Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-22
Bates IVY.
Exercises at the College,
Tuesday Afternoon.
Literary Side Full Of Great
Interest and Value.
Last Chapel Exercises lmpressiveIy
Celebrated by the Seniors, Tuesday
Morning-ivy Exercises Delayed by
Severe Electrical Storm.


were impressively celebrated this
morning by the Senior class. The class
President, JudsOn Briggs, read a pas
sage from the Scriptures, prayer was
offered by the class chaplain. f. NJ.
Holman. The class hymn which was
sung was written by Miss Wallace
After chapel the lower classes were
reviewed by the seniors who in turn
were. cheered by the lower classes,
then all united in the college yell.
Although the Junior Ivy day eXercis-
es We're delayed this afternoon by Il
terrific electrical storm the program
was highly appreciated by the large
audience which gathered in HathOrne
hail to witness this annual occasion.
The program was as follows: Prayer,
Grin Holman: music, the orchestra :;
Grafton. 'Individuality," John Stillman
Reed: poem, Mary Alice Lincoln; pre-
sentatinn. Albion X. baldwin; music,
the orchestra: Toasts, "Athletics." John
De Myer: The Faculty" Miss Briggs:
THE Bates Spirit" G. George Cooper;
"The Gentlemen" Miss Ray Bryant;
1.-THE Ladies'" Alton r. Maxium; "'rhe
College Girl" Miss Marion Ames Sing
ing Of the Glass Ode. words and music
by NJ. Alice Bartlett.
After this nrogram had been render
ed the class marched to the new COram
Library where the Glass Ivy was plant
ed.
The class day Grafton undoubtedly
appealed most strongly to the audi
ence, as the orator, John s. Reed, has
every attribute of powerful public
speaker. The Grafton was in part as
follows:
''The power Of the human soul cam
not be measured. The possibility of one
person will never be fonnd in another
The same influence and environment
never surround two persons. Nature
never repeats itself. Infinite diversity
is the law. No two blades of grass. no
two leaves. the fruit of no two trees
no two anythings are just alike. This
variation of kind and difference of
species seems to exist for a purpose
for the myriads of natures products
blend together in perfect harmony.
Men differ not only in form and ply
steal features, but in tastes, wants
aspirations. and knowledge which like
the muscles of the body grow strong
with Use. There is also another quality
Of man either given or created which
grows with use AMI dwarfs all other
God given power. This quality is fear.
Eut when banishod from the mind Of
man he stands forth fearing no enemy,
following no leader but taking what
ever course his conscience dictates
without reference to the pathway of
others. This man we say has individ-
uality. Without fear or hesitation he
goes straight on his course. 1t is the
grandcst. the nOblest, accomplishment
Of man. 1t gives to its possessor whath-
er I've he wise or foolish. rich or pnor,
Christian or pagan, power to stand
forth and say. i am what T am If
the Creator thought it fitting to give
the grass the leaves and the two an
Individuality, how much more must
he expect from man to whom he has
given snch great power.
'!What the world needs TODAY IS men
who know and have the courage to
who have ideas but being afraid TO
launch out on their own responsibility
they take the course manned ont by
others. The mass of people follow. the
few load. IT is the duty Of every man
I" maintain his own Individuality. And
it has been said: This above all things
to thine ownsclf he true, and II will
follow as the night the day thou can'st
not be false to any man:
The story of our fathers NAV he good;
the advice Of mother should he cher
ishad ne precious jewel: hut If each had
the beliefs ard customs of his
parents from whence would come the adj
vance Of civilization? Science would be
unknown: We should still believe in the
divine right Of kings: We should think the
earth to he fiat. and We should be serfs
and slaves instead of citizen kings. and
when the schoolhouse door is now open
to all. only the children of lords and of
tho royal family would 10 allowed the
privilege of education and FREQ thought
Suppose that kings had controlled the
affairs of state: where would America
with her free institutions be? But thanks
to the people who have had individuality
enough to think for themselves and cour-
action
Not only to be original should b? the
aim of our intellectual lives. hut to be-
individual; the world is fun of intellec-
tual parasites who unconscious. often
through admiration for intellectual
achievements or simply through indo-
lence. accept so completely the opinion of
others that their own power of reason
ing becomes weak and useless Here is
the obligation bound up in every exist
nnce, its fullfilment means a step onward
and upward, which rejection. a step back
ward and downward There are those
who grasp every new idea which is adj
vanced; there are others who bury them
selves in the past and believe nothing use
less that has stood the test and criticism
Of time. But the individual thinker takes
nothing for granted neither because 1t IL
old nor hecauSe II is new. but Weighe