The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-01
COLBY'S NEW PRESIDENT,
Continued from First Page.

fess1onal courses, which in turn consti-
tute the graduate, or, as we have usually
termed them, post graduate courses
Here we nave more complete deyeIop.
ment OF the university idea, namely, that
strictly university work rests upon the
general disciplinary work of the colleges
(o) Inc term university" in it
largest sense is applied 20 institutions OF
which perhaps not more than two exam
pies at present exist in America. These
may be described as collections of grad u
ate schools giving instruction in every
kind OF knowledge and open to all the
world. IL universities of this type en-
brace tne college course, they do it incl
dentally. These are essentially the
graduate institutions. They assume that
their students have had the discipline of
the college course and that they come to
the university in order to perfect them
selves in some branch of knowledge, in
order either to practice that knowledge
as experts or to devote themselves rs in
vestigators to extending the field Of
human knowledge.
The college, on the other hand, Is un-
derstood to be the school consisting of
one Faculty, usually termed that of
"Science and the Liberal Arts.n 1t is
a school answering pretty nearly to the
upper half OF the German gymnasium,
and its training is supposed to underlie
the specialized work Of the university
The relation between the college and
the university is clear from this adistinc-
tion, sand the relation is becoming NOR
and more practically recognized. Har.
wards recent announcement that those
who would enter her Medical School must
present the academic diploma, must first
have taken the college course, is an illus.
tratlOn OF this fact. The establishment
of graduate schools of pedagogy is of in
terest as bearing upon the same point.
The speaker Went on to show that the
complete work which the school must
do for man in preparing him to step
out into the world and do his full share
consists really of three elements: az
education; (2) instruction.: (3) training.
Education in this special use of the
term is to be understood as meaning the
evoking of personality, the rendering the
students faculties alert, the securing of
an Intelligent outlook upon life, self
knowledge and self-command. Of course
the schools can never completely accom-
plish this, because as long as a man lives
he will make further attainment in these
directions.
By knowledge is meant very different
thing from education. 1t means the com
plete possession of some special field ex-
plored by the human mind
By training is meant special technical
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tivity, the mastery of the technique of
ones calling.
it is clear that the importation of
knowledge and special technical training
is chiefly the work of the university
while the more general work, which we
have termed education, belongs rather to
the college and one of it's designs is to
prepare the student to make use of what
ever the university offers.
The speaker then sketched at copsidera-
BILE length the elements which must en-
ter into the scheme of the college in or
der that it may completely do this edu-
oational work, and showed that the I'M
dertaking of the college is highly COM
pick and demands full organization and
complete equipment The great dsvdlop-
ment of the two or three universities in
the great centors lays new and special
emphasis upon the local colleges, for
young men and women must seek the I'M
dergraduate work near home; and in pro-
portion as the university becomes recog-
nized as the place OF preparation for &C
tive life just in that proportion will the
local college acquire new Importance in
presenting its fnishedproducts as the raw
material of the universities.
The outcome of the discourse was to
draw attention to the Importance of tie
work in which Colby is engaged, and to
the opportunities offered for building up
at this point in northern New England a
group of schools attempting strictly un-
dergraduate work, which should be the
equals Of any in the country. Specific
needs were detailed. Some of them
were declared to be fairly il the way to
be supplied, and strong appeal was
made for the friends Of the college to see
To it that none of these needs remained
longer unfulf1lled.
The reunion of the Greek letter frater-
mites followed the inaugural address.
Trustees and Instructors Elected.
Waterville, June 3O-Colby trustees
have elected John Hedman, Instructor of
Greek and Latin; J. P. Bates, Bowdoin,
'96, gymnasium instructor; Mary A.
Sawtelle, Waterville, dean of women S
college. New trustees elected are: Presi-
dent Nathaniel Butler, David ". Camp