Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-10-16
WATERVILLE.
COLBY DAY.
A Notable Success, the Program Prov
ing Entertaininq.

Colby Day. the annual jnllfiication of
| the students aIumni and faculty Of
Colby College, when thu frost is On
the pumpkin and the fudder's in til,
shock was obstTV with notable sue
cess, Saturday. TO be .4;Irc, The attend
anCc Of alumni was somewhat smaller
than WAS hoped for, bnt WAS AZ large
as could haVr BE-, expected when the
rec. 1T poGtpnntIE.nt ANA the c.inSc-
GEcnt delay in S,-niinG out tic invita-
TONS is taken into consideration. Lack
Of nunbt rs, howe ven, VAS more than
made up By enthusiasm. and this was
50 free ANA spontaneous that he ucc;t-
sion cannot but be regarded as IL
notable success.
lin" football management Wa.: un-
able To secure Il game between Hebron
ana Kicker. ANA tried 10 arrange ono
between kt MIS- Hill and CDbuln; but
this failing. q practice game was an
nounctd between the Colby Varsity
and Coburn. 1t was found. Saturday.
that one of the Colby a;n was 50
badly laid up as {; result Of the Brown
game that his riuyih& W"uld % out o.
the question. and accordingly the game
Was abandoned.
II was evening, thcn, when the *
crciscs Of die day really began. The
", nthcr wa perfect The moon APP
pclrcd to smile down upon thy scene
Of fcStivity. ana ;hc very air seemed
To br, 1tlc .,l"asiag ryminisco nee
the exercises b-%an in Memorial
han at 6 o'clock. In Nc absence Of Dr
e. 6. Thay,r. prt Sidcnt OF the Colby
Club. Rev. Edwin &. Whittcmorc. d.
H., ntiiCiat,C ;i.s master of ceremonies.
Seated near hilI were Ecv. Charles
Lincoln White. -. d., president Of IN"
cell, q, Mayor Horace Hurint"i. and
ROY. George nanu Sanders Of the
WHtrrvill" Unitarian church
TIL" exercises were opened by til"
singing of Il stirring college song.
under the leadership IF the Glee Club,
followed by Tie college cheer. Colby
the long way" and then Dr. White
more introduced President White as
The first SPEAKER
Pre- silcn, Whit, h.c-n mi. r.tna.I-:.
with the story Of a colOred boy who
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when asked what kind Of a course he
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he could scarcely bring himself 10 ~
iielc that il, ;,ily h,Ir tnr present stu
"rlit b"hE - '"ihN nay" never seen.
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FclmyS"n'S "i'i""k. Mhich went ~
forever bur the Siu"' NJ are r"n<,@nt-
~ changing
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nnr wv u:l" III. ,u.ltd thvIh ~ name.
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,f trnnnrary nraIici.I stress th.y ac-
c,ptcd i reduction in salaries; and
stuck tu III, college. III believed that
thc members ul In" faculty entertain
fu,' lie student bnIy thc same regard
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