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Edited by HERBERT CARLYLE LIBBY, Litt.D .. ol the Class �! 1902

CONTENTS FOR FOURTH QUARTER, 1924-1925

EDITORIAL NOTES: Commencement Days ...... 137 Clas;; Reunions ...... 137 Reunioning Classes of 1926 ...... 138 Loyalty ...... - . . . 139 One Thousand Alumnus ·Readers ...... 139 The General Alumni Association ...... 140 Fifty Years Out ...... 141 Courtesy ...... ·-·... 141 A Reception Committee ...... 142 A Deserved Recognition ...... 143 Wesleyan's New President ...... •144 Of PeTsonal ,InteTest ...... 145 A Pressing Need at Colby ...... 145 Other Needs ...... 146 Professor WebeT's Promotion ...... 146 Campus Improvements ...... 147 Colby Mourns a Loved Son ...... 147 Oux Debt to the Fathers and Mothers ...... 148 Speeding-up Process Needed ...... 148 SPECIAL ARTICLES: The Scholarship Fund, By President Roberts ...... 136 Pax Anglo Americana, By Hon. William Renwick Riddell, LL.D., D. C. L.. 149 Baccalaureate Sermon, By Arthur Jeremiah Roberts , LL.D., '90...... 155 Acceptan :e Address of Bulletin Board, By Norman Leslie Bcissett, LL..D., '91 161 Chapel Address, By Fred Albertis Snow, B.A., '85 ...... 162 Chapel Address, By Arthur Bardwell Patten, D.D., '90...... 164 "Last Chapel" Address, By Ernest Cummings Marriner, B.A., '19 ...... 166 Annual Meeting 'Board of Trustees, By Edwin Ca,rey Whittemore , D.D., '79 167 Class Reunions : ...... _ ...... 172 1915-By Lester Frank Weeks , M.A., :._15...... 172 1890-By Elwood Taylo?· Wyman , B.A., '90...... 173 1900-By Fred Foss Lawrence , B.A., '00 ...... 173 1885-By Frank HowMd Edmunds , B.A., '85 ..., ...... 173 1875-By Edward Hawes Smiley, LL.D., '75 ...... 174 Annual Meetings: ...... 176 Alumni Association, By Ernest Cummings Marriner, B.A., '19 ...... 176 Phi Beta Kappa Association, By Carl Jefferson Weber , M.A ...... 177 The Story of Commencement, Hy Eighty-Odd...... 177 List of Returning Graduates, By the F;ditor...... 182 Meeting Connecticut Valley Colby Club, By Royden K. Greeley, B.A ., '19 .. 183 The New York Col ,by Alumni Meeting, By Ratµ'h E. Nash, B.A., '11 ...... 184 Tributes to Leslie Colby Cornish, '75, By Herbert C. Libby , Litt.D., '02.... . 184 In Memoriam : By the Editor ...... : ...... 187 Leslie Colby Cornish, LL.D., '75...... 187 Samuel Joshua Nowell, B.A., '82 ...... 189 Herbert Melvin Moore B.A., '87 ...... 189 Charles Al•bert Russell, B.A., '76 ...... ·...... 190 Roger Ashurst Putnam, B.A., '15...... 190 News Notes of the Faculty ...... 190 Among thP Graduates. By the Editor ...... _ 193

TERMS:-Issued four times during t'he College Year. Subscriptions at the rate of $ 2.00 per year. Entered as second-class mail matter January 25, 191 2, at the Post Offiice at Waterville, Maine, under the Act of March, 3, 1879. Address all com­ munications to Herbert C. Libby, Editor, Waterville. Maine. The Two Hundred Thousand Dollar Scholarship Fund

BY PRESIDENT ROBERTS

We must secure this coming year about a hundred and sixty thousand dollars to complete this new scholarship fund. , We neep. at least fifteen thousand dollars income ·every year from scholarship funds in order to meet present needs: we are receiving now hardly a third of this amount. For some years we have been using annually eight or ten thou­ sand dollars of general income for scholarship aid. This money is greatly needed for other purposes. In the last fifteen years our attendance has trebled and college expenses everywhe:re h&ve something more than doubled, but income specifically available for student assist­ ance has in recent yea>�s increased bnt little. The general endowment of the College has grown as rapidly as attend­ anee has, but scholarship funds have lagged far behind. We shall easily achieve ·our purpose. There are enough graduates and friends of the College in such financial cir­ cumstances as make .their interest in this enterprise the as­ surance of its complete success. Some will feel that they are but paying a debt in enabling the College to do for others what the College did for them. Others, of course with no such sense of obligation, will be glad to invest some money with sure promise of large returns in character and influence. There is no better use of money possible than the employment of it for helping the right kind of boy or girl go through Colby College! Three kinds of pledges are solicited: first, those payable in cash, the income to be at once available for student uses; second, those payable in cash, the income to be retained by the donor through life or through his life and anothers' ; third, those payable by bequest. Fifteen hundred dollars establishes a standard Colby Scholarship. Mr. William H. Snyder, '85, unable to return for the re­ union of his cl.ass sent a check of one thousand dollars toward this new fund, to be added to the memorial scholar­ ship of six thousand dollars which Mr. Snyder has been building up in recent years. The next issue ·of the ALUMNUS will contain a complete list of contributors to the Two Hundred Thousand Dollar Scho1arship Fund. THE COLBY ALUMNUS

Vqlume XIV FOURTH QUARTER, 1924-1925 Number 4

EDITORIAL NOTES

The last Commencement unions at each of the annual Commence­ Commencenient Days. will go down in history ments. There is no feature of the Com­ as an event well worth mencement program that deserves more attending. With the exception of one careful planning than this. There are day, the weather, always a vital factor, one or two things that should receive at was ideal. With the exception of the once the attention of next year's reunion­ memol'able centennial occasion the num­ ing classes, and the ALUMNUS is prompt­ ber of graduates .back for the exercises ed to suggest them as follows : First, has not been exceeded. And the spirit someone in each class should appoint of the Commencement, from the begin­ himself a committee of one to proceed ning to the very end, could not have at once to get the class ·organized. This been better. Taken all in all, it was an organization should consist of a presi­ event in Col·by's history very much dent and a secretary. These two officers worthwhile. The great pity of it is that should secure at once from the Com­ all of the sons and daughters of Colby mencement Committee a full address list have not yet realized just what they are of every member of the class, and months missing in not attending these annual I before the day set for the reunion every Commencements of their Alma Mater. classmate should be written to and asked Instead of 200 to 300 returning gradu­ to attend the reunion. 1Before answers ates, there should be one thousand. Only are received, a dozen letters may be through such numbers can loyalty to the necessary, for it must be remembered College be most effectively continued. that Courtesy is not yet written into the Not a year passes by that a score of re­ heart of every man and woman. Second, turning graduates make open confession some plan should be devised so that every to officials of the College that it is their member of the class may be back for first year back since graduation, and this the reunion. This may require four or span of time is not infrequently a quar­ five collect telegrams. It . may require ter of a century ! In other words, for the offer of free transportation. It may twenty-five years these men and women · require what amounts to a demand. But have cut themselves off from vital con­ the nlan should' •be devised and executed. tact with the College that nurtured them If classmates object to the strenuous and have denied to themselves associa­ methods, just Temember that these same tion with their college classmates and classmates will at the reunion be falling former teachers that grows more and upon the necks of those who were most more sacred as the years wear on. A insistent. It always works out this way. little thought, a little planning, a little In the words of the fallen -Commoner : bit of resolution, and the Col·by Com­ "Have faith in the wisdom of doing mencement may .be for a thousand men right.°' These ·are the two duties that and women an event of surpassing in­ fall upon the classes. The Commence­ terest and immeasurable delight. Com­ ment Committee stands ready to do all mencement Days ·are days for renewing in its power to find a convenient ·place youth, for renewing pledges of devotion, for the hplding of the reunions, for hav­ and for keeping more intimately in touch ing the class represented at the· Lunch with the great current of youthful en­ ·and Dinner, and for every courtesy that deavor that ever merits the interest and it is able to offer. An outstanding class guidance of those of older years. reunion was that of the Class of 1897, its twenty-fifth. They were back in It is going to be the Class large numbers, their wives, their chil­ Reunions. strong endeavor of the dren, their near and dear. What days Commencement Commit­ they enjoyed together ! It was a week of tee to encourage more classes to hold re- reunions. The class of 1898 followed, but 138 The Colby Alumnus

this class, for some reason or other, In June, 1926, the class Reunioning failed to measure up to the record set Claues of 1926. to hold its 50th reunion by '97. The class of 1899 followed, and -the golden jubilee­ this fell under the record of '98. In the will be that of 1876, ithe class made fa­ last Commencement Week, the class of mous by several outstanding graduates, 1900 tried to reunion, but for some un­ two of them known to hundreds of Colby accountable reason, only a very few got graduates, namely, former President together to celebrate a quarter of a cen­ Albion W. Small, and Clarence E. tury out. At least eleven members of Meleney, long connected with the New the class of the Men's Division should York public schools. The class of 1886 have been on the campus but were not. is scheduled to hold its 40th reunion, and There is no better class in the graduate this will bring back to the campus a list list than the old class of 1900, and yet, of famous professional and business men, due to lack of organization, three or possibly the most prominent of all at four of the young boys got together an.d the present moment being Randall J. made a feint at holding a class reunion. Cor,don, head of the public school system One has hut to contrast the class of 1875. of Cincinnati, Ohio. The class of 1896 There were six of the men present out of is due for its• 3-0th reunion, and it is nine, two of them, Henry Hudson and dcubtful if any class contains a greater Leslie C. Cornish prevented by illness number of men of greater worth to Colby from attending. The only woman grad­ than does this one. And the class to uated in 1875, Mary Low Carver, was hold iits 25th reunion contains some 20 also present. Cyrus K. Merriam, a men who are forging rapidly forward member of this famous class, traveled in their careers, already many of them from Spokane, Washington, to register contributing of their talent and means in at his 50th reunion ! This is what to Colby's greatest welfare. Naturally it means to hold a class reunion, and the 10-year class out, that of 1916, will well may other classes take note of the be counted back in large numbers, for it enviable record made by '97 and '75. graduated some 55 men and 35 women-

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WHEN DARKNESS HAS SETTLED UPON THE COLBY CAMPUS

.Jlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!llllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllll1llllllllllllltlllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll The Colby Alumnus 139 almost 100 in all. What great days ar� sum needed to keep- a two-million-do] ahead for these five classes-great days lar plant up to scratch and provide for to plan for, to dream about, and some the barest necessities. With 3,000 gTad­ day to look back upon-a renewal of the uates now counted on the boks of the d�eams of youth. College-3,000 men and women who have been given the best of life's equipment It is so frequently said Loyalty. by the College-there should be an an­ as to become almost a nual return to the Collee;e of at least dictum that the •b est $10,000. That means a trifle over $30 terms in which to measure loyalty is for each graduate. Such a sum, if an­ noit in dollars but in service. The great nually contributed, would mean a �il­ pity is that too many of those of our lion in ten years, and eventually an m­ graduate body who could give loyally in come from invested funds that .would both measures forget the dollars alto­ permit the old College to keep pace with gether. It is a measure too easily and existing needs, and to offer a better edu­ too quickly and too often and too con­ cation to hundreds and hundreds of de­ veniently forgotten. The ALUMNUS is serving ·boys and ,girls of New England. bold to raise the issue. It is bold Such a s·um will never be forthcoming enough to suggest that more of our until graduates are made to feel their graduates who have, largely because of indebtedness to the College, an indebted­ what the College did for them-the ness, by the way, that can never be paid training it gave them, the reputation as in money, even though these graduates gTaduates i1t gave them, the standing in give all they have. Let us for a time the community it gave them (and gave, get through talking !about loyalty in too, at a monetary figure far below what terms of service, and for a while talk it actually cost) -the ALUMNUS is bold of loyalty in terms of the coin of the enough ito suggest that more of our realm. "Where your treasure is, there g.raduates GI·VE ·b ack to the College. It is your heart also''. It will do us all is true that a good many of the men and good. Faith is good, but a dollar given women graduates loyally contributed to will save a soul. the Centennial Fund, but had it not been for three or four generous givers The ALUMNUS is striv- One Thousand · I· 1 this Fund would never have been raised Alumnus Readers. Ing t 0 serve .a ea need in the record time that it was. By and in the College. Four large, the graduates have not yet given times during the year it goes out from in right proportions. A great host of the print shop with messages of loyalty them have never given at all, while an­ and devotion, of good cheer and :happy other great host have given in very reminders, to graduates of the College. small sums. ·Curiously enough, all the "Back come words of commendation, in while many of these same small givers such number that it would require a have urged this and that policy of booklet of some 50 pages to contain them growth upon the College, every sugges­ all. It is an indisputable fact that our tion requiring the expenditure of a sum graduates, who are counted among the not within the appropriating power of readers of the magazine, like it, .and the Board of Trustees. Talk of loyalty commend it, and urge its continuance. is an excellent tonic ; the rendering of The magazine is now closing its four­ various forms of service in lieu of teenth year of service. At no time in monetary donations when monetary do­ all thes·e fourteen years has it ever nations are not possible, is highly com­ found upon its rolls over 1,000 sub­ mendable and highly appreciated ; but scribers, and for many of these years the giving of real money to the College it has not had ver 600. In other words, is an absolute necessity if the College it is reaching about one-fifth of the great is to progress as it should. It is only graduate body. In other words, one-.. through the most careful pruning of fifth of the graduate body is keeping the the budget that needed repairs and im­ magazine respectably alive. In the provements can be made. As proof of fourteen years, the expense of getting this, glance through the report of the out the magazine has doubled. Within ·Committee on Buildings and Grounds, recent months, even the postal rates given in this issue of the magazine. have a1bout doubled. Everything costs This Committee is obliged to talk of more today. To meet this greatly in­ a sum of something like $15,000, the creased expense, the ·subscription price 140 The Colby Alumnuis had to be doubled, and this of course magazine last year. The rages were meant a greatly reduced subscription list. open to the president of the Association Unless the magazine can be maintained for suggestions, but they we-re n0t made at its present standard, it is idle to c<>n­ use of. The pages are again open tinue it. It asks no subsidy. On several for discussion or for .;;ugge��ic,:is. Here occasions, the College has helped meet is a gro�1p of men, assembling ·out once a deficit, but the magazine has· never i1 �·ear, eating a dollar lm1cn, rE:ading a felt chagrinned at accepting anything J :st of ;!s deceased memi.)�t·s, hearing from the ·College for it ha·s figured that some corking good speeches, electing its it has rendered an unpaya.ble service to officers, singing a few college songs, Colby. It asks for a . thousand sub­ then adjourning "till we meet again." It scribers that it may continue on, pay its has become so much of a rigmarole as to bills, and render a •better and better become well nigh painless. If failure to service. With this issue, going out to eat lunch might some day happen, the srme 600 subscribers, is a subscription rigmarole might be impr<>ved up<>n! As card. Graduates are earnestly request­ a matter of sober consideration, is there ed to return this card at once. Every not a vital work for the General Alumni effort is to be put forth to ·bring the list Association to do ? With the linking up np to one thousand that the magazine­ in organization of more than 2,000 men YOUR MAGAZINE-may continue on -is there not in this fact a suggestion of service to College ? What could such in the year to come-its fifteenth year­ a group not accomplish-in constructive in real genuine service to the C<>llege. policies? It could carry out the plan so Your cooperation to this end is solicited. much discussed of a paid alumni secre­ tary for the College, that is, it could find The General Someway the feeling is Alumni such a secretary and could secure the Association. strong that �he General funds necessary to have such a secretary Alumni As sociati on carry o.ut its gener�l policies. Through should be of greater value to the Col­ such means, a great many local alumni lege. This fact was mentioned in this associations could be formed, and illlllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllJllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

