The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-06-22
EsPE CIAL TC THE FRESH

ESPECIAL TC THE FRESH
Brunswick, June 21.-This is COM
mencement week at Bowdoin and already
considerable number of the alumni and
members of the governing boards are
present, although the day in which the
alumni take the greatest interest, the day
Of the meeting of the Alumni association
and the alumni dinner with its feast of
wit and reason, will be Thursday.
Among the early arrivals are three of the
members of the Supreme court of the
state. Chief Justice Peters, Judge Haskell
and Judge Wiswell are here and SO is
Justice Putnam of the United States
Court of Appeals. Among the distin
guished visitors who are expected is Chief
Justice Fuller who is member OF the
class of SO, which this year will have
reunion to celebrate its 10Th anniversary.
The semi-centennial Of thu class of 1s4S
will bring together number OF the
men who were mem bers of the student
body of the college of IS years ago. Rev.
Egbert Smyth OF Andover is a member of
that class who is expected. The trustees
and overseers held meetings today and
arranged for the work before them.
For the visitors today, however, interest
conferred not in the doings of the grave
and dlgnified trustees and overseers, but
in the class day exercises of the 81 young
men who compose the Gloss of 1898. 1t Is
the day when the serious observe the con.
NJ - Of ctr limo IN
the programme which they have arranged
| for themselves and it Is the day of days
| for the mothers and sisters and sweet
hearts. Brunswiok's quiet streets grew
animated as the morning progressed and
the maidens appeared wearing their new
summer gowns, surmounted by the latest
creations of the miIliners which did not
succeed in marring the beauty of the faces
which they sheltered. It was day when
everybody guessed about the weather and
| kept guessing hour after hour. Some
times it rained little but not enough to
seriously interfered with the days pro-
gramme. The exercises of the day began
with tho meeting in Memorial hall
in the forenoon when this grafton
and poem were delivered. The
hall was we'll filed and the exercises in
every way successful. The Salem Cadet
band is here, as usual and to the music
of Its orchestra, the class, in cap and
gown, marched into the hall, under the
lead of Edward StanWood, Jr., the
marshal of the day. The column was
| made up of tall, we'll proportioned young
man whose faces and figures gave evidence
Of the excellent training afforded by old
Bowdoin both mental and physical. The
class president, Mr.. Howard Rollin Ives
of Portland, presided. Prayer was offered
by Mr.. George Lincoln Dilloway, the
class chaplain.
THE GRAFTON.
The Grafton was by Percival Proctor
Baxter of Portland, whose subject was
"The College Man in Politics" Mr..
Baxter delivered his Grafton with force
and expression. 1t evidently embodied
the result of much study and thought,
and the language was well chosen. The
ora or dwelt on the achievements of col
iege graduates in the ministry, the pro-
fessions and the. government, arguing
that the figures which he quoted disproved
the assertion sometimes made that col.
Iege education untitled a man for the
tactical affairs of life. In politics, MIR.
Baxter argued, the college man should
take an active part remem bering that all
men are equal at the ballot box, that the
people desire good government and that
the union of men in all the walks of life
who are actuated by a common desire for
the welfare of the people will put an end
to the sway of the demagogues and
bosses. On the other hand, the speaker
declared that the men of education who
disdained to take part in political life
were as much enemies of the public good
as the demagogues whom they con-
demned. It was to this lack of united
.,+ior IN +bo MORT of the friends of pood