Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-19
Rotsrians Hear
BoWdoin Professors
Pack to Greek Ideals"

Augusta Rotarians gathered in
Eoodly numbers at the Augusta
house at G.10 Friday evening to en-
Joy another two hours of banuuet-
ing and to listen to an able address
gwen by Prof. Frank A. Woodruff
OF Bowdoin college on Back to
Greek Ideals" The banquet menu
consisted of consomme, chicken pie
with all the filings and ice cream
and cake. The festivities openeI
with rotarian songs under the direc-
ton of J. Francis MacNichol with
DELI Adams at the piano. AS a
special guest of honor Master Wins
low Rouse boy soloist from Trinity
church, Boston, was introduced and
charmed his hearers with his full
high soprano voice singing "My Lit
tie Gray Home in the West" he was
heartily applauded and responded
with a love song Heart of Gold"
j. Francis MacNichol accompanied
him at the piano. Another pleasing
feature was the appearance of the
male quartet from the Green street
Methodist church composed of
Messrs. Clark Rand, Packard and
Haskell their numbers were highly
appreciated and merited much
praise.
Professor Woodruff was intro
duced by Ivan Lang, president of the
Rotary club and in his opening re-
ferred to the Persians of Aeschylus,
Atosse asks the Tesesnger who re.
ports Xerxes defeat at Salamis "Is
the Athenian city then unsacked,"
the messenger replies Their men
are left and they are bulwark
strong" In the history of Thucy-
dides, Pericles exhorts his fellow
citizens not to mourn for houses and
lands but for men. The greatest SER
vice to the nation is the making of
men a service to which our schools
and colleges are Loyalty devoted.
The college man gets ahead because
he can do what he had never learned
to do. Since the war nothing re-
mains as it was before the concern
tration of thought upon prepared
ness, industrial and economics as
we'll as military have tipped the bal
ances as never before to the prac-
teal side of college training. This
whole country is honeycombed with
restlessness and discomfort, angry re-
sentiment at real or imagined injus-
tice. Instead of unity there is di.
vision. Nobody is satisfied with the
present status and everywhere there
is dispute and conflict. - OF this the
u. s. Senate is conscious for weary
months by its exasperating futile
discussions. More alarming still Is
the invasion of the freedom Of free
speech on grounds that will not bear
close investigation. Is there any
better objective for us than the
Greek conception of symmetry the
well rounded development of all the
powers of body and mind? A sound
strong body too. is requisite for the
best brain work. The whole country
needs to awake to the fact that chill
drens bodies as well as their minds
need education and training under
expert supervision. After the body
the mind. The Greek love of knowl-.
edge and of freedom were combined
in the endeavor to make reason the
guide of social life and to organize
governments not by. force but by
law. Scion said "a state is well
governed where the people obey the
rulers and the rulers obey the law"
For the well being Of society. for its
progress in intelligence and. obedi-
ence to law in freedom, political. re-
iigious and economic and in human
brotherhood we need to preserve
and utilize our Greek as well as our