Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-27

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up there at Orono are Obliged to pay
all the incidental expenses and obliged
10 guarantee the payment of these
notes, which the students in other col
| leges are not required to do it seems
| to me there is not much competition
| arising that state of facts.
! Further | wish 10 state that these
| boys who il is said wrote these Saucy
letters to the senator from Cumber-
| land have been here, and humbly. on
their knees, have asked pardon from
| him; and it seems TO me having done
! that il is only fair that the senator
| from Cumberland should have granted
| them pardon, instead of bring this
| matter before the Senate and making
| it public to go out to the world and
punish them in that way. 1t seems to
| me the senator should remember the
opening lines of one Of the poems of
| bopuie Burns.
| These things occur not only in the
University OF Maine but l believe sucn
misdemeanOTS, or such crimes, if you
want TO call them such. occur daily all
| over this land where schools are in
progress.
l can RENE Inber not many years back
| when matter Of this kind occurred III
| the school in kentS Hill, where | hap
pened to fit for college, but they were
never brought before this great I.egiS-
| lature Of the STATE of Maine to be act
ed upon. The Legislature never asked
TO withdraw the charter from the
nent's Hill Seminary because Of the
| miSdemcanOrS of its students. Those
matters were acted upon by the facul-
~ and the students were punished ac-
cOrding to the judgment of the faculty;
and / think this matter should be let
to the faculty to deal with and should
be left with the senator from Cumber-
land to deal with himself, inasmuch it
comes from his constituents direct to
him and is not addressed to the Senate
of Maine and does not in any way rep
resent the University of Maine.
Mr.. PROCTOR of Cunberland: May
l ask that the official reporter will read
the line which the senator from Han
cock says l omitted?
| Mr.. MILLS: Mr. President, If the
senator read it, 1 withdraw my state
inent that he omitted it, 1t seems to
me there is no argument on the ques-
ton ut all. The State has power to
confer that degree.
| MI. filoCl ofI. i WOULD IKE 10 re-
ply further as to the apologies OF the
young men. that they were granted
grace for their misdemeanor. l read
the following from q letter l have re-
ceived:
Such question as the elimination o;
the courses leading to the granting of
the 3. A. degree in the University of
Maine naturally would and has excited
| n no 1ir,o Of no
students. The students are almost all
men, or at any rate are supposed to be
and are eligible voters. They should of
course be given credit for understand
ing to a slight degree the needs of the
university and the effect on of its help
full. well-csta blishcd courses We con-
slider that we have legal right and !
am sure We have a moral right to ask
for the support of an institution belong
ing to the State principally, which has
long ago been recognized; the State
University which we have made a con-
tract with to help us receive our ira in
ing for life
Mr.. STEARNS of Penobscot: Mr.
President and senator's: If you will bear
with me {. few moments I will not pro-
long the agony beyond reason. AS the
senator from Hancock has said. this
matter has been thoroughly threshed
out. / think every senator here UNI
derstandS the question in its various
phases. 1t is generally admitted that
one of the chief aims of an institution
for higher educa ton is that of a liberal
and practical education. l submit it is
a fair proposition that the students ri
the University of Maine should have
. the privilege Of liberal education. In
relation to the articles which have ap-
peared in the various papers through
out the State, / can only say that VIC
, are not responsible for the action or the
articles. l deny the imputation that
the faculty or the great mass of the
students are interested to an extent il
this matter to lead them to stoop to dis
honorable means to further their object
l TOO have received letters and ] am
not particularly proud of the opinion
expressed in them. 1t is matter be-
. tween my constituents and myself; and
for no money would have it generally
known what some individuals think Of
me. There is a great deal DEPENDING
on our action. If we refuse to enact
this bill it means the extinction of the
University Of Maine. I means that one
Of the four institutions for higher edu-
l
list. I deprecate seriously these things
which have come into this matter
There is no question but there has been
indiScreet action on the part of the I'M
dergraduate body; and as one of the
friends of this institution I am sorry
these outside matters have crept into
this discussion.
7 was very much interested in the
letter from the graduate Of the univer-
Sity and should like to know his name
but with all due respect to his opinion
/ shall beg leave to differ with him.
When YOU vote on this measure
hope Won will recognize that it means
that if il is not enacted the University
of Maine must cease TO exist from now.
The question being put. upon the fin
al passage Of the. bill. the motion pre-
vailed and the bill was passed to be
enacted.
On motion by Mr.. Wyman of Wash
ington House Document No. 500, ma
jorfty report. fought not to pass" from