Tarry at home travels . yliterature. What I want you to understandabout Maine is that these people are well poised,well educated, proud, and well satisfied with theplace where they are. It was my duty once to appoint the chief of anew industrial school. Almost of course, I con-sulted Samuel Chapman Armstrong, the firstcitizen of America, who was at the head of theHampton Institute. He said at once, Go toMaine, and you are almost sure to find theman you want there. He specified their StateCollege at Orono, but he went farther to say thatin Maine they had the fine nobility of New Eng-land blood,
Tarry at home travels . yliterature. What I want you to understandabout Maine is that these people are well poised,well educated, proud, and well satisfied with theplace where they are. It was my duty once to appoint the chief of anew industrial school. Almost of course, I con-sulted Samuel Chapman Armstrong, the firstcitizen of America, who was at the head of theHampton Institute. He said at once, Go toMaine, and you are almost sure to find theman you want there. He specified their StateCollege at Orono, but he went farther to say thatin Maine they had the fine nobility of New Eng-land blood, with the simple habits of the old 46 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS New Englander and the New Englanders deter-mination to excel the rest of mankind. Presi-dent Robbins, of the Waltham Watch Company,once told rpe that once a year he sent an accom-plished lady intothe upper valleyof the Kennebec,and that shestayed there amonth or two en-listing a partyof well-educatedyoung womenw ho shouldcome back withher to Walthamin Massachu-. WiLLiAM DeWitt Hyde, President of Bowdoin College since 1885. setts. It is thus,gentle reader,that your Waltham watch is one of a companyof a million or two, one of which on one happyday once corrected the standard of GreenwichObservatory. THE STATE OF MAINE 47 I spoke just now of beavers at the north andof the picture gallery in Bowdoin College whichis within smell of the ocean on the south. Donot go up to the north to kill beavers, but youmay make yourself a camp there and staya fortnight while you watch their sensible enter-prises. Or go down to the Commencement atBowdoin and find yourself in the midst of theirtraditions of Hawthorne, Longfellow, Andrew,Chandler, Packard, and Upham, or in that freshpresent life which Dr. Hyde leads so well. I loitered there one day to study the crayonsand other drawings which the younger Bowdoinbrought from Spain and from Italy. I hadnever seen that collection rivalled excepting oneday when Ruskin showed me somewhat sim
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