Ex-President Herbert Hoover from Colby College
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-— i > * ' «¦ ' ' i •- 'I ^ Football Game Parade Begins To Be 10 A. M. Broadcasted At Elmwood ENTIRE NATION HEARS -EX-PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER FROM COLBY COLLEGE Highlights On Dr. Libby Honors Opera Sta r Has Pa pers Inter pret Speech As Hoover's Speech Elijah Lovejoy Amazin g Talent One Of Polit ical Significance I shall attempt no eulogy of Love- Dr. Herbert C. Libby addressed At eight-fifteen on Wednesday joy and his service. These halls have the women's assembly, Monday morn- evening the warm applause of a pack- "Why Lovejoy 1200 Thronged To rung with those words a thousand ing, November 8, by speaking very ed house at the Alumnae Building times. appropriately on Colby's patron saint, greeted Miss Natalie Bodanya, young Had To Die First Baptist Elijah Parish Love joy, whose martyr- soprano of the Metropolitan Opera " Church From the time of Lovejoy 's death dom we now are commemorating. Association. At that, her first con- cert appearance since her debut at the Dean Ernest C. Marriner sounded to a period after the great war free Colby College attained world He 'briefly sketched for us Love- Metropolitan, in the leading soprano the keynote of a week-end largely de- wide speech, free press and free debate prominence as joy's youth, his phenomenal scholas- role of Micaela in Carmen, Natalie voted to commemoration of the one never before in its were steadily spreading . for it long history Monday in tic ability and the fact that he enter- Bodanya displayed a talented inter- hundredth anniversary of the death the convoca- was the life stream of advancing lib- tion honoring the ed Waterville College as a sophomore, polation and charming personality. of Colby's patron saint by delivering hundredth anniver- eralism. sary of the death of Colby after preparing at Monmouth and Through the course, of her recital that a short address on "Why Lovejoy Had 's, famous But in the last fifteen years in- son, Elijah Lovejoy, China Academies. Another example brought many curtain calls and three To Die" before the men's assembly for the freed-oni creasing darkness has descended upon . of the press when of his brilliance may be noted when encores at the conclusion of the regu- in the Chapel last Friday morning. former President rfree expression and free criticism in Herbert Hoover declared : we realize that during his sophomore lar program, Miss Bodayna held the First pointing out the historical "Progress the world. That light has been put is- indeed the degree . to year-, he was head of the Latin school, undivided attention of the audience. 'background of the slavery question which we. dis- out in more than half the civilized cover truth-—and free.jpeech and which is now Coburn Classical Insti- The program was divided into five and the conditions in and around St. free ~woi"ld. press become the most powerful tute. parts, and each of these divisions rep- Louis where Lovejoy was publishing of human forces." In 1833 Lovejoy left Maine and resented a definite type of work. The his "Observer" in 1834, the Dean ^ . : Untruth once triumphant could not Besides the audience went to Missouri where he established groups were as follows : went on to describe briefly the inci- of over 1200 -tolerate debate and free criticism. people gathered in the auditorium the "St. Louis Observer" in which he I dents, which culminated in the death Then free speech and free press were and vestry of the old First Baptist made frequent comments on the evils A Pastoral Old English of the first martyr to the cause of suppressed. Truth alone can stand Church where Lovejoy delivered his of slavery. He refused to stop writ- Two Airs from County Antrim freedom of the press. Lovejoy, at the guns of criticism. valedictory address 111 years ago, ing such material and in 1835 was Old English first not an. abolitionist, soon (in an people over the nation heard Presi- obliged to nrove across the river to Mary of Allendale Old English editorial of April 30, 1835) an- A free press is more than a pub dent Franklin W. Johnson's introduc- Alton, Illinois. Here his press was Constance's Aria from "II Seraglio" nounced his complete sympathy with (Continued on page 3) tion and Mr. Hoover's witty and destroyed three times ; the third time (Continued on page 3) the anti-slavery movement, and was (Continued on page 3) Lovejoy was deceived by the Mayor immediately requested by the owners Four College Bands who promised absolute protection. of his paper to desist from further Lovejoy himself stood by his fourth . reference to