A NIGHT GLIMPSE THROUGH THE BOARDMAN WILLOWS The Colby Alumnus 141 through such associations increased the four college classmates trooped, benefits might come to the College. It there to assemble for a brief ten minutes could in various way, through the use about the .bed of •one of the most lovaible of the graduates magazine, advance the men that ever lived. Any account of interests of the College, and in number­ that reunion is too sacred to give less ways it could ·be a strong right arm here. Suffice it to say, that the bravest for the President of the College. The man of the little company was Judge present scheme of organization should be Oornish himself, never once neglecting to entirely done away with, especially the make every minute alive with his witti­ Council that never counsels, election to cisms and his delightful comments. ·whose membership is as empty an honor Privileged indeed was the editor of the as that long claimed by Queen Lil of ALUMNUS to witness this reunion. It Hawaian fame. Certain it is that there taught him afresh how strong are the are immense possibilities in any associa­ bonds that draw men together in college, tion of a couple thousand men. There and ·•how dou·bly strong are the bonds was a faint rattle of dry bones at the that bind men to great leaders in whom association's meeting this June ! The they place implicit trust. Fi.fty years ALUMNUS pages are wide open for sug­ out had not lessened the bonds of fellow­ gestions ! ship and love that held together this lit­ tle company of regal souls. After fifty No one who came in Fifty Years long years of separation, the handclasp Out. contact with the little was just as strong as in college days, group of a half dozen and the Jove for their old college home members of the class of 1875 who met had never wavered. Just a week after together on the campus for their fiftieth the class reunion in Augusta, Judge reunion could fail to understand how Cornish had passed away. The ranks keen ,was their disappointment in not were broken, but like true soldiers the finding their old classmate and leader, little company close up and prepare to Judge Cornish, to welcome each of them "carry on". back to the .College Home. Judge Cornish had written each of them urging them T·he Comm e n c e m e n t Courtesy. to return for the golden jubilee; he had Committee sends out completed all the details of the reunion, eaich year to every man even to preparing the little place-cards and woman who is counted in the .grad­ that should grace the table around which uate •body a letter of invitation to the they were to assemble; and up to the annual ·Commencement of the College. very last, he had been conserving his This letter contains a reply-postal card strength that he might not disappoint and an urgent request that the postal his boon compilnions of college days. A card be returned. �'.his year 3,000 such week ·before Commencement, Judge letters were mailed out. About" 100 let­ Cornish realized that after all there ters were returned because ot incorrect could be no class reunion for him, and addressing or because the postal au­ his grief over this one fact was poignant thorities were unable to locate the per­ indeed. For four days the little group sons addressed. Out of the 2,900 let­ kept together, again and again expres - ters that evidently reached their desti­ ing deep sorrow that their reunion after nation, only 700 reply-postals were re­ fifty years out was -not to be complete. turned to the Committee. In other With the -coming of Wednesday after­ words, 2,200 graduates of the ·College noon and the close of the Commencement entirely disregarded the request of the festivities just before the last trains Committee. It placed the Committee in were to carry the Commencement visi­ the unfortunate position of not knowing tors back to their homes, four of the how many graduates were likely to re­ little group of '75 men quietly slipped , turn, and so handicapped the Committee" away to Augusta there to hold a reunion exceedingly in making proper arrange­ like no other ever held before. The edi­ ments for their entertainment. Just tor of the ALUMNUS was privileged to how this works out may be illustrated help plan for this reunion, and to jour­ by what happened this year at .the ney to the home of Judge Cornish with Alumni Lunch. The return-postal's did them. "Tell the ·boys to come right up ; not indicate that more than 125 gradu­ I'm waiting to see them", so spoke the a•tes' would attend. As .a matter of fact, voice of the "Chief". And up the stairs more than 50' graduates in excess of this 142 The Colby Alumnus

number, who had never indicated their Reference has been made A Reception intention of returning, made nnal ap­ Committee. in another editorial to plication for tickets. Nothing but con­ the need of improving fusion and inconvenience to Committee, the program of exercises for the annual to caterer, and to graduates resulted. Commencements. There is one sugges­ Ju t a little show of plain every-day tion that has met with heartiest com­ COURTESY-something that is too fre­ mendation wherever made and that is quently neglected in these hurried days­ that a Reception Committee composed wou ld have helped tremendously those of members of the Faculty of the College who are striving to care for the needs of be appointed to assist in the reception guests. It is no argument at all to say t:> returning graduates. As it is now, .that the Committee should provide for a great many c.f the graduates arrive more than the demands. At least it is in Waterville, drift about the campus, no argument so long as the Committee is looking for old rooms and old lecture expected to keep within a fixed sum set halls, ·and meet no one unless members a;par.t by the B'"oard of Trustees. The of the Commencement Committee. Mem- ALUMNUS is deeply interested in the 1bers of the Faculty of the College are continuing success of the annual ·Com­ not in evidence. Most of them are en­ mencements. It believes that the money gaged during the week of Com:nencement expended for the proper entertainment in reading their examination papers and of the returning gra_duates is the wisest in otherwise getting ready for early de­ investment that the College can make. parture. for their vacati ons. They ap­ It wants to see steady improvement •pear in their academic robes on Sunday made in the program o.f exercises. And m:n·ning and on Wednesday morning it now appeals, in behalf of the Com­ only. This is n'ot as it should be, of mittee, for better cooperation on the course. The tie that binds graduate to part of the graduate body. That more College is the teacher. The first thing than 2,000 recipients of courteous in­ that the older graduate asks when he vitations should neglect to make proper registers is as to whether this man or acknowledgment even when a self-ad­ that man is still on the faculty. Every dressed return-ipostal card is enclosed graduate has a strong desire to meet is .almost unthinkable. Courtesy would again those who guided· him in his suggest ·better treatment of the Com­ intellectual 1pursuits. The plan proposed­ mittee. is to make this very thing possible. The llllll'lllllllll:ll'lllllllllll!llllllllllllll!lllllllllllllllllll'lllllll1i'llll!lllUlll'llllllllllllll!lllHlll'llll1111111111'1111111111illl'lllhll'l'llU:llll'llll'lllllllll•llillllll1111111111'Hllllllllllll'lllllllll'llll1111111111'111111ill'!Ul!llll1111"1111•1111'1111'"11·1ll, 1'1;111

' A GROUP OF COLBY S RELIGIOUS LEADERS HEADED BY PROFESSOR NEWMAN The Colby Alumnus 143 plan aims to forge more strongly the schools, in the insistence upon better links that bind graduate· to College. It trained teachers, ·better school buildings, is proposed •that all members of the better supervision, entitles him to a half teaching staff, some 25 in •all, ·be ap­ dozen honorary degrees. Not only has pointed 1by the President of the College he accomplished much for the caus11. of as a Reception Committee, with the un­ education in Maine, but also much for derstanding that ·on Monday, Tuesday, the generial cause of education in the and Wednesday of Ccmunenc�ment Week country at large. He has given Maine this Committee be on the Campus or in a prominence in the National Education the dormitories or in the hotels or in As!>ociiation that the State never had be­ the College Office, anywhere that gradu­ fore. And more than this, through his ates may lbe congregating, to meet them far-sightedness and his ability to get personally, talk over Colby with them, things done and movements underway he take them over the city or about the stands today at the head of an interna­ campus, and in divers ways to play the tional association the existence of which part of real guests. Older gr.aduates to means rmuch tJo the peace and prosperilty whom this suggestion ·has been made see of the peoples of the world. The con­ in this 11lan great wisdom •and far reach­ troversy that has existed between Dr. ing results. It will be fully discussed Thomas and the head of the Universilty at an early meeting of the Commence­ of Maine over the general policy of'edu­ ment Committee and if favorably acted cation as it affects the ipublic schools of upon the suggestion will then be present­ Maine in no way lessens the feeling of ed to the Faculty of the College for their approval •by those acquainted with the consideration and approval. facts over the action of 'Bates. It would be a strange man indeed who could sub­ Bates College has done A Deserved scri·be to the peculiar tenets of belief in Recognition. what Colby might have educa.tion held by the head of the State done, and for aught we University, now resigned. Dr. Thomas know may be planning to do, namely, to has wrought well, and Bates has acted confer upon the State Superintendent of wisely in honoring him with a de,gree 0. Public Schools, Augustus Thomas, the that at last places hini "in this So::iety of honorary degree ·of Doctor of Laws. The position, le� alone the man, demands such recognition from our Colleges. But in the present instance, the man meas­ ures up to the position, and hence the good jud•gment shown on the part of the lboard of trustees of Bates College. Su­ perintendent Thomas has for several years now headed il:he ·public school sys­ tem of Maine. He was . ·brought from the wild and wooly west where he had been a leading factor in the upbuilding of the pu1blic school!l. His ways were not and have not always been Maine ways, but that is nothing against Su­ perintendent Thomas! It would be well, perhaps, if Maine were a bit more like the west--a little less gluily attached to the Miayflower and to New England tra­ ditions. •During the years Superinten­ dent Thomas has headed the Maine schools he has wrought well. There was a vast service to be rendered to rural sections. "Keep the schools as father kept them", was an dbstacle in scores of our towns and smaller cities. Abomina­ ble school b�ildings, illy ventHated, illy kept up, illy manned, presented a· real problem. What Dr. Thomas has accom­ AUGUSTUS 0. THOMAS. LL.D. plished in the general ton}ng up of rural Superintendent of Maine's Public Schools 144 The Colby Alumnws scholars, to all the rights and privileges he continues, "a freshman class whose of which, 'Bates College now declares you motto was that good old Yankee ejacula­ to be entitled!" tion 'Well, I want to know,' to one with­ out a single so-called entrance condition On June 5, last, Wes­ but with no ambition". He lays gr eat Wesleyan"s New President. leyan College installed stress upon the need of having college Dr. James Lekens Mc­ activities contribute to the task that he conaughy as its new Pr esident, the oc-· considers paramount, namely, that of casion being marked by the presence of "individualizing the student". He raises many heads of American colleges, by the vigorous objection to any and all ten­ announcement of gifts totalling more dencies to mass the students in instruc­ than $1,200·,00-0, and ·by an address de­ tion, and expresses the hope that fra­ livered by Dr. McConaughy in which he ternity life and athletics and faculty and outlines the future academic policy of curriculum-all and each may contribute Wesleyan. Dr. McConaughy comes to toward the important work of "in­ Wesley.an splendidly equipped for the dividualization". Men must be encour­ work he is to do. He has had experience aged in every way possible to push on as a teacher and administrator at Bow­ toward the heights, ne\'er held back by doin, Dartmouth, and Knox Colleges. others who may perchance find progress His interests have extended outside the slower. He wants to see Wesleyan adopt college classroom. During the past year some plan or plans that will enable stu­ he has served as a District Governor of dents in the junior or senior year to Rotary International, and has been able forge fast :ahead with disregard, if to br ing to this great order some of his necessary, of credits, or hours, or fixed valuable experiences .as a college teacher routine, but always with the desire to and administrator. Interestingly enough, achieve, irrespective of the group in his address ·bears marked evidence of the which they may be placed. He calls influence of the great Rotary movement this the "alluring field for pioneering", upon his life, and doubtless will be re­ as indeed it is. It is in this part of the flected more and more as .his work as the address that Dr. McConaughy hits . upon head of Wesleyan continues. Among a subject that is inviting attention of other notable utterances he says : "Wes­ earnest men and women. If he does not leyan has no place for the .man who is happen to discover and announce the­ merely sent to college ; its doors are open definite ways and means of bringing this to the man who feels a need for more to pass, he is not to be criticized. Those education, and goes to college self­ ways and means are not yet known, at prompted! and inspired. I would prefer," least in America. It is doubtful if they

