Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-08

| toned in the Philippines
Boston Transcript President Hyde
could not have chosen a more timely
| and vital theme than the one upon
which he spoke at the Boston Univcr-
| sity commemorative Free
| dom. Nor could another speaker
easily be found who would be better
| fitted to discuss this subject There
| are few heads of institutions who have
so deep an insight into educational
problems and SO strong a grasp upon
public questions as the president of
Bowdoin College. He combines in n
| rare manner, fearless frankness and
judicial fairness. His uttcrances upon
| topics relating to college administra-
4 ton are always forceful ana searching.
No wciShticr words upon the question
\ Of academic freedom have yet been
| spoken than those OF President Hyde
| in his Boston University address. The
| Importance of this question was not
exaggerated by President Hyde. when
| ne declared il to be the most press
ing educational problem which the
| nineteenth century hands over to the
| twentieth. The problem is a now
| one. for it did not arise until economic
and social questions began to assume
| q prominent place in the college
| curriculum. What a professor OF
languaSes-may say and teach in his
| department is not primarily Il matter
of public concern: but the teaching Of
q professor Of economies has i'm
| mediate practical bearing and popular
interest. Unless says President
| Hyde, we can come to clear I'M
| Outstanding as to the rights and duties
of the several parties to university
instruction, profcssnrships of econo-
mics and sociology will be as perlous
positions in Il democracy as chairs of
politics ever were in an absolute
| monarchy or chairs of theology in the
palmy days of papal power" The
respective rights of the various parties
to university instruction President
Hyde aimed in his address to define
Perhaps the most interesting and
valua bic parts of this discussion are
those relating to the right of donors
and of professors. The rights of the
formers class. according to President
! Hyde. are very narrowly Circum-
| scribed: the founder may determine
the general scope and purpose of the
institution that he POUNDS, but he may
not NEEDLE with its management.
| These are the days Of the graduates
There are two distinct varieties of
graduates. though in the public prints
little is said about any save the sweet
girl variety. The Portland Express
| ic afr tho thor vnriaty ic hoipu
wifully neglected and calls attention
to the fact that it is as apt to make
a noise in the world as is she The
boy who even now is dreading to stand
up in public. facing his parents and
his friends. eyed anxiously. maybe,
by some young girl who. he realizes,
takes shy sort of interest i'm his
success. feeling as if everything in
all the universe depends upon him, and
how slender that dependence is. awk-
ward. with no place large enough for
his hands and no spot where he can
| safely bestOw his feet. unhappy. at a
time when he had hoped to triumph.
made miserable by all the fOrmalities
in none of which he takes a real inter
| est, aware that the only thing that
interests the newspaper makers are his
| classmates, the sweet girls" or il they
are not to be found in his own class
then they are elsewhere absorbing all
the attention. this graduate is entitled
| TO some consideration. and the Express
is right in bcspcaking it for him.
| The list sent out, this week, to the
alumni of Bowdoin College has the
following names Of those eligible to the
vacancy on the board of oversecrs
which is to be filed by the vote of the
alumni: Weston Lewis. -. Gard ncr:
William J. Curtis. rs. New York;
William T. Cobb, ~. Rockland: and
Clarence r. Burlcigh, 81. Augusta
Each alumnus will forward his choice
of one of these to Prof. Geo. Il. Little
TO fill the other vacancy. caused by
the death of Justice Haskell, the board
itself will make a choice of some man
from the alumni body.
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