Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-06-22


| shall never go back :"
| The parting ode, which was sung
| to the air of Home, Sweet Home
made an appealing overture to the
| closing exercises of the morning.
Farewell to- you, Old Colby!
! Farewell. farewell to you,
| To all of your ideals
We'll be forever true.
| Although we gain new friendships,
! And friendships old prove frali,
You'll hold our hearts forever,
| Your mission cannot fail.
Farewell to you, dear classmates.
AS students In these halls;
! But We'll be held together,
| Closed in by friendships walls.
! Although we wide are scattered,
AS years may so and come,
Our hearts will beat together,
| AS Colby makes us one.
Willow Addresses
| The willow addresses delivered by
| Donald Arthur Shaw OF Clinton for
| the men and by Miss Clara l. Gam
age Of South Bristol, for the women.
| Mr. Shaw closed his address by
| quoting q poem by Florence Eliza
! beth Dunn, '96 and said,
LET the willows that we plant
which ne hopes to climb. and the
! greater battles which he hopes to
fight.
In closing. he said, "On this road
! stretching before us, and in this
/ school of life, we shall endeavor to
perform our service well, hoping in
here live long as a sign to the col
| lege Of the loyalty and fond memory
| of the class of 1921
Miss Carnage, in her address.
said the willows were symbolic of all
that Colby men and women should
be, in that they were strong and
steadfast. She urged also that there
besnot so much an outward show of
| college loyalty as an inward spirit of
sacrifice and love for the college.
| The willows she said, bore the name
of a man who typified Colby as it is
| and should be.
Jubilee Address
In the evening at the First Baptist
| church, Professor Romiett b. Stew
! ems Of the school of education of
! Columbia University, gave the jubl-
J lee address. Miss Stevens said in
part. that each year there are more
and more young men and women
| coming to America to attend Amerl-
! can colleges At present there are
approximately 10000 of these stu
dents from 20 different nations. some
| of whom are sent by their govern
! ments and others who arc accredited
! to American universities by colleges
| and universities at home. This MI
grafton of foreign students to Ameri-
| can colleges is significant in three
ways. IT is an inspiration TO know
/ that the nations of the earth are
sending their best young people TO
| orr institutions Of learning. 1T
warns us that since we are called
| upon to guide the leaders of the fut-
| ure, we must be awake TO our re-
| sponsibility. and must establish such
| ideals as will consistently stand Tor
! the progresS of the nations in the
I truest sense: it gives another warn
/ ing, too. that we must not THINK we
! are the people who have everything
! to give for these students from CIVIL
! cations much older than ours have
| much TO give us, if we let them. The
| third signitication is found in a call
| to action to make the American col
| lege as perfect an institution ana as
! perfect a democracy as the mind OF
| man can conceiVe-a model Tor the
; nations.
4! Coming TO her central theme, Dr.
! Stevens asked what college hopes
! to accomplish for woman. Accord
ing to the speaker. modern purposes
| of education are social. Ihe Wor'u
| does not want a woman concerned
with the various theories and technl-
; calities of philosophy, but it does
want a woman who is so eonversant
with the different PHILOSOPHERS OF df-
| ferent peoples that she can construct
/ for herself a philosophy TO i've ~.
/ This philosophy should be one IN
which she may live in possession of
the laws of control of her health, her
I habits of personal hygiene. control OF
| her mind, SO that she may DO hef
work intelligently, control OF hef
business and social relations. so that
she will be agreeable and pleasant, OF
| her moral fabric, so that she may not
/ only be free from vices, but also may
be a wholesome moral force in her
community; of her economic powers,
so that she may not only have eco
nomic independence, but also may be
an economic asset in the life about
! her, and control of her leisure, for the
cultivation of things of the spirit
since the spirit is the one thing which
, endures.
! Although the duties of college wo-
men are many, they may. according
to the speaker, be resolved INTO four
| things. The woman who is college
graduate, who has the advantages of
| college education, should carry the
gospel of education into every COM
munity, ii should be her purpose to
| further the interests of education
wherever she may be. The women
who have graduated from college
should make it part of their duty to
see to it that their college becomes
! n better place for the education and
| training Of women, They should use
every endeavor to improve conditions
under which young women study and
live in college. The alumnae of a col
! lege should organize an active alum
nae association to keep the home
fires burning. 1t should be their pur-
pose and the purpose of this organ
ization to keep the graduates in close
| touch with their Alma Mater, and TO
/ preserve in them an active interest