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THE WOODMAN STADIUM-A RECENT COLBY ACQUISITION The Colby Alumnuis 145 ever will be discovered until colleges be. a·bout themselves to the graduates' mag­ come so well endowed that we may ap­ azine. They must keep in mind that proach more perfectly the ideal of in­ eventually these facts will come to the dividual instruction. The closing part attention of the editor of the ALUMNUS of the address deals with the thought and he will make use of them. It is not that the '"College must 1be Christian". always possi'ble to get these facts veri­ He says pointedly, "A College that is not fied, and misstatements invariably creep Christian is no college at all. The in. The ALUMNUS is interested on ly in faculty must be Christian in spirit and getting the actual facts, and graduates Christian in its daily living." And with can be of great as�istance if tihey will this we agree. The ALUMNUS has not take the initiative and send to the maga­ hesitated to point out in other years zine all .the facts as they are. Fo·r that insofar as Colby is concerned, the should be. The College needs every faculty .man of ·Christian bearing is sake of accuracy, let modaduates". These noites years i•t is easy to figure. Hundreds of are gathered from many sources, but the students have received from the College most reliable source of all is that of the timely aid. This has been given out­ graduate himself. On the subscription right, no notes, no promises to return it. blank is a space ovel' which appears the And yet; no . man or woman who ever phrase "Of Personal Interest". The received such aid can now' forget what ALUMNUS earnestly requests every grad­ i•t meant to him ; and now that he is out uate to jot down a few fiacts about him­ fo the world earning his own way and self that these may appear some day in accumulating his bit, it is not likely that the pages headed "Among the Gradu­ he will forget the needs of his Alma ates". ·Some gradualtes are extremely .l\1ater. No better pledge of loyalty modest and even though they are ac­ could be given •than the return with in­ complishing much that is worthwhile in terest of the money that was given him life they hesitate to send personal items in his undergraduate days. This money 146 The Colby Alumn� ought to be in the nature of a revolv­ ing fund, passed on from generation to generation, aiding all rthe while those who tand in immediate need of a little financial assistance. Let the appeal of the President be met with a hearty re­ sponse fr om ·those who wer.e once aided

by the old College. ·

Colby is rn need of Other Needs. many things. It is in need of a larger endow­ ment fund if it would progress more rapidly. It is in need of a Chapel large enough to house a thousand men and women. It is in need o.f a Forum, ac­ commodating 1,500 to 2,000 people, capa­ ble of handling the Commencement crowds and the entire student body, thus obvi,ating the necessity of making use of house. It is in the city's <>nly opera PROF. CARL J. WEBER, M. A. need of an administrative :building in which the Pr esident and the Treasurer and the Registrar may find adequate quarters, where the business life of the college staff. Of course, his promotion institution may center. It is in dire is due in some slight degree to the fact need of a lecture hall capable of taking that the English Departmerut has been care of several departmeruts now meet­ without a Head for some year s, or since ing in cramped quarters. It is in need the retirement from much actual class of ,an Arts Building, where all the art room instruction of Pr esident Rolberts, tr easures of the College may lbe kept, all and' he naturally was in line for the posi­ the valuable manuscripts. lit is in need tion. It is the custom at Colby to have of a gy mnasium large enough to meet but one full professor in each Depart­ the needs of winter tr aining of college ment, and this may account for what teams. And it is in need of a soci-al may be regarded as slow promotion for and recreational build

The Committee on Build­ In the untimely passing Cnmpus Colby Mourns a lmpr 011eme nt8. ings and Gr ounds; Belove d Son. of Leslie Colby Cornish, whose enlightening re- late Chief Justice of the port appears in the proceedings of the Supreme •Court of Maine, for many years annual meeting of the Board of Trus­ Chairman of the Board of Trustees of tees, richly merits all the praise that is the College, and one of the outstanding ibeing bestowed upon it. It has .gone citizens of Maine, Colby loses a beloved a/bout its difficult labors without any son. Nothing that the ALUMNUS can blare of ·brass instruments, and year by say editorially can adequately express year has added to its accomplishments the sense of loss that all Colby feels. It until its work is becoming manifest from will be years before his place can •be one end of the campus to the other. filled, chiefly because his life touched so Much of it is not in evidence. Buildings . many points of College graduate and un­ are being renovated interiorily. Its dergraduate. life. And not only did it rules and regulations governing the de­ touch it, but thrilled it with new life and struction cxf property are ·being obeyed. new hope and new resolve. It was a life Of course, the most outstanding improve­ rich in rare common sense and in senti­ ment, and one that received the most ment, the two so beautifully .blended as frequent word of commendation, is that to merit constantly the respect and love of the College Chapel. It represented a of fellow kind. No better evidence of large expenditure but it was money this could be found, if evidence were wisely invested. The Chapel now looks necei::sary, than the occasion that marked like a •Chapel, and is respected as a the last rites paid to his memory. The Chapel should be. The most conspicu­ beautiful home, every room within which ous improvement is that of the grano­ and every article in every room of which lithic walks, the gift of one of Colby's carried with it some touch of sentiment, most loyal friends, Mrs. Eleanora Wood­ was crowded with men and women from man, the donor of the Woodman Sta­ every walk of life, from the highest dium. These walks are being completed State officials to the most menially em­ during the summer months. The white ployed, all meeting not for perfunctory trimmings given to the old dormitories reasons but because mourning hearts led is a touch of the brush that has tended them thither, there about the bier to sit to dignify and •beautify. The buildings for a brief half hour and find a slight never looked more stately than they do measure of solace in fashioning new re­ today. The .proper drainage of the solves to "carry on." His faithfulness to campus is another improvement, and the the College trutt was a sure index of the overhauling of the top floor of Coburn Hall will be an accomplishment of last­ ing ·benefit to the College. For some un­ accountable reason, some of the build­ ings seem to have been constructed with the idea of squandering as much good space as possible, with the conse­ quent result that as more space has ibeen demanded extensive .material changes have been necessary. The basement of Memorial Hall when properly excavated and floored and partitioned should pro­ vide several excellent rooms either for recitation purposes or for storage pur­ poses. For altogether too long, no im­ provements have been made upon the campus and the buildings, ·but from now on, with some available funds for the purpose, the College will be brought into excellent physical condition. Every returning graduate was outspoken in his praise of the work that is being done, all of which augurs well for the future of .Judge Cornish Ready for a Board Meeting the College. 148 Th e Colby Alumnus

type of man he was. The College was the mo t refreshing men imaginable. on his heart day by day. Only a few He had faith in him and love for him. weeks before his death, his strength No week passed at the Point that a half seemed strong enough to permit him to dozen chats about Colby and Colby af­ meet with the Commencement Committee, fa rs did not take place, sometimes on of which he was a .member. The mem­ hi::; porch and sometimes on the editor's bers met in his old room at the Court p!Jl'ch and sometimes on long tramps Hou e, now no longer carrying his name over the rough coasts or through wooded upon its door, a matter which he half fieldi: and pastui:es. It was always Col­ facetiously commented upon, and there by with him, for he loved deeply the Col­ s for two hours he gave of his be t that lege that gave him his start in life, and nothing connected with the coming Com­ how well he served the College through­ mencement should go amiss. That day out his long and eventful and highly use­ he seemed to those meeting with him ful life can never be adequately told. like a ·broken man, broken physically but His passing is like the wrenching away in no sense broken mentally. Nothing of one of the props that support the in­ escaped his vigilance. No favorite story stitution. But happy are we in the real­ was forgotten. No hint then given that ization that he has left in the hearts of he would not ·be present at the occasion many a Colby son and daughter a burn­ which he himself so carefully helped to ing desire to labor for the College as he plan. It was not until a month later that has done for her, and that as one rich the chairman of . the Committee received reward of hi& beautiful life the College from him a brief letter in which, among that be loved so deeply will be more other things, be wrote, "You will please faithfully served b_v those who knew him see that 'Rob' presides over the Com­ -knew some of .the secretn of his big, mencement Dinner this year. I have so generous, loving heart. written him." That was his way of saying, what he did not want to say, "I shall not OurDebt to the What Colby owes to a be Fa thers and with you at the Dinner this year". Mo thers. vast company of conse­ No man ever connected with Colby ever crated men and women loved the College more than he, ever ,whose labors in behalf of the College in worked .more zealously for her, in sea­ darker days than these in which we live son and' out. The editor of the ALUM­ will never be adequately known, .but now NUS for a number of years spent his 'and then there ·are evidences of that . summers at Pemaquid Point, far out on consecration. The following is an ex­ a narrow strip of mainland that jutted tract from an hi torical sketch of his into the bluest of ocean waters. Here, family prepared by the late William Tit­ too, Judge Cornish spent his summer, oc­ comb Perkins and sent to the ALUMNUS cupying for thirty years and more the lby a loyal friend of �he College, Mr. same cottage, fro.m whose veranda one '.Barton H. Winslow, of Saco : "In the could' look off across the water to Mon­ ·year 1839, during' that dark period of hegan and beyond. It was one of the ·financial depression, the Baptist denomi­ dearest spots in all the world to him. nation in this state was making a su­ August was his month at the Point. preme effort to save the college at Wat- And when August arrived the Point 1erville (now Colby College) from great seemed to take on a new life. "The \financial distress. So well nigh hopeless Judge and Mrs. Cornish have come." So were the conditions that it was virtually told' the natives one to another. Then decided to close the college indefinitely. after he had tramped over the old paths, To assist in raising the endowment fund, walked' up and down the coast, chatted Mrs. Lydia Whitten Taylor and Mrs. with those who had come to know him Hannah Titcomb Perkins contributed one well-then he seemed ready to "talk hundred dollars . each,-earning the Colby". The editor recalls with most money largely iby spinning woolen yarn delightfn1 memories the long talks he for the market, and selling butter from has had with the "Judge" about Colby. the farm at 12� cents per pound." Ever his mind pointed to needed im­ provements and general betterment. The The women of the Col­ A Speeding- Up conversation always drifted to a discus­ Procsss Needed. lege, graduate and un­ sion of "Rob", as he affectionately dergraduate, have been calied the President of the College. It at work for a number of years now upon was clear that "Rob" was to him one of a fund for the erection of a new building, The Colby Alumnus 149

social and recreational in character, to The ALUMNUS appreciates the vision · be used J:>y the women of the College. back of this attempt, 1but it is getting For a while, everybody seemed to be at just a wee bit impatient that vision work on this Fund, and money came in, should be bringing in no golden coin. in small sums to 'be sure, from many Any sum such as is ·being discussed in sources. A considerable sum was raised private counsels-any sums such as mil­ or pledged and the goal, while as yet lions or ·billions-given by one or two some ways off, was nevertheless within more wealthy people, the stipulations of spy-glass distance. The general policy which embrace a new location of the of raising this fund was changed two Women's Division or any change of years ·ago, and during these two year.s .policy of administration or any future no appreciable advance has been made. necessity on the part of the College it­ The whole plan seems to have come to self for up-keep orf what may be given­ the point where vision is the only thing any such sum, with any possible "con­ left. The consequence is no other cam­ ditions", was never contemplated by paign · can well be undertaken while the those who gave authority simply to attempt to raise money ·by the women of raise $'100,000 for a college building. The the College is in progress. This must ALUMNUS is of the opinion, 'bright or not continue i:for long. Either the plan otherwise as it may appear, that it would by the women must ·be counted a failure be vastly 1better for the fine group of and the books closed, or some plan should graduate and undergraduate women of ibe devised by them to· bring the matter Colby to keep right on energetically rais­ to an immediate issue that other import­ ing funds in small and large amounts ant fund-raising campaigns may be un­ for the specific purpose in hand, rather dertaken. During the past year, so far ' than to get off on a larger search for a as the ALUMNUS can learn, nothing has larger fund that may never be forthcom­ 'been added to this fund, although sev­ eral "hopes" have been tested or tasted ing. Certainly a speeding-up process is in the rather vain effort to tap the re­ extremely necessary if this fund is to be sources of those who possess vast wealth. raised.

PAX ANGLO AMERICANA

BY HON. WILLIAM RENWICK RIDDEJLL, . LL.D., D.C.L.

Were I to attempt to preach a sermon mand, 1but we demand much more. to this audience I should undoubtedly Everything that can be required by a select for 1my text that verse from the reasonable ·being is furnished, lavishly "Golden Psalm" :- furnished, by this Continent north of the "The lines are fallen unto me in pleas­ Rio Grande-the United States and ant places : yea, I have a goodly herit- Canada. With all the many differences age." ' -with the difference in allegiance and in You will remember that Gibbon the view of international law, the difference Historian of the Decline and Fall of the in the outward form of government, the . Roman Empire gave it as his conviction tariff war-what not ? in essence the that. the happiest period of the world's United States and Canada are com­ history was the time of the later An­ pletely assimilated. Char.ged equally tonines. with you with the destinies of this great •Be it so. Giibbon wrote nearly a cen­ Continent, we Canadians, proud of our tury and a half a·go, .and on the Eastern flag, proud of the .past of our nation, Hemisphere. He was exercising no pro­ confident in our future, Britons with no phetic vision ; nor indeed could he, as desire to change or intention of chang­ none was given to him. ing, our p·ar'tnership in the British Com­ We now know that benevolent autoc­ monwealth of Nations, do not call our­ racy is not the best or highest form of selves Americans-but we are Ameri­ government, and that the soul of a real cans. man cannot 'be content simply that bodily This America, this North America, I wants be satisfied, life safe, and the re­ conceive to be the most favored part of wards of labor secure. All these we de- the world, over all the world's wide area 150 The Colby Alumnus

-and the present the ha.ppiest in all the I said "high station"-who is the world' long history. The l,audator tem­ "high in station"? Not he who is "born poris acti, like the fool, ye have always in the purple'', but he who achieves the with yo u: and, often, he is· as little re­ purple. In this land we do not "break sponsible for his condition as is the fool. •birth's invidious bar" because there is no But croaking and folly apart, no one ,birth's invidious 'bar to br eak-we do not with clear vision and unprejudiced mind say "Jack is as good a his master" be­ will fail to recognize the tremendous cause Jack has no roaster-as in the advance ·made in our own day in every­ 'lllarvelous ar my of Napoleon, there is a thing that is worth while. Mars.hall's baton in every soldier's knap­ Not least blessed are you in this State sack and the career is open to the talents. of Maine, a land of stream and forest, The lines are fallen unto you in pleas­ of pellucid lake and verdant mountain, ant places : yea, you have a goodly herit- worthy of and receiving the ardent de­ age. . votion of her sons and daughter s, t.ihe "Let him serve who has not learned to affection of her myriad visitor s (quorum rule" said the proud Plantaganet-a nd pars minima sum) . Her perfervid sum­ he spake well. Everyone must in a land mer sun brings none of the enervating .Jike this serve or rule in some measure : languor of the South and her winter cold but the humblest ihas his share in ruling, but invigorates and sb·engtihens. Her in choosing those who are to rule and to soil is not so rich that many crops may a certain extent how thev are to rule-­ be reaped in a year : her manufactures one vote is as effective as another and not so man�fold that enormous wages one vote of one citizen may determine must 1be paid to secure labor�but her an election and a policy. farmer needs not to toil unremittingly or There must needs be leaders even if starve, and her operatives are seldom the leading be ::;uch as that of the French unemployed. Revolutionary who sitting in ihis room The uneducated is tihe undeveloped with a friend heard the quick tramp of a and imperfect man : and did this State crowd passing without. "Where are but furnish a pleasant habitation ana they going?" said ihis friend. "I don't sufficient means of livelihood, all would know but I must go with them for I am not have been done towards ra worthy their leader ". Yet no movement is citizenry. Education is, here, as oi' wholly spontaneous ; leaders there must_ course not the privilege of the rich or be. those in high station but of every one And where are they to be found ? Not who will-everyone who will. may drink in the cloistered shade haunted by the of its waters fr eely. recluse and the misanthrope. llllllllllllllllliliilllilllllll1lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll:l llll'lllllllll'llllill

