Bowdoin Orient . r matters should be directed tothe Managing Editor. Students, Professors, and Alumni are invited to contributeliterary articles, personals, and items. Contributions must beaccompanied by writers name, as well as the signature whichhe wishes to have appended. Entered at the Post-Oflace at Brunswick as Second Class mail matter. CONTENTS. Vol. XV., No. 8.—October 28, 1885. The Whispering Pines, 97 Editorial Notes, 97 A Plea for Mathematics, 99 The Pump, 99 The Modern Gil Bias, 100 Grajs Elegy, 101 Boating Association Accounts, 102 CoLLEGn Tabula, 103 Personal, 105 Clippings 107 T
Bowdoin Orient . r matters should be directed tothe Managing Editor. Students, Professors, and Alumni are invited to contributeliterary articles, personals, and items. Contributions must beaccompanied by writers name, as well as the signature whichhe wishes to have appended. Entered at the Post-Oflace at Brunswick as Second Class mail matter. CONTENTS. Vol. XV., No. 8.—October 28, 1885. The Whispering Pines, 97 Editorial Notes, 97 A Plea for Mathematics, 99 The Pump, 99 The Modern Gil Bias, 100 Grajs Elegy, 101 Boating Association Accounts, 102 CoLLEGn Tabula, 103 Personal, 105 Clippings 107 THE WHISPERING PINES. Tall whispering pines across my window front Their solemn shadows cast,And the night breezes through their branches come Like voices of the past. Strange thoughts they bring with them Of those who used to lieAnd woo the tuneful muse beneath their shade In years gone by. So in the years to come will others by Their cooling shade be blestAnd others woo the muses here When we are laid at percili- ousuess of our Cornell friends, as exhibitedby the ^ra, it is with diflSculty that we mus-ter courage to once more speak of the Quin-sigaraond race. We would thank our con-temporary for its condescension in offering usinformation in regard to the race, such asNo one looked upon Bowdoin as a possiblewinner, and The sympathy of the crewsand the people was with us. We also return thanks for using no harsherterms tiian The bigotedness and unfairnessof Bowdoins remarks. Humbly beggingyour pardon, friend Ura, for presuming todisagree with such an aristocratic body ofstudents who have haughtil} informed usthat Knowing themselves how little signi-ficance may be attached to the fact of theirhaving won the intercollegiate regatta, thej-are striving to impress their friends with theidea that they have accomplished a big thing,we venture to take exception to the initialstatement that The Bowdoin Orient de-votes nearly its entire space to discussing theQuinsigamond race,
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