Daily Kennebec journal., 1926-06-16
TUESDAY IS BUSIEST DAY OF
COLBY COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT

stinchfeld. The words Of the ode
were as folloYs:
THE world calls UP on totts cares and
We are leaving dear Colby's halls;
And the hours We have spent, filled
with mirth and content,
WIN help us when duty calls.
Down the pathway of life mid the toll
and the strife,
Colby's fame we will try to uphold:
Ana In memory's lane there will ever
remain
Happy thoughts that will neer grow
old"
Glass oration
The class grafton was the next fea-
ture of the program and was very well
delivered by Donald Edwin Sprague
Taking as his subject The Decline OF
American Party Government" Sprague
pointed out some OF the illogical con-
ditlons of the present system OF polit-
lcal government oe the nation. The
conditions existing in present day pol
itlcs of the United States were pic
tured as being SO Illogical as to be In
demand of radical changes. The
speaker pointed that at the present
time We find progressives and con-
servatives dividing their allegiance
between the two major parties.
Calvin Coolidge was taken as an ex-
ample of one whose principles were in
extreme opposition to the stated theo-
rles of his party. His attitude toward
the rights of individual states was Sc
lccted' as typical phase of this real
opposition to the traditional beliefs
n h. ar
rights has always been a Democratic
principle. but at the present time Cal
win Coolidge is one of the nations
foremost advocates of the rights of the
individual states. Thus, the speaker
stated, in sense the party of Thomas
Jefferson has become the party of Cal
vim Coolidge.
AS further proof that the party sys-
tenn as it stands at present is in very
insecure state he took the attitudes
Of the political groups in the various
sections of the country. Showing
many ways in which the political
principles Of eastern and western Re-
publicans were in diametrical opposi-
tion, Sprague proposed that the two
groups of the same party were fight
ing for principles which are in exact
opposition
AS remedy for the present politi-
cal unrest and shifting of party poll
cies the class orator stated: There
must be a realignment Of political par
ties in the United States which must
be as follows: "A progressive party
fer the progressives and a conserva.
tive party for the conservatives"
This realignment of parties was con-
sldered as the only method by which
the political condition of the insecur-
ity of any party ideal can be bettered
Furthermore, the aim of the political
parties must not be to preserve the in
tegrity Of the thought of it's leader,
but each party must be considered as
a means toward an end. Only by con-
sidering it as such can an ideal be at
tanned and true democracy and real
representation be reached
Awarding of Honors
Awarding of honors took place after
the class Grafton with Irma Vesta Da-
Wis acting for the women and Gilbert
Linwood Earle expertlly acting in that
capacity for the men. The clever ap-
plication of the mock honorary degrees
given by Miss Davis was extremely
effective and the following members
of the women's division received men-
ton: Mary Marguerite Albert, Clara
Mary Collins, Margaret Coralie Hardy,
Emily Redington Heath, Edna Evelyn
Kellett, Marian Bradford Rowe and
Esther Elizabeth Wood. Gilbert Earle
in his awards assumed that a change
in the manner of awarding honors was
In order and thus he gave mention and
recommendation for several members
of the mems division to the end that
they might receive imaginary positions
for the next few years at least. Those
to whom he addressed hi sattention
and aptly characterized were: Shephen
Burbank Berry, Roy Arthur Bither.
William Elmer Fagerstrom, Donald
Chester Freeman, Joseph Frank Good
rich. Gabriel Raphael Guedj, Clarence
Edwin Hale. Melville Graves Kilborn.
Alden Linwood Kittredge, Leslie Eu-
gene Knight, Herschel Earle Peabody,
Donald Edwin Sprague. Roger Adams
Stinchfield, Claude Lawrence Sttnne-
ford and Herbert Mccoy Workman.
Addresses to Undergraduates
After a musical selection the ad-
dresses to undergraduates were given
with each division having it's speak
er. Miss Adelaide Stone Gordon gave
the address to the undergraduates of
the woman's division in an excellent
manner. In her speech Miss Gordon
outlined the lessons which have been
learned at Colby which she said were
primarily lessons in Truth, Honor
and Service. The application of the
lessons which the members of the
present senior class had learned to
the problems of the three lower class
OF learning through the experience of
es was advanced as the finest means
the members of the preceding class.
Lessons in truth were discussed and
the speaker stated that these were of
fundamental importance in the lives
of both the undergraduates and the
members of the alumni body. Work,
to be effective, she said, must be
done with the idea of service as its
end and must be done earnestly with
all energy possible, with the epitome
of her thought being in the words,
Though your work may be done in
the humblest field of human endeav-
or, let it be with your whole heart"
The value of the work of the coll
lege in the world field was discussed
and counted as immeasurable. This
work of the college, the speaker stat
ed, would be measured not by its
registration or its size or by many
other means of determination but by
the work of the graduates of the COL
lege in the years after college. "Our
work in the world is the measure of
her value as a college," the speaker
stated. In closing she charged the
to work with their
whole hearts in the service of the
college and of their country by doing
this as it was by the measure of the
service which they contributed to the
college that their return would be
made. saying, Give of the best you
have to old Colby and the best will
come back to YOU"
The address to the undergraduate
or the Mems division was given by
Inen,nI