Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-07-27
Dartmouth College Commence
InPnf.

y
Princeton College was chosen orator Tor
next wear, and ex- Gov. Alexander H. Bull
lock of Massachusetts, substitute.
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
At half-past ten O'clock the College
Church was filled with a large audience
TO listen to the annu4l address. Hon.
James Barrett of Woodstock, Vermont,
President of the Association presided.
PRAYER was offered by Rev. DR.. Barston
of Keenp, n. H We give below an alb
stract of the
ADDRESS OF RICHARD B. KIMBALL, ESQ,
BEFORE THE ALUMNI AssOCI-
ALTON.
7 accented the invitation to address the
Alumni of Dartmouth with an unusual
distrust of myself The occasion is not
AN ordinary oue-I had not to appear be-
fore q literary or scientific association OF
auv sort. I could not properly claim
vour attention with a political subject.
The Younger graduates would be here,
in the freshness of early manhood, with
its eagerness, its hope, its ready facile ac'
ouirement. I should meet the earlier
Alumni men not of different stuff, but
Of tried stuff, plenary men, l may call
them in the flush of their powers, in the
height of their activity; men begrlmed
with the dust Of politics or immersed in
the busy work of professional life; learn
ed men. travelled men, historians, scienti'
fc explorers, critics, philosophers Of many
schools. All active, practical, earnest; who
keep the world moving fast. do not
saw too fast who even now are ready to
pxclaim. Proceed with what you have to
tell III. that we may pass to something
else" aud the veterans, men who had eX-
parinnca; who in many well contested
f4ld have fought their fght-lost or won
it matters not, shattered or staunch.
who proclaim. Let not him that girdeth
ON hi4 harness boast himself "a he that
putteth it off - | repeat, l accepted an
| invitation to address sHch a body with 3
great distrust of myself n welcome re-
| fl .ctiou came opportunely. 1t was that
with every one of you, without exception,
there existed in common with income long
recollpGtiou, comprising perfectly round
cd If. ut u period when life in its sigul-
fcance to the future. might be said al
most t0 begin. On this spot we all achleV-
ed in common q eingle purpose, and from
| here We started to work out what we nave
since b. come. I'VE are brothers, 50
sid to myself, assembling at our own
DArtncuth. where the benches are still
hard and the teachers critical, and the
climate mtinly in keeping: where the
Lola ,allrge hall vet stands monarch, and
the Conuecticut takes As OF yOre Its
picturpgque, winding o0urse-we meet
here. s. resolved to discourse to you
out of nv own heart, with confidence
that if | really did so, [ should strike res'
ponaive chords in yours. l thought TO-
dav we would take q brief SlirCeY of our
college, and looking over past aud present
atte;npt to come to an understanding for
tn. future. I say we, I'VE" for it serms
to me the Alumni are. or ought to be, the
active element of the institution; IN fact
if. comp3uaut7 part, ~ the iuh- bitants OF
a county are of the ration We are not,
it j. true, subiootel to the labor and RES
ponsibilitv of governing, but it leaves u
the more time to serve 1t in other ways.
In the Increased attention paid to the
subject of education, the value of what Is
called 4 classical course has been sharply
called in question by class, who view
every ything from the point OF direct and
immediate utility.
The speaker then ably defended class
ical course. (which briags the mind while
young face to face with the philosophy
and poetry and traditions of antiquity,
connecting it with the past which IL ever
lastinglv linked with the present, in n
a continuitY 80 subtle, yet so unbroken
It is founded in wisdom, and trust no
device of the enemy will ever avail to
modify or imp air it.
He then spoke concerning the Ihaye1
department, the Scientific School and
College of Agriculture, saying that he
welcomed all schools, seminaries and
found 4tions formed to teach whatever is
truly useful, so that young man may
find instruction in every known depart
ment of educ4tion
He remarked upon the change in
opinion duriug the past fifty years con
cerping physical education. Formerly
little attention was paid to this, now nc
college is considered complete without its
gymnasium, aud Dartmouth has one OF
the best. But there is one element in re-
spect to which we are far behind the
teachings of Plato in the grove of Acad
emus. 1t ia the education of the under
stnnding-the we-our proper self
Above all the claims of the intellect
transcending all its yearnings for know
ledge, even of good and evil, apart from
all agitation of ethics, towers want.
{ 1t il the requirement of the Ego, de
manding instruction for the inner life
not in reference to this or that faculty
but to the whole circumference of it
being with child, youth, man the life o
the one is all there is of him as an identi
ty. Whatever he achieves outslde o
e himself, whether be becomes famou
= lawyer, physician, priest, or subtle phi
, osopher, an engineer of repute, dis
tinguished soldier or sailor, cunning IN
ventor, politician, statesman or politi
;, cal economist, whether engaged in me
chanical pursuits or in affairs ; withll
all this busy parsphernalia of labor, shu
carefully in it's own casing, utterly dis
: connected with its own machine work,
l. Eq0n1et. 1t is what over everything els
= requires educating, and over everythin
> else it is neglected. The neglect of thi
education brings daily its lamentable rt
q sults-our active men become materlalist
J In the turmoil of this worlds arena, th
/. doctrine that the universe is self-exister
n and self-directed falls over the sense bu
, there comes time to material p,whe
!. bis occupation no longer serves, he cas-,
e about for something higher, and flnd
e there is nothing left to look up to, to clin
= to, to hope from. He would remedy tn
>. evil by the introduction Of new elemer
of education into our college proper. ID
} would erect professorship of humanit,
/ and fill it with men carefully selecte'
D men truly educated, of heart and feeling
J, who would know how to appeal to huma