The Portland daily press., 1889-06-14

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me to say that it was owing to my presence
here today that Gov. Dingley was not born
in Brunswick Laughter. Several years
ago sat in the rain in the town of Unity
while Gov. Dingley uttered one Of the finest,
one of the most touching. one of the most
eloquent apostrophes to his birthplace that
ever heard. Hence l was sure he
was born in Unity, in Waldo county
! Judge of my horror when last winter a let
ter came to me showing that the Governor
was born in Durham. i taxed him with the
discrepancy and since then he has been
very chary of being born in different places
in my presence. Loud laughter Hence
you will see that an apology is really due,
for when Governor Dingley's fame has
reached its full measure Of desert it will be
of high honor for any town even to share the
honor of having been his birthplace. ZAP
plause.
Even If you leave out all memory or the
record of the rocks which Professor Eve
leth has 80 well described and take into ac-
| count only written authentic history, one
hundred and fifty. years are but meagre
| space of time. III antiquity were all that is
in our minds such celebration as this would
| be worth neither the cost nor the trouble.
| But the basis Is something more solid and
enduring than the mere lapse of years. 1t
rests on ever living human nature;
longings of every educated American Is to
cross the ocean to the lands Of historic inter
| est? Our mountains are as old as theirs. In
| every element Of grandeur and beauty the
| Capitol at Washington can take its equal be-
| side the proudest palaces. But our noun
tains are not, like the Alps, rich with the
memories of the triumphal march of Napol-
con or OF the passage of Hannibal on his
way to face the mightiest empire of the
world. Our Capitol is not yet peopled with
whose lives are history, and of beau
still thrill the living. What makes West
minister Abbey dear even to an American
heart? 1t Is not the grandeur Of great stones
piled to the top OF the,pinnacles and the sum-
mits of the towers. 1t is not the wonderful
tracery of the windows or the rich light that
glows when the sunshine strikes the glass.
1t is because it Is the house of England's
noblest dead. 1t is not high mountains,
stately architecture and hoar antiquity that
takes us captive, but the deeds and doings
of men struggling like ourselves. 1t is their
memory which interests us. When the
great New York Cathedral is bailt it may
have all the grandeur, and beauty that
ming handiwork can give, but
it can never have the true charm until it mas
become blended with the history and suffer
ings and struggles of generations of men.
The merit of celebrations like these Is that
they show US that the generations of our
forefathers were as heroic and as steadfast
as those whose pictures are painted upon
the larger canvasses of the world. To us
they are more instructive than. history
for they come nearer home to our every day
life. No town has happier associations than
Brunswick. None In New England has
friends scattered so broadly over the Union
ready to do homage to her charms. Many
a man besides myself can say
that TO- to have been graduated at
Of the great good fortunes of his life. Bow
doin has many superiors in wealth and size,
but for the production of men of sound
sense. culture, intellectual grasp and capaci
ty for affairs, 1t has few rivals, and no supe-
But must not continue to take your time
even with eulogies of things we all love- Let
me finish with the hope that the next cele-
bration may find as much to praise and be
proud OF in you and your successors as you
have in those who have so worthily gone be-
fore. Loud applausel.
PRESIDENT HYDE's SPEECH.
President Mitchell then called upon Presi-
dent W. Dewitt Hyde to speak for the Col
lege. President Hyde. in the course of his
remarks, said:
One hundred and one years ago the Cum
berland Association Of Ministers petitioned
the general court of Massachusetts, for col
lege in Maine, and out Of many suitors for
the honor of the location of the college
Brunswick was chosen. And 1t has been
very fortunate for the college that it was
placed here, beside its quiet streets and amid
the warm hospitality of your pleasant Bruns-
wick homes. Nor has the obligation been
entirely one sided. Many Of the sons Of
Brunswick have received a collegiate educa-
ton here, and some of the daughters,
though detained from the classical course,
have become daughters-in-law of the col
lege, and have it to thank for loving hus-
bands and pleasant homes. [Applause.I
The citizens of Brunswick may thank for
tune that they have college president
among them, for he makes an excellent
scapegoat. Only last Memorial Day, when
some of the lawyers and business men of the
town got together and played game of ball
l steadfastly refused an invitation to join
the game, and did not even go so far as to go
TO the grounds and witness the game, yet
next morning while these gentlemen saw
nothing in the morning papers TO spoil their
breakfast, l was held up to the people of the
State as the chief desecrator of the day be-
cause the college nine was one Of four mines
which played game Of ball on Memorial
Day.
At the close of President Hyde's remarks
Mr. VIM. M. Sargent read an article on
Thomas Purchase.
[Mr. Sargents article will be found on an
other page.l
PROFESSOR EvERETT's SPEECH.
Professor Everett was called upon to
speak of the relations between the town and
college. He said: My first memory of the
relations between the college and town is,
perhaps, hardly creditable. There have
been the French and Indian wars and the
wars Of 1878; but historians have not given
sufficient attention to the 'Yagger war"
remember once, when small boy, my father
was called upon one evening to assist Presi-
dent Woods in quelling "Yagger wa" I"
which were at that time rather dangerous
and decidedly unpleasant.' President Woods
at one time reprimanded a student for TAX
ing part in such scrimmage, and for throw
ing rotten eggs. The student is reported TO
have disclaimed the epithet 'rotten," and to
have said the eggs were good ones. But the
president said that he could answer for it
that one egg at least was not good, as it came
with n dangerous proximity to his nose.
Pro I. Everett then related several amusing
anecdotes of Prof. Smythe, and closed by
allnding to the present pleasant relations be-
tween town and college, which he hoped
might always continue.
DIR. I. t. DANA's SPEECH.
DIR. /. 7. Dana was next called up by
President Mitchell to respond for the Maine
Medical School.
Dr.Dana said he would speak very briefly:
In 1920 the medical faculty was composed
Of Parker Cleveland and Nathan Smith, of
New Haven, very distinguished men. Each
one Of them taught in many departments.
The school was held in the upper story of
Massachusetts, Hall. The quarters there
were very cramped. DR.. Dana remembered
that the quarters were so cramped that the
tall men used to sit in the end seats, where
they would get up occasionally and stretch
their legs down the aisle.
The department Of the school was good
when DIR. Dana knew 1t; but there were ira
| ditions Of feuds with the town people DR..
| Wood had once said that the time was when
| the coming of the medical class was terror.
'b ut now, gentlemen" Dr.Wood had contin'
| ued, you are model to us all"
Speaking Of Parker Cleveland, Nathan
| Smith, r. b. Mussey, Fordyce Barker, L. r.
! Peasley and Willis Warren Green, the speak
| er said it would be hard to find, connected
| with the staff of any medical school in the
| country six more eminent names than these.
| In 1920, when the school was founded,
| there were few in the country, not over three
| others. Most Of the doctors pract:c;ug were
graduates OF no school; but had studied with
| older doctors. The school did much as soon
| as 1t got to work to elevate the character of
the profession throughout Maine. Zap
| plause.
The company then arose and sang hymn