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Herodotus tells of the envoys sent to That Shakespere spoke, the faith and Delphi by the Dolonci to consul the Ora­ morals hold cle. The Pythia said : "The first man Which Milton ·held." who offers you hospitality, take with You graduates of Col'by have been yo,u." Militiades, son ·of Cypselus, sat educated in an institution where thought by his door in the cool of the evening is free as the air you ·breathe, you have and seeing them on the highway aweary, been trained to think, your whole educa­ invited them into his house, and so 1be­ tion has been to cast offfrom your minds came their King. Axylus ·sung :by and souls , the trammels of ignorance, of Homer who lived by the side of the road superstition and of cant-the example of was the friend to man, for he loved all. the great and good of all ages has been Diomedes, the mighty master of the wa1· ever held .before your eyes and you have cry slew him, but he was not a failure, •been taught to fear God and eschew evil. his name and fame are eternal, em­ Noblesse oblige; and as "with the same balmed in deathless verse, measure that ve mete withal it shall be y "There are hermit souls that live with­ measured to ou again," so with the drawn same measure with which it has been In the place of their self content ; measured to you, with that measure, There are souls like stars that dwell mete ye. apart This college was not founded simply In a fellowless firmament" ; to give information to intending minis­ ters or doctors or lawyers or engineers. and they often-·are the very elect ; but Those who bore the burden and heat of they must be few in number. the day when it was but a young and He who shuns his fellows, may have a struggling institution did not ·h ave in high mission, a lofty outlook, and he may view simply learned savants, acute theo­ be worthy of all praise. But there must logians, skilful surgeons, astute and sub­ be some to mingle with the people, to tile lawyers. These indeed they hoped know their needs at first hand, to take for and expected ; but their desire was an immediate and not a mediate part in for men and women who should indeed directing their thoughts and their aspira­ know their rights, and knowing dare tions. Those who do that, there must maintain but should also their duty always be, whether worthy or unworthy, know. Brilliant graduates, graduates of whether for good or for ill. compelling ability who should make Is that function to be left to the ward their Alma 1Mater famous in their own heeler, to the boss who makes his living fame, their faith gave them to foresee ; by it, to the party hack with no thought and they have not been disappointed ; but above the immediate success of some most they wished graduates who should scheme? It is not unusual in your land, recognize their duty to their God, to the as it is not unusual in mine, to speak world, to their country, and their fellow­ contemptuously of the politician, as countrymen. though it were a degradation to take And it should be the glory of a Col­ part in the government of the country ; a lege that from its walls go forth the disgrace to put into practice that for leaders of the people. If the ,blind which your forefathers fought and died. lead the blind, 1both shall fall into the A Washington, a Jefferson, an Adams, a ditch ; it is the function of a College to Lincoln-these may receive commenda­ supply those who can see, who both can tion for they were statesmen. He was , and will iprevent their countrymen from falling into the ditches that are all too wise who first said that the difference common, ditches of ignorance, ditches of between a politician and a statesman is prejudice, ditches of class hatred, ditches that the statesman is dead. of international ill-will, ditches which·' Some one must lead ; who is it to be?' lead to national discor�, or it may be to "Freely ye have received, freely give". bloody devastatin.g war. "He loved his The inestimable gift of civil freedam, the fellowmen" is the greatest praise which highest privilege an honourable man an honorable man should covet, if that may enjoy, is yours as a birthright. love has been made manifest in deed and not in empty rhetoric. If love of fellow­ "We must be free or dies who speak the men is not the effect of coJ.lege study tongue and training, ·better that the college 152 The Colby Alumnus

should cease to exist. It is for tthe !be chosen iby the parties. In one of public service, the public good, that these questions, Maine (though not yet public support is given to such insti­ a State) was vitally interested. tutions of learning, and the public The Treaty of 1783 had made boun­ should in commRhode Island others it would ihave broken out before -and these two, Egbert Benson of New the end of the century. York, also a lawyer who was selected because they considered that he would But Washington sent John Jay the be a "cool, sensible and dispassionate - Chief Justice to England ; and by his third commissioner"-a consideration skill and moderation, Jay secured a which, illuminating as it is creditable Treaty whereby the troublescme ques­ admiraibly shows the spirit of the ar­ tions could be settled amicably. The bitrators and of the two nations. Treaty was received in . the United concerning This indication of the spirit of the States with execration--Jav,· whom Daniel Webster said that when arbitrators was not an ignis fatuus : they the ermine of Justice fei.I on his shoul­ were able to agree and did agree, de­ ders it touched nothing less pure than ciding in 1798 that .the British claim itself, was called a traitor, charged with was well founded. selling his country, burned in effigy and ·Other questions settled \u nder Jay's lost the prize of which he has set his Treaty, I pass over. heart, the Presidency of the United The war of 1812, which would now be States-only with the greatest di . .culty unthinkable and into the causes of which did the Tr eaty pass the Senate and then I do not enter, came to an end by the the House for a time refused to vote­ Treaty of Ghent, 1814-it settled nothing money to carry it into effect. -the question of British allegiance re­ Time has br ought about its revenges mained to ·be settled ·by diplomacy in Jav then hated and cursed is now 1870-but the Commissioners wisely de­ -John · inter­ hailed as the F'ther of modern termined that other matters in dispute national arbitration. should be passed upon by arbitrators. · The United ·States agreed to pay the One boundary of IMaine ( yet unborn) debts that had ·been withheld : Britain had ibeen settled in 1798-another re­ agreed to give up the •Border Posts and mained undecided. The Treaty of Paris several questions were to be settled i� had run it along the Highlands whkh the same way as questions •between man divide the rivers flowing into the St. and man were often settled, that is by Lawrence from those flowing south. reference to a Board of Arbitration to The determination of the line was left The Colby Alumnus 153

to two arbitrators-Cornelius VanNe::1s wanted a rpiece of the teritory of Canada of Vermont, and Thomas Barclay al­ near Buffalo to build a lighthouse there­ ready named, of Nova Scotia. They on, it was cheerfully given to her, and could not agree, and the matter was left not a copper asked in payment. to WH!iam., King of the Netherlands­ Maine had and has an interest in the his · award was unsatisfactory to the cod fishery--questions amounting some­ ' United States and Britain did not insist times to disputes concerning this have on it-the dispute was settled by the •been al'lbitrated on in many instances. peaceful methods of diplomacy by the She had perhaps little or no interest in Ashburton Treaty of 1842 ; and two the slaves for which •Britain had to pay C-0mmissioners1 Col. James Buckm.11 after the war of 1812 ; but these and Bucknall Es court and Albert Smith in many other matters of moment to the 1847, traced the line including the St. United States and Britain ·h ave been Croix accordingly. The spirit of these settled without war. Commissioners is shown in their re­ A long series of years of peace and port : "The islands were distributed to friendship------broken indeed from time to Great •Britain or to the United States time by misunderstandings and quarrels as thev were found to be on the right 01 " · -but these were fa;mily quarrels and no left or the deep channel. There was but one's business but our own-made the one doubtful case La Septieme Isle and English speaking peoples on this Conti­ that was apportioned to the United nent look uoon themselves as almost one. .States because the majority of the own­ Sentiment ! Yes sentiment if you will ; ers were ascer.tained to reside on the but not all sentiment-read but the United States side of the river." other day, in a financial article--finance Another matter of boundary was dealt notoriously knows no sentimen.t--that with in the Treaty of Ghent-that at American financiers when they take Passamaquoddy Bay. Thomas Barclay American Bonds are satisfied with the and James Holmes of that part of .promise of their Government but require Massachusetts which is now Maine and before accepting foreign Bonds that a who later when Maine became a separate fund should be set apar.t as a mortgage State was one of her fir t Senators. to repay them-and "in this respect divided u.o the islands giving the United British and Canadian Bonds are not con­ States, Frederick, Dudley and Moose, sidered foreign hy American investors, and Great Britain all the other Islan

posing upon Christendom. The Popes help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord tried from time to time for Pax Dei, bu t against the mighty? Who will escape the the Kings were not to be restrained-no bitter curse of Meroz? The weary Titan Papal Pax Dei, no Pax Romana, was who has borne for generations the White fated to succeed. Man's Burden, the young and vigorous What could the Pax Anglo-Americana giant who said to Spain : "Cuba must go do? One might have thought that the free" and to the nations of Europe : example of two such nations so power­ "Hands off America". ful that they need fear no foe, with that With these two rests the destiny of chastity of honor which feels a stain like the world : together we stand, and the a wound, might have been followed by world stands secure : divided, we fall, the any nation however powerful, however whole fabric of civilization falls and · proud. It was to be : the Kings were great will be the fall thereof. Their not to be restrained : largely because of union depends not on the words of Kings royal and official arrogance and pride but on the hearts of the people with war again deluged the earth, and &0,000 whom remains the fate of the world. Canadians and as many Americans lay What are the graduates of Colby to do slain. about it? Are they to seek peace and But "the Captains and the Kings de­ ensue it? This is not always easy : part" : arrogant Emperors are dead or War in exile, the military officer may still I a·bhor swagger but no one 1bows down ibefore But oh ! how sweet him, the common people have come into The sound along the marching street their own and now at length common Of drum and fife-and I forget sense has a chance---common ordinary Wet eyes of widows and forget 'b usiness principles are considered pref­ •Broken old mothers and the whole erable to boastful d�fiance and the na­ Dark 1b utchery without a soul. tion which without squealing pays its honest debts is honored more than that The poetry,, the glamour, the romance which talks of its glory and self sacri­ of war, are part of our common heritage : fice, past and present, but fails to make we are fighting animals by instinct and a remittance. our literature is full of 'battles. Peace •In some way, Pax Anglo-Americana is dull, dra·b and without bright color- _ must prevail or chaos is come again. Is the bayonet flashes more brightly than it to be the League of Nations? or a the scythe and khaki looks better in the League of Nations? .the World C-0urt, or uniform than in overalls : but all this a World Court? or is some other means must he surmounted-the innate desire

to be evolved ? · I know not. But this to fight derived from millions of fighting I know-some means must be found to ancestors-the Old Adam of the Scrip­ end war,, or war will end civilization. tures-must be overcome by reason, an­ 'The nations must be taught or they must cestral hatred and rancor must cease or be forced to settle their disputes in the Hell will be again triumphant. Anglo-American way, the democratic Are the graduates of Colby to hear way-f or another settlement by the old the commendation of the Master : way, the autocratic way spells destruc­ "Blessed are the peacemakers for they tion and woe unutterable. shall rbe called the children of God ?" By The hope . of our form of civilization some human means will come a1bout what lies in the harmonious collaiboration of the Prophet long ago foresaw :-"they the English speaking peoples-we know shall beat their swords into plough­ each other and understand each other shares and their spears into pruning for truly we come of the blood. France hooks ; nation shall not lift up sword watches her northeast ·boundary : Ger­ against nation, neither shall they learn many we cannot trust for generations, war any more"-for "the Government and until the virus ·of vicious imperialis­ shall be upon his shoulder and his name tic teaching is bred out : Italy, Russia, shall be called Wonderful . . . . The have their own internal problems which Prince of Peace". call out all their energies : Spain is neg­ Peace may not be assured in our day ; ligible: Austria, the new nations of Mid­ but we can do our share in the wurk. Europe, the Scandinavian nations­ And whatever may be the case with what can they do ? Who will come to the other nations yours and mine have The Colby AlumnU1s 155 definitely decided that between us there tion. Each having full confidence in the can be no occasion of war. The remains· sense of right of the other, we stand to­ of the ill feeling and misunderstading gether and if need be will march together occasioned hy the egregious folly of an and fight together-a true union in honest but half insane and badly educat­ spirit, and aspiration and in object. I · ed King with his insane Ministry have may again be permitted to apply to that been washed out by the ·blood shed in union the solendid language of your own d common 1by our .boys in the cause of law, poet the pri e of 1Maine : justice and right. We equally realize Sail on, Oh Union strong and great ! that the greatness of our two nations Sail on, nor fear to breast the Sea- does not lie in mighty armies, over­ Our hearts., our hopes are all with thrn ; whelming navies, not even in shipping or Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our commerce on every sea or goods in every tears, mart-these indeed have their place, ·but Our faith, triumphant o'er our fears it is Righteousness that exalteth a mi- Are all with thee-are all with thee."

