Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-27
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Prayer, Rev G, Allan n n
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Historical Address,
Hon. Lyndon Oak, Pres. of Trustee,
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Report of Building Committee.
VIM. 7. Haines, ESQ.,, Chairman
PRESERVATION of Keys. Governor Marble
Responses of Acceptance,
PRESIDENT Fernald, Professor Harvey, Profess
sor Balentine.
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Congratulatory Addresses,
Senator Libbey of Penobscot, Senator Heath
OF kennebec, Representative Libby of
Burnham, Representative Cushing
of Turner.
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Brief Addresses by H. NJ. Estabrooke, NJ. S.
for the Alumni. and by other friends
of the College.
Ode, Mrs. NJ. C. Fernald
Benediction.
Hon. II. NJ. Heath of Augusta, in behalf of
the Senate, spoke as follows:
This college has passed the experimental
stage. 1t has come to stay. Thoughtful men
are beginning to appreciate its importance to
| the pressing problems of the future The
purely literary colleges will ever have a great
work in training professional men. But the
| age cries out for practical men, for me-
| chanics, for men of science to grapple with
the blind forces of nature not yet subdued
literary education is good, but it stops too
| short The great mass of mankind cannot
possibly earn living by it. The prizes of
the future will be found upon theAighway
of scientific education. The couhtry needs
more captains Of industry. We need, and
you are giving it, training that will open the
book of life and no longer grope in the grave
| yard Of dead and musty past. You have
gralder themes than the jealousies of Juno
or the intrigues of adulterous Jupiter. In
your development you draw rich
draughts from the pure wells of English UNI
defiled, the mother tongue of the people. 1t
| is the true creed. French for volatile France,
Italian for melodous Italy. German for
phlegmatic Germany, the kai gar for the
| Greeks who were asleep before Christ, but
strong, sturdy, hearty Anglo-Saxon for the
descendants of the men of Runymede. You
may dazzle the intellect with the flowing
music of Virgil. you may astonish gaping
audience with soporific Greek, but the key
| TO the inner chambers of the heart is the
| grand old mother tongue. Our first stock
came, not from the classic hills of imperial
Rome, not from the gymnasia of Athens, but
| from the woods of the Saxon and the inter-
wales of the Angle. The language of the
parlor will not touch the heart of him that
tolls in the heat and burden of the day.
Demosthenes and Virgil may do for scholars,
closet scholars that look out into the back
yard and mistake it for the world but
men of action can waste no precious
time upon the mysteries of the
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| hi 10 amorus for the company of the sheep
stealer Eneas on his way to jump claim on
the Tiber. That you hug close to an English
education is the secret of your success. And
why not? Its mines of wealth are inexhaust-
ible-From Chaucer's lisping numbers to
Shakespeare's kingly verse, from the rugged
| English of the Bible. the masterpiece of all
| to the swelling music of Millions majestic
rhyme, our language is one grand anthem
attuned to the beating of the human heart
Such course as yours produces men, men
who will believe that cowhide boots will not
take the place of brains, nor that college
sheepskin will fit man for the battle of life
unless he is armored with the breastpate of
sturdy common sense. The country needs
such men The people are not children to
be pleased with the tinkling of a bell. The
questions of the hour practical and mater
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pressing for solution. They involve our
material advancement; they invade the
home; they sit at the table. Men can no
longer face the Dead past with their noses
plunged deep in the rotten sores of corpse
dead 10. these twenty years. They must
face the rising sun.
! There is Il field in Maine for the achiev-
ments of the men that yearly go forth from
these halls. Our mighty rivers laundering
| to the sea are destined to make of Maine the
| Belgium of America The valley of the
| st. John and the wonderful valley of the
/ Aroostook have possibilities that defy
| prophecy. Our quarries will open wide
their veins of wealth. There's an angel in
that block of marble" said Michael Angelo.
There's an empire in the State of Maine; it
needs such hands AS yours to make it
| living reality. 70 develop Maine, we must
be true to Maine, true to her institutions,
| loval to her cause. In her triumphal
future Maine will have reason to be
grateful to this college.
| Your dark days are over. The critical
period in your history was in rs and ~,
when the Legislature failed to draw the line
| between true economy and parsimony
| 1t was fortunate that since then the State
has been blessed with Governors of
broad views. who have manfully up
held this college. That the last Legsla-
ture had the courage to grant such liberal APP
preparations, is due in large degree to the
| inspiration it received from Governor Bod
we'll, that great hearted Executive whose
death was calamity to his people and his
State. Conscious that he was right, the fear
| of popular disfavor had no terrors to make
| him he ,itate. He marched straight on fol-
lowing the needle that ever pointed to the
star of truth, right and loyalty to his State.
| trust | violate no prophecies when say
this college is to be congratulated that the
dominant party in the State has put in nomina-
ton such true friend of this institution as
Mr. Burleigh Reared upon a farm in the
garden of Maine, | might say of America,
he is keenly alive to the Importance OF your
work Prosperity has never turned his head.
A modest, unassumng gentleman, emphati-
cally one of the people, under his admins
tration a liberal policy to this college is as
sured. From long and intimate acquaint-
ance with him feel justified in saying that
Won have special cause to feel gratited
Gentlemen this college has come to stay.
Ii is the peoples college. 1t opens the door
to the peoples sons. Its inspiration is lofty
Amercanism. America is kindly country,
generous to a fault. To him that will
strp off the embroidered toggery of classic
polish and bare himself as did the Olympic
runner, America will gladly yield the crown.
| Neither poverty nor humble birth count for
ought in the race for life. We live in
country
/ "Whose very latch string never was drawn In
Against the poorest child of Adams kin
Gentlemen. bid you God-speed in your
work.
The exercises of anniversary week at the
Maine State College opened on Saturday
evening June 23d, with the prize declama-
tons of the Sophomore class, in the Town
Hal, in the presence of an audience of fully