The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-11-29
Colby ipersity.
Portland, Nov, %.


The exhibition of the Senior class, Colby
University, with the honorary Junior parts oc
CURED on Tuesday evening the 18th inst, il
the Baptist church, music being furnished by
| the Weber Quartette. The opening prayer was
offered by President Robins who invoked the
| Divine blessing upon the college in all its in
terests and upon the advancement OF learning
| throughout the nation. The speakers from the
| class were C. I'll. Case Cochrane, Herrick, In
graham, Koopman, Mcdonald and Trask
From the Junior class, Evans, Coburn and
Wilson, Miss Jennie M. Smith, daughter OF
Prof. s. X. Smith, and to whom had been as
| signed the Greek part, " as excused.
Evans gave a Latin version OF the perofaton
of Eschnes De Corona, pronouncing it with
great ease and distinctness and holding the
closest attention of the audience.
Case said that the greenback theory starts
with a wrong definition of money, neglectinS
the fact that it must be a measure of value.
Two qualities are essential to true money, first,
that it should be of a substance stable in value,
and second, in convenient and durable form.
Gold and silver answer these requirements but
inconvertible paper money never can. All at
tempts in the past to use cheap money have in
variably ended in failure.
Coclrane referred to the national evils aris-
ing from Asiatic immigration, sectional enml-
ty, Catholicism, socialism and communism;
but held that these forces would in no way
gain the ascendency owing to the salutary and
deep-rooted principles of true American char
acter, such as civil liberty, education, etc.
Herrick treated of an Icelandic legend. The
Vouspa, the Iliad of the North 1t teaches a
dualism of good and evil forces which are to
meet in final contest the Ragnarok. He al
so showed the parallelism between this contest
and the prophecy of the Christian Apocalypse.
This dualism nourished spirit OF freedom and
rendered Professionalism possible.
Coburn gave a French version of part OF
the third Olynthiac. His pronunciation was
very fine but slight natural impeachment in
his articulation might have detraeted some
what from the interest on the part of those not
personally acquainted with him.
Ingraham gave clear and concise recital OF
the causes of modern scepticsm and also
summed up the principal points which furnish
conclusive REPUTATION. His delivery was
characterized by his usual earnestness.
Koopman said that the mind sees in its OBJ
iects a reflection of itself. He spoke of the
Irony of Nature in its mockery OF m ms wants,
bodily and spiritual. One ignorant OF the
world sees man as noble and in nature re-
Election of mans divinity Awakening to a
knowledge of sin, nature becomes beautiful
mockery. Then its mask of beauty drops Off
and it becomes an image of death. The re-
action: natures beauty comes back established
on a foundation of reason, and faith is strength
ened, never more to be shaken.
Wilson, in a version from Lacordare, said
that unet6 Is no uOctflit III WIioh
and faith are not mutually dependent upon
each other. This is shown in the physical sci
ences by the fact that we know nothing about
the body except as we look at its outward APP
pearance. This is true also of the Phvsiologi-
cal sciences. Finally, when we consider the
logical basis of all knowledge, we have to fall
back upon axioms which cannot be explained.
Mcdonald began by relating NEUROLOGICAL
legend of dreaded current which was ever
setting toward lonely rock in the Oceanus.
He made the application to currents OF opinion
in philosophy. One of the great turning points
is that concerning the origin OF knowledge.
The cognition of the spirStual knowing agent
directly in consciousness, and of the body
through sense-perception, are the fundamental
principles and conditions and the only ade-
ouate testimony to the relations of mind and
matter. This is the fortress which can never
be taken.
Trask dwelt upon the two forces. aristocracy
and democracy, which have ever been at war
for the regulation of human society He
showed the latter to be the more BETTING, and
referred. as proof of his position, to the history
of mankind both ancient and modern.