Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-29
With pipe and good B. L.,

III,
Three whiffs for each professor,
Three whiffs for President White.
Let fear and care be cast aside,
All scholarships are past,
And days of college life are DER,
We've reached the end at last
Fond memories of the gray and blue
Will always round us cling,
Our Alma Matters praises
We will ever loudly sing.
Old Colby's name on land or sea
Shall never, never fade,
So long as Nineteen Four is left
To send her help and aid.
Immediately after this ode the pipe of
peace was lighted and every members
of the class took a Whit. The women
of the class did not show so much eX-t
perience in handling the pipe as the
men.
The next exercise on the program
was the address to undergraduates by
Miss Eva E. Clement of Seal HarbOr.
Her address in part was as follows:
Today we come to the place where
we can look back over the years spent
here and see what in them has made us
stronger, what if anything has made US
weaker. We might liken these four
years " Tic louI ScdSOliS. IC II CSl-
men year is that of spring time with
it's freshness and its greenness. Re-
freshing showers come in the form of
bags of water, let fall from some neigh
boring window or in dainty drops from
an accommodating hose. AS gradual
ly and naturally as spring changes into
summer SO we changed from freshness
to sophomores. We leave behind
something of the freshness and green
ness and just as summer puts mantle
of strength so we, as sophomores, put
premacy. We hold state in a regal
manner. Our sway is seldom disputed.
Alas for the poor freshmen, he fees
before the lordly sophomore as does the
gentle-breeZe of the spring-tide before
the hot pursuing wind Of the summer
day. Thus do we change from rollick-
ing sophomOreS into quiet and StudiouS
juniors. Yet as in autumn we prepare
for winter. So now we are prepared
for the last, our senior year. Winter
advances; all the beauties of the spring
have left, all the full Verdue of the
spring is gone, all the brightness of the
autumn is absent. 1t is now covered
with the white and chilling snow, but
wait and you will see marvellous I'M
folding. Such is the senior year. So
apparently one constant grind with lit
tie to brighten it. We are nearing the
end of our course and yet, although
| they call us wise and dignified such is
| our MOdesty that we keep our knOwl-
edge hidden, but at a later time it will
| be shown and wonderful will be the
outcome. The world will hear of our
power and genius and Colby will be
proud of the class of 1904, and will do
honor to the noble men and women
who are its members. And SO UNDER
graduates you do we'll to look up to us
| that disturb you. 1t behooves us now
as we are about to leave to give some
| advice to each class and, since the class
| of 1907 seems most needful of it, we
will begin with them.
| O, We little freShies, there is, to be
sure, some excuse for you because you
| had only one years training and be-
cause the freshness and greenneSS of
spring was never so excessive as with
you. 1t grieveS us that because of at
| tenuating. circumstances the custom
airy freshmen reading was denied you.
You have had an easy time, this year.
Now you must wake up to the fact that
stern duties lie before you. Lay aside
your playthings and get to work. The
summer time of your college course is
advancing. Meet it with strength. Re-
member our precepts and work valiant
ly.
| And now SOphOmOreS We who think
your wisdom exceeds that of Solomon,
we leave a parting admOnitiOn for you.
AS juniors you will have hard things to
do, you will find yourselves holding re-
| sponsible positions. Do not shirk them.
| Conduct yourselves with propriety, and
| keep high ideals before you.
| So juniors we come to you. We leave
you with sad fOrebOdings because you
for three long years. Last year. dur
| ing that affair which caused an up
| heaval of the whole college did we not
give you our hearty support. But now
we can leave with the feeling of hav-
ing done well by you. Next year the
burdens will fall upon you. Do not ask
to get rid Of them, for they are some of
the little bundles that make up the big
bundle of life.
| So as we leave you, undergraduates,
| we rejoice i'm your success, we hope for
your future. Keep always in view the
| one thought of advancing, the best in
| terests of our Alma Mater, of increas-
| ing her power, and of spreading
| throughout the land the name and fame
| of old Colby, our glory.
After Miss Clements parting address
the parting class ode was sung. 1t was
as follows:
PARTING ODE.
Tune-"Light as Air.
Nea tn the willows say we farewell,
Colby. our dear college home,
| Ere far from thee We roam,
Ere far from thee we roam.