Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-09-26
LARGE CORPS OF STUDENTS
IN ATTENDANCE.
Prospects Good For The Most Pros
perous Year In History of
The College-New
Students En-
rolled.
PRESIDENT THOMAS FELL'S
ADDRESS.

trum, The chapel exercises were
conducted by the Rev. William L.
Twamley, assistant to the rector of
st. Anne's Church. assisted by DIR.
Fell, the president of the college.
After the services DIR. Fell made an
address to the students in few fitting
and timely remarks. His theme was
enthusiasm. The Doctor addressed a
part of his remarks especially to the
new students, admonishing them to
pay strict attention to the rules and
regulations of the college. He urged
| the old students to increased interest
| in their studies and renewed energy
| to accomplish the great end in view
that of obtaining a COLLEGIATE educa
tion.
DIR. FELL's ADDRESS
DR.. Fell said:
my desire in addressing you this
morning is to keep alive in your
minds an enthusiasm for this old col
| lege. We have entered upon session
which seems fraught with great en-
couragement The number of students
is steadily increasing spirit Of har-
mony prevails among us, and in all
directions the friends of the college
are showing marked interest in our
progress. Upon you, therefore, rests
the necessity of making the best use OF
your opportunities and to accomplish
| this we must centre our interests in
and around the college. We must all
feel that we are important members
of body corporate, bound TO stand
| by each other and to take an active
participation in all that goes on.
"And first l would speak of the re-
markable hold which our old college
has upon the affection and gratitude
of former students. 1t is most graft
fying to me to have seen so many of
| the alumni in our midst since the
opening of the college this year, evinc-
| ing their desire to promote the well
/ fare of the college as each may be
able In this ancient hall nearly one
hundred and fifty years old, host of
memories arise from the more or less
distant past-some saddening perhaps,
some smiles and endearingly, connect
| ed with old friendships and attach
ments 1t might almost be said that
there is something human in an insti-
| tuition like st. Johns. 1t is not mere
ly cluster of buildings in particu
| lar spot, but the the embodiment of
ideas and influences which should en-
| twine themselves about the heart and
mind of each individual, causing
| him to feel and think about it; not as
mere locality, but as living per-
sonality TO which he is closely related.
"There is, it seems TO me, a strik-
| ing harmony between the outward ap-
pearances, the physical attributes of
st. Johns and the spirit which has
peryaded it's work throughout the
/ fluctuations of its long career. l am
one of those, who believe it to be pos
sible TO breathe into mere bricks and
mortar a permanent infiuence-wha
may be defined as the soul of a build
| ing or an institution which will sur
vive the mutations of time and cir
cumstances, and impress upon indi-
vidual wills and intellects certain i'm
pulses and tendencies which, to a
greater or less degree, are in accord
ance with and a realization of the in
tention of the founders. And so of
ST. Johns. These sturdy walls, simple
but massive, the venerable old poplar
in the campus, the quaint colonial
surroundings which the ancient city
provides, do not these present to the
mind picture, which arrests the
fancy aud suggests the survival of an
individuality not of our time or of
our fashioning, but which still exerts
upon all who were within reach of its
influence, a certain fascination?
"And the more intimate and is &C.
quaintance the stronger this uncon-
scious charm. Presidents and profes-
sors rave come and gone. Students
have come and gone, and the play of
their various individualities has had
it's transient or perhaps permanent
effect upon the college life, but
throughout all changes, in good or
evil pretense alike st. Johns has re-
tained its distinguishing quality-a
certain gem, unassuming s0lidity OF
character as well as of mien. 1t stands
today bnt little changed and with no
diminution, let us hope, but rather
with sensible increase of it's power of
usefulness and good. The average
alumnus of st. Johns, / am glad to
be able to say. takes equal rank in the
practical affairs of life with the grad
yates of more pretentious institutions,
and think there is noticeable among
them q we'll disciplined throughness
of workmanship in whatever they un-
dertake to do, and spirit of liberal
itv of thought and feeling, which re-
feet the highest honor in their alma
mater
s'However much the college may
have failed to realize the ambitious
hopes of its more enthusiastic friends,
it has at least succeeded in this one
thing Of educating a large number of
Young men in such way that taken
in the mass, they may be said TO have
excited and to be still exciting a
wholesome and refining influence in
their respective communities. To
equip man for taking his place in
the world, he must be made an all
around man, his training should be
comprehensive including all depart
ments of training. AT the time of life
when young men go TO college they
need to be separated from home,
thrown entirely upon their own re-
sources and abilities, and there is no
training like the true college life of
campus, dormitory and restraining
discipline in addition to that OF his
own for the development Of robust,
healthy, manly character. these where
chivaIrousness is valued highly and