BACCALAUREATE SERMON

BY ARTH UR JEREMIAH ROBERTS, LL.D., '90

·One of the functions of a li.beral edu­ swallowed ·by earthquake, I believe the cation is to liberate,-and especially to South would still carry on the Republic; free one from the tyranny of prejudice. if the Protestants s·hould all perish by Intolerant old Doctor Samuel Johnson pestilence, I •believe the Roman Catholics once said, "Sir, the Americans are a race would still carry on the Republic." Such of convicts." His great contemporary faith do I have in the penetrative quali­ Edmund 'Burke in a quite different spirit ty of the American spirit, that I go a remarked that he

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It is Man's knowledge of fellowman is too better tQ be wrong and in earnest than shallow and scanty to warrant his pass­ to be indifferent. An American states­ ing judgment upon him. ' '"What's done man remarked the other day that tbe we .partly may compute, but know not worst Bolshevics in this country are the what's resisted." This, and much be­ highly respectable gentlemen who do sides, Jesus had in mind when he said, not take interest enough in politics to Judge not that ye be not judged. For vote. The worst enemy of organized re­ with what judgment ye judge, ye shall ligion is not the active hostility of its be judged ; and with what measure ye foes but the callous indifference of the mete, it shall be measured to you again. neutrals. The chief problem of our Pro­ W·hat I am trying to say is that our own testant churches, here and everywhere, is faults and failings, our own weakness how to wake people up. The soft music and meanness, should engross our con­ of Sunday .bells does not disturb their sideration pretty much to the exclusion of spiritual slumber : they need the vicious the faults and failings, the weakness and whir of the alarm clock and the strident meanness of others. It is not the prayer clangor of the fire whistle! There are of the Pharisee that is indicative of very few occasions in a world like this spiritual well-being, ·but rather the when neutrality is in order. If you prayer of the Publican, God be merciful haven't any convictions ·by all means to me a sinner. get some and live up to them,-and be .Some of you, I have no doubt, pride willing that every.body else shall do the you'l"selves upon entertaining rather ad­ same. vanced theological views. Let me warn There is a bad habit about which I you against intolerance. 'The bigotry of wish to say a word in passing,-the bad liberalism is quite as common and quite habit of harsh, censorious judgment. as virulent as the opposite sort. Let us Such judgments are most often self re­ 1be patient with those who cling to an old vealing. A :beam in the eye gives one fashioned theology, if only their lives are microscopic vision for motes in the eyes pure and sweet and rich in all loving of others. People are mirrors for us, kindness. It is really amazing to note and what we think we see in another is how very little what we consider a sadly often but the reflection of something in defective theology mars the harmony of ourselves. Whenever we are acutely Christian living. The newest of theolo­ conscious of other people's failings, we gies is often put to shame when its should make it the occasion of rigorous fruitage is compared with that of the self-examination. To the pure all things old. Religion is vastly less a matter of are pure, but to them that are defiled is head than of hands and feet : we are to nothing pure, writes the Great Apostle. feed the hungry and clothe the naked, The pot, of all the utensils in the kitchen, and are to visit the sickroom and the knows best how black the kettle is. Peo­ prison. There is nothing said about the ple who live in glass houses ought not to sort of theological views we must enter­ throw stones, ·but curiously enough such tain, people find throwing stones their favor­ There is a fine old maxim I wish you ite form of exercise. A better prover·b might commit to .memory: in necessary would be, people who live in glass houses things, unity ; in doubtful things, lib­ ought to move ! erty ; in all things, charity. 'But what Another word about the bad habit of are the necessary things? It takes com­ harsh, censorious judgment. Such judg­ mon sense to decide. And what is com­ ments are usually incorrect. Perhaps mon sense? To a person who has com­ we cannot agree with the great French mon sense-as I have so often told you writer that to know all is to forgive all, these past four years-to a person who but there can be no doubt that fuller has common sense, the little things seem knowledge makes for more charitable small ·and the big things loom larg·e. To op1mon. How potent in the lives of men a person who hasn't common sense, it are the influences of heredity and en­ is the other way about : the little things vironment ! This is what the English loom large, and the big things are quite ' martyr had in mind when watching a unnoticed or receive but scant attention. criminal led a way to execution he re- Comtnon sense is mainly a matter of see- 158 The Colby Alumnus

ing things in proportion and :rcrspedivc. us. It seems altogether a pity that It i the chief essential for success in equally sincere followers of Jesus should business : common sense judges values allow themselves to be separated into rightly, and so makes good trades in­ hostile camps, over comparatively unim­ stead of poor ones. For the purchase of portant details of 1belief,-and in a world the pearl of great price the man in the where time is so short and there is so parable did well to sell all that he had. much to do ! Common sense is quite as necessary in If there are any >Modernists who be­ religion as in ·business. The power of lieve less than I have said most Mod­ the Gospel lies largely in its appeal to ernists do, but still are of settled opinion common sense. What shall it profit a about the supreme value of the practical man if he gain the whole world and lose teachings of Jes us and are striving to his own soul ? A common sense ques­ shape their conduct accordingly,-for tion ! J e us was all the time trying such are there place and work. If they to get people to see things in right pro­ are doing His will we have the promise · portion and perspective, trying to teach of Jesus that they shall know of the them to judge values, trying to make doctrine, whether it be of God or of man. them realize the difference between the We ought to bear in mind, I think, things that are worthless and the things that differences of OJlinion are often that are beyond price. Lay up not for more apparent than real. When once we yo·urselves treasures upon earth where are all agreed upon the meaning of the moth and rust doth corrupt and where words we employ many of our bitterest thieves break through and steal : but lay controversies cease. The amenities of up for yourselves treasures in heaven, debate are always gr eatly promoted if all where neither moth nor rust doth cor­ hands know· what they are talking about rupt and where thieves do not br eak and are all talking about the same thing. through and steal. A common sense in­ E.volution, for example, is a very quar­ junction ! Jesus was surr ounded by re­ relsome word, mainly because it has no ligious people who had pretty much lost definite and exact meaning. Mr. A un­ all sense of compara_tive values. He derstands one thing by it, Mr. B another, tr ied to make them understand that and Mr. C something quite differ ent fr om anise, mint, and cummin weighed noth­ either. Indeed one could go on quite ing when balanced against . judgment, half way through the alphabet, for there mercy, and faith. The preaching of are twelve or fifteen varieties of evolu­ Jesus was full of protest and warning tion. The President of one of our Bap­ against the fatal practice of putting tist theological seminaries tells me that non-essentials in place of essentials. not infrequently somebody writes him b Most so-called modernists, so far as I inquire if evolution is taught in his sem­ have heard them and read them, believe inary. He is accustomed to reply that that this is God's world and he is work­ since there are so many different kinds ing out his plan and purpose in it, that of evolution it will ·be necessary for the he is our father and we are therefore inquirer to s_P.ecify what sort he has in 1brothers, that Jesus is the unique and complete revelation of God and came to earth to live and die for man, and so to save him from the power and penalty of sin,-these, I say, are the things most Modernists .believe, and nothing more fundamental than these can anybody be­ lieve. The irreconcilable differences be­ tween Modernists and Fundamentalists seem to center a·bout comparatively un­ important details of agreement. The ex­ act manner of Jesus assuming his earth­ ly life demands no emphasis of belief, but rather the character of his mission here. The exact manner of his reassum­ ing his heavenly life is far less a vital matter than the blessed assurance that he ever liveth to make intercession for President Roberts at His Office Desk The Colby Alumnus 159 mind 1before the question can be properly been wondering if one day science would answered. That usually ends the mat­ not destroy the world altogether. We ter. Mr. Bernard Shaw is a great play­ have seen plainly enough that the im­ wright : Mr. Bryan is a great orator. mense power that has come from the de­ Neither is a scientist. Mr. Shaw is an velopment of the physical sciences can­ ev.olutionist and Mr. Bryan is not. Yet not safely be entrusted to a world that Mr. Shaw denounces the Darwinian has made the social program of Jesus a theory of evolution with such bitterness mere scrap of paper. There ought not as makes the invective of Mr. 'Bryan to be any conflict 1between science and seem tame in COffidlarison. Mr. Fosdick religion, for each needs the other. In­ is, I suppose, an evolutionist, but against deed science needs religion more than some kinds of evolution he protests with religion needs science, for it is religion as much fervor and vigor as Mr. Bryan that makes science safe for the world. does against evolution in general. Here Unless in college character-forming is a question that Mr. FoSdick asks young agencies keep pace with intellectual people, which I am sure Mr. Bryan would training, the .college is a moral liability have asked if he had thought of it first : and not an asset. Education in bad "Do you really think that dynamic dirt, hands is a dangerous instrument. Heart going it blind, is an adequate explanation and head must both be trained for the of this vast and varied universe, and of world's needs. If at the end of a col­ us within it, and that mothers and the lege course one hopes to make of one's music of the laughter of children at play education an avenue of escape from hard are nothing but the sublimated conse­ w.ork, if one plans to use one's education quence of the fortuitous course of eighty­ for a ladder up which to climb onto other odd chemical elements?" Speaking for people's shoulders to be carried for the myself, there are some kinds of evolution rest of one's life,-it would be better for I •believe in ; but there are other kinds the world if such a young person had that are utterly abhorrent to me. I not gone to college at all. should not wish to have them taught in It is the mark of Ji.beral culture tu be this college. To forbid the teaching of hospitaible to new ideas, but not merely religion in the public schools and to per­ because they are novel. A·braham Lin­ mit instruction in atheism seems to me coln in his famous letter to Mr. Greeley like straining at a gnat and swallowing sets forth the right doctrine : "I shall a whole zoo ! If we could all agree up­ adopt new views as fast as they shall on one meaning for the word evolution appear to be true views." Pastor John Ro·binson of the Levden Church was a there would at once be an altogether new " alignment of believers. higher critic and an evolutionist long be­ Tennyson saw in the character of his fore there were any. In his farewell to friend Arthur Hallam the complete the departing Pilgrims he expressed his realization of the highest ideals of conviction that the Lord had more truth human thought and fee.ling. He writes : and light yet to break forth out of his I would the great world grew like thee holy word. He had vision to see that Who grewest not alone in power the expanding life of man would never And knowledge, ·but by year and hour outgrow the GoSJ>el. I recommend that In reverence and in charity. you form the habit of carrying new ideas And the great world must grow in rever­ to the New 'Testament and examining ence and in charity, or the mounting sum them there. If they are in accord with of human knowledge will not crown men 'the teachings of Jesus, adopt them ; if with •blessing but will overwhelm them •,they are not, reject them. For if there with disaster. It was not so long ago is anything we can be sure of in this that a great many people thought science world, it is that Jesus is the ·way and would provide all the salvation the world ;t he light, and without him we are lost in needed ; since the Great War we have the dark. 160 The Colby Alumnus

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BY NORMAN LESLIE BASSETT, LL.D., '91

Pi·esident Squire , Men and Women of the human activity. The ordinary business Class of 1925 : of every day life is really full of it. This is indeed a happy occasion and Those individuals and those peoples who we seem to have proof of the truth of feel it most deeply and act upon it .build those familiar words "The Lord loveth the most surely. You have heard the a cheerful giver", for the rain clouds phrase "sto\id Englishman". 'But the have just been drawn aside and we are more you know of them, the more you n' now flooded with sunshine. This is your feel this is ot really true. They m.ay last officiaI act as a class ,before you re­ cling to tradition, they may move slowly. ceive from the College tomorrow morn­ But how we love and admire their gov­ ing that which crowns all your efforts ernment of law and order and liberty. here, the parchment which stamps you How we respect their traits of stead­ with her approval and declares you to fastness and dependa,bility. As one be fitted to pass through, in the words travels through England and sees their of President Roberts, "the open door of buildings, their institutions and their opportunity." You will always remem­ customs he realizes that the Englishman ber this day. May this last act be typi­ is possessed of the deepest sentiment, of cal and prophetic of what your lives are great regard for the past and that he to be. For this last act of yours is to ·binds that past and ,present dose to­ give, to give to the · college which has gether for the future for he realizes that given so much to you. Through all your sentiment is stronger than steel. life, give, give of yourself without stint There is not far from here one of the to your fellow man. The good Book most beneficent and noble institutions of says "There is that scattereth and yet our state whose name and fame have increaseth". Follow that way and your spread far and wide and are continually lives will .be full, complete, happy. growing. I refer to the Good Will 'This gift of yours is a blending of Home. You will find that every thing the useful and the artistic. It is a done, large and small, in developing that source of greatest satisfaction that there institution has been marked by and filled has developed here in these last years a with the deepest sentiment and you can purpose to beautify our college home. find because the story has been recorded In the old days there used to .be a charge in every detail. 'There are but few insti­ on the term bills called "general aver­ tutions of which this · can be said. It age." It sought reimbursement for dam­ was wisdom to use sentiment. It was age done to college property. .Some stu­ great wisdom to record it for all time. dents seemed beset with the idea that Mr. Hinckley is a genius. Let me refer they must destroy to get even with that to one instance. At the Home there are old item. I am glad to say that spirit "trails" each with an individual name. has well nigh died out and I trust it There is a ."Colby 'Trail" on which is a never will return. It has become the es­ beautiful spring which Mr. Hinckley de­ tablished and worthy custom for each termined to put into the best condition graduating class to present some gift for use. Anyone could have dug it out to the college. There have been beauti­ and walled it up. But what did he do? ful gifts of varying kinds. But later He went out to Albion to jhe birthplace classes have sought to fill some special of Elijah Parish Lovejoy and brought college need and at the same ti.me to back from its foundation a beautiful make it a memorial of sentiment and white stone peculiarly marked and this . beauty. The gift of the flagstaff south he placed at the ·bottom of the spring. of Memorial Hall by the class last year Now when a!ly one and especially a Col­ and this gift of yours today are fine by man, :r>assing through, sto.ps to drink exam,ples of that purpose. of t.he r:.!freshing water he will at the What a power sentiment is ! He who same time be inspired by the spirit of does not recognize it and seek to use it the greatest of the sons of Colby. Put­ makes a fatal mfatake and passes by ting, that stone in that place I call a one of the greatest and most far reach­ touch of genius. ing forces in life. It touches every .So let our love for the college and our 162 The Colby Alumnus

purpose and desire to beautify our col­ be "Do the boys still gather about the lege home gr ow and let each class as it bulletin board?" and if the answer is goes out seek to express their loyal de­ that they do the same as now with all votion in lasting memorials of use and their keen interest in every phase of col­ .beauty. lege life, with their jokes and laughter, There is an old legend that in a far their comment, criticism and debate, country a man once slept for thirty with the enthusiasm and courage of years, the life of a generation. One day youth you will know that all goes well there came signs of his - awakening and for the college, for the state and for the around about him gathered those anxious country. to hear his first words. They debated Mr. President: In behalf of the Trus­ what he would say. Would he ask what tees and the College I accept with deep great inventions had been made, or what gratitude this gift of the Class of 1925. was the form of government, or who was We shall always cherish it as a memo­ king? At last the eyes opened and the rial of your love for and loyalty to the lips began to move. All bent forward in college. May all of you return each breathless silence to hear these words : year at Commencement time. Try each "Do the birds still fly about the moun­ one of you earnestly to do so. You will tains" ? be amply rewarded for you will find at In years to come many times your such time here the fountain of perpetual thoughts will turn 'back to the college youth. In the years to come may you, and you may seek to know how fares it your children and gr andchildren often here. Perhaps your first question may gather about this bulletin board.

