Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-24

behalf of the college by Hon. Percival
Bonney of Portland, who spoke in part
as follows:
Il we'll remember the appearance of
this room when, about 80 years ago, DR..
Robbins suggested to the Alumni AS
ISOLATION the propriety of adjoining its
walls with portraits of graduates who
had honored their alma mater by their
achievements in life. At that time,
outside of the marble lion, which COM
memorated the patriotism of our hon
Ored dead. only one portrait, and that
not one of our alumni, was to be seen.
But since then. under the fostering care
of the committee on art about that time
created, and under the spur of Or.
Warren's lectures which have aroused
an interest IN the beautiful, very re-
spectacle art collection has been Sc
cured Let us see that the good work
may go on until the erection of suit
able building may be necessary to give
the collection proper shelter No edu-
cation is complete which pays no atten-
ton to the aesthetic nature of man.
Josiah Hayden Drummond was born
in Winslow, Maine, August 80, 1927, and
died suddenly in Portland, October 25,
1902. He was the son of Clarke and
cynthia G}lackwelD Drummond. On
the 10th day of December 1850 he was
married to Elzada Rollins of New York
City. Four children were born to them,
Myra L., Josiah H., class of IT, Tinnie
A., wife of Wilfred G.. Chapman, class
OF '73 and Margelia b., whose death in
1898 was a severe blow to her parents.
rf hi 1,
with whom he had lived for nearly 81
years in happy companionship, and the
three children first named, survive
him. His boyhoOd was passed upon his
fathers farm, where his experiences
were the same as those of thousands of
other boys who, enured to hard labor
and hard work, have risen to eminence
in the land. In those early days, the
life of a farmer involved a constant,
hand-to hand struggle with the physi-
cal forces of nature. AS soon as q boy
could be of any use on the farm he was
set to work. The necessity of toll to
which every farmer boy carly becomes
accustomed, the outdoor exercises
which gives vigor to the body and
strength to the brain, the industry SO
essential to such life, constitute firm
foundation upon which a life of
achievement may be easily erected.
There is no place for Incidence upon .
farm and the boy who lives on paternal
acres has been so disciplined in the
school of hardness that he considers
the work of the mercantile life or of
the professions a positive relief.
The boy Drummond while very young
hoy nv, hi
manifested a desire for an education,
and at an early age took up the studies
necessary for admission to college. The
district schools in the vicinity of Wa
tcrville were at that time taught by
college students, who were III this way
able to secure money with which to
pay their college bills. Outside of such
instructions, he attended for few
terms Vassalboro Academy, then under
the principalship of g. F. Shaw of the
class of 81. While in attendance upon
this academy, though at the age of
only IA years he served as an assistant
in mathematics. In the algebra then
in use there was n problem which no
one, not even the instructors in the
schools in the vicinity, had been able
to solve. The answer stated in the
book was deemed by all to be a mis-
takened one. The young student APP
piled himself to the solution of this
problem ana on a rock in the Quaker
woods which he was accustomed to
point out later to his friends, after long
and laborious effort, he found the true
answer, and carried the same in
triumph to his instructor.
He entered Colby in September, 1912.
He found here an able and con-
DIR. Sheldon. the courteous and
careful rcasoner, was president, and
instructor in mental and moral
| philosophy. George w. Kelley was
| instructor in mathematics, a study
with which the young farmer was ana
had been deeply in love. James l.
Chaplin Of blessed memory, was pro-
| fessor of Latin and Greek. Justin r.
LOOMS, a distinguished scientist, and
afterWard for 20 years president of
Buclnell University in Pennsylvania
| While as tutor, and only two years out
| of college, was Martin Is. Anderson,
who had charge of the department OF
rhetoric. The same fiery zeal which
| characterized the latter as the head OF
Rochester University in later years,
made him n mighty power with the
students of that day. Mr.. Drummond
in after life frequently referred to
| Tutor Anderson as the most eXhilera-
ting and inspiring man with whom nc
| ever came in contact. He taught
school during the winter vacations,
which We're long at that time in order
to enable the students to earn some
thing for college needs, and worked up
on his fathers farm during the shorter
cues. He Immediately took high rank
as scholar, particularly in mathemat-
les. and graduated in 1912, when he was
a few weeks less than 10 years of age,
with the highest rank, having the Latin
| salutatory as his commencement part.
While in college he manifested that
inclination toward secret organizations
which he showed all through his life,
by the establishment in the college Al
Chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon
fraternity. In this organization he
ever manifested his love and Devotion
a: the last commencement So years al
ter the chapter was instituted, the
members presented him with an ele-
CANT silver loving cup, and he has fre-
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