Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-24
BATES AND BOWDOIN
Open Commencement Week
With Bacca|aureates.
Exercises at Each Will Be of High
Order and Interesting.
Hundreds Of Alumni and Friends Of Graduates
Will Attend.

Brunswick, June 23.-(Special) An
other commencement season Is approach
ing at old Dowdoin, and before anothe,
week the large class of '95 will have gone
forth from the classic halls amid the fam
GUS whispering pines After the elaborate
centennial celebration which marked last
years commencement week, this year,
exercises will not be on quite so extern.
sive scale. There will be no dinner or
the campus to an illustrious body of 1906
alumni, no Grafton by Chief Justice
Fuller, no such full reunion of classes and
fraternities, no such decorations, no such
AN assemblage of dignitaries, and no such
vast throng Of visitors.
. But commencement week will as usual
be an important occasion at Bowdoin,
and a full programme is being prepared
for each day and evening. This week
has been entirely devoted to examinations.
Last week the seniors took their final
examinations and are enjoying little
breathing spell before the pleasure and
work Of commencement week.
The baccalaureate sermon before the
graduating class was preached at P. M.
in the Congregational church by the
president, Rev. VIM. Dewitt Hyde d. ID
LII. d. His text was Chow be 1t that |
must 60 on my way today and tomorrow,
and the day following" Luke xiii :33.
Said the preacher: Platinus. when
told that the shade of Hercules In the
meadow of Asphodel rejoiced in the great
deeds that he had done, replied that the
the shade Of Hercules might boast thus to
shades, but the true Hercules accounted
all past deeds as naught, being trans
ported into q moro sacred place and siren
uously engaging, even above his strength,
in those contests in which the wise en-
gage.
"There is no more pitiful object than
the ian who tries to live on past achiev-
ments. In the soldier this tendency de-
grades the honest and heroic patriot
whom we admire almost to the point of
reverence into the claimant for dishonest
pensions and unjust preferment whom
we can scarce endure.
BY this backward look, the athlete,
whose magnificent development and splen-
did prowess is the glory of his under
graduate days, degenerates into gradu-
ate, who hangs around the college, feed
ing his conceit on the dry crumbs of his
undergraduate fame, when he ought to
be about some honest business.
so the scholar who tries to live on
his college rank and Offices and honors,
discredits the college from which he
comes. and becomes the laughing stock of
the world to which he goes.
Past achievement Is no life preserver to
float one on the surface of the stream of
life. Its only present worth is the pur-
pose and power it has developed with
which to breast and buffet the oncoming
waves.
"The problem of life Is heartily to enjoy
today, couragcously to face tomorrow,
and serenely to trust for the day follow
ing. The child does the first the practi-
cal man does the second the mystic does
the third
."To do all three, to make life joyous.
strenuous and tranquil whole, one must
have the spirit of the generous and loving
service which was the open secret Of joy
and courage and serenity of Jesus, and,
which under the great difference of
names and diversity ofform is the very
heart and core of Christianity.
alton contest will be held iii Memorial
hall. The college orchestra will furnish
music. Following is the programmes
Music.
death of Charles IX,'' Moore
"Old Ace" Anon
Alfred Perley Ward, Freeport.
"The Pilots Story" Howell
" Howard fitzpatrick, Biddeford.
1.-THE Miser Punishment" OSBORN
.Tb. rhariot Race" Wallace
| denomination OF Blaine" Ingersoll
Jerre Hooker Libby, Fort Fairfield.
Music.
Against Flogging in the Navy stockton
Charles Arnold knight. Brunswick.
~ John Clair Mnot. Belgrade. ,.o.
"The Death of Rienzi.' Lytton
Preston kyes North Jay.
BerteIle Glidden wi, Willard Ne sSssssnea
John Harold Bates, West Sumner.
| "rbe Victor of Marengo," Anon
John Newman Haskell, Newcastle.
Music.
Tuesday, will be class day with its
| pretty and impressive exercises of the
graduating class in Memorial hall and
| under the famous old Thorndike oaF.
| This is the most popular day OF the week
| with visitors. In the evening the campus
is illuminated, and the class day dance
is held under the old oak. Wednesday, the
medical graduation exercises will be held,
the annual address being delivered by
Rev. ]. l.. jenkins. d. D., of Portland
The annual meetings Of she Phi Beta
| Kappa Fraternity and the Maine Histori-
cal Society are also held this day, and in
the evening the commencement concert
" III draw the crowd to Town hall. Mr..
George Biddle and the Boston Philhar-
monte Club in q Midsummer Night S
Dream make up the programme this year.
After this The annual reunions of the
various Greek letter fraternities. of which
seven chapters now exist at Bowdoin,
are held in their halls. and it can be safe
Nv counted that the old boys will make a
night Of it.
Thursday however, is the great day of
the week. After the annual meeting Of
tb, alnmni in Memorial ball. the COM
menoement procession will form at the
| ...,,,l aud march to the Congregational