The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-06-24

knows that ne will ultimately be an electcr,
that he will have an equal say as regards the
great movements that are carried on in this
country with anybody else. Soon every female
child will feel that she too will have the same
right A second advantage is philosophical
one. Man was born with capacities, and he
has right to possess the means to develope
them as he has right to the means to nouris h
his body. The natural world is a great, bene-
fcent teacher, and no one can look upon it IN
all its mysterious workings and all its beauties
without being influenced by il, and feeling that
influence is a developing one.
Our system of common schools is grand
one. By that system a world wide university
is created open to the poorest and the mean
est, which all must attend or obtain an equiv
alent education elsewhere. This work. great
as it is, should be supplemented by higher
schools. There should be in every county a
High School, and in every State Free Col
lege, where the students SHOULD receive gratu-
itOusly all the means for the broadcast culture.
This project has only been carried out in an
incipent degree in the form of our Agricultu-
raj Colleges. There young women and
young men thirsting all over the country for
more knowledge than the common school at
foids. They want to drink in larger and treer
draughts from the Perian spring. These
schools should be improved by the State. u al
and energy should not be Withdrawn from the
common schools to be devoted to private edu-
cational establishments. If, said the speaker,
thought the money contributed here yester-
day took away any advantages from our public
schools | should extremely regret il. But
| think that this school supplements the common
schools. Our schools are intendt to increase
| the knowledge of the young by adding to their
store the knowledge of those who have preced-
| ed them. Sir Isaac Newton said he never
should have been able to make the discoveries
| he did if he had not stood on the shoulders of
| giants. We want to send the graduates of this
Seminary home to their farms and workshops
| all aylow with the truths they have learned
| here and prepared to themselves add to the
| literature of their country.
| While speaking of the topic of education I
desire to include practical physiology or the
| laws OF hygiene. The relation OF exercise, diet
| and rest to the mental instruction should be
| insisted on. The hereditary complaints that
atflict mankind are the heavenly rebukes for
outraging the laws of health. The great mis-
take of the day in education is the failure to
teach that it is sinful to violate phi, steal as well
| as mental laws. What countless diseases have
exhausted the copiousness of our dictionaries
to define them. We are not SO healthy as we
ought to be. We don't live out half our days.
Our professors in the colleges should be coad-
tutors of our physicians. Students forget the
laws of health quicker than others, for they get
absorbed by their sudies. The speaker was a
firm believer in muscular Christianity. An
institution like this should obtain opportuni-
ties for broad and liberal culture. 1t is es-
tabshedfor that purpose Thorough instruction
should be insisted upon. The system of study
should be thorough IN all its steps, even if the
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course was not SO extensive. When we give a
diploma to young man or woman at gradual
ton we want it mean something. 1t should
stand for thorough culture" Time should
not confer the parchment, but knowledge
Better graduate five pupils year that are
thoroughly educated than fifty who possess a
smattering of everything. A deep moral Gull
ture should go with the physical and mental.
The consecrating touch of religion must halow
| the studisowhich need religious inspiration
l If 10 q from God n what he
| our requirements, we are like ship at sea
| without rudder or compass. The aroma OF a
{ consecrated and spiritual life going out fro Il
| our teachers is what we need, fitting the stu
dents with spirit that will cOnsecrate them to
lives of usefulness Do we say that man got
| an education simply for the purpose that it
may assist him to acquire living in the east
est way. If such is the truth let US tear down
| our institutions of learning, let us scatter our
libraries, for men will display enough selfish
| ness in the competition of trade without ouI
helping them. No! the education should be
| aided by religion to fit them for a wider career
them forward and upward in the fnifilment Of
the grand mission to which God has called
them.
1 don't believe in having this Sectarian in
| stitutiOn. l would not have Universalism
maintained TO the Students. Religion should
stand out severed from Sectarianism and dog
MATES. We build these institutions that our
children may come here and go away without
the slightest faint of Sectarianism. We want
to teach the beauty of philosophy, literature
and religion in a higher scale. We want peo-
| pie all over the State to feel that they can send
their sons and daughters here without their
receiving any bias. We desire to increase the
| strength OF Universalism, but not his. We
want to manufacture U niversalists, but not here
l close WITH the expression OF another thought
Let US remember the school is to be the hand
maid OF the Church, but above all, around all
| and under all, it shall be our constant purpose
/ devotion
tions that befit them, their feet resting on the
broad principles OF humanity, their heads lifted
| up to heaven, cOnsecratng themselves to God
and man, carrying the blessednes, of the angels
along their pathway W herever they CO.
At the conclusion of the address subscrip
| tions passed in to the Westbrook Seminary
fund, amounting to 50, 49,. The required sum
of $4,000, it will be seen, has been raised, be.
sides large amount for the Murray Fund, al
this Convention. Cyrus Greene of Portland
wanted to give $50 additional to the sum rails
| ed, and was allowed TO do so, and all will bt
permitted to give donations during the whole
| of thsyear. Nineteen thousand dollars have
been raised for Westbrook Seminary the pas
year.
The services in the church closed with the
singing of two stanzas of Old Hundred. The
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ing, where dedcatory prayer was offered by
the Rev. Mr.. Qaimby, of Augusta. For The
benefit of our readers we subjoin the following
condensed description of
sHERsEY HALL.
1t is four-story brick building with granite
| dressings, built in the usual dormitory style
1t is connected with Goddard Hall (Which ha
been used as the ladies' dormitory) by mean
of a one-story brick connection. The new
building is 5Ox100 feet in size, with two en-
frances, the main one, which fronts the north
| and the side entrance, on the west. Entering
the vestbule, the halls run OF right angles
devoting the front and rear of the building t
the spacious parlors and other rooms. TIL
second, third and fourth stories are devoted t
/ the sleeping apartments, fourteen on eac
flight, 15x18 feet in size on the front, an
the opposite ones II 1 2x1S. They are ais
provided with comfortable closets, and there i
besides nice bath room, for the use of the la
dies 10x18 feet. The steam heating apparatus
which is located in the basement of the brio
connection, consists of two Clogston's sixty
horse power boilers, which amply warm all tn
rooms, one used for Hersey Hall while the otf
4 | err warns Goddard Hall. The ventilation an
t | water conveniences are perfect in every roOu
| The woodwork is all of Southern pine, ash an
black walnut. The brick connection, whic
will be used for the dining-hall, is also finshe
in ash and Southern pine, and is 3Ox50 feet i
: size, furnished with convenient pantries, an
!. ante-rooms which will eventually be used for
l laundry, and first-rate kitchen. Circua
, tables will be laid in the dining hall, althous
small square tables are laid at present.
: The following are the parties who did th
work: Granville NJ. Chase, mason work j. "
Thompson, carpenter work; Charles E. Carl
painting; Sheridan & Griffiths, plasterine
, Kilborn & Co., carpetiDgs; Hooper & Eator
, furniture; G. E. Jose & Co., crockery; e. E
Forbes, grading. Messrs I. Washburn, Jr
f N. G. Hichborn and Rufus Durham were tn
building committee, and hey awarded the cor
tract to Mr.. j. W. Thompson, of Stockton, i
: May, 1869. Goddard Hall Will in the futur
be uoed as dormitory for the male pupils
The building cost $4,000, including the brio
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