The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-11
BOWDOIN COLLEGE.
Inauguration of Its Annual Come
mencement Exercises.
The Barcalaurtate Sermon-A Fierce Blast
Against Communism.

ana the streets OF the little town from which date
this letter crowded with the intellect and beauty
OF half the State. As would be washington wlthouJ
Its Capitol New York without rs regular editi0ns
| OF the HERALD, so would be this rural locality H
| deprived of its college buildings and their occu~
| pants upon whom the rustcs hereabouts acquire
their living. Somewhat after the English fashions
every drapers shop adorned with the sign 'ail0N
to the College, and every periodical vender styles
his place of business "The University Book Stores
During the greater portion OF the year Brunswick IT,
almost entirely deserted By the iiterate world out>
| side, and vanda stranger dares TO set his fooa
within the town limits unless he has friend who ID
pursuing his studies at the university As Is gener-
ally The case the students and towns people are for
the most Of the time AT loggerheads with each other
and the derisve eplthet of "jagger" hurled at onsf
Of tire latter Is pretty to provoke an Ouandoue
| fight. But when the collegiate year Ia completed
and the victims no longer be made subjects or
extorton all pa; ties settle down into quiet deter
mnation to bury the Ratchet. Hence 1t is that the
annual recurrence OF inc commencement exercises
makes
GALA MEEH
for the country round about The alumni OF the
colege-and there are nearly seventeen hundred Of
them, twO-thirds OF whom follow the learned proA
fessions-nOck hither In scores and hundreds, anG
bring with them the fair ones Of their houses
holds to witness the scenes which edu-l
now occupy. The Governor comes hitheF
In solemn state, and all the bgwgs OF the Supreme
Bench and the leading lights OF the medical proI
fess0n arrive. BlackstOnes and scalpels In hand To
examine into the merits Of those who to succeed
them In power and in place; for, be IL known,
BowdOin College has exercised o commanding in4
nuence IN the aalrs Of the land. One Of its gradu;
ates, Franklin PIERCE has been President of tina
United States, and the place where he wasted few
outt n,cu iflo1o tv$ ori,ln -
wooden building Is often proudly pointed out to
admrlng visitors. Then. too. there were lamented
win lam Pitt Fessenden and Nathaniel Hawthorne,
8. 3. Prentiss and the author OF "Hawatha,'s
J. s. q. Abbott jonathan Cllley, J. r
Hale, John A. Andrew ana hundreds Of Others
statesmen, poets, historians and eccIeAastlcat
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. names nave resOunded wherever
the English language Is spoken. or local celebrity,
there CHIEF Justice Appleton and nearly all of his
COLLEAGUES on The Bench, the Rev. Samuel Harris
now Preside mt Of the college, Etha Snepey George
Evans, Ex-Governor Joshua L. Chamberlain. and
many fully as worthy Of mention did space permit A
large majority OF the representatives Of Maine botn
education At this college, and their Alma Mater may
well be proud Of the record which they nave msde.i
triDutsd nobly to the defence Of the Union.
One Of its professors, General Joshua l. Guam
galantry and faithful service, and still another
graduate. General o. o. Howard, Is yet in the em1
great honor upon the institution from when he
sprang. The hundreds OF braves who lost their
lives while sustaining the supremacy of the cOnstix
tuition held In grateful remembrance py tho
people. so, you see,
ia quite Institution after ALI Its buildings are
located on an elevated plain, within miles Of tn
toon Of soldiers, with the Memorial Hail few rods
IN trout vi the centre. They are six in number and
hall above mentioned being the only excep-
Tons. ihese latter are firm and substantial
many pretenslons to Architectural beauty. Ths
usual campus contains ten acres OF wooded
By the Legislature OF Massachusetts, Of winch Maine
was then province, and derives It's name from a
President Rev joseph MeKeen Day Was Installed nrs
1902, with class of eight Students and building
AS years rolled on larger accommodations were
made requisite. The Maine Medical School united
Its forces with those Of the co ege library, now
procured. and the university placed In the fun
tide OF success. President McKeen resigned 1907
and in 1889 the Rev. Leonard Woods assumed tho
Samuel Harris, Congregational Doctor OF Divinity.
UNCONVENTIONAL under his auspices \
THE REGULAR EXERCISES
OF the week opened to-day with the delivery Of the
Daccaiaureate sermon by President Harris, from the
text found In Matthew Xxx, 27-"And whoever will
be chief among you let HIM be your servant:r--
Christian law Of service" which the reverend speaker de-
tue %o es hRs ssn u.
ton dcas D sy II. sa: S SnS% n ssSG
had Wa IN ancient civilization families and races who
Ior families has been the great struggle W Of
PGen ss
ment The motto Of modern civilization open to
t boz, sss ru, su' h principle itself be
vsr,; Individual liberty sesseron every one Grabbing
a so Sa1 sS Sy a MILITANT the rights
81 Starving s We VIII provide yonr food in the poohoue
s:ys GA; /.
"s ., nSsS
IrU% EO,srpmsn, Tesppsars In social sphere
gained Cha. he Becoming
@ s se 'sn
da H on sde aod asS u v '0gt
many 4ns sentiments they smSazon on ,SeIr Ssn-
Without The % 1H ss, f.f S %s' into No III. ss
e @ 10 R: 10 ID sf
sy they proclaim 1L that rights belong society tho
cie;y ana exists only as ia tool they proS. The Ola
the matters not bow excellent principle embodied
s for Ii: @ sns II. on s
then they are only the Old oppression in form Com
eonaS Sn Tssa Ss
saS I'm nacS y s@s
is the lifting Of infsrlorty to supremacy BY the power
Gaining and a'n sss
away enter IT, and making human human rrasre:s @
possible Thus Communism which the OF
society under real evil resorts to the old methods Of force
evil in the Communist methods Of Fighting It be
only by Christianity The Christian law of ia the
Under prevalence individual liberty rights
acknowledged career is open to tens the greatest
stimulus to individual enterprise and development eSists
yet individual s followed IN all his acquisitions BY the
ans w Of srd s sss % "a
he atains to render service to men. The evil can
10 removed ONLY rs individuals freely obey this law.
There no progress Of society except the mem
bcrs OF society become freely confomed the spirit and
of Christ The auestion brought before Chrcndom IN this
startling demonstration be met BY the young men now
entering active life. II trivial conflict which VIII
involve and demands OF every wel wsher 10 humanity
the careful study of the Gospel law OF service cordl
acceptance and earnest incubation The Tact that