The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-24

to uplift and maintain the character of the
college and its graduating members. At the
close he rendered to the president the keys
of the college as symbolic of the trust they
placed in him. The inaugural of President
Hyde was masterpiece, and was delivered
in manner well worthy of its construction.
The delivery lasted about three-fourths of an
hour. The following is a brief abstract;
All life is organic. In the tree, in the an
imal, in man, in society each member is at
once means and end to every other. The col
lege is no exception to this law. Its useful
ness to the community is its sole claim to
support Let us then brify review the work
of the college.
2145 young men have graduated. OF these,
500 have engaged in teaching. 1O7, that is 1
in every 21 has been college professor. %
| have been college Presidents The Alumni
| Alcoye will contain among its 1000 books and
| 1000 pamphlets the works of 20 men well
| known in literature and philosophy and
| science.
| 26O have practiced medicine, 18 of whom
| have been professors in medical schools
| 429 or 20 per cent. have entered the minis
| try of whom IS have been professors in theo-
| logical Seminaries, To-day Bangor, Bates,
| Andover, Harvard, Yale and Union Semina-
|
| ulties.
sol or 81 per cent of the number have
| studied law, of whom Il large proportion
| have sat upon the Bench.
214 or 10 per cent. of the number have been
| prominent in politics; %, or 1 in each hun
| dred have been elected to Congress. have
| been u S. Senators and l has held the high
| est office in the nation. With the exception
| of the unexpired term caused by the death of
| her most distinguished Senator, the State of
| Maine has had a Bowdoin graduate in her
| Congressional delegation continuously since
| 1926; and during IA out of its 66 years the
| State has had a Bowdoin graduate for Gov
ernor.
65 have devoted themselves to journalism,
and among the papers whose editorial staff
has contained BoWdoin men are nearly all
the leading papers OF Maine, Boston and
| New York. 70 per cent. OF the graduates
| have engaged in one of the three leading pro-
| fessions; and if we include teaching and
| journalism we may say that 80 per cent. OF
| all the graduates have engaged for longer
| or shorter period in distinctively literary. or
professional week. Bowdoin gave to the late
war 266 of her sons. The ten classes from
'56 to '65 out of 395 men gave 17S or 40 per
cent.
These facts are commended to the friends
of Bowdoin and to the citizens of Maine.
Think what it means to community that
| its health, its right of person and, property,
its political policy, its educational interests,
its Interpretation of current events, It's relg-
ious faith have been guarded and guided and
maintained by men who brought TO these
high services the fruits of ancient wisdom
the results of contemporary experience re-
corded in foreign tongues, the sound results
of the latest science, and above all minds
trained to habitual contemplation OF great
historic monuments and lofty moral ideas!
The difference between the scholar and the
ignoramus in your teacher chairs THE differ
ence between the jurist and the pettlfOgger
in your courts the difference between the
scientific physician and the quack by the
bedside of your sick the difference between
the man of learning and the fool on your edi-
torial staffs. the difference between, the
statesman and the demagogue IN your legis-
lativc halls; the difference between the
rational believer and the declaimlng charla-
tan in your sacred desks that is in large
measure the difference between civilization
and barbarism: between the peaceful securi-
ty of society and the lawless violence OF
anarchy; between the glorious light and lib
erty of the kingdom of God, and the dark
ness and bondage of a perpetual reign OF s4-
perstition, injustice and oppression. ne
that can appreciate Alright the infinite width
of the celestial diameter that separates these
two conditions knows how vital is the organ
ic relationship between the college and the
community.
These facts constitute the claim of the col
lege upon the community for men and mon
ey. The need of money is urgent, yet 1T Will
be met. The history of the college in the
past IS the pledge of her support for the fu-
ture. This same history is also the refuta-
ton of the objection that would send men
and money to institutions elsewhere that are
already well-endowed. When Maine was
politically province, the wisdom and gem
erosity of the Fathers decreed that intellect
ually this community should be free and in
dependent. Will any son OF Maine now rise
up and say that having become politically an
equal and independent state, she shall now
begin to take dependent and provincial at
titude in matters of education? The man
who without specific reason negectS the IN
situations of his own State to support those
of others reyerses the work OF those who
made political province an intellectual soy
ereignty, and does what is in his power to
reduce sovereign state to an intellectual
province.
AS this principle Of the organic connection
of the college and the community makes
clear the duty of the citizens to support the
college, so likewise it marks out for the col
lege line of policy from which it may not
venture to depart.
those of its members who are to be the
standard-bearers of its literature and the eX-
ponents of its life shall stand in living con-
tinuity with the classic writers who are the
great masters of literature. or whether they
shall be left to the pitiful alternative OF
either using secondhand reproductions or
relying on their own unchastened originality
As long as the college remains the faithful
guardian of the rights of the community to
be represented in the supreme parliament OF
the world't greatest minds; as long as the
college stands to indicate the claim OF the
community to its share in all that is grand
est, and purest, and brightest In human
thought and achievement, so long will Latin
and Greek, the mother tongues OF civilized
humanity, demand of each candidate for col
legiate honors that he render account OF
his native powers and acquired training
in terms of their own perspieuous elegance
and fine precision. Modern languages,
ffnc nbor nIcfrx
special sciences, rhetoric and philosophy
must likewise be required. The elements OF
these subjects may be taught thoroughly and
still leave room for elective studies. The
they enlist the will of the student more
directly in the work of self-education; and
also that they develop whatever special aptl-
tude he may possess.
To meet the need of physical training an
ample and cOmmodlouS gymnasium mas Deen
erected, and with competent director IN
charge, the college will begin the coming
year fully equipped for this important work;
Moral and religious training is an essential
part of the work OF the. college. Inc com
munity has right to the assurance that SO
far as the influence of the college can secure
it the graduates shall go forth in a spirit of
reverence toward God, and unselfsh service
to their fellow men.
The college is under the control of the
Congregational denomination. Its teaching
must be evangelical without being contro-
yerSlal
DR.. Mason then offered prayer, and the in
auguration service closed with the benedic-
tion by President Hyde.
At the meeting of the board of overseers
this afternoon, Hon. John c. Dodge was re-
elected president and Hon. John Marshall
Brown reelected vice president.
At the meeting of the board of trustees to-
4,.a,, tod
Degrees of L. l.. d. were conferred on Elihu
B. Washburne of Chicago. and W. W. Rice,
of the class of 1916, Of Worcester.
The programme of the exercises of the
graduating class today will be as follows:
Music.
Prayer.
Music.
"a Exercises for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Our Debt to the Anglo-Saxons; with Latin Salu-
tatory.. Frederick Lincoln Smith, WATERFORD
Dante. ......... Arthur Robinson Butler, Portland
Evolution, a Reasonable Doctrine. ...............
Irving William Horne Berlin. n III.