The Portland daily press., 1895-07-04


tanned IN fryeburg, owing to the serious
INJURY MS young son had sustained by be-
ing drawn under horse car Conse-
quently the toast to the army to which
Col. Merriam was to have responded was
omitted.
DR.. Everett Flood, M. d !, of Baldwins-
vile, Vt, '79, responded for the medical
profession in a brief and bright speech
When President Whitman spoke of the
presence Of the presidents of the other
Maine colleges there was loud applause.
PRESIDENT HYDE
was first called upon, and while he told
of the hearty cooperation between the
Maine colleges he was kloudly applauded.
Colby and Bowdoin had been rivals, but
their rivalry had always been generous.
President Hyde said that he had, how
ever, one cause of complaint If on the
Colby cinder track, while one man was
running race four competed with him.
each running quarter of a mile, it
would not be quite fair. Now said Presi-
dent Hyde, when l came to Bowdoin ten
years ago, made thirty speeches in
year, and was just about ready to settle
down to dressing gown and slippers,
when along came President Small and he
made fifty speeches. But he slackened
his pace after while, and | was ono
more about to settle down when Presi,
dent Whitman came. And don't know
how many speeches he has made Now
when your trustees get the next,president
who is waiting to come, think he will
be endowed with the faculty of omni-
presence. President Hyde then spoke of
the advance in educational methods and
results.
President Harris found himself in the
position of the clergyman who didn't
write his sermons because then the Devil
couldn't discover his argument. "As it
is said the minister, the Devil him
self, doesn't know what | am going to
say when go into the pulpit. -
What President Harris said, however,
was to the point, and his congratulations
to Colby were heartily applauded.
President Chase spoke briefly and
acceptably.
After the dinner President and Mrs.
Whitman gave an enjoyable reception in
Memorial hall.
DEGREES AND PRIZES.
Presidents Hyde of Bowdoin and Chase
of Bates were in attendance at Colby
University commencement Wenesday.
The following degrees were conferred:
Master of Arts, out of course Caleb B.
Frye, 80; Samuel Freeman Tilton, 'SS;
Horatio B. Knox, 81; George r. Camp
bell, '92
Master of Arts in course, George A.
Andrews, William B. Andrews, Charles
p. Barnes, Charles G. Coonen, Winfred
N Donovan, Albert G. Hand Charles A.
Merrill, Daniel G. Monson, Harry L.
Pierce, all of s92.
Honorary Degrees, A.. M, Rev. Charles
| Clarence Spear, Sanford, Me.
d. D., Prof. Nathaniel Butler, class of
'73, Chicago University, Chicago; Rev.
George E. Merrill, Newton, Mass Presi-
dent George E. Chase tof Bates College,
Lewiston, Me.
LII. D., Hon. William P Whitehouse,
Augusta, Me-. class of '63, Hon. Percival
Bonney, Portland, Me-, class of '63.
Prizes warded were; For excellence in
German throughout the course, mems
class, first John Holman; second, j.
Colby Bassett Women's class, first,
Abbie Emma Fountain; second, Linda
Graves.
Junior prizes for excellence in declama-
tion and composition, mems class, first,
Fred Norman Padelford; second, Harry
Wesley Dunn. Women's class, first, Olive
Louise Robbins; second, Matte Clara
Meserve
Senior prize for excellence in compost
tion, mems class, j. Colby Bassett
women's class, divided between Alice
Mabel Bray and Abbie Emma Fountain.
GLASS OF 1880.
This is the fifteenth anniversary of the
class of 1880, which includes among it's
membership John E. Case, missionary to
the Burmans, Hugh R Chaplin, Esq, of
Bangor, Carroll W. Clark, of Boston,
Rev James E. Cochrane, Principal e.
H. Crosby of Deering, DR.. f. S Herrick,
of Brooklyn, Me-, Principal J L. Ingra-
ham of Owatonna, Mimi, Herbert L.
Kelley, of Fairfield. DR.. E. f. King, of
Washington, Principal Arthur NJ Thomas
of Houlton, James e. Trask, Esq, of
Minneapolis, Librarian Harry W. Koop-
man, of Brown University, and others
Mr. Koopman was unable to be present;
but sent the following poem:
MIDWAY.
"NeJ neezzo del cdn11ai7e o1i 7aostro Uita,"
Youth for dreams, manhood for toll, age
for the dreams fulfilling,
So runs the course of highest life, when
all the gods are willing.
So Dante dreamed and agonized, from
sweet New Life's romances,
Through strife and exile. to the sight
that crowns all human frances.
His face, that from the artists brush had
graced the courts of Heaven,
Grew scared as if enswathed within his
Malebolge's levin;
And yet his heart passed on unbroke
through Hell's forlorn abysm,
Nor failed until it sank beneath the tri-
une splendor's chrysm.
So sweet Cervantes, sunrise -souled, with
wounds and fetters burdened,
Nursed in his heart the high resolve that
fate repentant guerdoned.
Before his smile the masquerade of folly,
robed and hollow,
Sank like the braying herds that felt the
bright shafts Of Apollo;
And, g one foot in the stirrup,' still he
wrought that all men wondered,
And Death, that bore his soul away, of
half it's booty plundered
So Chaucer, touched by loves sweet pain
to most melodious planning,
Was doomed to con life's day book lines
of sordid loss and gaining;
But when at last for his account the
great Taskmaster beckoned,
He smiled and held the world aloft with
all it's values reckoned
Of all the darlings of the muse, foremost
among her favored,
Blest with her full, peculiar love, that