Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-28
Class Day Exercises at
Bates and Colby.
Large Attendance at Each and
Highly Successful Programs.
AT COLBY COLLEGE.


WateIv vile. Me, June c'.-(SpeciaD.--
Senior Glass day was observed, today,
by exercises in the First BAPTIST church
in the forenoon and on the campus in
the afternoon.
The Glass day exercises were held by
1850 A. NJ. Prayer was offered by the
chaplain. Edward Howe Cotton of Nor
way. Miss Ethel LonOra Howard of
WINSTON, delivered the woInen's history
and Henry Nicely Jones OF Camden the
mems history.
The clas, ode. set to the air The
Message of the Violet" from The
Prince of Pi.sen" was sung.
Two loeins were read, the one for til.
women by Hiss May Lucille Harvey OF
Fort Fairfield was entitled "A Voice.
and WAS :. touching tribute 10 the late
Professor Warren.
\ VOICE.
The crimson sunset SLOWLY fades to gray,
The last soft tint: reelected in tn" east.
From rose to pearl so gently die away
You scarce perceive the change; Win
heart Cypress Il
Bv thoughts Of life beyond the college
home.
You dream one calm June eve; far over
head
Tie robins ringing notes the whole wide
dome
Or heaven echoes while in whispers low
The night wind brcathes as il among the
dead.
You long again for home. for there re-
'rh. kindcst faces you can ever know:
Your heart is vcXcd with Il two-fold pun:
The golden links are breaking. sure and
That blind to childhood and to college
days.
Refresh the troubled spirit and :, voice
With geutlcst accents comes to join the
Sung out by bird and fow'r and zephyr
10 God. and bids your restless heart rc-
joice.
1t seems the dear familiar tones of one
VINO gave the best of life for Colby s
good
Whose days of loving labor now are done.
Whose presence yet remains where one
he stood;
II" speaks kind words of counsel as be-
tore.
Points out the beautiful and says that
or far your lott life that's noblr spent
Rewards itself though sad and chastcn q
sore.
That ties OF kinship and of friendship
dear
THOUGH seas and years divide are never
rent
Then shuu. q trembling heart. the back
ward look
With clear, persistent tones the present
calls
To action: close the past. wcll-lov'd
hook.
While on yuur pathway heaven $ radiance
To light you through whatever gloom you
meet:
Remember him whose welcome gave YOU
When first the toll of college seemed TOO
great
teaching sweet
Ennohling influence shed. throughout the
length of two fair years. two years
of rich estate.
For was he lost to you when he with
To rest from years of toll: his thought
To you with pure. uplifting words; hi
knew
SO well veil the struggles of young lives; to
The soul with lofty aims his mission was
SO now his voice yet greets you from
Like him may you your fullest service
give
TO help Gods children. may this be your
cause:
The beauty. then. of his long life OF love
Through you shall teach another how to
live.
The poem for men was delivered by
Arthur L. Field of Bakersfield, VI.
The Grafton was then delivered by
Guilford D. Coy of Pressure Isle.
The subject of Guilford Dudley Coy's
GRAFTON was. American Supremacy.
Mr.. Coy spoke in part as follows:
During the Peace Conference at the
Hague in the summer or 1899. the
American delegates made an importan.
declarations. It was that the United
States in signing The articles or TINS
conference should not be understood as
departing from its time-Eonored pohcS
known as the Munroe Doctrine.
''Ths declaration Of the Munroe DOC
trine at the great Hague Conference
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