The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-01
COLDY'S NEW PRESIDENT.
DR.. Butler Formally lnaugurated
Last Evening.
DISCUSSES RELATION OF COLLEGE
TO UNIVERSITY,

Glass Day Exercises During The Dav-
Meeting of the Alumni Association
New Instructors and Trustees FIected-
Midnight Reunions of Secret Frater-
mites.
Wateryille, June 80 1.-The class day ex-
ercises of the senior class were held in
the Baptist church this forenoon and
concluded on the campus in the after
noon. The exercises in the church be-
gan ATTIC. 30 and were as follows:
Histories:
Gentlemen. Carleton E. Hutchinson
Ladies, Edna SWEET Moatt
Glass Ode.
Poem-At Virgil's Tomb,
Address to Undergraduates,
Grafton, Mary W nnnn nSp'n
The programme for the exercises on
the campus were as follows:
| Prophecies:
Gentlemen, Everett J.. Getohell
| Ladles, Olive L. Robbins
| Pipe Ode.
Smoking Pipe of Peace,
Address to Undergraduates,
James NJ. Pike
Farewell Ode.
PARTING Address. Charles e. Sawtelle.
Cheering the Halls.
| At meeting of the alumni associatio4
Leslie c. Cornish of Augusta was elect
ed president; Prof. E. W. Hall. secre-
tary and treasurer. and DIR. G. V. Han
son OF Skowhegan, neorologist. The re-
port of the neorologi st showed II deaths
during the year.
In the evening Prof Butler was form
ally installed before an immense audi
ence In the Baptist church. Prayer was
offered by ex-PresidenJ Ro bins. Presi-
dent Butler was introduced by the Hon.
j. Fl. Drummond of Portland, president
OF the board of trustees, and was heartily
received. He delivered an address on
The relation the ofcollege to the uniyersi
ty."
RPEsIDENT BUTLER's INAUGU
RAL.
Waterville, June 30-The President
of the college delivered the inaugural ad
dress at the Baptist church this evenip o.
His subject was. "The College in rela-
tion to the University'' The chief en-
phasis of the discourse was upon the diff.
erentiation that is now taking place be-
tween these two species of institutions OF
higher education, and The new emphasis
laid upon the local college by the develop
Inent of few universities at the metro
polit an centers.
The early part of the address was de-
voted to tracing the historic evolution of
the university out of the narrow, monas-
tic schools OF the early middle ages. 1t
was pointed out how to these schools
great numbers fooked, attracted by
famous teachers; how these throngs or
Ganized themselves, for convenience and
for mutual protection, into national
groups. dwelling in lodging halls; how
these halls, in turn, become endowed
colleges-first, as mere boarding houses,
and, afterwards, as schools; how these
colleges became, in many cases, minor
universities within the great inclusive
university.
The speaker then traced the rise
faculties and the graduation of titles a
degrees. 1t WAS shown that the tel
'uniyersttyn at present is used in
l.
English university is collection of @,
leges, each largely independent; the &C
leges constituting the English universal
have not, however, the power to oonfe
degrees. The university is the central
government which unites all the colleges
and is also the authority which alone
confer degrees.
In America the name "uniyerity' has
been applied: Q) to institutions like
many of the State universities in the
Mississippi valley and the West; these
institutions consist of collections of vari-
Gus schools or Faculties, and they
are "univeTsities' in the sense that
they are collections or communities of
various schools, but these are almost en-
tiroly undergraduate institutions.
(2) The term university" is applied
also to institutions Of which Yale is a
type. In these the general college course
is prerequisite to the specialized or pro-