The Portland daily press., 1894-07-07

the whole place under the care of a gar
dener. whose pride it evidently is to trim
and shear and discipline every blade of
grass till nothing but green velvet can
be com pared to it. This matter of the
turf here is something wonderful. 1t is
SO perfectly without break or flaw. Only
twice in a long walk does one encounter
that little placard. fiend keep off the
Grass." The town will outgrow that, as
the larger city has done, and will test the
experiment of free grass around the In
stltute building as successfully as else
where. The Institute is a very hand
some modern brick structure, here boys
and girls alike can fit for college. This
institution sits hand in hand with the
University, whose fine gray buildings
are seen at little distance away. They
are nobly set upon their own magnificent
lawn, and Swallowed by their own majes-
tic elms. Back of the campus proper
there is whole clump of dropping trees
willows, believe-under the thick
shade OF which are settees where any who
are tired of strolling in the grounds may
rest and enjoy the fresh river breeze.
All about are prom enading the students
and their friends, the professors and the
faculty and the alumni, for it is the gala
day. of the year, Commencement at
Colby. sHere is Professor Small sof Chica-
CO. who has been stormed with affection
delivered the alumni Grafton the night
before, and where he electrified the
gravest of his audience by the Brilliant
powers of his oratory. Professor Small
is fondly claimed as man of Maine. He
is destined to become a man of the
nation. There are the usual Junior class
exhi bition, and the graduating exer-
cises, where the seniors in their square
caps Immensely becoming in some in
stances) and clerical black gowns, march
gravely over the platform in front of the
professors, and receive the we'll earned
parchment from the hand of President
Whitman. He delivers them a parting
salute in Latin, and they pass on. feel
ing IN after days, perhaps, that the in
1uence of his rae personality upon them
was in itself his most gracious benedic-
ton.
This is the week of jnbilant pleasure,
and OF some tremulous tears may be for
it is not all joy when students part. 6 1t
may be for years, and it may be forever"
is whispered more than once, for with
the feminine element there creeps into
college life some finer threads than
were when only the masculine was there.
Young men and young women are there.
They are all associated, all young, ardent,
careless, Intense, happy and unhappy
together. They work and play, and
laugh and fret, and daily and dream
full as lit is short lived. The date of it's
demise is Commencement day. 1t dies
the death at the touch of the diploma
The schoolboy is man, the schoolgirl
woman henceforth, and the serious bust
ness of life begins. A
These mixed schools are the proper
thing. IT it were not best that boys and
girls should be educated together the
Lord would never have arranged for
them to be born into the same family
together. He would have appointed
families of boys and families Of girls,
with fence between. I believe tine
original " Female Seminary to have been
the device of an unclassified being with
short hair and boomers
ella RA MARCELLE GREENE.