Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-21

| Before we depart we would bid
| a last farewell TO those we leave
behind Once we set out on Lilies
extensive seas il will never again be
( possible TO assemble without some
comrada being absent. The ways
| before us lead TO all parts of the
known world. AS those in the past
! have done so shall we presently
! scatter TO the far sections OF the
! globe, following where even 100
years ago the graduates OF this old
| college ventured. For even then
! George Dana Boardman. with the
broad vision which Colby tends to
give her sons. crossed the oceans
to bring 10 the peoples of the far
eastern world the light which this
big little college had enabled him
TO impart.
Ready for the tasks before us,
we are eager TO be upon our way.
j Yet within the hearts OF all there
is a feeling which always comes
when sons and daughters leave a
! fond and loving mother. Deep with
i'll the breast of each of us burns n
smouldering fire, the love which
comes from labor in a good cause,
! AS Colby has given us much. so have
i we tried TO serve her in the little
! ways that were open to US. Yet with
/ every effort in her behalf our debt
/ has seemed to grow until we now
realize that we can never fully re-
pay her for all her priceless gifts.
! No jewel can match the gem of
! friendship and Colby has given each
OF us matchless friends. No golden
coins can purchase character such as
Colby has ever placed upon her sons.
No measure can determine the
amount of good that Colby has done
for each OF us.
In only q few hours this class
will be started on its journey
through life. We prize the years,
yes. the hours and minutes spent on
this old campus, halloWcd by the
memories of great men who have
lived here before US. We accept the
flaming torch handed us by these
men who have served loyalty before
MS. and will carry on the works they
| have begun and performed so we'll.
We accept the challenge of the world
and will take up the tasks involved
in ministering to the needs of our
. fellow-men. Colby has given us the
broad concept of life that enables
US to see the real world, with its
wounds and scars still fresh from
the recent war and strife. It shall
be the work Of every member of
this class to give in some way, to
some extent, the soothing and heal
ing oils that will help in making
mankind more happy and more con-
tented.
LAS We leave this grand old col
lege and seek out our particular
tasks in life, there is within our
hearts q sadness that tempers our
Joy at the completion of the tasks
behind us. For we must leave these
scenes of four happy years beneath
old Colby's shcltering care. where
we have dwelt in close communion
with stcadfast friends and friendly
instructors. This campus has come
TO have for us the sacred atmosphere
Of home, these halls have become
castles within which in years to
come we shall live over again years
of happy efforts and peaceful COM
pany. Four years ago we left our
homes and families and came to
Colby. We found here a protecting
and guiding mother. we found true
and helpful brothers. We are eter-
nally banded together in the great
Colby family. Though the time has
come when we must leave behind
the physical properties which make
up the visible Colby. we take with
US the memories and spirit, that in
\ tangible. undying invisible. living
spirit that makes up the real Colby.
We have acquired here that sense
Of proportion which makes impor-
tant things loom large and unimpor-
tant things appear small
with sincere regret at leaving
this grand old college. vet with an
caEcrness to begin our work in the
world, we bid farewell to Colby. We
leave With our successors the assur-
ance OF our keen interest in their
welfare, and an earnest desire to see
Colby ever the democratic, progress
SiNe college she has ever been. TO
the faculty we can never express our
gratitude and appreciation for the
sincere, personal interest they have
always taken in our welfare. Colby,
our Alma Mater. today, YOUR chill
dren 50 forth from your watchful
care. bearing With thcm hearts
swellcd with an undying love for
YOU. May future years sec your work
50 on successfully. With the scope
of your inspiring influence ever
broadening. The class of 1922 leaves
you reluctantly, spurrcd on only 10y
the ambitions which you have kim
died within us. We shall ever cher
ish our love for YOU, and will ever
strive to accomplish our work well,
that in future years YOU may look
with pride upon the records OF mem
bers of this class, even as YOU can
now 50 proudly point ont the deeds
of those who lave long since COM
plctcd the journey VIC are just about
TO begin.
Presentation Of Glass Gift
Roger Houscfic' who made the
speech, presenting the class eif,. n
tablet upon which are inscribed the
names of the Cobb Missionaries. was
especially fitted for that duty as he
is to become a missionary himself
and will without doubt have his name
inscribed upon the tablet in the course