The Portland daily press., 1882-06-28

pipe of peace, and address to the lower classes
completed the most enjoyable entertainment
of this week. Following was the order of ex-
ercises:
Music
Prayer.
Music.
Class Grafton ................'....'W W. Czi ihhDfooA
Music ss oby By VI G. Phiibrcot Words by Miss Leland
Glass Poem. .......... .....,,,.-.. f. W. Farr
Music.
AFTERNOON EXERCISES ON THE CAMPUS.
Promenade Concert.
Ode-Air Dartmouth Hall.
Smoking Pipe of Peace.
Music.
Address to Under-Graduates ........ Fl. s. Weaver
Ode-A1r Ye Juniors to Ye Props, and Ye Preps
to Ye Juniors.
Parting Address ......-.... +. N. Fletcher
Parting Cheer.
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
The Alumni meeting was held at o'clock
this afternoon, in the chapel. Rev. A. X. P.
Small of Fall River, Mass, delivered an elo-
quent Grafton on the life and services of James
T. Champin, D. D.. long president of Colby,
to whose energy, scholarship and financial
ability the present prosperous condition of the
institution is largely due. The Alumni chose
the following officers:
Presidential. W. Sawtelle.
Vice Psesident-Chares V. Hanson.
Secretary and Treasurer Prof. e. W. Hall.
Necrologist-Prof. O. E. Hamlin.
Prudential Committe- Hon. Reuben Foster,
j. G. Soule, Esq, Rev. VIM. o. Aver.
Six of the alumni have died within the year.
ADDRESS OF THE NEW PRESIDENT.
The address of DIR. Pepper this evening was
the eliminating point of interest in the pro-
ceedings. The church was crowded to over
| o,J b1 uaI anr1d nt fail
to feel that master mind was henceforth to
be at the head of Colby-a man endowed with
great courage, clear ideas, strong convictions
and honesty Of purpose.
President Pepper sgnifed his accept
ance of the office in few well chosen SEN
teuces, and expressed his firm trust in God, to
whom he looked for guidance in his new field
of labor. He paid fitting tribute to the
memory of j. T. Champlin, ID. D., and refer
red to the noble work of DR.. Robins, his imme-
diate predecessor in office. He then said: Our
university, so-called, is predominantly collegi-
| ate in its work, and will SO remain for some
| years to come. AS a college it is both imperso-
| nal and personal. 1t has charter and char
| tered rights; corporate existence, instituted
| by man for the benefit of man. 1t is q soulless
| corporation, neither loving nor beloved. On its
personal side it must have personal life, sim
| gle, continual and multiplex; a unity OF indi-
| viduals, each filling and fitting into needed
| place, and all working harmoniously together
for common purpose. On its personal side,
| the college loves and is loved cherishes and is
| cherished. 1t has the will and wisdom to work
! and win.
| The American college proper is entirely dis
tinct from any and all other institutions. 1t
has its own rank, work, place and character.
The American college is the expression OF
| American life at its present and most normal
condition It's function is to give what is
(! called in technical phrase, liberal education
| IDIx Eka dam
tai characteristics of liberal education are
catholicity, symmetry and vitality. By catho-
lcity we denote the scope and comprehensive
ness of education; by symmetry, the due rela-
to one another; and by vitality the informing
life and power peryading the whole and con-
| stituting it a living power and force.
There is only one period in life during which
such education can be given-during the time
from the state of early youth to early man
hood-not before eighteen or beyond the age of
twenty-five.
| The college takes from our homes the high
! est and best of our sons and daughters. Those
| having the promise and potency of highest
| life and of mightiest influence There she re-
! tains them for four years, under the influence
| of her formative forces. Shall she, intent on
higher ideals, exclude from her care the body?
! To her shame, be it said, she sometimes has.
