The Portland daily press., 1867-08-16
The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity

ls The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity
was conferred upon ~
Rev. Nathaniel Milton Wood, Thomaston
Prof. Geo. Dana Boardman Pepper, Newton.
Mass.
Rev: ARENAS Wyman Sawyer, New Lon
don, N. III.
AT the commencement dinner, remarks were
made by General Caldwell, who was present
as the representative of the State Government,
Governor Chamberlain having been called
away by the death of brother; by the Rev.
DIR. Weston, of Madison avenue, New York:
by the Rev. Mr.. Fulton, of fremont Temple,
Boston; and by the Hon. j. w. Merrill, late
mayor of Cambridge, who endowed the Mer-
rill professorship of chemistry three years ago.
The most remarkable feature of these post
prandial exercises was the unjustfiable attack
which Messrs. Weston and Fulton chose to
make upon Col. Higginson the orator Of the
previous evening. Col. Higginson, it is well
understood, does not sympathize theologically
with the Baptists He was invited by the un-
dergraduates of the college, who are not un-
animously of the Baptist way of thinking, to
address them. With a proper regard for the
prophecies of the occasion he selected purely
liter ry topic, @Style," and treated it as impair
TALLY and as ably as could be desired
The sight of hereto however seems to have
affected these two reverend gentlemen as the
sight OF a red flag might affect pair of angry
bulls. They could not charge him with utter
ing heresy, for he had uttered nome So they
abused him as member of the Boston Mutual
Admiration Society. Mr.. Weston thought it a
pretty piece of presumption in Col. Higgnson
to undertake to tell the students of Colby Uni
versity anything about "style," and Mr.. Fulton
would like to know why he came here praising
hawthorne and Macaulay, and had never
word to say of such Baptist lights as John Fos-
ter and Francis Maryland! In short the pair
could have made no more remarkable display of
petty malice, if they had been brace of reject
ed contributors to the Atlantic Monthly. There
was general expression of regret among the
friends of the college, that their annual festival
should have been disturbed by an exhibition
SO untimely, needless and uhehristian. 1t is
not the place, at apublic dinner, to bring up
partisan or seetarian differences There are
other arenas for the settlement of such contro-
versles. sd4 slcu slsw 9d aai3fS tel
The deficiency on the subscription for the
new chapel was announced by President
Champlin to be $1,000, or as the estimates are
now supposed to be about 81, 600 too low, Sill
200. Governor Coburn accepted challenge
from Mr.. Colby, and agreed to pay $1,000
towards closing the gap. Professor
Smyth,. Of Bowdoin College, made
an. encouraging speech, in the course of
which he stated that the subscription for the
Memorial Hall at Brunswick has reached 1928, :
600 while $4,000 will be required for the CON-
pletion of the building. Small subscriptions
amounting to some hundreds of dollars were
received after the dinner. TTas-7s es9f9s s.f q
The trustees held an adjourned meeting yes
terday afternoon, at which the matter of divid-
ing the labors of the proiessorshipi of Latin
and Greek, and OF the professorship of nathe-
MATES and natural philosophy, and of arrang-
ing an elective course of study for the last two
years, was considered and referred to a COM
mittee, who were Instructed to report next
year. aia hag 9is99l sid RI itf
Mrs. Mariner was received at the concert
last evening by house packed from flour to
ceiling. At later hour the Presidents levee
called together the last gathering of the occa-
sion. t ..,s..,.f, -5ls.t MA
Sixteen candidates for admission to the
Freshman Glass were examined Tuesday after
noon. SEBATTIs.