlier decade. > > I will be in Brunswick this Saturday should it be useful useful for me > to examine any manuscipt materials. > > Thank you for this professional courtesy. > > > Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. > Director of the Harry & Gertrude Shapiro Library > Southern New Hampshire University 5/12/2003 Page 1 of 2 Ronald Epp From: "Caroline P. Moseley" To: "Ronald Epp" Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 12:00 PM Attach: cmoseley.vcf Subject: Re: Bowdoin College President Dear Mr. Epp, We will check President Sills' correspondence for letters from George Dorr. I'll get back to you on Tuesday or Wednesday with the result. The Special Collections & Archives department is not open on Saturdays. If we locate correspondence we can discuss the best way to proceed - usually there is no problem with making photocopies and potentially we could leave copies for you on hold in the main library (which is open on Saturdays). I'll be in touch soon. Sincerely, Caroline Moseley > Ronald Epp wrote: > > Dear Ms. Mosley: > > I am currently preparing a biography of George Bucknam Dorr > (1853-1944), founder and first superinetendent of Acadia National > Park. > > Mr. Dorr's last will and testament lists the President of Bowdoin > College as a Trustee in the execution of his will. I am curious > whether there may have been correspondance located in your archives > between the Bowdoin College President (c. 1940-1945) regarding Mr. > Dorr or any correspondance between the two from the earlier decade. > > I will be in Brunswick this Saturday should it be useful useful for me > to examine any manuscipt materials. > > Thank you for this professional courtesy. > > > Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. > Director of the Harry & Gertrude Shapiro Library > Southern New Hampshire University > 2500 North River Road > Manchester, NH 03106-1045 > 603-668-2211, ext. 2164 2/17/2003 Page 1 of 2 Ronald Epp From: "Judy Montgomery" To: "Ronald Epp" Cc: "Caroline P. Moseley" ; "Richard H.F. Lindemann" ; "Sherrie S. Bergman" Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 11:01 AM Subject: Re: Wednesday Visit Dear Ronald: We would be glad to have you visit Bowdoin on Wednesday. I have forwarded your message to Carolyn Moseley. She asked if there were specific manuscript items or collections relating to Dorr that you would like to review while you are here. If so, it would be great if you can email her that information. Carolyn would also be glad to speak with you about our records management program. Once you get to the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, you will find my office down the hallway, directly to the left as you enter the building. I'll look forward to showing you through our newly renovated space. Do you have any idea how much time you will need for your research? I can plan the tour around it. And, if time allows, I hope you will join me for lunch! Judy Montgomery Ronald Epp wrote: Dear Judy, It was good of you to offer some of your time if I could manage to stop at Bowdoin enroute to Acadia National Park Wednesday. I would like to take you up on this most generous offer. I should arrive about 9:30 or so if that will work for you. This past February I did communicate with Caroline Moselely regarding correspondance between George Dorr and President Sills and I may wish to follow that up a bit. I also may wish to spend a bit of time in GovDocs looking at the microfiche of the Annual report of the Director of the National Park Service during the 1930's and 40's. I would appreciate the tour offer. We are about to gather our University Archives and establish a records management plan for the first time, so any staff who could offer me guidance in these matters would be appreciated. I'd like to be on the road by 1 p.m. or so. Looking forward to hearing from you. Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Director of Shapiro Library Southern New Hampshire University Manchester, NH 03106 603-668-2211, ext. 2164 603-645-9685 fax 5/12/2003 Epp, Ronald From: Caroline Moseley [cmoseley@bowdoin.edu] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 4:28 PM To: Epp, Ronald Subject: Re: President Sill's Correspondence Dear Ronald, I remember your visit well. November 14th will be fine. There is no need to make an appointment although we do appreciate the advance notice of your visit. I will not be here on the 14th, but I will let my colleagues know that you'll be coming to review Sills again. Sorry to miss you this time. Best wishes, Caroline Epp, Ronald wrote: > Dear Caroline, > > This past May we met and following a tour of the Bowdoin Archives you > provided me with access to the files of chronologically arranged > correspondence to and from President Sills. In my search for information > on contact between him and George B. Dorr (founder of Acadia N.P.) I was > only able to review about half the file. I'll be in Brunswick November > 14th and wondered whether I might arrange an appointment to view this > material early that morning. > > > Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. > Director of Shapiro Library > Southern New Hampshire University > Manchester, NH 03106 > of > > > 603-668-2211, ext. 2164 > 603-645-9685 fax > > > > 1 Page 1 of 2 Ronald Epp From: "Caroline P. Moseley" To: "Ronald Epp" Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 5:17 PM Attach: cmoseley.vcf Subject: Re: Bowdoin College President Dear Mr. Epp, We have reviewed the section of President Sills' correspondence that is arranged alphabetically and have found no letters from George Dorr or from Sills to Dorr. There is also a large amount of chronologically arranged correspondence for Sills. It would be helpfull if you could narrow down the date range a bit before we look through this material - is one year more likely then any other? For most collections, looking through a five year sequence wouldn't be a problem, but Sills was quite a voluminous correspondent! Sincerely, Caroline