The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-07-24
Colby University.
COMMENCEMENT DINNER.

COMMENCEMENT DINNER.
The trustees, alumni and Invited guests sat
down to dinner at 2 p. m. in the spacious and
elegant Alumni Hall. AT the request of Pres
ident Robins the Alumni Association appoint
| ed the President of the dnner-Hon. Mark III.
Dunnel of Minnesota. After dinner MI. Dun
| nell called the company to order with happy
| words of pleasure and congratuation, and pre-
sented President Robins. who took occasion to
express his acknowledgements to President
| Champlin, his predecessor, to the Faculty and
| the Trustees for the assistance afforded him
during the year, and especially to Gov. Coburn
whose name evoked warm applause-for lis
kindness and munifcence.
Gov. Dingley and Hon. Hannibal Hamlin
spoke hearty words of encouragement and con-
graduation. Ex-President CAamplin avowed
continued and permanent interest in the col
lege, and pointed out seve, al difficulties which
| must be met. The multiplication of colleges in
| the state tends to lower the Standard of admis-
| sion and to induce changes in courses of study
| to meet popular fancy. He believed in going
| at the roots of things Latin and Greek, math-
ematics and me aphysics are essential to lib
| eral education, and are the foundation OF thor
| ough culture.
Hon. j. G. Blaine, whose entrance was greet
| ed with vigorous applause. after little prelim-
mary rencontre with Mr.. Dunnell, said that
| Colby stands at the head of the colleges
which keep to the good old path of sound
learning and discipline. The great colleges
are pretty much given up to boobies and rich
mems sons At Harvard or Yale students
| annual expenses are $1,000 or $780, At the
college in Pennsylvania where the speaker
graduated, he paid less than $500 for his four
years course. Henry Winter Davis, the most
accomplished parliamentary orator of the CEN
fury, paid less than $83 per year during his
course in western college. Mr.. Blaine be-
lieved in fitting schools as most valuable to the
college from the gregarious tendency of classes.
He wanted to send his boys here, but they had
got into fitting schools whose classes went else
where, and he felt constrained to yield to their
intense feeling on tie subject of going with
their classmates. Colby is clearly the first col
lege of Maine. He was glad to see that the
students were not dawdling away large part
of their time in solving the problem whether
they should row more or less than thirty-eight
strokes to the minute He was glad to see
that common sense was il. the ascendant in the
college, as typified by the President Of the
Board of Trustees, Gov. Coburn.
Seeeches were also made by DIR. Caldwell of
Newton, Prof Mathews and Prof. Mitchell of
Chicago, Hon, A. Fl. Briggs OF Boston and
many others of the alumni and friends of the
college The tone of all the speeches was most
cheerful and glowing anticipltions We're tx
pressed of the future of the college which was
never in SO good condition and which seems to
be entering upon an era of unprecedented
growth and prosperity.
MIR. TiltOn's Recent Defence Of His Wife.
Mr.. Beecher's friends promptly point out Ger
tain inconsistencies in Mr.. Tilton's written
statements at various times concerning his wife.
which the general public will be sure to note.
At the close of 1872 two years after the receipt
of the document called Mr. Beechers apology,
Mr.. Tilton wrote the following:
No. liza LIVINGSTON STREET,
Brooklyn, Dec n, 1872 !
My COMPLAINING FRIEND: Thanks for your
| good letter of bad advice. You say, "How easy
to give the lie TO the wicked story and thus end
| it forever But stop and consider. The story
| is whole library OF statements "a hundred or
| more-and it would be strange if some of them
1 were not correct, though doubt if any are
| 10 give gtueral Qenlal 10 Sucn an ebcyciOpcP
| dia of assertions would be as vague and irrele-
| want as to take up The Police Gazette, with its
| "a pages of illustrations, and say, This is all
| he" So extensive a libel requires, if answered
at all, special denial of its several parts; and,
furthermore, 1t requires, in this particular case.
| not -Ouly denial of things msstated, but a
| truthful explanation of the things that remain
unstated and in mystery. Ia other words, the
| false story, if met at all, should be confronted
and COMPOUNDED by the tue one. Now, my
1 sneak.
| truth is a sword, Gods mercy sometimes COM
mands it sheahed. If you think do not burn
to defend my wife and little ones, you know not
| the fiery spirit within me. But my wifes heart
is more fountain of charity and quenches all
| reseutments. She says, "Let there be no suffer-
| ing save to ourselves alone, aud forblds a VIM
dication to the injury CT others. From the be-
| ginning she has stood with her hand on my
lips, saying, "Hush!' So when you prompt
| me to speak for her. you countervall her more
| Christian mandate of silence. Moreover, after
all, the chief victim OF the public dispeasure
is myself alone, and so long as this is happily
the case shall try with patience to keep my
answer within my own breast, lest it shoot forth
like tnunderbolt through other hearts.
Yours truly THEODORE TILToN.
In the famous tripartte agreement printed
on the Both Nay, 1873, Mr.. Tilton said:
II. And l, Theodore Til'on, do. of my free
will and friendly spirit toward Henry G.
Bowen and Henry Ward Beecher. hereby COW
by word of mouth or otherwise, any OF the
| allegations, or imputationS, or innuendoes con
| tanned in my letter hereunto annexed, or any
| other injurious lmputations allegations sug-
! gtsted by growing out of tn ese-and that l
will never again bring up or hint at any cause
of difference or ground of complaint her tofore
| existing between the said Henry G. Bowen
and myself, or the said Henry Ward Beecher.
In MIR. Tilton's long letter to DR.. Bacon,
printed in the N. Y. Tribune on June 26, Mr..
Titon reseniing reference to bis wife by the
clerk of the Plymouth Church. said
At first, / was not willing to believe that the
| clerk of the Ply mouth Church-the same Off
Ger whose name had been officially signed TO all
| the documents which the church had just been
sending TO the Council-could have been guilty
of SO giea, an outrage against truth and de-
cency as the above paragraph contained-par-
ticulary against lady who devout religious
faith and life at the furthest possible re-
| move from spirituasm fanatcism of any
| kind.
FIRST HoP-The first hop of the season will
take place at the Kiarsage House, North Con-
way, Saturday evening" Carriers Band of Bos-
| ton will furnish music.
Conway is fast Cling up. There are from
one hundred and fifty to two hundred at the
Kearsage every night, and the other hotels and