The Newtown bee., 1894-07-06
Affairs4hoplt Town.
COMMENCEMENT WEEK. AT sAMHEksT COL
 
lIwRf,IrEs BY REQUEST.

tt THoGGHFSz OF ANAEBMNUs ON REYIsIT-
 ING THE TowN.-PHE 'sAMHERsT sYs-
 ITEM" AND JULIUS H. sEELYE, ITS Ex-
 PoNENT.-AMHERsT FlsRf NATURAL BEAU.
 TY.-WHAT MAKES A COLLEGE.
 EEIIc 8HE ,fAus1Ea4W Zo IT -5s1e1
 While wandering through the woods lar up. on mountain, you sometimes hear gentle murmur coming to your earss pushing your way mid the under gfowtiig brushing aside now this ob- attracting branch, now that, guided lever by the sound that rises faintly, yet clearly, in the surrounding solitude, of shade,2 you at last chance upon a spring ofJpurest t7water yelling up at the base of some tall rock If your spirit is fresh as the Hair that softly breathes upon your temples and you are not oYer-wear- fed with the climb up the mountain side, you will follow that spring as it leaps up from it's rock born home and dances out among the moss and rootlets, to be- come on it's way down the slope. a bab- bling brook, a busy stream that turns the tnillLwheels as it rushes headlong through the meadows, and, leagues fur ther on, the broad, silent river which
 bear" on it's heav ing breast the white winged messengers of trade. So, once in awhile. it refreshes one and gives him
 better thoughts of thing" to get away from his wonted tasks and go back to that educational spring on the hillside, l far off from, the great worlds heave' and flow, and listen to the ,'murmur of the old college daysa~oa 1~. h. snj-la -,pF .el We'll chosen, itiseems to me, is my fig
 ure, for these country, colleges, situated
 on our quiet New England hillsldes,
 have sent forth from their full fountains.
 not lripples, but broadening brooks and ever increasing rivers of hopeful infiu- ence through our land, Fearful gperils threaten, our land. perils. of unrepressed Immigration perils from. anarchiste seeds waited here from foreign soils,
 perils of discontent slumbering in the
 heart of every glass which feels oppress- ed but all who cherish this eountry's welfare are coming to see that all these
 peTrilLsj have, o9Qn one n.es deep seat and source,
 ignorance, and that for, our .deliyeranee
 it, is to the educated, the eollege-bred men men, that we must must look, i1a1 -u..i. .rHs Any ,college,ay wherever situated, in
 country or in town, whose leaders mould
 it's policy in accordance with high ideals, 1 is savour of life unto life in our midst
 The end of college training is not study, the requirement of facts-that is one oi
 the least things which a college course
 should give-the end of every worthy
 system, educational or religious. is stur.
 dy, royal manhood a character that hon.
 ors righteousness in whatever form it, is
 found and character is the one great
 solvent of all wrongs, it is that which
 will save the world. With a pardon.
 able pride in my Alma Mater (and, who. lever feels no pride in his foster-motheI
 is not worthy of his birth), I believe
 that Amherst college to-day represents the nGblest ideals. The Amherst spirit
 as embodied in the government Of ths Hcollege and as lived out by her sons
 stands for manly independence, stand:
 for the thought that every man., touct himito the quick, has the right motives in action, that the more thoroughly { Eyeung manis trusted the more worthy . of ftrusb he becomes, that there is hero ism and nobility nof2 soul wrought int : the fiber of1exeryrnfa which should b, Il l1lallowed to gr6wEtsttHa la9FS ID 2' 'D 1 -fDr Julius H. seelye, who resigned tn 1 presidency ofithe college in 1890, is tn
 authorand chiefyexpenent of this hssA Am herst2idehfs He now lives Q in Amherst j simply waitihg,Tas he says for the sum fj mensi to3Hones home His intellect strong and massive still, but the physi cal fratne tflat ehelesesiit is aoshattere, a 5 wreck3 thestenant Of the house is 'vvigor I ous, and dIstrongy butythe house in whicl Il helives isiatthe mercy of the winds an, Il little1 snesists the driving fury of tn d stornaf Aill Amherst men who hay 51I ever had any connection with Dr, fS.efy ,,5 love him ;ethey love him for his sweet Il hess Rand' gehtleness aof character. hi siI faith as beautiful afid tender as that of
 little child, imuchfas they respect ohii < for his commanding genius as one wh ! could conceive large sehemes" and carr
 themantD efect.s It is a grand thing t bertruly1 reatafn the1 soal-absorbing ac tiyities of Rlife, when every nerve ar sinew is in fullest strain; it is ia granders bhingo to be truly great whel ! the taper of life Sis burning low, and : when theapeningo light fades awa5 4l to see thes hesenshroadihg sky filled wit stars, invisible by day.
 Fl Nature has done more for Amhers 2 than landscape architect in his wildes f fancies could have conceived. The Pe. ]. ham hills are there to-day, their slope ,: Edecked with wild flowers in the spring q [their woods filled with warblers of man : a, a varied note, attracting the lover of se lcrets not laid down in books, just as the attracted the young Beecher to tram
 ltheir slopes and neglect his books in tn days of '34- The Holyoke range is sti
 there, great mountain barrier tha blocks the path of the sweeping winds
 the southward and helps form the wor . derful ampitheatre Tn the center of whic 1 the college buildings stand. Old Hae ley is still there, witfljts monarch elm
 which have given ita tarepntatfon as or of our most pieturesaue Ne
 England towns. Very iitt
 seems to have ehanged about u q old place, except iat H seems lit { odd to have fhe Massac chusetts Centr, 3 t1ain swing ipto tle depot and hear tl