Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-12
At University Of Maine
Now Under Way.
Social Function and Varied Elk.
ercIses On Weeks Program.
Final Exercises 10 be Held, Wednesday,
Presidents Reception, Tonight.

Elaborate preparations are being made
Tor one Of the most largely attended
Commencements in the history of the
University of Maine. Returns from the
alumni show that about 200 have signi-
ned their intention of attending and it
Is probable that a much larger number
Of the old grads will be here, this
week.
The Baccalaureate address was CIV
ell, tonight, by Prof. Edward Howard
Griggs of New York, before the larg-
est audience ever assembled in the
University chapel. Prof. Griggs spoke
upon Education, the Art of Life" He
said in part:
THE developments in the fine arts
| in America, indicate our awakening to
the new meaning of human life. There
are three forms of Interpretation Of our
| ideals first. human life is everywhere
personal; second, human life must be
positive. not negative; third. human
life is an unfolding process always.
I'VE live only while we grow. and
| when we cease to grow we should be
buried.
able form Of human exercise. What we
want is not mere liberation, but a well
| come of honest differences Of opinion.
There are as many roads to truth as
there are honest human SOULS
To the members of the graduating
| class he said:
You have come to the end of what
| you will probably look upon as the
most beautiful chapter of your life.
You will sit at the feet of two great
| schOolmasters in the great university
| Of human life-love and work. You
have your mountains To climb and you
must help others up. Take as a motto
Still grow on, and in growing on,
| listen.'"
the chapel has been prettily decorat-
| ed with ferns and potted plants and
| bunting, both college blue and the class
| colors, brown and white. A new and
| very neat 1905 class banner has been
| added to the collection already in the
| chapel and everything possible has
| been done to make the exercises sue
| cessful. A new life-SiZe portrait of ex-
Pres. Merritt c. Fernald. painted by
Mrs. r. X. Jones, is to be hung in the
chapel during the week.
| The program for the week, which has
been slightly changed, is as follows:
| Sunday, June 11--Baccalaureate ad-
| dress by Prof. Edward Howard Giggs,
New York, in the chapel at p. M.
| Monday, June ACCOMMODATION in the
| chapel 945 a. NJ: Class day exercises
in the chapel. 3 p. NJ; reception by the
| pre- sident in the chapel at 2. M.
| Tuesday, June 13-Meeting of the
| Alumni Association in Room !, Alumni
| hall, 1890 A. NJ; reception by the vari-
| Gus fraternities at the fraternity
houses in the afternoon; Alumni lunch
con i'm Holmes hall, to p. NJ; Alum
nae luncheon at the Mt. Vernon House
G p. NJ: Phi Kappa Phi initiation In
the chapel at 100 p. NJ; Phi Kappa Phi
address by Carroll D. Wright. LII. d.
president Of Clark College, in the chap
ell at =. M.
| Wednesday, June Accommodated
exercises in the chapel. 1870 A. NJ:
commencement dinner in the Gymna-
stun. T.. NJ; Commencement concert
| in the chapel at P. Nj.
The Convocation exercises which are
probably the jolliest exercises OF the
week will be In the form of chapel SER
vices, lead by Rev. ]. M. Harrington
The program will be as follows:
tJ;storv Prof Fl. M. Estabrooke
Solo Earnest o. Sweetser
The Spirit of the University"
| Dean James James N Hart
Young Women" .,.,,
sa Tepa''hs N'uo' Mrs g. F. Fellows
..rhe " NJ G. A." Carl D. Smith
Musical Organizations, Wy s,,e
vain SnIo Robert r. Drummono
| Athletics" George II. 1uhtiis'"
| HonOrS and Awards.
| General HonorS.
Acknowledgement Of Phi Kappa Phi Elec'
| lions.
| Military HOnOrS.
The Glass day exercises. at o'clock in
the afternoon, is entirely senior enter
| tainment The program:
| Music. ..o,,
Prayer, Gouid Roydeh -a"''io"'
History, John Augustine McDermott
Poem. Earnest l.. Dinsm0re
n n,usiC. Adelbert w. Sprague
Music.
Address to Undergraduates. r,,,d.rs
| yale1ictory, George Kemp Huntington
i Singing Glass Ode.
Smoking Pipe OF Peace.
Music.
The Glass Ode. written by Earnest os-
GOOD Sweetser and set to the University
Hymn is below:
Dear Alma Mater now to thee
"A song of love smiles from the heart'
/ Arm for thy gifts so rich so free,
i we thank thee ere we shall depart.
Thou art to tell our hearts most dear;
II ..txSro nf
EWifh mingled Joy and sadness here,
/ We sing to thee our fond farewell.
Within thy halls our youth is passed
I And though we tread in devious ways,
/ Wen serve and love thee to the last
The officers of the class Of 1905 are:
President, George X. Huntington; first
Il sa(Continued on Page Four.)