Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-29

even stood ready to extend to us d help
ing hand, we are about to go from you,
but we go with many pleasant memo
ries, memories that will linger in our
hearts when distance separates us and
new interests and duties claim our at
tention.
Honored instructors, in the name of
1904, l wish to thank you for the kind
help and encouragement you have given
us.>You have ever been ready with
kind words to help us in times of dis
couragement and though as students
and instructors our relations have
ceased to exist, I am sure we still have
common bond Of love and earnest
wishes for the welfare and prosperity
of the old college.
Undergraduates, in your care we leave
the honor of the blue and gray. It is
a legacy which We are not ashamed
to give, one that you should be proud to
accept. Guard it well. Let Colby's
honor in athletics, in scholarship, in
character be to you as your dearest per-
sonal ambitions.
The men who have gone forth from
these halls in years past are beacon
lights to us. Step but within the doors
of the old chapel yonder and read what
is stamped upon that bronze tablet and
you will learn what Colby's sons have
been; it is for US to show what they
shall be In the years to come. College
fits a man, not only for profession;
it fits him for business; it fits him for
the world. Men that are sought, today,
IN,
ton from Dean Stanley. "Give us q
| man, young or old, high or low, upon
| whom we know that we can thoroughly
| depend, who will stand firm when 9TH
ers fail, the friend faithful and true,
the adviser, honest and fearless, the adj
| versary just and chivalrous; in such an
| one there is a fragment of the Rock of
Ages. a sign that there has been a
prophet amongst u.s."
Classmates, time in its unfaltering
course, has at last set us down at the
| threshold of new life; what lies be-
yond in its dim vistas depends in a
great measure, upon ourselves and as
We go forth to strive for a footing in
| the wider world beyond this college
world of ours, we separate from much
| that we shall sadly miss. During these
four years we have to a certain extent,
been thrown upon our own resources,
yet there was always the underlying
| feeling that in time of need we could
depend upon our instructors and each
other. HencefOrth it will not be so.
While in college we have dreamed
| dreams and seen visions; We all, no
| doubt, have imagined ourselves occupy
| ing some high position in life.
Just as no magnificent building can
| be erected in stone or marble without
| first having existed in the mind of him
| who planned it, so every great achieve
ment in history has been the result of
some mans vision vouchsafed to him
before it became visible to the eyes of
his fellowmen.
He who is dreamer alone can never
| taste the joy of accomplishment, he
| who never sees a vision lacks true in
| spiratiOn; he must ever be a drudge,
| following the beaten paths trodden by
| men who have gone before him. Some
| one has said: "Nobler than a ship
| safely ending a long voyage, sublimer
| than the setting sun, is the old age Of
| just and kind and useful life" And
| just and kind and useful we may all
make our lives. although it may not be
given to all of us or even to any of us
| to climb to the highest pinnacle of
| wealth or fame or power.