Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1869-07-09
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Ihof l&Wls0 So"th"i s"s'' ~
exercfncs a e6l&mencemcnt Week. of
Bates College. elosed Thursday evening,
b1sinf passed oG with entire success.
n, rsembcrs Of ~ graduating class ac-
unlttS1 Themselves admirably, and it Is
the general testimony that the exercises
as whole reflected great credit on the
College, Faculty and Students. The
success Of the College is now assured
aud everything indicates that the instit''-
lion has entered on career of unparal'
leled prosperity. Thanks to the patient
persistent and untiring President. DIR.
Cheney. and thanks TO Mr.. Bates and 9TH
or generous friends, victory has already
appeared.
AT the Commencement al Bates Col
legc, Lewiston. last week, the degree Of
A. b. was conferred upon seven, includ-
ing one young lady. William II. Bolster,
of South Paris, was one of the graduates.
The Lewiston Journal speaks of his part,
ms follows: William Henry Bolster, de-
clared well for ideas and morals. Facts
of sense are not alone real. Thatismost
real that moves and creates. The side OF
Nature so firm and enduring, is only her
passive side. Science teaches that there
is power and fact more eternal than out
wad forms. The forces that maintain
| the Conference of the universe relax in
to chaos. The planets roll in the grooves
of the law. All apparent being is but the
form Of Omnipolcnt force which is God.
The nations of the past have crumbled be-
cause the idea of right WAS not in them.
The great Babylons of ages were vast forts
ungarrisoned with ideas, and they fell.
| A thousand billions of people live on
earth every fifty years this spectral
throng disappear, we know not where.
And we hear of them thereafter, never
Two or three in an age, not the rich, buI
those who have discovered and proclaim
ed truth, liye-like q David or an Isaiah
Too much mindful Of the material, men
miss the baptism of the unseen and ma
tcrial. The triumph of the Galilean
peasant who spoke in dying tongue i
the Divine affirmation of the eternity Of
the Unseen. "My words said he, 'shal
not pass away The Unseen shall never
die. This part was sparkling and bril-
liant; its English perspicuous and its de
livery in harmony with its elev aztec
thoughts. The applause OF the audience
testified general appreciation.
Mary w. Mitchell, of Dover, read Al
excelently written part on Modern Ameri
can Civilization. Miss Mitchell is the
first lady graduate from New England
College, and We rejoice in the persisten
efforts for and success in winning College
honors, rs well as in the fact that Maine
has furnished the College which has allow
ed and satisfied her laudablc ambition
1t is suggestive fact that despite
this illustration OF woman rights II
her appearance on Commencement stage
she had the good taste not 10 Label he
performance "Woman's Right. Miss
Mitchell, we understand, is 4 iiue scholar
In her ''The>i-' she gracefully thanke,
the class for standing by woman al tn
ri>k .oi their own reputation. ia woman
has u taste for music or other ant, she
would have her be a musician or othe
arli-, she s,.cs not why auy more than |
man Every human soul. irrespective o
race. or ,plur. or sex, should have fcl,
for exercise and de, elopement. The per
formance elected applause and fora
testimonials showing that woman car
yet laur al wreatas in the nineteenth cen
fury.