Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-03
Governor Burleighs Remarks at the
Kicker Classical Institute Houlton

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Governor Burlcigh a -taunch friend Of the
Kicker Classical Institute made the follow
ing very pleasing remarks At Wording Hall,
Thursday evening
W PresId>at. Lrd,es and Genhea,en:
For the cordlalty Of your welcome |
thank you most sincerely trust need not
assure you that | feel peculiar pleasure IN
being with You upon this occasion To mo
the earlier as ociati0ns Of this Institution have
always been cherished memor es The
friendships formed here 10 Her years have
been among the most enduring of my life.
Standing to night in this new and magnificent
building provided with improved and modern
appointments. and both an honor and an
ornament to the town, my mind goes back 10
the days when ts modest predecessor stood up
on this very site As remember it now 1t was
neither an imposing nor convenient struc-
ture, but it seemed to those OF Us who we're
able to enjoy its advantages to be both Its
plain and modest outlines are still as distinct
ly fixed in my memory as though it were but
Yesterday that recited within its walls. |
recall the happy faces of those who then at
tended it, and see again the earnest, faithful
teachers who gave to ii the results of sound
scters recall the honored names of
WEIGH. Abbott. Record, Carleton, Strickland
and Towle snd Of that cultivated aud able
man, j z. Barton. who gave the Acdd, :
my and its work some of the best years Of
his life remember. too, hat est ma
BILE gentleman AMI excellent instructor
4. Z. Randall. who has passed away,
but whose good works will long survive
him. There are many other teachers, of
those days whose earnest efforts aud un-
firing zeal helped to make the students
under them better and stronger men and
women. Among them recall Miss lisa
Putnam, now the wife of one of your
honored townsmen Her earnest work and
patient effort smo ,,bed many rough path
for the pupils of those days and they will
ever remember her with sffectionste re-
gard. But pardon me if grow too re
min,cent All this was more thana quar-
ter of n century ago. Time has worked
many and marvellous changes since then
The students of those days are widely
scattered Many of them have passed
away. To-day the children of some of
them are enjoying the instruction of this
same institution, hut oh. amid what vastly
different surroundings and with what add
ed advantages. The old Academy 1uid
ing still stands not far from here, but it
has been so changed that few of us would
recognize it now Time has dealt generous
ly with the institution It has enlarged it-
original scope and effectiveness many fold
and has raised NJ stannch and devoted friends
for ii. This magnificent structure will ever
CONNIE morate the opeuhesrted generosity of
that estimate lRi, Mr.. Wording to q hon.
the progressive educational life of our Stat
will ever feel under deep sense of graft
tu1e for the Impulse she has gwen ii IN TIN 5
large and rapidly growing county. This
fourishing institution will also be mOnu-
ment to the life long devotion of my good
friend. DIR. Kicker. hose name it so appro-
pristely bears. Others there have been who
have given generously of their time and of
their means to place the school upon the
firm basis it now enjoys, and TO give to il its
present enlarged sphere of usefulness But
time will not permit me to call them by
name. | feel to night that the institution
is about TO enter upon an era of greater
activity and II huence. The educational
work which 1t has accomplished for the PEG
pie of this section in years past has been very
great but in the future believe it destine.!
to draw from much larger area a,.i to have
a far broader mission With the establish
ment of the normal department authorized
by the last Legislature, greater advantages
will be Offered and az result of a better
supply of trained teachers. new and vigor-
GUS impulse will be given TO education in this
section. am convinced that those who go
forth from these halls tonight to Join the
ranks of the alumni will rot fail in the life
which is before them to honor the noble in
sttu,ion which will ever honor them.