! Thus it became the badge and glory of her stu
dents to be pale-faced, hollow-chesked, sunken-
1 eyed, spindle-shanked, perpendicular, slightly
animated and very insignificant corpses. AS
though Corliss engine could be run at full
power on rickety, creaking frame, ready to
/ fall in pieces; as though that were christian
! civilization which so dishonors the body that
! Christ so honored in his works and words.
Righteous the condemning outcry against such
| cruel, lingering torture. Physical culture
| paws in the fruits of mental culture, moral
tone and good order That higher life to
which bodily life is instrumental. our true life
and world life must be the object of collegiate
nurture. Our education must have complete
ness of scope 1t is possible in collegiate
| course to lead young man up to that point OF
vision from which he can see all the kingdoms
of the world and their glory at single COM
prehcnsive view, and they'wi be made to APP
pear, not as Satan's s,but as Gods. The college
should not lead the student off and of into the
| minute details which belong to the specialist.
! 1t must be clear, definite and exact in teach
| ing the fundamental truths and principles OF
its various departments. Physical science
should have an honorable place in the course OF
| study, but the study of human life and human
action should hold an equally important place
with the study of the world formed by man
and the world framed by man go as the world
which consists of man. For II man be moth
ing there is nothing for man. 1t man be moth
! ing then for man everything is nothing. The
| college should lay bare the roots OF nihilistlc
| superstition by bringing the being OF self into
! the distinctive view of self. The college is not
| theological seminary, neither is 1t a profes-
| sonal school of any kind, but 1t has TO 90 with
truth in its elements and foundations. IL mas
tbs, sfore to declare him who is the source OF
| ali lth. Education to be organic must have
vita Va simple life must reign in all the
stue $ and bind them.together in unity. Ii
/ cou: succeed course without logical sequence
we snail have mob of separate schools. Let
| the student omit or take what he will as taste,
| time or fancy may dictate, then farewell to
symmetry, vitality and unity.
A brilliant disintegration is the fasnlon-
plausbility advocates 1t, inpatient license
Graves it, 1t is gaining, but as sure as nature
is nature and law is law the college will hold
| its Llace and way and will be in the end as 1t
is now, college and not catch all. The
faculty of the college are not only to be the
faculty, but to have the faculty, and it is to be
the faculty, not faculties. a unity. 1t is to ex-
ist for the college, not for other and outside
! ends. 1t should have the faculty OF education
and instruction, snot simply to cram empty
words into hallow skulls but to awake the
mind, direct reason and develop the power to
investigate and reach truth-the power to
awaken manhood by manly action, and power
| used in manly ways in and out OF the class
room, ever honoring rounded and cultured liie
in the lives of those gathered for the purpose
of receiving it. The faculty should not dwell
among the tombs a kind of corporal old
morality with no destiny but to make legi6le
again tombstone Inscriptions Not thus OF the
past yet not unmindful of the past but draw
ing lessons from it for the future, keeping step
| The college must have students with the
| power to do the work and secure the benefits.
! 1t is not a training school for the feeble
minded, a hospital for the sick, q retreat for
| the lazy, reformatory for the vicious or a jail
for criminals, all such can be spared from its
| precincts.
The college is committed to the co-education
! of the sexes. Where is the visible invitation
| for the coming of lady students? Where is the
| beautiful campus, the tasteful cottages and the
| endowed matronshp? Who will rear the first
| cottage for the accommodation of three times
ten of the flower of New England.
| If co-education be an experiment why not
| make it so fully, fairly and openly? II not an
experiment Colby does not accord to her
daughters privileges and facilities equal to
| those granted to her sons and is now reaplng
all the disadvantages arising from the unjust
| distinction.
| In conclusion the college aims to prepare
| men to be workers. large minded, clear eyed,
| Catholic spirited, adopting each his own line
but appreciatng alike all others.
The above brief abstract gives a faint trace
of some opinions entertained by DIR. Pepper in
reference to his new calling and duty. 1t is
very evident that he has very distinct and
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