Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-24
Elwyn Collins Gage Of
Augusta Class Orator
Speaks on College
Man AS a Citizen
r. L. BUELL. GIVES
PARTING WORDS
Closing Of Exercises Is
Featured by Pipe of
Peace and Cheering
of Ends"

Brunswick. Me-. June 23.-(SpeciaD.
The third day of Commencement
week at Bowdoin dawned with ideal
weather conditions. Every train
brought numbers of graduates, who
had returned to their alma mater for
the renewal of old comradships and
the discussion of their own undergrad
uate days. Tuesday evening over a
hundred alumni had registered at the
college office.
1914's Own Day
Tuesday was 191fs own day. At 10
o'clock in the morning exercises were
held in Memorial hall, while in the
afternoon the speaking program of the
day was brought to an end beneath
the spreading bows of the historic
Thorndike oak.
Glass day exercises were ended at
about o'clock with the smoking of
the pipe of peace and the cheering of
the ends"
In the evening the Sargent gymna-
SUM was the scene of Commence
ment hop of more than usual brilliancy
and the dancers returned to their
rooms in the early hours Wednesday
voting this years class day a COM
piete success.
The Exercises
The entire Senior class, clad In the
academic caps and gowns, met shortly
| after &c o'clock Tuesday morning at
Memorial hall, led by Class Marshal
Elroy o. Lacasce Of Skowhegan,
marched slowly down the aisle to the
strains of Randegger's "Pierrot," play
ed by Chambers Band of Portland,
stationed in the balcony overlooking
the hall.
After the class had taken seats upon
! the stage Arthur l.. Merrill of Show
| hogan, class haplain, offered a simple
and eloquent prayer. This prayer was
/ followed by the grafton, delivered by
/ Edwyn Collins Gage of Augusta, who
| spoke on The College Man as a Citi-
| zen"
The grafton was followed by music
| and then Kenneth A. Robinson of Bid
| deford, class poet, delivered the class
| day poem.
The hall was we'll filed with friends
and relatives and was devoid of elabo-
| rate decorations.
The programs for Glass day were en-
cased in tasty covers Of brown leath-
er upon which were embossed the coll
iege seal and the numerals of the class
Under Thorndike Oak
Under the famous old Thorndike oak
upon a platform before a row of spe-
cially constructed bleachers, the mem
| bers of the Senior class held the final
exercises of their class day at O'Clock
| Tuesday afternoon. Both bleachers and
platform were prettily draped with red
white and blue bunting and American
flags.
| The exercises opened with music by
Chambers Band. Then came the open
ing address by George F. Eaton of an
gor.
The opening address was followed by
another selection by the band and that
in its turn by the class history by Louis
A. Donahue of Portland.
After another selection Ralph l.. Buell.
of Portland delivered the parting address
Mr.. Buelrs grafton closed the speaking
OF the afternoon and following music
came the time honored custom of smok-
| ing the pipe of peace by the Seniors.
After this was over the class arose and
In body sang their parting ode.
Class Day Ode
The ode this year is of special merit
1t was written by Kenneth A. Robinson
of Biddeford. who also wrote the words
of the new Bowdoin song, Forward the
White" The ode was set to the air How
Can I Leave Thee" and runs as follows:
Why must the sweet days die:
We may not question why
Spirit of storm and change,
Can nothing stay?
What but our springtime's grace
Quickening through time and space,
Softening Tomorrow's race,
| Frightening Today?
| Heart of benignant youth,
Guide us in ways of truth.
Lend with each stately dream
Faith to fulfill;
And when we come to know
Spent wave and sunset glow,
Out where the great winds blow,
Hallow us still
And thou, our nurturer,
Crowned with the days that were,
| Bright seasons glance and go,
Shadows compel
So from the highway gate
Fare we with hearts elate
Forth to our nobler fate,
Hail and farewell.