Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-12

an absolute parallel CONDITION. Ioudy
we are planting slip Of that Ivy tree
The custom almost seems to have come
in a direct descent to this class. The
stone with the 1910 in relief on 1t de-
notes the memory of our deeds and
our progress at Bates. The ivy, we
hope. will grow as we intend to grow,
attain a height relatively as high as
we mean to attain. Its branching ten
drills will be symbolic of the many pha-
ses of college life which this class has
entered. AS it clings in it's growth, SO
have we "staycd in" and won; small
but full of an everlasting energy.
Just what the composition Of the
class consists of, and just what cur en-
ergies have accomplished, is for others
to tell you.
The gi$ls being in the majority as re-
CARDS numbers at least, demand pre-
cedence. We call them the flowers
of the college," basing their right to
this distinction on our one Greenleaf
and the Blossom that we used to have.
The man who has been selected to
handle this rather delicate subject IS,
of course somewhat handicapped. In
addition to his decided aversion to the
femininity of the college, he has been
beset with numerous duties which have
kept his attention drawn away from
the rear seats of chapel.
Mr.. Dorman replied by saying, Il
feel to the full, my inability to rise to
the demands of the occasion and to dc
full Justice to this broad and eXpan-
sive subject l have never studied the
situation closely. l have only been a
superficial observer, and as such
must make my remarks today.
We have known the girls of 1910 now
for three years. In memory, my mind
drifts back to those days of first &C
quaintance when under Uncle John
ny's kind tuteIase, we wandered tC
Mount Gile. fed the fishes, boated on
the Lake, visited the cider mill. How
hard it was-not the cider, but the
necessity of ending that all too brief
day OF ENJOYMENT That day when we
began to discover ourselves, and the
girls
The speaker then made a few indi-
vdual hits, including in his remarks
almost every girl in the class. He
closed by saying, THE girls of 1910.
What tongue can tell-what pen in
dte their glOries-Staunch, loyal and
true to the old class they have ever
been. Though some have left us, yet
| many remain, and of them it can be
said in the words of the poet,
Though our men may come, and our
men may go,
Yet Our Women stay on forever
|
| The next subject was "Our Men"
"Well the men usually do follow the
| women" said the POSTMASTER. "19l(
demonstrates that. Look at Mort Boil
ster, John Powers. But we run rather
short on boys. So when you look over
| the line of men you naturally expect
short story. But we have decided
| that YOU ought to hear Little about
| them"
Miss Little responded as follows:
'In the beginning was created the
great work called Man, work which
| like unto a great sealed book, a book
| of mystery, ineXplicable until there
came, as wonderful inspiration tC
| the Master Brain, an afterthought
| Woman, destined to be the interpreta-
toress, the revelatess. To whose keen
insight all things are as glass, whose
powers of penetration into the deepest
recess Of mystery never fail. SO as
man was once the great All Mysterious
now through Woman'S power, has he
| become interpreted. Man was the
Book, Woman, the Side-lights and
| EOotnOtes."
| Then turning to the subject of the
men in the class of 1910 she said that
in everything they had proved Their
greatness. Upon the football field we
have the valiant, though diminutive
captain. On the baseball diamond, we
| the pitcher. In the realm of tennis
we have our victors and in track il
| is the man of long and sinuous grace
who twines himself about the laure
wreaths and modestly bears them
laWay.
| Not only in the field of athletics but
in the field of brain and intellect the
men of the class have won fame. We
have a preacher poet, three great
| orators who are renowned. al
praises, then to the man whose worth
is greatest, whose wisdom is keenest
and whose valor is mightiest. Let the
world know and reveal them. the good
the great, the glorious,-the men OF
131O'
1.-THE next subject was a hard one
to assign interposed the POSTMASTER
'to many of us it seemed such an in
definite, foreign theme; one which sug-
gested anything but inspirations
Even the one chosen to develop the
subject has been carrying a look of
ureasiness on his face and that propi-
tious wet towel round his head for the
past few weeks. So you see we have