Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-25
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ern languages during the second
semester on leaves of absence.
Professor Marshall p. Cram, Pro-
lessor Charles II. Livingston, Pro-
fessor Thomas Means and Professor
Morgan B. Gushing passed the sum-
mer in Europe. Professor Manton
Copeland has returned from Flor
ida, where he has been doing re-
search work, while Professor Alfred
o. Gross, who has been doing re-
search work in Panama, is also
back.
Professor Green c. Hormell taught
at the summer session of Syracuse
University and Professor Herbert G..
Bell at the summer session at Cor
nell. During his absence Professor
Bell is to give some courses at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Pres. Sills' Address
President Kenneth c. M. Stills
welcomed the new students at the
first chapel assembly of the college
year, held this morning.
He first spoke of the fact that the
college was opening for its 124th
year and referred to the wealth of
associations that here abide" After
referring to the changes that have
taken place in the faculty, he said:
More courses in English literature
and composition will be offered this
year than ever before in the history
or the college, and it is perhaps fit
ting that after the successful Insti-
tute OF Literature additional oppor-
tunity should be given for men Of
literary instincts and tastes.
He discussed the true function NJ
the college, and said:
There is a very widespread nonu-
lar misconception of the real purpose
OF the college. The primary function
OF the college is not training, but
education. Our aim is neither yoca-
tlonal nor technical. Neither Is the
college, primarily school for the de-
velopment of character or of good
citiZenshlp. These are inevitable by
products. But the college is first and
last an institution of learning.
II we were to judge the trend of
publicity the function of the college
by the news printed about it in the
daily press, one would be forced to
the conclusion that the chief purpose
or collegiate education was to excel
IN athletics. The great amount of
news given to college sport. as com,
pared with that given to the real
purpose of the college is in itself an
indictment of the intellectual inter-
ests of the American people. OF
course in a way it is a very. good
thing that the spotlight of publicity
plays on the athlete rather than on
the scholar. Hard, intellectual work
does not thrive on publicity.
Finally, the college as an institu-
ton of learning must be concerned
with thought as well as with facts.
The man who knows but does NOT
think is a pretty useless member of
society; the man who thinks but
does not know has been rightly called
a positive menace. In this rnysteri-
ously brief life of ours there is but a
short time to get knowledge and in
our crowded days there is not too
much room for reflection. You are
mere of your own violition to make
the most of yourselves. You cannot
prepare yourselves for the strenuous
duties of life simply by being good
athletes or charming young gentle
men-desirable attributes as those
qualities may be. Here in this small
college--and / heard a. disinterested
university professor say lately that
the small college that dared to STAY
small was to be the intellectual SAL
walton Of America-here in this small
college you have the opportunity to
md out what your intellectual in
terests are and then in sound and
unsensational way to learn how to
know and how to think. And if you
go about your task reverently and
conscientiouslly all the things in the
way of DEVELOPMENT of character