The Portland daily press., 1872-07-10

1t is stupid to cut ourselves entirely from TIT
past, or TO fancy we can do. 1t is equally
fatal to shut ourselves up in the past. Th'
spirit of the past has been full strong in oul
systems of education. The mOnastry is not ex
actly the proper making school for the thinker
1t was good in its day and power. But the
days come in which men can work. The evi
Tendencies of the cloisters made great mischief
with the old college This is an age of science
the works of scientific and philosophical meI
must advance and carry out the method of God
Law is love. Principle is God.
In this age we must do our work We mus
understand it. We must take hold of this we cal
science and which makes knowledge. To fit a
man for these countless activities, he must
know something more thar the past, and the
wisdom of the ancientS. In four years course
student must slight the past and not the
present. We have fashioned our new course by
this plain demand ;but in building this we do not
tear down the old. The times have changed
since that course of instruction was laid out and
the question for us is whether there may not be
other courses that might also be worthy OF
something better than ScOrn. Education is for
the man and consists chiefly of discipline. The
questions now clear whether there is only that
one course prescribed in an age for difference
from ours to which every man shall be brought
who aspires TO liberal, active and disciplinary
powers. These earnest young men who seek
the new course seek not to avoid discipline.
They want to acquiru discipline from students
of present activities.
The Persian the Hindoo and the Hebrew
might be worth a mans time for discipline
But would not dare to say man could not
have liberal education without that.
Life is Short and man must be disciplined in
the way he is to walk and he may be trained
as well in those things specially diverted to his
calling. The finances will not allow every man
to thread the labyrinths of knowledge. There
fore cannot say to the young man who comes
to me across his native meadows and not by
Pm n nd hot a too
may have part in he harvest times of the world.
sit down with me and see if there is not in the
English tongue heroic words and inspiring his
tory, no less than literature, science philosophy.
L frankly tell yon believe. the college should
not be conservative in receiving this system.
In wilderness of options he is lost, so we
have laid out certain paths. Woman too should
have high part in the calling, because in this
sphere of things her rights, her capacities, her
offices, her destiny are equal to those OF man.
his guide, his better soul. BY her own right,
however, she inherits here not as the sister of
man but as the daughter of God
This is my ideal for the college-that it may
indeed be a lofty seeker after truth, but more
than all a litter up of man. 1 fear not the age
with all its hot haste. Let it come and stir all
minds and all heads. Let it be a new Elizabe-
than age. Dazzling discoveries, broadening
scence-swift following inventions, arts multi
plying, civilization, advancing, new fields of
thought and labor, new prizes of courage,
,a sseorSs IF tnn toll s sIo ia aspects
eled to thought. Let Vulcan still smite the
brain of iron and the Goddess of all the arts
leap full panoplied into life
God grant that we may do do our part. Broth
er Alumni, let old feuds be forgotten, let love
and royalty rally us here. Joined hands make
warm hearts, make liberal hands. Let the peo-
pie understand the college.
1t is not rich mans college, but one where
we would that all, rich and poor alike, might
be trained for mans highest state. 1t is not a
sectarian but christian college. 1t is not
place to make orthodox Though it has done
that too in its day and can do it again. but is
a place to make men masters of themselves
and ministers of all good.
Let her reach high only never to
forsake the earth but be like the ladder of Pa
ascend and descend to make known the things
of God to the thoughts of man-one foot still
on the earth where are tolls and cares make us
fall asleep even upon the stones, the other
reaching unto heaven whittier our dreams as
pire.
BANGOR, July 9.-Daniel Haines, the young
man who was so fearfully mutilated by circu-
lar saw at Morses' mill on the 9TH of june, died
os his injuries to-day.
BOY Drowned.
GARDINER, July 9.-Frank Collins, son of
Henry Collins, of this place, a lad about fifteen
years of age, was drowned in the Cobbossee
stream this noon while bathing. The body was
short time after but life was ex-
tinct
Snicide of n Maine Man.
BOSTON, July 9-James o. Perry of Camden,
aged %, lately employed as clerk in Boston,
shot himself this morning at the Warwick