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'By FRED ALBERTIS ·SNOW, B.A., '85

Scripture read, Psalm I. His faith and fearlessness; his in­ The fir st Psalm, which is properly an dustry and integr ity ; his selfforgetful­

_ introduction to the whole Book of the ness and success,· are an inspiration for Psalms, has for its theme, The Right us tod·ay. thinking and ' Right living 'Man.. I There a.r e three questions which arise imagine that the Psalmist was thinking in the mindis of thoughtful men. not only of the man who might be led 1: Where did the men come from who by his picture of the successful man, to are tod'ay in the places Q.f responsibility noble lives ; but at the same time of the and power ? S'Ome of them hav.e not been men of his own p.eople who had left a with us long, they fill the places once record in their lives of the past that occupied by men whose names are sacred illustrated his own teaching. memories.· Among :the many excellences of the 2: Where can such men he found for Bible are its wonderful biographies, in the needs of the immediate future? which noble men and women are made .to 3: Why do .so many men fail to med live before our eyes, men and women of the tests which life today makes on like passions as ourselves and with like them. experiences. The first book of the Bible, .Someone has said, "That while s.o the oldest in the wor ld, with its account many men are idle, that there has never of the beginnings of things, gives four­ been a time when there was a greater teen chapters .tothe account of the life demand for competent, faithful and of one of Jacob's sons, the Joseph stories tr ustworthy men than today." Men like as they are called "'The story of Joseph's Joseph are aibove all value and the need life has unity, reality, poetic justice and of the present hour. The study of the profound human feeling." It discloses life of this young man of long ago will almost no imperfections in his life. The prove helpful to every ambitious young lessons which the life of this ·captive man and woman of the present. slave of long a·go, who rose to a position I. of greatest authority in ancient Egypt, Joseph was a young man of visio:n. can teach us are many and of great When sent by his father to his broth­ value. ers on the fields of Dothan, they said The Colby Alumnus 163

behold this dreamer cometh. He was .a future, such vision will keep you from dreamer of dreams and a seer of visions. the unworthy and ignoble and in.spire to It is remarkable how many important great and useful deeds. events in Joseph's life were connected II. , 'Yith dreams. Joseph was also a man of practical wis- · Alexander McLaren calls them "the dom and untiring indU8try. golden hinges on which his whole life 1. He was a willi.ng and faithful turns." An eminent Egyptologist gives worker. He was a dreamer of dreams it as his opinion that the wonderful but no day dreamer. He saw the thing tomb which bas been recently opened in that needed to be done and he did it. In that land of so magnificent a past, will his boyhood his answer to his father's be found on further investigation to be call was Here am I. · In Potiphar's house that of Joseph and empty, since bis and later as an ex0ecutive officer of the couTJJtrymen carried his bones with them great Pharoah, he was trusted and on their journey to the promised land. faithful. He rbrought things to pass. Any way king Tut is a dead one, and Made realities out of dreams. Vision Joseph that comes before us in the won­ and service are needed to eacb other. derful account in the Bible is very much Longfellow in "The Legend ·beautiful : alive and worthy of our study and imi­ "Do thy duty, that is best, tation,. He became prime minister of Leave unto thy Lord the rest. the •greatest government of his day and * * * * married a princess, this last at all When the blessed vision said events is the privilege of every enter­ Hadst thou s-tayed I must have fled." prising college boy of today. 1. 'Think of what the dreamers, the 2. Genius has been called a capacity men of vision have accomplished in the for work. A great power for ta)dng world. Once Emerson who was in the pains in all essentials. company of men of affairs, who had been Seeing visions will make no one a suc­ discussing stocks and: other business cess in life unless he has the power to matters, said, "Gentllby AlumnUIS

In Tom Brown at Oxford-"! mean most useful and honorable sphere in life, that we must worship God before we can let them set themselves to gain good reverence !>arents or woman, or root out character, ,then they will reap the high­ flunkeyism or money worship." est reward. President Roosevelt once said "that of As the Wall Street Journal said some the one hundred leading men that he years ago-"The supreme need <>f the knew, eighty seven of them were fol­ hour in America is not a more elastic lowers of Christ." This is the great currency, or sounder banking methods, force that makes all other abilities of a stronger navy or a more equitable the largest usefulnes . Some one has well said "That the conviction that Chris­ tariff, but a revival of faith and piety, tianity is a failure is common to many the kind mother and father used to have, great thinkers who have never tried it." piety that counted it good business to While many of our wisest and 'best stop for family prayers before breakfast thinkers are the most trustful of Chris­ right in the mjdst of harvest. A return tians. to morality that recognized a basis in Sooner or later a ,good man is sure to religion and the establishment of a work­ be in demand. If a young man or able and working theory in life that is woman wants to fit themselves for the grounded on faith in God."

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BY ARTHUR BARDWELL PA'M'EN, D.D., '90

The most fascinating thing in the would be a scroll with no one to study world is human personality. It is more i,t. Self-consciousness is the soul's fimd than brain behavior. But .the 'br ain is vindication.· Tihere is no appeal from vastly impovtant, and must not be the epic fact-there is a thinker who "taken out to make room for knowl­ thinks, there is an observer who ob­ edge." .Someone has well said that a serves, there is a knower wiho knows, man's bac�bone won't get him anywhere there is a lover who loves, and there is a unless the nob 'at the top of it is made worshipper who worships. of different maite11ial. However, since Education is the awakening of the this brain nob is so distinctivel·y differ­ human . personali·ty. Its aim is the dis­ ent, it becomes a fitting home for the covery and emergence of the self, ttl r human self. 'The gray matter of the epic adventure, and for dramatic social human brain, with its nearly iten billion interaction. 'Education is a discipline in cells, is a house of many mansions where the hig her dynami�s, and only he who the human personality · should live wills to do God'swill can know supreme­ amply and well. The final ideal is to ly. lt is so .easy to use God's power, work and worship in every room. To but the only highway of knowledge is to change the figure, these cells are the do God's win, by being true .to truth as ·blocks of a stupendous mosaie in which He gives us to know the truth. We are to be wrought the wonderful pat­ learn quality only by loyalty. terns of life. Over the Mendelian All real education is an emergence mosaic in the germ cells we may have and a ministry of the conscious self; scant command, but over the mental and the subconscious has vita1 value mosaic of our thought-controlled brain for personality only as i.t is consciously action our command may he supreme. trained. Insight must take the place Here we should live in the mastery of of impulse, and intuition must supplant both idealism and initiative. 'mere instinct. All higher education de­ T,he human self, the ego, is the final mands the mastery of the conscious will. epic fact. It needs no proof but its own God has taken untold millenniums to consdousness. It is not a machine, rbe­ bring foe human ·soul into focus and ca use machines do not meditate. It is definition, and He does not wish it to be not a reflex, because reflexes are inca­ dimmed and diffused as it mounts to its pable of reflection. Then, without the final splendor. Our higher life in God self-conscious spirit, memory would be -himself is not a subconscious blend, but a book with no reader, and even science a conscious bond. So our nobler union · The Colby Alumnws 165

toucheth him, that she is a sinner." But Jesus, being a prophet, indeed did know who and what manner of woman she was-that she was a potential saint. He helped her to discover her own di'vine double. Edward Everett Hale wrote about his inferior double and how he undid him. But we are each to sum­ mon our superior double and let him outdo us. The princess in "The Pris­ oner of Zenda," found the subs.titute for the king, a great improvement. Each one of us must 1be his own substitute. The realization of the self is not only an unfolding, but also an infolding,­ not only an evolution, but also an invo­ lution. Som:ethin.g more and better should 1be added from the investing source of life. .wegrow ·both by release from within our own souls, and hy en­ richment from the great Over-Soul. Prof. Dewey calls this investing lif.e "The Whole," and he declares, "Even in the midst of conflict, struggle, and de­ feat, a consciousness is possible of the enduring and comprehending Whole." ARTHUR B. PATTEN, D.D., '90 Mrs. 'Browning has put this thought Given Honorary Degree into fine lyric phrase, And .the little birds sang east, A,nd the little birds sang west with God is always a com-munion. The And I smiled to think God's greatness psalmist voiced the supreme experience Flowed around our incompleteness, when he cried, "When I awake, I am­ Round our restlessness His rest. wi,th 'Thee." Even the divine grace at its

life." Man has to get his wings,-both better formula, than through nature to the material ones, and the spiritual God. ones, too. We can know God superemly only in We have sometimes talked about God's creative partnership. transcendence as if it were mainly out­ side our personalities. But really God 'Tis God gives skill, is not only most immanent in man· ; he But not without men's hands ; is also transcendent. The great Beyond He could not make Antonio Stradavari's is not the beyond of outward nature, _violins but "the Beyond that is within" human Without Antonjo. nature. Gocfs transcendence mobilizes God has left much w01·k unfinished, supremely, not on the map of the cosrnos, so that He may take his human chil­ but on the map of the soul. A go-0d dren into creative partneship. A pur­ woman said that she was a Christian . once for two weeks-when she was in chaser in receiving a bouquet of Ameri­ the Yosemite VaHey, for there her heart can ·Bea.uty roses from the band of a wais ever crying out, "The Lord is in florist, .exdrumed, "See what God His holy temple ; let all the earth keep wrought !" Whereupon the florist ·bade silen'ce before Him." But the real ·him tarry a moment, while he disap­ Yosemite was jn her own soul. Deep peared into the greenhouse, only to re­ was calling unto deep at the sound of turn forthwith, holding a plain, common tlie waterfallis, because there was a rose, and repeating the purchaser's ex­ transcendent deep in the heart of a good clamation, "See what God wrought !" woman that turned wonder into worship. And, then, passing to an inspired, but OT rather, it should be said that she logical climax; he lifted up the •bouquet looked up into the hills in wonder only of American Beauties, and exclaimed because she could look beyond the hills again, ".See what God and man in worship. Thro·ugh nature to God is a wrought !"

"LAST CHAPEL'' ADDRESS

BY ERNEST CUMMINGS MARRINER, B.A., '13

As you approach the end of your col­ friends, honored position-what more do lege years, I invite you to consider the we want?" Others say, "Witness the subject of "Life's Best 1Choices". Two great material prosperity in the world stories from holy writ command our at­ today. Man has conquered dire diseases, .tention this marning. The first records has harnessed the thunde!'bolts, has mas­ Rehoboam's choice of the second best; tered the hidden forces of nature. What the second tells us how Paul exalted a more does he want?" second best necessity into glorious vic­ But has man .mastered the universe? tory. Do we control modern inventions, or do Invading foes had taken from the they control us ? Has man made en­ Hebrew temple the wondrous golden gines of war and of peace and still main­ shields that Solorroon had placed there. tained their control for humanity's bless­ Those shields were important symbols ing, or have his achievements so ob­ of the glory and majesty of better days. sessed him that he has lost all sense of It was important that they be replaced. proportions, has drowned his conscience So Rehoboam .replaced them, not with and renounced his soul? The task of gold, which was stiil available, but with educated men and women of the imme­ something tha.t looked like gold. In the diate future is to bring into right rela­ place of the shields of gold he set up tions these material and spiritual mani­ shields of brass. festations, to substitute for a materia­ Are you contented with brass ? Are listic and mechanistic philosophy of life y.ou satisfied with doing less than your a deep abiding faith in the unseen best? Are your .ambitions, your endeav­ realities. ors, your achievements made up of some­ Because man has not been in his heart thing that only looks lilrn gold? There content with merely material achieve­ are people who say, "We have money, ments, we have had in recent years an The Colby Alumnus 167 ) extraordinary revival of superstitiol}s when he reached this destination of his and mystic cults. In New York and second choice? Did he peevishly quit Chicago there are said to be no less than his work and denounce his Lord? Not one hundred different sects who ·base at all. He made of seeming defeat a their beliefs in Oriental mysticism. The glorious victory. Because he came to meteoric rise of spiritualism and psychic Troas he heard the call from Macedonia. research, claiming the support of su::h Because he heard that call the gospel men as Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir Arthur crossed the Aegean and entered Europe, Conan Doyle, is another straw that changing the whole course of modern shows the prevailing wind. It is worth civilization. noting that as yet no one has accepted History is full of similar incidents. the offer of Harry Houdini to pay any There is Phillios 'Brooks, seeing himself medium the sum of five thousand dollars a failure as a teacher, becoming the if he cannot reproduce by legerdemain great preacher and orator. There is any phenomena which the medium will Walter .Scott, seeing his fame as a poet produce three times in his presence. 'But eclipsed by Byron's, becoming England's my point now is this : a.JI such gropings greatest historical novelist. after the unseen prove conclusively that .Carlyle tells us that we have discov·ered man is not content with material things the great lesson of life when we learn alone. There are second choices. But to make truce with necessity. We beware that in our gr.oping we do not dream our dreams and build our air­ content ourselves with second choices of castles. We venture forth from college another kind. to great world conquests-and then we But first choices are not always possi­ confront the stern hand of necessity. ble. How often we decide upon some Ill health, dependence of aged parents, good and noble act we want to perform sudden reverses of finance are some of and are forc·ed by circumstances to give the names it bears. The question for it up. How often we look forward to you is, in whatever guise it comes, can entering some cherished profession and you make truce with necessity? Yea, are compelled to enter another. No more than that, can you conquer neces­ member of this class is so young but sity? Missing your Bithynia, can you that he has had substitutes already make of Troas a glorious victory? forced upon him. Just because the con:i­ Take a lesson from the oyster. He pelled acceptance of second choices is a feels something chafing within his shell. common experience the world has a right It annoys him. He would like to get rid to ask you this question : Vv hat have you of it and be a whole, unwounded oyster. done with your substitutes? But what does he do ? He makes truce Paul, the great apostle to the Gen­ with necessity. He resignedly settles tiles, wanted to make a tour of the diown and makes of that annoyance the churches in Bithynia, but for some rea­ most beautiful thing in the world. Yes, son he had to turn aside, and g.oing it is only the wounded oyster that pro­ westward he found himself at Ttoas, that famous port to which had come duces the pearl. When next you miss centuries earlier that "face that launche�. Bithynia and find yourself at Troas, re­ a thousand ships and burned the topless member the oyster. Settle down and towers of Ilium". What did Paul do make a pearl.

