Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-24
JUNIOR PRESENTATION.

day. and az of years gone by, the Jun
iors held fun sway. Nearly 20 were
| they-Seniors now--for their Junior
hood. with the passing of the day. was
! flung away.
| AT early dawn the sun peeped from
| the east, promising that the day would
| BE perfect, and SO il was. Just before
| 10 A. NJ. the members of the class
gathered on the green campus in front
of Chemical Hall and Memorial Hall
and there they formed by twos. Like
the seniors. they We're capped and
gowned. At a few minutes after ten
the procession moved, led by the COM
| meneement band playing an enlivening
selection. Then followed Albert NJ.
Gnptil, assistant commencement mar
| shal of the college. Harvey a. Knight,
i president Of the class: Wilmer A.
Moores, the marshal of the JUROR
class, the speakers and officers and
| the remaining of the classmen. Still
| following came the members of the
womens division, led by Leonard w.
IGrant, assistant commencement mar
shall of the college, Edith Crosby Wash
burne. president of the junior class. the
speakers and officers of the class and
| the other class members. Slowly and
| in perfect step they marched by Me-
mortal Hall to the platform on the low
er campus, the speakers occupying the
| trent seats and the others falling in
| behind
There. To hear and enjoy. had gath
cred many old alumni many young
alumni. fathers and brothers and sis
terS-all of whom have come To lend
heir part in making the week ole of
festive events As the juniors marched
by words of recognition We're smiled
to and fro.
With another selection by the band
over, Chester Il. Wood, the chaplain of
the class. made a beautiful and i'm
pressive prayer. for the class. for the
college. for all
The class ode to the tune America
the Beautiful with all standing, was
then sung.
Class Grafton.
Robert H. Bowen then delivered the
Junior Class oraticn on The New
Patriotism. An excerpt follows
This is an age of transition; an age
when the long established customs of
our erandfathers are being east aside;
an age when the presidents of years
are being ruthlessly trampled under
foot. an age when everything seems
| to be casting off the garment of Gen.
turtles and to be acquiring new aspects.
new attributes and new meanings All
men are falling under the sway of this
| new impulse and is It not surprising
that, with the changing conditions OF
| this environment. mans most char
Iacteristic qualities should be changing
in their fundamental import.
To you, graduates of Colby College.
this new patriotism offers abundant
opportunities. The day is past when
| you may win fame and honor for
your Alma Mater upon the field OF
battle, as some men have done, and to
| the large majority no important posi-
| ton in the government OF our country
can come but there is still the call
| for Won to honor the old college
through the expression of the new
patriotism. BE loyal son or a loyal
daughter of Colby: use your influence
to spread her name and to send others
| to her doors: show by your daily lives
what it means To have spent four
years of your youth; in short, to be a
Colby patriot dav by day.
Junior Poem by Hazel Young,
| Directly following lle oTdtiOI c'tiilc
| the Junior poem, beautifully given by
Hazel Young.
After more music by the band the
class histories, full of their usual wit
| and picturing the events of earlier
Colby days, followed. The first. the
! history of the women's division. was
given by Majorie Scribner.
Ninal IL. Tibbetts then gave the his
tory of the Junior men.
Presentation Of Gifts.
Then came the most amusing of all
| the parasitic presentation of gifts
| by Frank 5. Carpenter. Not once did
he allow the interest to wane, not
once did he fail to please with his
original jokes of college life.
Without fear of contradiction. |
boldly make the statement that we
have in our class some of the most
advanced fussers of the time. IN
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