the controversial sub- ECHO Reporte r press arid' was killed defending it; PlTjjM^JlUg ject -in- ¦'his"--cblumnsr'r,'i5iis:-~fail-ure -rto Com pete For Prize ^ comply with these wishes forced the A few lines of one . of Love joy's Intervi ews Hoover removal of the "Observer" to Alton speeches tells mora vividly than can On Winter Sports , The football bands of the four 111., but there as in Missouri, public anything else of his loyal attitude and Maine collages will assemble at sentiment was against Lovejoy.' And During Herbert Hoover's:brief stay strength of conviction. • Seaverns Field to compete in the ^ At its first general meeting of the there, on November 7, 1837, after in ; Waterville your ECHO reporter ob- Maine Intercollegiate Football Band "So long as I am an American citi- college year, the Colby Outing clu'b four presses had been destroyed, tained an exclusive interview : with Contest, which was originated by the zen and so long as American blood met in the "Y" room of the Alumnae Lovejoy himself gave up his life in him, even though the Associated Frank Prette Post of the V. F. W., flows in these veins I shall hold my- Building last Friday, November 5th, defence of his property. Press could not get a statement. Due Orono, for the purpose of bettering self at liberty to speak, to write, and to listen to a guest speaker and to In Dean Marriner's words, Love- to the fact that Mr. Hoover was in a the work of Maine college bands at to publish whatever I please on any formally begin the club's activities joy's death was "the spark that light- hurry and the . questions had to be football games. The schedule for the subject—being amenable to the laws for 1937-38. ed an unquenchable flame." His short and snappy it was impossible to occasion is as follows: of my country for the same." President Robert Anthony, at the death was the most important single get an extensive interview. While he ' was putting on 10:00 A. M,, Parade starts in front ; ' Dr. Libby concluded by saying that beginning- of the meeting, spoke event in the slavery controversy until his coat I asked him of Elmwood Hotel. Elijah Parish Lovejoy's life teaches briefly on the principles of the club's the death of John Brown, and ' it what he thought . -of Co-Education. Of . 10:50 A. M., Parade ends in square that it is not birth, circumstances, or management. He pointed out and brought to tlie attention of the Amer- course it was. expected of him to reply in.the by. Opera House. place that determines worth, but the cleared up various misconceptions ican people for the first time the ne- affirmative, but the way he ex- . pressed 11:45 A. M,, Buffet luncheon at ideal that governs life. that have been formed about the cessity of preserving the rights of himself was, indeed, a sur- Alumnae Building. "Governing1 Board. " He explained free speech and free press. prise. This is, how he worded his re- ' 12:30 P. M,, Mass rehearsal for that this executive body simply takes ply: "I'm highly in favor of Co-Edu- joint numbers in front of Alumnae care of official business when it is in- cation, and why shouldn't I be? T rneJ; ' Building. Worksho p Pla yers To convenient and impossible for the en- "The Economic my wife in college!" 12:50 P. M,, Parade from Alumnae tire club to meet and hold discussion. In Co-Education Hoover believed Building to front of men's gynasium. Present Spicy Drama After having announced the coming Roots Of War that a wholesome, healthful educa- 1:15 P, M., First contestant, Bow- trip to Mt. Bigclow, that was held " tion was derived. Through mixing with the opposite sex doin. On Thursday, December !) , Colby Sunday, the 7th, the club's chief ex- one gets an edu- Wilmer "Bill' Kitchen, executive cation not taught' 1 :25 P. M,, Second contestant, Workshop Players will present the ecutive called the members attention in the class room . secretary of the Student Christian —an education in Bates. first production of the year at Alum- to the need of some standard apparel , how to live with Movement in New England, spoke in one another. In his college ' 1:35 P. M,, third contestant, Colby. nae Building, beginning at 8 o'clock, making ueveral suggestions that prov- . there were Forum Sunday evening on "The Eco- 2000 men and lOOO women 1:45 P, M., Fourth contestant, The 'one-act plays—Close the Book , ed very helpful and noteworthy. , and the nomic Roots of War, giving a short women maintained a Maine, by Susan Glaspell; and Hyacinth Hal- " higher rank than ; (Continued on page 6) history of the ' . development of tho the men, which is true of At halves, massed numbers. voy, by the great Irish playwright, any college.