ANNUAL MEETING BOARD OF TRUSTEES

BY EDWI N CAREY WHITTEMORE, D.D., '79

The Board of Trustees of Colby Col­ In the absence of Chair:nan Cornish lege •met as per call in Chemical Hall the meeting was called to order •by Se::­ at 9 :ilO A.M. There were present mem­ retary Whittemore who read the call for bers Alden, Bailey, -Barnes, Bassett, the meeting, Miss •Coburn, Dodg·e, Drummond, Dunn, On motion of Mr. Wadsworth, elected Guptill, ·Gurney, Hall, Johnson, Mower, Justice Charles P. Barnes Chairman pro Murray, Perkins, PhiJ.brook, Preble tern. Ro.berts, Smith, Trafton, Wadsworth, Pi·ayer was offered by Dr. Mower. and W:h ittemore. The .Secretary presented in print the 168 The Colby Alumnw:i

records of the last meeting as already lights on the reading ta.hies. These sent to every member of the Board of have been much appreciated. Trustees. The total expenditures in Memorial Justice Philbrook, as a member of Hall were $7,222.73. This caused the the Examining Committee, reported excess over the appropriation of the several visits to the class rooms in the 1budget which we will refer to later. different departments, expressed satis­ 'The remaining need of Memorial Hall faction at much that he found there, and is a complete renovation of the ibase­ suggested frequent visits to the class ment. A cement floor and toilets should rooms by members of the Board of be put in. The west part of the base­ Trustees. ment should be used for the heating President Roberts reported the best plant and storage of ·coal. The east faculty of instruction that he ever has part should be fitted up as a room in had and spoke of the importance of which could be safely •kept the statuary having mature men of reoognized teach­ and groups which are now in the hall ing ability as 'professors, who should feel of the second floor. They were crowded a sense of responsibility for the success, out of the Seaverns Reading Room and not only of their own departmental put into the hall as the only available work, but of the activities and general place. Their beauty and the beauty of work of the College. the hall is lost in a store room appear­ The report of the Committee on In­ ance. For them and some other things struction was presented by President a1bout the college which call for ·better Roberts which was supplemented by the keeping the room in the basement should report of Mr. Auffinger of the Depart­ .be fitted up pending the time when the ment of -Business Administration. proper art 1building or art rooms will be Special approval was spoken •by Mr. supplied. We do not recommend that Hall on the tmanagement of the Library this ·be done the coming year but we and its greatly increased use. have it in mind for the following year, On motion of the · President, elected for it should ·bedone as soon as can he. Rev. L. Q. Haynes of Mansfield, Mas::;a­ We cannot leave this report of the chusetts, Instructor in Philosophy. work done in .Memorial Hall without ex­ The report of the Committee on Build­ pressing our grateful a.ppreciation of the ings and Grounds was presented by its gift of Judge Cornish of the President's - Chairman, Justice Bassett. Chair for the Chapel. With his usual and far sighted wisdom he ·bas set up a REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON BUILDINGS land mark, so to speak, which will have AND GROUNDS. an enduring inftuenee in the life and To the PresUlent and Trus tees of Colby annals of the college. ' College: Your committee eoncurred last year in In our report last Co1mnencement we the recommendation of Prof. Parmenter recommended the renovation of the that the lecture room and laboratories Chapel and the halls lead·ing to it. You on the first floor of Chemical Hall he approved the recommendation. As soon renovated. You approved. But there is as the college closed the details were a t':>Uch of -humor in the result. We first oonsidered, plans made, the work begun took up the Latin room, had the wood and pushed forward as rapidly as possi­ work cleaned and varnished, walls re­ ble. On Friday evening, November 151 painted, ceilings refinished and new 1924, the Chapel was rededicated. shades .put in; in short, complete reno­ What was done has been warmly ap­ vation. Then •both upper and lower proved by students, officers, alumni aud halls, the English room, the Mathematics friends. As is usually the 1case1 more roOf!TI, and rooims of the P1·esident and was done than first plam1ed, and the Secretary were treated in the same way. amount expended was more than first The boiler room in the basement was double sheathed, so the dust would not estimated'. But we believe the expen­ diture was well made and nothing which work up into the rest of the building, was done could well have been omitted. and painted ; steam pipes were covered ; We decided while we were at work in new electric lighting and ventilating and dust removing f.ans were put in. The Memorial Hall to .put in a proper light­ · ing system in the stacks of the Seaverns room that was not touched was ProfesstJr Reading Room and to install -proper Parmenter's. -But he has taken it in The Colby Alumnms 169

the best of humor. We have promised recommendations, which we have re­ that during the earning vacation his room ferred to in former reports. There is should •be renovated. We recommend great need of proper storage for ath­ that the · French room and the Faculty letic matei:ials. We recommend that the room, so called, be renovated and that ·basement beneath the •Gym be excavated proper electric fans for removing fumes and cement floor put in ; that the north from the chemical rooms in the base-' .part be made into storage room with en­ ment be installed. trance in the north wall toward the ath­ We recommended last year that Hed­ letic field ; that the shower baths be man Hall be thoroughly renovated. That transferred to the basement, leaving the was done and the Hall is in good con­ locker room for lockers only. We dition. At the same time the third floor strongly recommend these changes. of Roberts Hall was put into proper and Nothing has :been d'one which has add­ better condition than •before. ed more to the attractiveness of the The first and second ffoors of Rober·t!j grounds and the comfort and �onvenience Hall need to •be put into the same ex­ of all connected with the college than ' cellent condition and that we recommend. the granolithic walks which were put in It was because of conditions in these during the vacation last summer. They two halls particularly that we recom­ were the ,generous gift of Mrs. Eleanora •men

RANDALL JUDSON CONDON, LL.D., '86 - An Outstanding Colby Graduate. Elected Alumni Trustee lllll111llllllll1Ullllllllllllllllllllllllllll1Jlllllllllllllll111111Ulllllllll11Jllllllllllll11!11111111111111111111lllHllllllllllllllllllllllllllll1111111111111111lllllll11111111Jllllllll!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll1111111\ll\llllll111lllllll\llllllllllllll� The Colby Alumnus 171 man 3:lso patrols the Delta Kappa Epsi� ing to be in part a light well to retain Ion and Phi Delta Theta Chapter Houses. and bring down the light from the origi­ Another watchman has the duty uf nal ceiling window in the dome of the patrolling every building on the campus .third story. Four .recitation rooms except Memorial Hall and the Gym. about twenty by twenty feet will be 01b­ Tnis service together with the excelleT!'t tained. '1f in the future this ·building be fire escapes which have been put on the restored to its original purpose the buildings, in our opinion supplies ade­ changes contemplated may be easily re­ quate fire protection. moved and the original construction re­ The ap.propriation for the past year stored. We requested an estimate sure for "Repairs" as the item is called, but to cover the cost, and such an estimate we think a more apt phrase would be is $6,000. The suggested appropriation "Buildings and >Grounds", was $14;000. of the budget before you for buildings The total expenditure charged up to re­ and gr.ounds is $15,000. All of that wi ll .pairs was $17,631.14, an excess over the be needed for the recommendations made, appropriations of $3,631.14. This excess excluding this last plan. But we hope was due to the extensive changes in that a way can be found to authorize Memorial Hall. The a:bove figures do this plan as well as the rest. We ::co not include recent work done on the roof recommend. and interior of the Gym. The expense These reports each year are outlines of that work is ahout $1500, part of and summaries of what has been done. which will be charged into the coming They show how our committee functions. year, our fo::cal year .beginning, as you 'But we want you to understand that we will recall, on 'May 1. do not claim all the glory if glory there Your Committee visited the ·ca·mpus •be. In the words. of a famous historical last Friday and President Ro•berts called messa.ge "There is glory enough to go our attention to the .possibility of ob­ round". There is the closest cooperation taining needed recitation rooms in the between us, President Roberts and third story of Coburn Hall. He said, .Superintendent Hubbard. We all con­ with his infectious smile, that they sider, decide upon and lay out the work thought they would show our Committee to ·be done, going into such detail as •they were wide awake and on to the job Eeems necessary. In carrying out the of improvement by tackling the .problem plans and in doing those things in every of the need of •more recitation rooms . building which good husbandry requires, .So. Mr. Arthur Savage, whose services Superintendent Hubbard is invaluable. as architect were obtained for the work He has good judgment .and no one could in Memorial Hall, was sent for and .he be ·more interested in his duties and the examined Coburn Hall. Your Commit­ college than he·. He and President Rob­ tee als:i examined the building with Prof. erts are all through the year attending Chester. We have conferred with Mr. to numerous details. So you must un­ Savage. You may recall that this use detstand that they .are to •be given full of the third story in Coburn Hall was credit for much that is done. We can considered in an earlier rep01-t. At that only say that the President, the Super­ ti.me the prnblem seemed rather difficult intendent and your Committee are work­ and to require too large an expenditure. ing harmoniously and happily on a con­ ' But a plan has been laid out which seems sistent policy of maintaining the plant feasible and practical. You will recall in an efficient and proper condition and that originally between the second and .of improving it, all with due considera­ third stories was a gallery and rail with tion of the limits of our financial re­ a large open space in the center. Later sources and a dread of deficits. We this open space was filled in to make hope that the alumni .and friends ·grant­ with the gallery a ceiling for the second ing us the patient and fair consideration � story rooms. The plan is to lay steel I necessary will note a steady gain and be beams on the level of the gallery and on ho.peful and s.atisfied. the beams lay a completed floor for the Again we call attention to the "beauty third story. The second story will not of the college and the sentiments of love be disturbed. 'The stairs will be en­ and loyalty clustering about it." We larged and .put into proper condition. A have often said "We want them to .g.ather ceiling just ab:ive the present moulding aroqnd every detail". Last year the in the third story can be built, this ceil- class of 1924 with its gift of the staff 172 The Colby Alumnus

and flag showed that it was responsive niversary of Phi Beta Kappa, which oc­ to that call. So too, is the class of 1925 curs next year. On his motion it was responsive for today it will present to voted that the Board authorize the use the College a ",bulletin b:>ard" of brick of Tuesday evening of Commencement and bronze to replace the old worn and week, 1926, for the observance of the weather beaten one of wood. The class anniversary of the founding of Phi Beta has sought to fill a practical need of Kappa. college life but in so doing to unite It was also voted that a sum not to artistic attractiveness with a perma­ exceed $500 be set apart to be expended nency of structure that shall be in -:;he in the cele'br.ation of the anniversary un­ years to come enduring evidence of their der the orders of the Committee on the appreciation of the beauty of their col­ Anniversary, and Mr. Wadsworth �r lege home and their love for and loyalty some other member of the Finance Com­ to it. mittee. Let such feeling and sentiment grow Voted, That the ·Board send ,by its and let every class and every Alumnus Secretary an expression of regret at his do the utmost to quicken and increase a•bsence, its affection and its best wishes them. to Chairman Cornish. NORMAN L. BASSETT 'The Secretary will also present ex­ H. E. WADSWORTH .pressions of regret to Judge Wing, Mr. A. F. DRUMMOND Seaverns, Dr. Page, Dr. Bradbury, Dr. Committee on Buildings and Groun_ds. Padelford, .and .Mr. Getchell, for their absence and assurance of the fellowship On motion of Mr. Gurney, seconded of the Board. by Mr. 1Murray and Mr. Bailey, it w.as The Committee on Retiring Allowances voted that Secretary Whittemore be au­ to members of the Faculty reported iby thorized and requested b proceed with Mr. Johnson. These allowances are to be the prepar·ation of the History of tit provided by the College, by the pro­ College, on which all·eady .he has done fessors and. 1by the Carnegie Foundation considera•ble work. . jointly. Over 100 colleges are now on 'The President spoke of the need of this foundation. The arrangement would securing scholarship funds in accord cost the college $4000 per year. The with the increase of the student body. matter was referred to the Finance Com­ He also •said that the scale of eXJpendi­ mittee to consider, and with authority ture in :buildings and other things to be to act. provided should ·be on an economical and Mr. Hall stated that it was very de­ reasonable basis. sirable that the printed reports of the The following were elected officers of officers and departments should be in the the Board by ballot : hands of the members of the Board by Leslie C. Cornish, Vice President and June 1st each year for their considera­ Chairman of the Board ; Edwin C. tion. Whittemore, Secretary ; Frank B. Hub­ It was voted that an expression of .ap­ bard, Treasurer. proval and gratitude be sent to the Trustees for term exp1rmg 1928 : ·Committee on Buildings and Grounds for Woodman Bradbury, Norman L. ·Bas­ their exceedingly valua·ble work in the sett, F. W. Padelford, C. F. T. Seaverns, College interests. I. B. Mower, Miss Louise H. Coburn. Adjourned to meet in the Falmouth iMr. Hall spoke on the observ:ance on Hotel, Portland, Maine, on Saturday, the part of the College of the 150th an- November 14, 1925, at 9 :30 A. M.

