Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-06-21

the elements of a liberal education.
1t is pity too that our machinery
calls for courses and not for subjects. Il
don't care anything about French; l
need another course" is remark
heard on more than one campus. We
should do we'll to substitute more gen.
eral examinations for course credits.
The undergraduate today is all to liable
to think of his collegiate education as
a condemnation Of units or hours or
points, not as a unified intellectual ac-
complishment We ought also to in
sist more on quality and less on guam
tity. The college can render great
service by preaching and practicing
the virtue of honest workmanship.
Many a student gets in the business
| world the training in accuracy ne
should have received in college. Our
| bows in the officers training camps
on time and brains are relatively
| slight compared with the work required
of them in military and naval science.
| OF course with such boys there is the
| imme diate incentive of preparation for
war; conditions would change much
| if peace were suddenly to be declared.
And it is because the goal is neces-
sarily distant and general that in our
colleges we have so often to spur a
student and so seldom to restrain him.
For all that we are to seek whenever
we fail to insist on thoroughness.
There is being fought now and there
will be fought many years after the
ism and idealism. Through the terri
BILE but purifying fires of war we are
readiusting our ideas on the real values
of life. In the 18th century there was
antagonism between the humanities
and science, until science won her
rightful position in the world of
| thought. Today all that is changed
science and the older stvdies are allies
in a common cause. In reading the adj
mirable report Of the English commit
tee appointed by the prime minister to
| inquire into the position of natural
science in the educational system OF
Great Britain one is struck by this
! sentence: while science should be
valued as the bringer of prosperity and
power to the individual or the nation,
it must never be divorced from those
literary and historical studies which
! touch most naturally the heart and the
hopes of mankind Science is fast
being humanized: it may not be too
much to hope that the humanities may
ta Mt %4N p
| tiers both consecrated and vivified may
train the soul Of the nation.
Those are some of the hopes and
! fears that we entertain for the college
as we start to carry on her work under
a new administration, nurtured and
strengthened by the influence of that
great presidency that closed last June.
| Some of these fears may be ground
less; many of these hopes will not be
! fulfilled. But with the aid and sympa-
! thy of all friends OF the college we
| trust in this far eastern corner of our
country to keep burning in the shrine
| of scholarship and literature the lamp
that has lighted the path Of so many
sons of Bowdoin in the past
| The regular Commencement exer-
| cses We're then carried out in an alb
breviated form, there being two
speakers. Harlan Lewis Harrington
of Portland, whose subject was rs
Americanization Success" and
Paul Campbell Young of Cleburne,
Texas. who spoke on The War and
| American Unity" The benediction
was given by Rev. Charles Morton
Stills, ID, of Geneva, N. Y, the
| father of the new president
The degrees We're then awarded as
follows:
Degrees Conferred.
Degrees were conferred as follows:
Bachelor of Arts.
Robert Greenhalgh Albion of
Portland; Calvin Leslie Bachelor of
Gardiner; Bradbury Julian Bagley
of Jacksonville: Wilfrid Olivier
Bernard of Auburn: George Horace
Blake of Mount Vernon; Hugh
Waldo Blanchard of Cumberland
Center: Vernon Lamson Brown of
Portland; George Stuart DeMott Of
Portland; Elliott Freeman of Port
land; Oscar Lawrence Hamlin Of
Milo; Jean Paul Hamlin of Milo;
Harlan Lewis Harrington Of Port
land; Henry Carvill Haskell of
brunswick; Linwood Harry Jones of
Carmel; Richard Paine keigwin of
Mount Vernon, n. Y. John Bowers
Matthews of Troy, \. Y; Clyde
Stanley Murch of South Casco;
Ralph Walter Pendelton of Brooklyn,
Portland Albert Laurence Prosser
of Lisbon Falls; John Thomas Rey-
nolds of New Haven, Conn. Robert
Cressey Rounds of Gorham; Abner
Melbourne Rountree of Swainsboro
Ga; William Wagg Simonton of
Yarmouthville; Milan James Smith
of Woolwich; Timothy Raymond
Stearns of Rumford; Robert Stan
wood Stetson of Brunswick; Kuan-
Shang Tang of Hankow. China;
Norman Daniel Stewart of Rich
mond; Boyce Allen Thomas of West
brook; William Haley Vanwart of
Cherryfield; Manfred Lawrence
Warren of Gorham: Paul Louis
Woodwork of Fairfield; Leland Cliff
ton Wyman of Livermore Falls; Paul
Campbell Young of Clebourne, Tex.
Bachelor Of Science.
Amos Lawrence Allen of Dalton,
Mass: Archibald Sweetland Dean of
Woodfords; Gerald Stanley Joyce of
Gloucester, Mass; William Brad
street Parker of Groveland. Mass;