Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-20
89th ANNUAL COMMENCE.
MENT AT COLBY COLLEGE,
Junior Exhibition Saturday Evening-=Bac-
calaureate Sunday by Rev. Woodman
Bradbury===Address in Evening by
Rev. c. N. Woodman, Portland.


Commencement of Colby College began
Saturday evening. at the Baptist
church with the annual Junior exhibit
| ton at which the honorary parts gran
ted the Juniors We're given The speak
ers and their subjects were:
THE Child and the Public Library"
Lucille Noyes, North Attleboro, Mass.
Indian Old Point
Mary E. Weston. Madison.
| "The Diversity of Shakespeare Char
| acter" Hazel 3. Cole, FOxcroft.
"The Changing Aspects of Religious
| Thought James Perry. Camden,
| 1.-THE exPresidents Place in the Ma
tion.' Harry w. Kidder. Waterville.
| THE Poetry Of the Morse Mythology
Rose NJ. Pillsbury. Camden.
| THE Ministry as a Life Work,
Isaac Higginbotham, Dorchester. Mass.
| THE Nations Necessity
Ray C. Carter. Brookline.
Sunday morning the graduating class
marched in a body to the Baptist
| church where the Rev. Woodman
| Bradbury, a graduate of the college in
| the class of 81 delivered a most fitting
| Baccalaureate sermon. using as text
| a verse from the 18th chapter OF Luke
| Unto whom much is given. Of him
| shall much be required" Dr. Brad
| bury spoke in part as follows:
The Bacea|aureatc Sermon of Rev. DR..
Bradbury.
| "ITnto whom much is given. of him
| shall much be required" duke, 12;4S.
/ Jesus here takes a common principle
of action and shows its spiritual sig
nificance. The principle is ancient,
universal just; and it applies equally
| in the relations of men to each other
and of men to God. If one is entrust-
| ed with the goods of another, his re-
Sponsihility is proportional to the
amount received. If God gives large
| endoWments- and special privileges and
| opportunities. He justly expects larger
returns. Every one is in debt, for evs
cry one has received something: ane
to whom much is given. from him
much is required. Are We here today
in the position of those who have re-
ceived much and are therefore eX-
pected to repay much? Are we IN
debt? That is the question We want
to answer this morning.
| We are in debt because we were
born into a family. What Il care an
| infant is What an amount of work,
lanxicty. sympathy. and love 4 child
demands Food. clothing, shelter, doc
TORS bills, education. holidays, books
and toys-hoW greatly in debt is the
boy of ten. And the youth of twenty
is more deeply involved. The debt in
creaseH year by year. Much is given.
| AS one reflects, he sees that he is
yet more deeply in debt. for he is a
citizen of a great nation; and has not
| his nation conferred innumerable
blessings upon him, such as security
of property, personal protection, the
right to make will. justice in the
courts. education In the schools and
libraries. and opportunities OF many
| sorts. To us, much has surely been
given.
| We college men have but to look
larOund us to see how deeply we are
in debt to Alma Mater for blessings
conferred. One pays his tuition, but
tuition hardly begins to pay the cx-
penses of the college. Every student,
not simply the holder of a scholar
| ship, is the user of trust funds. All
are the recipients of the bounty of
| public spirited and generous men who
have made sacrifices for the college.
Moreover, there is the inspiration of
the professors personality which can
neither be computed nor recompensed
| in terms of paltry gold; there is the
| class fellowship, the friction of mind
| with mind, the enduring and ennobling
friendship with choice spirits the at
mosphere the traditions. and the
ideals of this historic college Who
can in any way estimate the value Of
these priceless things? Yet they have
come to each of you without money
and without price. and the longer YOU
lare out of college. the more you Will
prize them How much you have re
ceived and how deeply in debt you
are.
once more. looking at the conditions
of our life more closely yet, we dis
cover still deeper grounds OF obilga-
ton For our civilization rests upon
the backs of toiIing millions Of i'll
paid people in all parts of the world.
men and women boys and girls, who
are doing the dirty and dangerous
work of life while we live I'm cleanli-
ness and safety. Tossed by the fury
of the tempest, shOvelling coal into
the roaring furnaces at the bottom Of
q great liner, standing at lookout till
the toes or ears are frozen. living a
miners life without sunshine in the
bowels Of the earth. Drawing the icy
north or the fever stricken tropics, en-
listing in army or navy, protecting our
property in the great conliagration.
coupling freight-cars, repairing the
! electric apparatus where a single false
move is fatal-in a thousand danger
Gus, disagreeable, mental forms. the
worlds work is carried on and its
| treasures dug UP and distributed. We
share the hardships? If not I'VE are
in debt One has but to look at the
objects on his dinner table to get a
fresh idea of his obligation to unknown
humanity.
1t is amusing to hear one boast of
doing something all alone. one shows
YOU his photographs and says that he
does all his work himself. Does that
mean that no one has sensitized his
aper or his plate for him, or ground
his lens? \ young woman proudly
SAYS that she does everything about
the making of bread, meaning that she