The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-06-27
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In reply to this Rev. L. j. Mead of Augusta,
the editor of the Gospel Banner, paid glow
ing tribute to the press.
Other remarks were:madeiby MIC. s. Fobes
Of this city and these exercises concluded.
TRUsTEEs MEETING.
At p. m. meeting OF The trustees was
held. committee consisting of ex-Gov. Per-
ham, j. R. Bodwel, Alfred Woodman and Fl.
R. Virgin, with DR.. j. P. Weston, the princi-
pal, was appointed to take steps to secure adj
ditioDal pupils.
series of resolutions, complimentary to the
late Rev. DR.. Qainby OF the Gospel Banner,
was unanimously passed.
Remarks were made on the progress of the
Seminary and alluding to the fact that the
Seminary was out of debt, as far as the funded
debt was concerned, and had but little float
ing debt, and that there is fund on hand Of
$4,000.
AT THE CHURCH.
Mr.. William E. Pulsifer, a graduate from
westbrook Seminary, class of 1870, and now
superintendent of the public schools of Leo
minister, Mass, gave the Grafton before the
Alumni Association, his subject being "The
Scholars Mission"
THE GRAFTON.
After very aatiering compliment paid TO the
graduates of the school who the speaker said,
scattered over the 1Lntry from Maine to Cal
ifornia and from the forests OF Michigan to the
borders of Mexico, the orator id In substance:
:" he hundreds and thousands of young men and
women who annually graduate from our high insti-
buttons of learning should have well defined notions
of what they are best fitted to do in life.
They should understand fully the great Iesp0nsi-
bilities which their superior advantages have I'M
posed upon them. They should be 50 disciplined IN
mi I'd and pdrpose that they will follow to theend
their chosen vocations-
The real scholar, the cultivated person, has
more than all other factors, In society, an equip
ment for life's mission that renders HIM well nigh
invincible.
nhaenced both by nature and the written page,
his mind has been so disciplined tnat it grasps sue
cessfully the worlds most intricate problems. He
does not, however, count that an education which
can be estimated only by diplomas judged by
arbitrary standards. Education to him does not
consist in inserting facts in the memory like apples
dropped into empty barrel, as freight slowed in
the hold of a ship, but he regards it rather the
training of the mind TO do easily quickly and cor
rectly the work it is called upon to perform by
rightly exercising the mental faculties.
Let not the scholar when he leaves the college or
the seminary suppose that he s finished his edu-
cation for il ne is real student he has come to
know that he has taken but a step into the great
field of knowledge which spreads out far and
wide on every side and never yet has been fully
traversed even by those whom we may rightly call
masters. Although science and literature and art
have been, during the last century carried so far
toward perfection by the thinkers who have devoted
their lives to the grand work Of invention and dis
covery, there are still uhexpa aimed phenomena,
still unsolved problems still worlds waiting 10
discovered, which call for the scholars labor and
the power of the disciplined mind.
The first business of the student, then, is TO so
educate or train his mind that il may always be
open to the reception of knowledge. The scholar
must be a thinker; he must be an Investigator; he
must be a diseoverer; in short, he must ever be
learner. WIthal the world demands courage OF
him who is to lead in the realm OF thought. In
neld of action does the scholar need more the cour
age of his convictions than when he must meet
and contend with the theological opinions OF
ignorant or misguided men. mans philosophy Is
the handspring of his life Unsettle or overturn it
and he is like ship without a rudder in turbu-
lent But 1t is the business of the thinker to do
this very thing when bigotry and superstition have
become so mixed with truth that the compound is a
commodity most dangerous to the SOUL Problems
of policies and sociology demands the scholars at
tentlon. Civil service reform, the suffrage, the
protective tariff and other great national questions
press the thinkers of the day for solution In the
field of literature the student should perform great
service for the world, which needs the intelligent
critic even than the Creator. The scholar
VINO is to point out to the world what in the realm
of literature is good and what bad what is health
full and what poisonous, must train himself (a) to
send in definite lines for certain ends % TO send
analytlcally and critically c) to send thoughtfully
and with intelligence; (d TO send rapidly and at the
same time thoroughly.
Again the scholar has a great work to do for the
pubic school. His voice and pen should never be
thought too valuable TO be freely given when the
cause of education demands them. He must plead
for school libraries; he must plead for needful APP
paratus he must plead for intelligent instruction
in the school. The speaker, in his peroration,
made strong and effective plea for better and
more scientific teaching. for moral as well as in
telectual instruction. and for the consideration of
The best energies of the scholar to the grand work
of ameliorating the condition Of humanity.
The Grafton was listened to with marked at
tention aud was warmly applauded at its close.
THE REUNION.
The celebration of the day concluded with
social reunion at Hersey Hail in the evening,
which was largely attended. An order of
twelve dances to music by Mahsr's orchestra
was gone through With, and at a late hour the
party broke up. Thus ended one of the hap
piest anniversaries ever held at this institution.
THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
At meeting of the Alumni Association in
the afternoon the following were chosen Off
GERS for the ensuing year:
PTesident-E. M. Fuller, NJ. D.. Bath.
Vice President-C. B. Varney.
Secretary and Treasurer-Miss Minnie Meserve.
Executive Committee-J W. Foger, Miss Rose
Leland, Miss Jennie Hscock.
Chronicler-Mlss May Roulston--