The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-06-30
awEsTBRooK SEMINARY.
Fifty-First Annual Commencement.

Westbrook Seminary occurred yesterday. TIT
exercises of the graduating class were held q
church in the morning. The building wa
filled with students, alumni and many promi
nent men in the Universalist denomination
Behind the platformwas 1858 motto Certum
pete tinem," and on the platform were
plants and flowers. Music was furnished
by Collins Band Prayer was offered by Rev
DR.. Pullman of New York. The following
programme was carried out.
Oration-Latin Salutatory,
Fred Clifford Spaulding, EddingtoI
Essay Perfectability of Human Nature,
Annie Winslow Hersey, Deerina
Oration-C California and the Chinese,
Walter Blake irish, Turner
oration-Classical Studies.
Charles A. g. jackson, Naples
Oratisn-Labor and Capital,
Western Lewis, Whitefsld
observation-disclosures Truths,
lothian A. B. Lippincott, Columbia Falls
Poem nipples,
Lizzie Belle Jordan, Lisbon
Greek Poem-The Enmity between Zeus and
.Prometheus, Floyd Alvarus Dunn, Canton.
Characterization of the Press,
Edward Albert Merriman, Readfeld
0ration-Self Reliance.
George Prentiss Morgan, New Gloucester
Oration-American Civilization,
Fred Watson Palmer, East Pittston
0ration-our Nation To day,
Elmer Pearl Spofford, Deer Isle
Oration-Ireland and the Irish,
Don Carlos Stevens, West Wateryille
Essay and Valedictory-l Italy lies beyond the Alps
Alfredo Winnie Small, Gray
The class song was written by Miss Belle
Jordan.
President Weston conferred diplomas and
degrees upon the following members:
Higher English Course-Weston Lewis, Fred
Watson Palmer, Edward Albert Norman, Elmer
Pearl Spofford.
Alfred Blanchard Lippincott, George Prentiss
Morgan, Don Carlos Stevens.
College Preparatory-Floyd Alvarus Dunn,
worth Rideout, Fred Clifford Spaulding.
Laureate of Science-Annie Winslow Hersey,
Lizzie Belle Jordan, Alfredo Winnie Small
COMMENCEMENT DINNER.
About $50 ladies and gentlemen sat down to
dinner in Hersey Hall. The following is the
list of toasts and responses:
Westbrook Seminary-Hon. Sidney Per-
ham, president of the board Of trustees.
Our Colleges and Seminaries-Dr. E. 81.
Capen.
Our Institutions of Learning Israel
Washburp, Jr.
The Alumni Associatian-Mr. A. g. Cobb
Loyal Laymen (Our Smallest State Produces
the Biggest Crop)-Gen. Olney Arnold, Rhode
Island.
The Reverend Clergy Rev DIR. Pullman.
Westbrook Seminary Tin the olden time)-
Mr.. David Torrey.
Our Reliable Helpers-Mr. A. f. Winsloy.
Ready Helpers-Rev Mr.. Hayden.
The speaking was much above the average
of after dinner orators. Among the guests of
the day were Drs. Capeu and Pullman and
Gen. Arnold. Gen. Arnold is wealthy
bow Do,p
tor He has endowed the laboratory at Dean
Academy, Mass, and has given largely to the
public library in his own town. He began
with fine depreciation of his ability, an un-
lettered man, to make speech, and ended by
making most capital one, full of wit and
sense, his happy sallies of keen hits calling out
constant applause.
The addresses of Drs. Capen aud Pullman
proved that the study of theology does not es-
top man from the making of a pithy speech.
The Grafton before the Alumni Association
was delivered by President Capen of Tufts
College at $50. The new president is 6 young
man, one Of the youngest of college presidents
and looks more like man of affairs then the
tradition college "prex." We give an abstract
Of his admirable Grafton on vision and work
or knowledge and obedience.
All things whether in mind or matter take
place according to law. Life In all its forms,
whatever its origin, lies in its embrace. All
products of the soul are moulded and fashion
ed by it. To do the right men must know the
right. Men conspicuous for obedience have
been noted for largeness of vision. What but
4 higher vision enabled the Greeks to SO reason
that we moderns are their debtors; the Ro-
mans such matchless system OF jurispru-
ience? What but wider view of facts has
given as modern science?
The aim of knowledge is practical-it is the
golden stair case by which man rises to where
be gets view of the nobility of life.
knowledge imposes obligations. The first
duty of the scholar is to teach, though to
perverse generation. Thus knowledge
scholarly life by losing it. The luxury of ex-
clusion is forbidden Indulgence. Exclusion
dulls the edge of the faculties The
scholar to get must give knowledge. 1t is
sacred trust. The educated person must be an
evangelist.
certain social obligations. The scholar must
be aforce in the community, not mere ora
cular expounder. There is dangerous tendency
among educated men to cut loose from the
organization of society. The scholar should
knowledge consecrated by humane feeling is
illustrated in the lives Of such men as Fenelon,
St. Francis and Charming.
Third-Social duties must be discharged
through the channel of patriotism. What we
enjoy in state organization is the product OF
for the scholar in exposing demagogism and
to the winds those pestilential
theories Of government. There is no brother
hood 30 catholic as the brotherhood of learn
ing.
knowledge leads from the realm Of things
A. IL ,1fs = Sc and III inc n
do,-an infinitely grander thing to think.
All my being hinges on the fact that thing.
The mountains may crumble and the eartn
may dissolve, but the indestructible essence OF
the soul remains. The only thing of which
we are sure is the soul. The casket may DO
broken, but the jewel remains.
Again. knowledge ia not wholly outward.
Our possibilities are measured by our inward
moro than scholarship. Men
who have traveresed the widest fields are the
readiest to see new things. Though cnce in
while YOU find mysterious plodder, who, as
ne gets more learned gets more stupid
knowledge has an aesthetic result. Tho fin
est things in nature and art find appreciation
only among the educated. The ideal realm
W hich the scholar traverses is the realm OF
beauty. The result is ethical. The legitimate
effect of study is to quicken the moral nature.
The scholars search is for truth, and perfect
fidelity leads to moral purity. The true schol-
ar will become more impatient OF crOokedness
in character than fallacy in reasoning. Every
real vision is heavenly. Nay, God is him whom
you meet at every step. A vision so pure as is
vouchsafed to the scholar dignifes his work.
The truth become his ward. He is lifted up to
work with God. He comes into that fellow
ship with God which all the facts of nature
and the elements Of his being seem to call for.
ALUMNI ANNIVERSARY.
In the afternoon the alumni anniversary wa
held, DR. Capen delivering the Grafton, and
Miss Emily W. Peakes, class of IA, the poem
REUNION.
In the evening there was social reunion in
Hersey Hall.
Society of Art Exhibition.
The exhibition of paintings given under the
auspices OF the Society of Art at their rooms
in Motley Block has entered upon the third