Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-26

are thankful that you can be here
Because you are Bowdoin mothers you
are dearer mothers. And the hght
shining in your eyes this day you see
| reflected in our eyes, as we greet YOU
| mother, mother.
The class history by Robert A. Cony
was devoted to a sketch of the class
events during the four years, many
of which were Of decidedly humor-
Gus nature.
The closing address, delivered by
| Edward Augustin buddy of Portland,
was as follows:
In the Opening Address you have
| been cordially welcomed to our eXer-
| cises. In the Glass History you have
become in slight manner acquainted
with our activities as a class in the
| four happy years now completed.
| The point Of view has been back
| wards. 1t is the office OF the closing
| speaker not only to bid farewell to
| the scenes of the present, but to look
a little into the future.
| Glass day is a day of farewells. 1t
is with a feeling of joy that we see
around us our friends and parents, all
mingled with sadness when we reflect
that it is the last time we have to-
gether as undergraduates in a real I'M
| dcrSraduate spirit. You can little APP
| prcciatc, as | am powcrless to explain
the depth of feeling which stirs our
| hearts at the thought of parting. 1t is
| true we have often lOngcd for the end
! to come-hoping for better things
| but In our four years of striving and
| longing, all unconsCiouSly our little
| group has become bound firmly to-
| gether by the triple bonds Of college,
class and fraternity.
This college life to which we must
now bid farewell has been a life of
| simple duties. Here under the fostering
| care of honorcd and loved instructors,
| in the historic halls of the college, we
have drunk i'll lessons that will not
| soon he forgotten. We have learned to
| be loyal to one another; to the college
we love; to the class we uphold; TO
| the fraternity we own. We have de-
| vcloped q sympathy 50 silent and Yet
| 50 deep that we have not realized it
until this hour when those ties which
| secured it must be broken. Our other
| knowledge may vary according to our
| aptitude for absorbing it, but we all
| Of us take away those two lessons
| of loyalty and sympathy.
/ 1t is the great world which calls to
us, world of growing vastness and
| compcXity which receives us from
| this quiet college world. Only a few
| days, ana the compact little group
| will be scattered broadcast over the
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pursuing his own ends. The school, the
| shop, the office and the field are call
| ing, and we must go. Plunged thus
| suddenly into the fcVerish excitement
| Of the business world, compelled to
| life Of necessary Self-seeking, We may
| forget in some measure the simple les
| sons of college life. But if VIC would
| be loyal sons of Bowdoin, and loyal
| to the trust repoScd in us as educated
| men, we must apply the lessons we
| have learned. And it matters not how
| much or how little We have learned,
| but it matters everything what i'm
| pulse prompts us in the use of that
| learning. Education is a sacred
| trust; once given, whether used for
| good or evil purpose, it cannot be talk
| en- away. This question of impulse be-
| comes of increasing Importance when
| we consider that in our world of rapid
| ~ increasing knowledge any educa-
| ton is of immense advantage, and it
| becomes Of increasing significance
| when we find about us gifted men de-
voting their genius to the welding
| of oppressive monopOlies, men, it would
| seem. devoid of a sense of sympathy
| hrnt
tact with the world let our sympathies
! be broadened, not narrowed; let them
extend from the Plumbers OF this class,
and the walls of this college, to the
larger relations which embrace all
! mankind. And let us use our educa-
! ton not to Overreach and get the best
of our less fortunate fellows. but to
help them through our better knowl-
| edge to pay the debt we owe by edu-
| eating still others better than we our
| selves have been.
| We have anticipated a little the diff
| fiCultieS and the changes that are to
come. but ever from this day things
| will never be quite the same to us
| again. The campus will never look
as it does now. Maine Hall and Win
| throp and Appleton-thc very sound
of Old King Chapel hall will seem diff
fcrent because We will be different.
We will come back aGain,-yes, but
| there will be one or two faces missing,
| always one or two. Or it will be an old
| instructor that we all knew and loved,
he will be missing. And those that do
| come back won't be just the same to
! each other; there will be marks of
| now conflict in the old familiar faces
1t will be different world then, with
| the old days like a dim golden dream
| in the far off past. 1t will be a world
Of pleasant recollection in which the
Class day Of 1907 will he memorable.
1t Is hard 70 think that that world Is
50 close at hand. and this So nearly
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