Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-29

fgious instinct, urrepressed by science q
n ason, triumphs over the iutidelity will
which tine century began, and answers thu
question of PLATE with the Masters life
But the world is not to be made over on the
instant, and the problems of modern civiliza-
ton cannot be solved by revolution.
With the enormous multiplication of popu
lation and wealth, that civilization has as,
sumed new political and social aspects
Capital combines; labor organizes; and the
demand is made that all corporate power
shall be exercised, and that all the instru.
mentalities of intercourse, all the opera
tons of production and consumption, shall
be not simply regulated but conducted BIZ
the State.
Thus the liberty of the individual and the
cultivation of the virtues essential TO real
progress, the principles which lie at the base
of popular government, are iGsidiously
threatened, and the old question again
emerges as betw cen relisnce on private en-
ergy on the one hard and on governmental
interposition on the other; as between the
interference that enables and the in,erfer-
ence that destroys.
1t was said of Turgot, that he ''was filled
with an astonished, awful, oppressive sense
of the immoral thoughtlessness of men; Of
the needless, hazardous way in which they
dealt with things of the greatest moment TO
them; Of the immense, incalculable misery
which is due to this cause y and although
the hundred years may have somewhat
modified this conclusion, that thoughtless-
ness still keeps alive the seeds of peril. To
overcome it is the benefcent nj sion of
that training and education which, apart
from the acquisition of knowledge, develop
character and perfect the man.
1t does not follow that the successful
actor in affairs need necessarily be the
graduate of college or university. Wash
inRton and franklin and Lincoln were not
college men, Though each student ac-
cording to his opportunities bat Samuel
Adams and John Adams and Otis and Ham,
ilton and Jay and Jefferson and Madison,
and a host of others-the majority of the
trainers of the Constitution, and the huh
dreds who through the pulpit and the press
prepared the way for the Revolution-were :;
and nothing is clearer than that in the COM
ing years the higher education will play the
most efficient and saving part in the preser-
vation-of institutions and in the leadership
essential to prevent or to control whatever
crisis may be threatened or arise.
A few months since, in the White City
by the lake. the creation of municipality
whose location was the carrying place of
the red men hundred years ago, the
marvellous material, intellectual, and spirit
ull progress of mankind was exemplided in
honor of the discoverer of America.
The fruits of civilization thus displayed
signally commemorated the faith, the en-
durarce, and the patience which gave a
new world to the old. Those are the quail
ties which, slowly it may be, but certainly,
outweigh whatever ignorance, or unbelief,
or brute force may cast into the other scale.
May the faith, the endurance, and the
patience which characterized those who
laid the foundations of this institution, safe
guarded its early progress, and secured the
great measure eff success which has attend
ed it, be with its government its teachers,
and its pupils as aforetime, enabling the
IONS of Bowdoin in the centuries to come,
in the pursuit of lofty ends, whether in
science, in letters, in philosophy, in the
professions, or in public affairs, to serve
we'll their day and generation, to efficiently
aid in sustaining and perpetuating the in
s.itutions of their beloved country and the
complete accomplishment of its great des-
t ny, and so to contribute their whole part
to the final triumph of humanity
The splendid ovation which Chief JUS
tice Fuller received when he arose to speak,
the close attention given him, and the fire.
quent and hearty applause during its de-
livery, was proof alike of the strong hold
he has upon The hearts of Bowdoin men,
and the hearty appreciation of lis mastery
Grafton. 1t was an address worthy of the
orator and the occasion. In its strength
and scope, as well as in the grace and pur-
ity of its diction, it will justly rank among
the finest efforts of the kind in
the history Of the country. "a classic
was the unanimous verdict of the
cultivated audience that listened to it.
Following the Grafton came an original
poem by Arlo Bates. which was attentively
listened to and warmly applauded.
At the close of the library exercises
President Hyde announced the following
honorary appointments
Master of Art-Samuel Thomas Picker
ing, Judge Sewall c. Snout, Judge Thomas
Fl. Hall, all of Portland; Albion G. Young,
NJ. d. of Augusta; William Wood, of
United States Army; Charles f. McKim.
of New York; Henry Vaughan, of Boston
George Ii. Putnam.
Doctor of Seience-Charles Jewett, GA
Charles o. Whitman, IS; Dudley A. Sar-
gent, '75 Robert E. p AIRY, II; President
Abram w. Harris, of Maine State college;
Richard Radbourne.
Doctor of Letters-Jonathan Y. Stan
ton, SO: Edward Stanwood, 81 Frank A.
Hill, 'G2; Professor Arlo Bates, '76.
Doctor of Laws-George f. Talbot, class
of 81; William d. Northend, AS; Josiah
L. Pickard, "A; Charles C. Everett, and
John M. Jewett, 80 Thomas II. Hubbard,
81; Cyrus +. Bracket and Stephen j.
Young. 80; Joseph w. Symonds, go;
George L. Goo1ale of Harvard, Charles II.
Smith of Yale.
Doctor of Divinity Edward Robbie, 40
William A. Packard 81; John F. Spauld-
ing, SO; William ?. Tucker, "a; Charles
j. II. Ropes of Bangor Theological semi
nary; Benaiah L. Whitman of Colby Uni
versity George Lewis of South Berwick.
After the benedict:on was pronounced
he procession reformed and marched to the
large tent, which had been erected on the
western part of the campus.
Here Caterer Robinson of Portland fur
nished dinner to over 1000 graduates and
invited guests.
Among those, besides the special guests