Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-07-14
COMMENCEMENT At BOWDOLN co.,
LEGE.
Brunswick, July 10, 1870.
To the Editor of the Journal.

a LEGE.
Brunswick, July 10, 1870.
To the Editor Of the Journal.
The weather to-day has been as propitious
as could be desired by those attending Com
mencement. A large number of the friends
of the institution have been in town to wit
ness the graduating exercises of the class of
1870
The class numbers thirty members, all of
whom, with the exception of one, are from
Maine. They presented a fine appearance on
the stage, and their parts were of very high
tone. The following was the order of exer-
cises, few of the parts being omitted on &C
count of the excusal of certain members of
the class:
EXERCISES FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF
ARTS.
Moore, Lewiston
3. Grafton The Political Influence of Romanism
William Edwin Frost, Norway
4. Dissertation. Genius of Dante. George Wheel
wright Hobson, saco. .
D. D cbaras Edwin BsaIe an' Present
8. Literary Disquisition. Rome and America.
Lucen Howe, Brunswick. 1890
7. Philosophical Disposition. Alchemy Wills
Howard Meads, 3. Limington.
s. Grafton. Religious Liberty, Charles Franklin
Gilman, Portland
10. Grafton Effects of the Crusades upon Europe.
Albert Gray ,Jr,, Harrison ..
f. Redman, Ellsworth.
r. Disquisltion science and Speculation. Everett
Hammons, Bethel Hill.
49, Literary Disposition. Philosophy of Reform.
DeAIva 5. Alexander, Defiance o.
IA. Philosophical Dsquisition The Chinese CUES
Is. Grafton. The Fanatic Civilizer, Joseph
w. Keene Bremen.
l6. Music.
H. Grafton. Sacrifice, the Condition of Progress.
Burdus II. Mecher, Brunswick
IS. Discussion. Effects of Inventions and Dlscoy-
cries, John II. Gooch, Yarmouth.
10. Dsguisition. Capital Punishment Failure
Walter +. Holmes, Oxford.
90. Literary Disquisition Beauty. lie Roy T., Col
81 Philosophical Disquisition. Trial by Jury.
William E. Spear, Rockland.
%. Grafton Confucius. James A. Roberts, water
borough,
%. Music.
"a. Grafton. Antagonism between Faith and Sci
ence. Alonzo q. Whitman, Auburn:
IS. Dissertation. Sir Walter Raleigh. Edward B.
Weston, Gorham.
26. Discussion. Proportional Representation. Ca
leb A. Page, Burlington.
Mind Davis 7. Timberlake 5. Iivermore.
%. PHILOSOPHICAL Disqusitlon julius Caesar
L.
90 Grafton The Vital Force. Edwin C. Wood.
ward, Damarlscotta
30. Music.
EXERCIsEs FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS.
81. Grafton. George T. Sewall A. b., Odtown.
81 Naledctory Grafton IN Latin. Henry ). Web
ster, A. b.. Augusta.
After the exercises the Alumni, including
the graduating class, repaired to the new
Memorial Hall, where the time honored COM
mencemcnt dinner was holden, the place be-
ing roomy and airy and in marked contrast
with the cramped quarters occupied hereto
fore. The dinner was superior one, being
prepared in Fields best style. There were
present at the dinner about $50. After sing
ing to the tune of St. Martin, the hymn, com
mencing, 'Let children hear the mighty
deeds" President Harris welcomed the sons
of Bowdoin to their old home, and to seats in
the building not yet finished, but which he
trusted would soon be complete in all its fair
proportions He thought the Alma Mater was
in good health, and trusted that the newborn
sons sent out to-day, thirty in number; would
have cause to be proud of her.
The President then called upon Governor
Chamberlain. The governor said he felt in a
somewhat constrained position-his desire
was to be at the other end of the hall, among
the members of his own class.
The relations of the State to the College |
were of the most friendly character; she re-
CARDS the institution as a fountain of wisdom |
and nursery of manhood. Education is
being directed and encouraged more and
more by the State. He alluded in touching
commemorate the glorious deaths and the
deathless fame of those who were bound to
him by the dearest ties, who have gone not
down, but up, and whose names shall not
only be inscribed in marble in this hail. but
engraven on true hearts. Thoughts like
these do not provoke utterance, but make the
tongue dull and the heart too full for speech. !
The former President of the College, Leon
ard Woods, said tha, after an absence Of four
years he was glad to be seated again at a
Commencement dinner, surrounded by the
old familiar faces. The place is new, the
dinner is different from that partaken of
thirty years ago. but the scenes are about the !
same. He was glad that 'this wandering
heart had come to resting place, and for the !
years to come the table will be set within
these massive walls. He alluded in compl-
mentary terms to the Governor, and the man
ner in which as an educated gentleman and
graduate of Bowdoin, he had magniied his
high office. He trusted that still higher posi- |
tons in public life awaited HIM. In the
course of his remarks, he said that graduates
of colleges, like other men, are self-made,
without regard to the character of their in
structors.
Hon. Nehemiah Cleaveland of Boston, class
of 'l3, said that he saw here but few, alas, how
few of those with whom he held sweet con-
verse in the long, long ago, The longer he
lived the more firmly he believed in the col
leges of New England. He had ne sympa-
thy with the would be retormers who would
do away with the distinctive studies pursued
at our colleges.
Hon C. w Goddard of Portland class of