The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-06-22

government that the success of Tammany,
the state of affairs in Chicago and even
the reign of bossism in some of the cities
of Maine was due.
In the course of his remarks the speaker
said:
sThere never was a time in human
history when higher education was so
popular, SO universal as today. Never
| theless the question is persistently asked
does such education fit a man to grapple
manlike with the practical affairs of life?
| The college never makes man. it but
developes him. Sound, stalwart material
is broadened by the college; weak
effeminate stuff, simply inflated.
"The seIf-made man calls his college
| brother a theorist and a critic, and such
too otter is the case. The college man of
TODAY. however, is fast freeing himself
from theories. Every year thousands of
earnest young men are graduated who
realize that the world is fruitful field
| for workers, but desert for idle1s. Pre-
| pared for the struggle they go forth with
light hearted hopefulness that in itself
l
augers success.
| "In years past the college was essential
| " religious, over half it's graduates enter
ing the ministry. The minister of former
years was som sthing of an autocrat, but
today he typifies the intellectual leader.
One-third Of our best authors. one-half of
our best know lawyers and physicians,
and two-thirds of our educators are col
| lege graduates. Forty two Of the tifty-six
signers of the Declaration of Independence,
one-half of the United States Senators
| and Representatives, sixteen of the thirty
two Speakers of the House, twelve OF the
| twenty -four Presidents. two-thirds of our
cabinet ministers, diplomats and Judges
have been college educated. If the college
man has ruled this. country in the past,
how much more will he in the future?
"We cannot all be presidents, senators
and DIPLOMATS; we can and shall be
politicians. mean politicians in high
sense. The college man, if he holds him.
self aloof from politics is quite as danger
GUS to society as is the demagogue. and is
| to degree responsible for misgovern-
| ment
"The college of today is more practical
than ever beore, it's education is proaoer
and freer; it is as necessary to the busl-
ness man as to the lawyer, doctor or
minister. Above all it is cultivatlng d
/ spirit of true dem ocracy where neither
aristooracy nor plutocracy avail.
"If every man who graduates today
feels his responsibilities, his duties and
his powers, if every man resolves to bear
4 his proper burden, great step in advance
will have been taken.
"Unity is necessary to progress. We
M asst all move, but we must all move to-
gether. 1t is only when the rearguard
comes up that the vanguard can go on.
Progress and Unity bound fast by the
college man will march on hand in hand
in every branch of human interest and
human activity"
The class poem by John Wilbur Condor
was graceful expr ession of the worth of
Bowdoin college, the associations of
student days and their uplifting inf1u-
ences.
UNDER THE OAK.
At three o'clock in the afternoon the
sun was still trying to drive away the
clouds and although it rained little at
times and the people on the benches re-
tired under umbrellas, still the exercises
by the Thorndike oak were successfully
carried out. On the historic oak hung an
American flag, and before it WAS draped
| T. koI <l,of rin ,Io
OF the class, the bright costumes of the
ladies being in pleasing contrast to the
vivid green of the lawn and the foliage of
| the surrounding trees. The seniors
marching across the campus. under the
trees which have looked upon so many
center of all eyes until they had taken
their places under the oak. Then Presi-
dent Ives introduced Arthur Leroy Hunt,
who gave the opening address, in which
in appropriate language he expressed the
feelings of the seniors ut parting from the
college, it's faculty and the other mem
beers of the student body. The class
history by Wendell Phillips McKown re-
cited many of those incidents which serve
to enliven college days, and the shouts of
laughter and the applause with which
many of these references were greeted in
dicated that they were understood and ap-
preciated by the members OF the class.
The address also included the class
statistics. which gave the number in the
Nclass as 81, one of the largest of Bow
doin's classes. Of these young men, is
propose to study law II will study
medicine, two will enter the ministry.
two will become journalists, and the
others SO far as they have determined OF
their future will be divided among a
number of occupations. The tallest man
is White, who stands six feet three inches
above ground. The man whose head is
nearest the ground is Martin, whose
height is five feet, four inches. Our Oldest
is Graham. who has seen SO SUNNI rs,
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