Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-15
COMMENCEMENT AT WATERVILLE
CLASSICAL INSTITUTE.

RFpORTFP
Wateryille. ,Julv IA The Commencement
exercises opened last evening with an address
before the combined Eunbemian and pb;lo-
mathean Literary Societies nv tho Rev Dr
Anderson, of Newton Theological Seminary
at the Baptist church The bousn was ALA
long before the advertised time IN hpoin
Music was furnished by Chambers Rand of
Portland.
The following is brief abstract of Dir
Anderson's address on the subject of Utility
in Education:
"There have been since the DAYS of Lock
two conflicting theories relative to the hest
methods of educating men for practical life
Some have maintained that men sbouId be
trained Immediately for their profession or
pursuits, that all in their Studies that does not
tend to fit them for their chosen calling sbonld
be eschewed Others have taken the broader
pround that the great aim of educatior sborId
he to develon and disc;nl;pa oil those norors
of mind which men nossess in common Tbe
central no;nts of these two theorias arc on-
aoonistic-tba ono aims OF material oavan
tape. the other at the elevation of man with
out resnect 10 materialistic and selfish ends
To secure the latter. such conrse of stndv
| is demanded az will devaIon both roosor aN1
| lanouage the mower of thougbt and 81 ox.
nression Nv almost universal consen+ tbo
studv as tho Mathematics and the CraaL and
Latin lanuuages il host snited m secure tboso
ends. The Physical Science should also be
added, not only for the information which
hey furnish, but also because they stimulate,
research and strengthen the power of gem
eralization. Metaphysics should be regarded
as the GROWING study. Inns demands the
discipline acquired in the previous studies,
| and II applies TO the mind the facts which the
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student has accumulated.
The discipline secured by such course of
study will give the highest success in any
special calling. and will keep men from ex-
aggerated views of those truths with which
| ,%oy NOV, hovn 20 40 IN or,, s,1oo;I an.
ment nf yearn; H ~ ~ III any Sp'''A' uep"''
| If it be said that such course of study
leads men to live in the mast TO the NEGLECT of
,ha rasant :, t IL, thnt -, ~,
'N PiN'S"'' ~ may w 'NP "' M" VI 'S
present live amid the outgrowths of the past.
II 1t be objected that men forget what they
learn in College, 1t is sufficient to say that the
discipline acquired is not lost, even though
the naradims of Greek and Latin verbs tail
from the memory.
A course of study is ateSting process. The
advancing intelligence of the Deople and the
problems arising in the course of orr rational
Ptop'ens arising III 'ne course Vi our hatiohai
history demand that the leaders should have
discipline and broad culture.
Friday at ~ o'clock IN the forenoon took
place the prize deciamations according to the
ioiio"ihe oruer ol eAerclses'
PRAYER.
Mrs,c
/. Our Country's Greatest Glory.
} National 1Inr,5 W " " W
Willie b. Hum phrey, Watcrville
3. Essay. Changes.
Emma A. Chandler Wateryille
4. Launching of the Ship
George f. Youhgman, Waterville.
). Life.
lewis NJ Palmer Litchfed
Nrs,c
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6. Essay. Life.
= ,,..,, -Au" L. "etcheu, "aterNule'
Edwin C. Long. CaIois
s. Defence of the Bible o. ~
Charles :. Andrews Otsaeld
8. The Patriots Password
Henry Hudson Jr t,uilford
10. Essay. Work and Win