Moseley > Ronald Epp wrote: > > Dear Ms. Mosley: > > I am currently preparing a biography of George Bucknam Dorr > (1853-1944), founder and first superinetendent of Acadia National > Park. > > Mr. Dorr's last will and testament lists the President of Bowdoin > College as a Trustee in the execution of his will. I am curious > whether there may have been correspondance located in your archives > between the Bowdoin College President (c. 1940-1945) regarding Mr. > Dorr or any correspondance between the two from the earlier decade. > > I will be in Brunswick this Saturday should it be useful useful for me > to examine any manuscipt materials. > > Thank you for this professional courtesy. > > > Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. > Director of the Harry & Gertrude Shapiro Library > Southern New Hampshire University 2/24/2003 RE: Ronald Epp & Special Collections - Sent - Verizon Yahoo! Mail Page 1 of 1 Verizon Yahoo Mail Verizon Central Yahoo! Search: Welcome, eppster2@verizon.... Mail Home All-New Mail Tutorials Help YAHOO! (Sign Out, Member Center I verizon MAIL Classic Mail Contacts Calendar Notepad What's New? Mobile Mail Options Check Mail Compose Search Mail Search the Web Previous I Next I Back to Messages Mark as Unread Print Folders [Add Edit] Delete Inbox (12) Reply Forward Move.. Drafts (7) RE: Ronald Epp & Special Collections Saturday, September 6, 2008 11:41 AM Sent From: "ELIZABETH and RONALD EPP" Spam [Empty] To: "Judith Montgomery" Trash [Empty] My Folders [Hide] Dear Judy, DorrBio2008 (33) Yes, please do share these emails with Richard, I met him and Caroline Moseley nearly five years ago when I visited Special Collections to examine the Eliz messages (6) correspondence of President Sills regarding his relationship with George Bucknam Dorr. Horseshoe Pond Ronald H. Epp Ph.D. Member Informa 47 Pond View Drive Ron Archives (31) Merrimack, NH 03054 (603) 424-6149 eppster2@verizon.net Search Shortcuts My Photos On Fri, 9/5/08, Judith Montgomery wrote: My Attachments From: Judith Montgomery Subject: RE: Ronald Epp & Special Collections To: eppster2@verizon.net Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 4:09 PM Hi Ronald, Thanks for your email and what an unusual email it is. I would not want to hazard a guess as to Bowdoin's interest in securing this collection without consulting Richard Lindemann, our director of Special Collections. Certainly when the confidential matters are resolved, we would be glad to assess their value to our collection. IN the meanwhile, to be better positioned to answer your query, may I share your email with him? Richard is a very discreet person. Judy From: ELIZABETH and RONALD EPP [mailto:eppster2@verizon.net] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 2:57 PM To: Judith Montgomery Subject: Ronald Epp & Special Collections Dear Judy, I hope you recall our interactions from a few years back before I retired as library director at Southern New Hampshire University. I've just completed the first draft of the biography of the founder of Acadia National Park and am presently negotiating with a publisher. Within the last few days a confidential matter related to the park history and Bowdoin College has come to my attention. While I ain constrained from disclosing any particulars for at least a few weeks, I write to ask whether you think that the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library might have some interest in securing a recently uncovered collection of the professional papers of one of its most prominent Trustees from the first half of the 20th-Century. I'm well aware of all the "ifs" and "buts" that would constrain a formal response but for the time being I would merely like to pass along informally to the gentleman who uncovered these papers some sense that there may be something more than disinterest in such a donation. I'd very much appreciate your keeping this matter confidential. I'll be Down East this coming week and should know more shortly. If you feel it is best not to put anything in writing, I fully understand. If you would like to talk about this, however, do let me know. With best wishes, Ronald H. Epp Ph.D. 47 Pond View Drive Merrimack NH 03054 (603) 424-6149 eppster2@verizon.net Delate Reply Forward Move. Previous Next Back to Messages Select Message Encoding Full Headers Check Mall Compose Search Mall Search the Web Copyright c 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. I Copyright/1P Policy Terms of Service I Send Feedback Help NOTICE: We collect personal information on this site. To learn more about how we use your information, see our Privacy Policy. vertroot YAHOO http://us.mc842.mail.yahoo.com/mc/showMessage?fid=Sent&sort=date&order=down&start. 9/6/2008 Smith it Coley in vol.3 (1894-95) o 6/13/05 Hurand Graduates Magazine 1896: Dorr, Bizelow, + Dona. 1897 KISTE r.'9.p.603 (Fire 100 1898, 1900+1901 V.10, pg.649 (Free 1902) 18971597 Board of Overseers Reports in two, Visiting Converttees for 1902. W.S.Bigelo Dana, + QA Depts. J.B worner For the Courses of Instructor join Dorr. Philosophy: Same for G.B Dorr, R.C. Cabot, In 190 R.C. 1903 Joseph Lee, T.W. ward, R.H. Dana Robbn: added Note:- P. Bowditch can on Divinig Schorl Unitz Camelle - and Peaboof Museum 596 vol. 2 pg. 590-" Eliot Tublee," learch 20, 70k bodg. Jone, 1904. Tob images: 1853 /1869. committe Note: Boesseur of Unsitor In 1905 Photogy ha W.R. Warren up law T.W.Ward. Sam comn. for 1906. San in 1907 Vol. 14 RfDec. 1905 : Facy Inge "Emerson Hall" opposite "The Solad Satisfaction -F Life, address by c.w.slint et Howard Union, 10/3/05 G.H.Dorr , clan of '97. X No reports theoforth 0 First Year reported in H.C-U. Beginning of Counttee no enderce in Dec. 97 good geology grograph Report W, MiDair] '69 of GBD going Davis, Shaler, to Smyth Forsyths, to Bouturel in dochy Mt, region Vit 4 (1895-96) Rg. 378. Hitty later of Heaty Publing Elub's. Centernam," RP 378-399 Wat rel. long on Philosoph (246-247) is metra it facility need