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IN MEMORY OF DR. JEWETT.
Window Will Be Unveiled in Bowdoin College Memorial Hall June 25.
from Boston (MA) Daily Globe (21 June 1903, p. 22)
Window Will Be Unveiled in Bowdoin College Memorial Hall June 25.
from Boston (MA) Daily Globe (21 June 1903, p. 22)
MISS SARAH ORNE JEWETT'S TRIBUTE TO THE
MEMORY OF HER FATHER, DR THEODORE
HERMAN JEWETT. IT WILL BE PLACED IN MEMORIAL HALL AT BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
MEMORY OF HER FATHER, DR THEODORE
HERMAN JEWETT. IT WILL BE PLACED IN MEMORIAL HALL AT BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
There has just been finished at the studio of Mrs Sarah Whitman,* 1st Boylston st., a chaste and beautiful memorial window executed by Mrs Whitman for her friend, Miss Sarah Orne Jewett, the novelist, and by the latter intended as a grateful tribute to her father, Theodore Herman Jewett,* a graduate and professor of Bowdoin college. The window will be placed in the Memorial hall of Dr. Jewett's alma mater and there unveiled on June 25.
In the design for this window Mrs Whitman has demonstrated anew her rare artistic gifts. Both in the conception, material and inscription the memorial is simple and sincere, just as was the country doctor it aims to celebrate. Constructed almost entirely of transparent glass in diaper pattern,* it is touched here and there with red cathedral glass, relieved by opalescent shades of the same material. The design is gothic, and on one of the panels appear the words, "Theodore Herman Jewett, Class of MDCCCXXXIV." On the opposite panel is this motto from Hippocrates to show "the four gifts indispensable to a good physician": "Learning, Sagacity, Humanity, Probity."
It is peculiarly fitting that Miss Sarah Orne Jewett, whom Bowdoin college honored two years ago with a degree of doctor of letters, should commemorate in this fashion the institution form which her father took his arts degrees. Later the young student graduated in medicine at the Jefferson medical college in Philadelphia, and afterward, as has been said, he held a professorship in medicine at Bowdoin.
Once before, but then through her own charming artistic medium, the story, Miss Jewett paid high tribute to her father. This was in the volume, "A Country Doctor," which she herself says she loves and must always love above everything else she has written. For this book describes in a singularly engaging fashion the every-day life of just such a doctor as Dr. Jewett. With him the novelist happily recalls* she, as a slip of a girl, used to drive from place to place talking with families of the countryside while he, the good physician, saw his patients.
On the road, Miss Jewett says, she used to listen carefully to all her own country doctor said of people and of nature, and this she today believes constituted the greater part of her training in authorship. Her father was her tutor, too, and her education was largely acquired by browsing at will in the books of his extensive library.
Newspaper image of the Jewett window
design
Notes
Sarah Whitman: Sarah de St. Prix Wyman Whitman (5 December 1842 - June 25, 1904) was one of the Charles Street coterie of talented women which included Celia Thaxter, Lilian Aldrich, Alice Howe, Helen Bell, Miriam Pratt, Rose Lamb, and Mary Lodge. Mrs. Whitman was a professional designer of stained glass windows, a painter, and an illustrator of books. She provided the decorations for the covers of Miss Jewett's The King of Folly Island, Betty Leicester, Strangers and Wayfarers, and The Queen's Twin. Miss Jewett dedicated Strangers and Wayfarers "To S. W., Painter of New England men and women, New England fields and shores." As one of her last literary endeavors Miss Jewett edited and wrote an unsigned preface to the Letters of Sarah Wyman Whitman (Cambridge, Mass., 1907). (Richard Cary).
In A Studio of Her Own (MFA: Boston, 2001), Erica E. Hirshler says that after 1892, Whitman maintained the Lily Glass Works at 184 Boyston St., near Park Square, about half a mile from the Fields house at 148 Charles St. (p. 39). Jewett and others referred to this workplace as "the studio." See also Bailot, "Sarah Wyman Whitman"; Morris, "Sarah Wyman Whitman's Book Covers"; and Moye, "Stained Glass by Sarah Wyman Whitman at Central Congregational Church."
Whitman's husband, Henry Whitman (1839- 21 July 1901), was a successful wool merchant in Boston and Cambridge. Find a Grave, Wikipedia
Theodore Herman Jewett: Theodore Herman Jewett (Portsmouth, N. H., March 24, 1815 - September 20, 1878) married in Exeter, N. H., March 17, 1842, Caroline Frances Perry (11 December 1820 - 21 October 1891), daughter of Dr. William and Abigail (Gilman) Perry. Dr. Jewett graduated from Bowdoin College in 1834 and from the Jefferson Medical College in 1840; he followed his profession for many years in South Berwick, Me.; also held the position of Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Woman and Children in the Medical Department of Bowdoin, and was consulting surgeon to the Maine General Hospital. From 1861 to 1865 he was Surgeon of the First Maine District; was for several years president of the Maine Medical Society, and his contributions to the medical literature of his time were numerous and notable. Dr. Jewett was also a member of the Maine Historical Society. Jewett Genealogy
diaper pattern: In stained glass, a diaper pattern is a repeated background design pattern, often made of square or lozenge shapes.
A Country Doctor: Jewett's novel appeared in 1884.
recalls: See Jewett's 1892 essay, "Looking Back on Girlhood."
IN MEMORY OF FATHER
Dedication of Window Presented to
Bowdoin College by
Sarah Orne Jewett --
Commencement Exercises
Selected from Boston (MA) Daily Globe (26 June 1903, p. 7)
Rev George Lewis: George Lothrop Lewis (1839-1910)
was long pastor of the First Parish Church in South Berwick,
ME. He succeeded Sylvanus Hayward as pastor in 1876, and
he read the sermon at Jewett's funeral in 1909. Bowdoin
College conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of
Divinity in 1904.Dedication of Window Presented to
Bowdoin College by
Sarah Orne Jewett --
Commencement Exercises
Selected from Boston (MA) Daily Globe (26 June 1903, p. 7)
BRUNSWICK, Me. June 25 --
This week's festivities at Bowdoin college ended with the
commencement exercises held today. The drizzling rain kept
many people indoors, but the alumni and friends gathered in
great numbers and the 98th commencement passed off with
great success....
At the close of the exercises the procession again formed and marched to Memorial hall, where dinner was served.
The principal feature was the unveiling of the window presented by Miss Sarah Orne Jewett in memory of her father, Dr Theodore Herman Jewett of the class of 1834, who was at one time professor in the medical department of the college.
The presentation speech was made by Rev George Lewis* of South Berwick, while Prof Henry L. Chapman* received the window for the college. Prayer was offered by Rev Edward B. Palmer*....
Notes
At the close of the exercises the procession again formed and marched to Memorial hall, where dinner was served.
The principal feature was the unveiling of the window presented by Miss Sarah Orne Jewett in memory of her father, Dr Theodore Herman Jewett of the class of 1834, who was at one time professor in the medical department of the college.
The presentation speech was made by Rev George Lewis* of South Berwick, while Prof Henry L. Chapman* received the window for the college. Prayer was offered by Rev Edward B. Palmer*....
Notes
Prof Henry L. Chapman: Henry Leland Chapman (1845-1913) was professor of Latin and English Literature at Bowdoin College, beginning in 1869.
Rev Edward B. Palmer: A graduate of Bowdoin, Edward B. Palmer was a Congregationalist pastor.
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Edited and annotated by Terry Heller, Coe College.