Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-06-29

triumph of the freedom Of the press
and the freedom Of the slave"
But his Alma Mater and we, his
fellow alumni, can raise no voice of
protest that recognition OF him came
with hating steps. During all these
years we have permitted the memory
Of this our greatest and noblest son
to fade until too many of our alumni
have asked in these last months of
preparation for our Centennial, who
was Lovejoy?" The class of 1899
placed on the walls of the Chapel a
tablet in his memory. This has been
the only public recognition Of him in
the college. Until this year neither
college nor alumni have rendered the
tribute which we owe to him, the
recognition of a debt we can never
fully pay. The uplifting power and
eternal inspiration of the life and
death of Lovejoy should have been
woven into the fibre of every boy and
girl who came here to seek prepara-
ton for the work of life. And yet
they have come and gone without a
knowledge of that life and DEATH
The poorer have we been for this
through all these years But the
doors of the treasury have at last
been opened. Never again shall
they be closed.
Sometimes in the process of man
ufacture by-product is found of
greatest value, greater even than that
which was really sought The va,
rious features of the celebration Of
these Centennial days were built
upon the purpose to visualize for us
all the past, to enable US both by
word and act to see and feel this life
Of a hundred years, so that our
hearts and minds should be filled
with gratitude for that past and with
hope and inspiration for great things
yet to be. AS We turned our gaze
backward to find expression for all
that the spirit of Colby has been and
Tor all it could ever hope to be, there,
MALT hidden in the shadows, stood the
heroic spirit Of Lovejoy. Once more
we heard his voice speaking for the
ages. Once more we saw him take
his stand and so down to death for
freedom. There shone forth the
greatest episode in the annals of
Colby's sons. His spirit alone could
fttingly speak for the college in the
tribute she thought to give to her
sons and daughters for answering so
well and nobly the call of duty in the
mighty struggle of these days Just
passed, a struggle which seemed to
place In a crucible home and coun-
try ana every principle which makes
the very foundations of life itself. The
longer we gazed the clearer the Wis
ION grew until it seemed as if that
spirit brooded over as all. And an in
the happiness Of these days, the pro.
duct OF which shall be of great ana
lasting value to Colby, happier in
deed are we that, because of them
ana because Of the Great War. in
which Colby did her duty as Loyeiov
would have her do it, we have re-
gained this priceless treasure. Love-
JOY has come into his own at last
henceforth and forever to mould and
inspire the life of every boy and
girl, who shall come to this, his home
OF student days.
Who was Lovejoy?" Born in the
neighborfng town of Albion Noyem.
Der 8, 1902. the eldest Of six sons ana
TWO daughters Of a Congregational
minister. Daniel Lovejoy, and of a
Winslow girl. Elizabeth, daughter or
Ebenezer Pattee: named for Rev
Elijah Parish Of Byfleld, Mass. in
whose home his father lived while
attending Byfield Academy: until "a
at home with a few months in each
year at the district school: early
showing firmness. courage perse-
verance; leader at play; first in the
school room; possessed of an ardent
thirst for knowledge and an uncom-
monty retentive memory: a lover OF
poetry and the Bible; storing his
mind with poems and passages from
that Book Of Books. and displaying
by verses of his own promising
poetic talent; setting his heart upon
a college education, preparing for It
with one quarter at Monmouth Acad-
envy and. with intervals, at China
Academy, entering in September
1928 the Sophomore class at Water.
vile College and on August 80, 1895
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