Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-07-02
INAUGURAL SERMON
Delivered BY President Small
Of Colby University.
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VAUDEVILLE. July i.-Presidens Albion
W Small delivered bis insugufai Address
al Baptist church this evening. to . large
audience. President small isid
Colby is denominationsi college, bat
u is designed to develop lhe power Of indie
pendent thought II does not AIN 10 make
the student 4 universal encyclopaedia. /.
does net aim 10 make mental fseslty. IL
cannot make something out OF nothing; bat
is tries to prevent something from amount
ing TO nothing II aims to train the power
OF thought so that the student may be abIs
follow, observe and assist il he has not the
courage and ability TO iesd in the vorlds
| progress
The college does not Intentionally depre-
eiste any good industry or any result of
honest labor. IL does not belittIe the inter-
ests of human life. II knows that civilizA-
iion IL built on days work. Dollars are
| Just IS d vine a. their owners make them.
Success 10 not crime. To miss it, 10. All
this the college tries to teach. II the col
iese ever makes men think . life rational
that despises work and wealth, il surely
fails In i,s mission. bat the college esti-
mates wealth and worth by their use to
men. IL shows that all material and social
values are TO be measured at Last by the
.iahdard OF their effect upon human beiugs.
1t teaches that success 10 something which
fame and fortune cannot gauge. 1t tries
to chow It's students that the world was not
made for them. but for them and their
brethren, living and yet unborn. 1t tries
to tell them daily in one way and another
tha, the only righ. which their education
gives is the right to be Of greater service
| thar they could have been without.
The college aims to teach and inspire
manliness. No man is 1T to be q college
| professor who 10 not specialist in manii-
ness. The college deserves society1 quar-
sntine il its instructors are not first men of
rugged moral worth
To ask today whether women can use to
as good purpose as men the enlightenment
| and inspiration which the college affords
| would be hardly less medieval than to re-
viye the question whether women have
souls. Not only have women the same
right 10 education which men have, but ss
practical fact the re 10 both q constant in-
crease in the number Of young women in
New England who desire the highest edu-
cation and the quality of their desire is just
now certainly more intense and com mend
able than that of the average young man.
see no plan at once progressive and
ast and safe but to declare that within
Colby University woman's college shall
he founded; not an annex, not subordi-
nate school but company Of young women
with the same claim a. the young men to
use all the educational machinery--library,
art collection. Laboratories, Instruction
which the University controls and pursue
so far as they choose, courses of study
Identical with those followed by the young
men; but in nc case entering into per-
sonal competition sith young men for the
honors which the University bestows.
believe the day is near at hand when
the colleges OF Maine will wonder at their
own stupidity in refusing to recognize their
individual and collective interests in CO.
operation. There are too many colleges in
Maine If their poiicy is to be to scramble
for the comparatively few students whom
accident shall direct towards liberal edu-
cation. There are not too many colleges in
Maine il they propose 10 do the work of
systematic Ch 'istian civilization within our
borders. If these colleges united in the
aggressive work of eDlisting all the boys and
grls in Maine, who. after proper education.
could serve the world with brains better
thsn hands, our present sccom nodations
would soon be aoubly and trebly overta xed.
If our Maine colleges should form such
an alliance as individuals among their ad
ministrators have long desired. but none
have dared to propose. an impetus would be
given to sound scholarship in Maine, which
IN short time every school in the State
would feel. Rivalry between these colleges
is nevitable,-and fortunate it is for the
health of each. But.friendliness and gen
erous cooperation are also necessary to
determine the moral and Intellectual plane
of our rivalry and to arrest the waste of our
forces.
Colby WAS born of desire for religious
and general culture. 1t has developed, as
we have seen. into promoter Of universal
culture IL has not surrendered its religi-
Gus aud denominational allegiance. but de-
nominational education has proved to be
larger than the founders dreamed.
Colby is for instruction, for inspiration,
for enIightment, for civilization. for the
Fellowship of good works, for the triumphs
lof the faith of Jesus Christ. You have,
pert APPS. baen thinking that these concep-
kious Of the mission of the college are so
'Rofty that they are practically visionary.
I'VE should seem to me contemplate il we
cherish ideas and purposes less lofty than
hhose that have sketched. No, brethren,
khe guarantee of high living is high think
Ing; the assurance of great service is great
sIfurpose.
d The Senior and Glass Day exercises on
flWillow avenue this afternoon we're the
t,row ming success of Commence ment. The
d,rophecy and address TO the undergrad
taates were timely and able. The parting
ksidres. by A. W. Whitney aud the class
History by Dana A. Hall we're brilliant in
Nj sign aud delivery. Fine music. excellent
lEpeahing ard cheerful listeners rendered
,E6e occasion memorable.
u The Alumni Association at q meeting
slAis afternoon elected for President, Hon.
IA II. Briggs, 80, Bostsn; Vice President,
slLsrkin Dunton, l.. i. ID Boston; Secre-
Iary and Treasurer. +. W. Hsll. Water
ltile; Necrologist, Rev. e. V. Hanson,
Iskow hegan; Councillors, Hon. Rheuben
Foster, L. ID. Carver, Lincoln Oven, Wat
luyille.
The association nominated ~ candidates
lisr trustees. E. +. I.vford, II, Worcester.
: Mass, Hon. W. p. Warehouse. '63, Au-
|, rassa. Me-, and A. B. Briggs, 80. Boston.
! Mrs. Edwin Stone presented the association
sith an oil painting of the late Hon. Tim
q o,hy Boutelle.
The board of trustees at q meeting
, ele c,ed Hon. Josiah II. Drummond vice
president. and Hon. Psrcival Bonney sec
lre,arv and treasurer.
Rev. J. II. Higgins, Charleston, Me-,
Ard Rev. c. n. Norcross, Somervilie,
Mass. offered to give the trustees Of Colby,
Charlie s,on Academy with ample grounds,
also . fund there for s25 goo, payable Jan.
81, 1891, pro, ided the trustees would i'm
ms eiasply expend sl0, 900 in repairs of the
repairs Of promises and agree to raise 42t-
0o0 for fund of the same within ten
years.
The Board accepted the proposition to
thus establish 3 fourth ting school for
Colby within the State Of Maine. The mat
ter Of securing additional teaching in the
deparsme nss of literature, rhetoric. and the
modsrn languages vas referred 10 COM
mlues, to report at next commencement.
rhe Board will conclude its labon In the
morning
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