CLASS REUNIONS

THE CLASS OF 1915 REUNION ed progress, returning with wives :-one man has b2-E!n captured. BY LESTER F. WEEJKS, M.A., '15 "Chet" Mills and Leon Crockett our The class of 1915 held their tenth two doctors reported that the health of reunion at the Messalonskee Inn, Water­ Boston and vicinity was safe in their ville, June 16, 1925. Fifteen members of care. "Pad" Drummond, the Cambridge, the class were present. Six men report- Mass., banker and "Dutch" Bramhall of The Colby Alumnu� 173 rthe Union Trust and Safe Deposit of little was said about the past, hut there Portland, our financial wizards, looked was much discussion of present day and the part <>f prosperous bankers. "Purp" future problems-no•t all of which were Campbell of Hartford, Conn., and settled permanently ·but some of which "Candy" LaFleur of Waterville no longer were at least illuminated. play second and third base but are en­ There is not room in a brief report gaged with the nicetLes of the law. like this to tell about all the wise things We were glad to welcome "Buck" that were said, so the readin•g public of Dyer and his wife Odette Pollard from T HE ALUMNUS will have to take our Burma, where they have been engaged word for it. in religious work for the past five years. THE CLASS OF 1900 REUNION Ray Robinson is Superintendent of FRED A WREN CE, Schools at Jay, Me., and a bachelor. He BY Foss L B.A., '90 says he likes it. If you want to buy a I have yours asking for a brief report bond Charles Jones of Portland will sell of the 1900 reunion, for the ALUMNUS. I you one on credit. regTet to say that we had no reunion "Dan" Ashley of Boston, the advertis­ worthy of the name. Our class is very ing man, was "Master of Ceremonies" widely scattered, and the replies to let­ and everyone was called upon to give ters were so disappointing that no ar­ their life history for the past ten years. rangements were made in advance. The Their history previous to 1915 was well only members of the men's division who known ! "Tommy" Crossman the busi­ attended Commenc,ement were James H. ness man ,from Needham, Mass., was Hudson, Guilford; William B. Jack, elected President and "Dutch" Bramhall Portland ; Ernest E. 'Tupper, Litchfield ; Secretary and Treasurer. Send your .Fred F. Lawrence, Skowhegan. We money to "Dutch." simply got together in the chapel and Ruth Brickett Rideout introduced her talked over old times, and took dinner hus.band, Walter Rideout, Colhy '12. with the returning members of the Jennie Farnum Collins and Lizzie Row­ women's division at the Oriental res­ land Waldron have each captured ,a man! taurant. It goes without saying that ,but we did not have the opportunity to we made up in enthusiasm what we initiate them into the class of 1915. We lacked in numbers and are planning for had a good reunion. Come in 1930 and a much more successful get-together in make it a •better one 1930.

THE CLASS OF 1890 REUNION THE CLASS OF 1885 REUNION BY ELWOOD T. WYMAN, B.A., '90 BY FRANK H. EDMUNDS, B.A.1 '85 Quantitatively, the reunion of the class In reply to your request for an account of '90 was not impressiv.e, but viewed of the reunion of '85, on the fortieth from the standpoint of quality it was of anniversary of its graduation, I can course all •that could be desired. Any state without exaggeration, that we pro­ reunion with President Roberts on deck nounced it one of the most enjoyable as one of the class can never ,be dull or occasions of our lives, wherein the on1ly, uninteresting. 1Besides him there were regret was the absence of those unable present Walter CaTy of Houlton, Rev. to attend. Arthur B. Patten of 'Torrington, Conn., Of the ten surviving graduates, five Dana W. Hall of Chicago, and the writer were present; (also one non-graduate.) of these notes. The gathering was at These were : the Wyman camp at North Belgrade. Dr. Chancey Adams, Con•cord, N. H. ; The reunion was especially interesting B. S. Annis, Chattanooga, Tenn. ; Judge to me in that it showed that men can Charles Carroll, Houlton, Maine ; Rev. F. he out of college for a considerable while A. Snow, West Buxton, Maine ; the writ- _, and yet not feel old enough to make a er, New York City, and Mark E. Rowell, class reunion an occasion for rem.iniscen­ Woodfords, Maine, a former member. cies and little else. It may have been Nothing less than insurmountable ob­ because the president of the cr,Ilgee is so stacles, kept the others away. young in spirit and so up to date in his PTof. George R. Berry, for nearly maniner of thinking that the reunion de­ thirty years, head of the Department of parted from the usual chaTacter of such Semitic Languages and Old Testament events. And so it happened that very Interpretation, at Col1gate University, 174 The C<>lby Alumnws

had already engaged passage for a trip for Colby. Most of them would have abroad, beginning on the day of our re­ been with us had they not been committed union. Though Berry,-alias "Plum", to similar reunions on the same date. was physically the smallest to enter our Such is true of Elmer Silver of Bos­ class, and the largest to graduate,-he ton, who transferred to Brown, and to was always our intellectual giant ; and the Rev. Dr. Hel'bert G. Mank, of Law­ though his life's work has not been in the rence, Mass., who graduated at Amherst, most exciting atmosphere, it seems to be and pursued further studies at Yale. The approaching . it. His absence left but latter in his letter to me says : one clergyman present, so we had no dis­ "They were very good to me at Am­ cussions or "scraps" over theological herst, and not less so at Yale, but my differences, adamantine views of funda­ m.emo1·ies of Colby are not less pleasant, mentalism, modernism or evolution. and the class I was entered with holds a Judge Carroll intimated that he might peculiar place in my memory and affec­ qualify as an alternate, and was en­ tion." couraged by those who enjoy a little ex­ Joe Lord of Sarasota, Florida, who citement, but to no avail. PPace reigned graduated at Brown, (in behalf of him­ supreme. We missed Berry's wit and self and wife, nee Weber, ex-'85) took humor, and possibly, evidence of his sufficient time from reaping a harvest ability to quiet the troubled waters we from Florida real estate,-possibly and hear so much about. probably millions,-to say : Dr. William H. Snyder, whose loyalty "Mrs. Lord and I have three Alma Ma­ for Colby is only equalled by her affec­ ters : Colby, Boston University and tion for him,-was not kept away by the Brown, and while affectionate memory four thousand miles that intervene, or goes out to them all, we are frank to by the blandishments of the movie sirens say that Colby is nearer to our hearts of Hollywood, but by the Commencement than either of the others." of his own model Hollywood High School Such is the lasting and mature affec­ of Los Angeles, an institution of numer­ tion of thos� former students, when judg­ ous buildings upon a Campus-all after ment has been ripened by forty years of Dr. Snyder's wishes and plans. One of experience in life's work. the most up-to-date schools in the coun­ Those of us who returned, found that

try, (50 I a� told) with a student body of the pleasures of a reunion increase as the _ more than 2·500, and a teaching staff of years pass by, and that there are few ex­ upwards of a hundred. periences in life, more delightful than Amos 'Townsend, likewise of Califor­ the meeting of old college classmates. Al­ nia, did not feel equal to a trip across so that if we would retain perpetual the Continent, while Rev. Fred Chutter, youth, we should, if born again, be more had just entered upon his duties in a new careful a

.I Justice Leslie Colby Cornish, as we had been at several previous reunions. Al­ though the serious illness of Judg·e Cornish prevented him from being pre­ sent, yet he had provided .most carefully for our comfort in every way. His nephew, Colby Bassett of Boston, acted as our host and 1by his kind and courte­ ous manner won �ur sincere regard. We were further honored by the presence of Mrs. Norman L. Bassett, Mrs. J. 0. Tilton, Miss Russell, sister of a former member of the class, and Mr. James Hudson, son of our classmate Henry Hudson. Of the sixteen graduates of the class six were present, namely: Mrs. Mary Low Carver, Mr. Edward J. Colcord, Mr. George W. Hall, Dr. Cyrus K. Merriam, Mr. Edward H. Smiley, Dr. J. 0. Tilton, and a former member of the class Mr. Eben G. Russell. The three absent members were Judge Cornish, Mr. Henry Hudson, his college roommate, and Rev. Edward A. Reade. Letters of regret from Henry Hey­ ward, a for.mer member of the class, and LESLIE CORNISH from Mr. Reade were read by Mr. 'B'as­ As He Appeared When a Senior at Colby sett. The dinner was bountiful, everything of the best and delightfully served. For will be interesting to compare the in­ place cards Judge Cornish had copies of dividual pictures in this group with the class pictures of fifty years ago. In those taken fifty years ago. a letter written to one of our members Just before the conclusion of the ban­ he had urged us not to allow his ab­ quet a me:nber of the class suggested sence to sadden our gathering. that the following message signed with Of course we tried our best to comply the last names of each of us-as the pro­ with bis wishes but deep down in our fessors used to call us up in class-be hearts was a feeling of great sadness sent to Judge Cornish. that for the first time in all the fifty The suggestion was approved and the years our •beloved Chief was absent, and message sent : the fear that he might never again be with us. The Over look, The last communication from Judge Belgrade Hill, Cornish, dictated to his secretary, was June 16, 1925. as follows : We, the members of the class of '75, Augusta, Me., Colby 'College, assembled for our tenth June 11, 1925. quinqennial reunion, desire to express to Dear Smiley, our beloved classmate, Leslie Colby Cor­ Automobiles will 1be at the Elmwood nish, our deep appreciation of his con­ Hotel at 3 :30 P.M., standard, to take the stant kindness to us throughout all these class to the dinner. fifty years. Fraternally. We are proud of the high place which Leslie C. Cornish. his name holds and will ever hold in the A similar communication was sent to legal annals of this Commonwealth ; we each member of the class, showing his are proud of the distinguished service thoughtful care for our comfort almost which his eminent a1bility, his fine char­ to the last. acter and his loving devotion have en­ While awaiting the dinner hour Mr. abled him to render to the college for so Hudson took a group picture of us. It many years, .but in a more intimate and 176 The Colby Alumnus personal sen e, as our own greatly be­ We hear the echo of departed feet ; loved classmate we wish to thank him And then we ask with vain and troubled for the high place which we have held yearning, in his regard. What is the charm that makes old things We nriss today the gracious presence so sweet?" of Mrs. Cornish who on former occasions like this has greeted us at her own home, Yes, somehow we feel that those of and has welcomed us elsewhere at our our number who have passed "to the banquets. land beyond the sea" are with us in To her we would pay O\lr grateful spirit at this time, and we are sure that tribute, and to our classmate we would they would join us in this loving tribute tender our heartfelt sympathy in his to our absent Chief. great bereavement. To him we send what ever of tender and affectionate regard words may ex­ "Old perfumes wander back from fields press in highest measure. of clover, MISS Low (MRS. CARVER) Seen in the light of suns that long have COLCORD. set ;. HALL (2) . Beloved ones whose earthly toil is over, MERRIAM. Draw near as if they lived among us yet. RUSSELL. Old voices call us through the dusk re- SMILEY. turning, TILTON.

ANNUAL MEETINGS

ALU M I ASSOCIATION were in life and vigor as youthful a group as could be found at any of the BY ERNEST CUMMINGS MARRINER, 8.A., '13 taibles. Their spokesman was Edward Secretary H. Smiley. Frank H. Edmunds spoke Tuesday noon, June 16, two hundred for the class of 1885, Elwood T. Wy­ and twenty alumni of the college gath­ man for 1890, J. Colby Bassett for 1895, ered in the gymnasium for the annual William B. Jack for 1900, and Rev. Ver- - meeting and lunch of the General Alum­ nelle W. Dyer of Rangoon, B�.irma, for ni Association. The principal speaker 1915. President A. J. R-oberts, 1890, was Dr. Randall J. Condon of the gave an interesting account of the year's class of 1886. 1Dr. · Condon has been en­ activities at the college. gaged prominently in educational work The secretary announced that the for many years and, as Superintendent election for alumni trustees and mem­ of Schools oif the

one dollar, payable upon notifica­ tion •by the se:retary in N ovem'ber of each year." The meeting sent a resolution of sym­ pathy and respect to Judge Cornish, and it is gratifying to know that the message reached him before his sudden passing on June 24. The old-time agitation for a week­ end commencement was renewed and met with some approval. The incoming president was instructed to appoint a committee to consider this matter. The following officers were elected : President, Fred F. Lawrence, 1900 ; vice-president, Her.bert E. Wadsworth, 1892 ; secretary, Ernest C. Marriner, 1913; treasurer, Charles W. Vigue, 1898 ; necrologist, Malcolm B. Mower, 1905 ; executive committee, Willard H. Rock­ wood, 1902, Hubert J. Merrick, 1889, Daniel W. Kimball, 1894, Dr. Frederick T. Hill, 19'10, Wilford G. Chapman, Jr., 1912; committee to nominate alumni trustees, Rev. William A. Smith, 1891, James H. Hudson, 1900, Robert E. Owen, 1914, Rev. George A. Martin, 1899, H. FilED F. LA WREN CE. B. A .• ·uu Chesterfield Marden, 1�21 ; representa­ Elected President Alumni Association tive on the athletic council, Albert F. DrunU11ond, 1888, George F. Terry, Jr., 1922. the 150th anniversary of Phi Beta Kappa. This cek·bration w;n take PHI BETA KAPPA ASSOCIATION place next year, and the present plan is BY CARL J. WEBER, M. A. , Secretary to make the sesquicentennial the cut­ standing feature of the next com!nenc::­ The annual meeting of the Beta of ment. Maine chapter of Phi ·Beta Kappa was It was reported that the executive held at 5 P. M. on Mond.ay, June 15th. committee had ap9ointed as the chap­ Nine additional members of the class of ter's delegates to the Nati on al Council 1925 were elected to membership in the which meets in New York City on Sep­ society, making a total of 20 from that teml.nr 8th A. H. Bi::kmore, '93 ; Wil­ class. This is the largest number, I liam 0. Stevens, '99 ; and Prof. Carl J. think, ever to be elected from any one Weber. Officers of the chapter for the class, and indicates at least to some ex­ coming year were elected as follows : tent that interest in scholarship is not President, P1:of. William J. WilkinsJn ; yet dead in the college. ·Reports were Secretary-Treasurer, Prof. Carl J. made by the secretary, the treasurer, the Weber ; Executive Comm:ttee. in addi­ executive committee, and hy Mr. Dana tion to the above, Ce�il A. R-llino, '17; Hall, a member of the Board of Trus­ E. H. Merrill, '25, and M'.ss · Donnie tees Committee on the celebration of Getchell, '24.

THE STORY OF CO M MENCEMENT

BY EIGHTY-ODD

As good a Commencement as I ever back. And how the old fellows did take attended, and I have taken in a good advantage of it ! And how they appre­ many of them, first and last. Nothing, ciat,ed it, too ! They could be found in absolutely nothing, was left undone to knots here and there, discussing "ye make the older grads feel a welcome olden daye", and passing out choice com- 178 The Colby Alumnus

pliments on the way the old college seemed to be moving onward and up­ ward. They typified the spirit of the Commencement. There iwere no offish folk meeting in dark corners to pass sultry comments on a decadent institu­ tion. (How's that for an old-timer whose Rhetoric was studied under otheT skies ?) Yes, thank you, it was a truly fine Commencement, and we all enjoyed it, from Saturday to Wednesday, and we are still enjoying it in retrospect. Just a ·brief review ? Here goes ! That College Play on Saturday af­ ternoon measured up to those of other years-perhaps a bit of an edge on other years, as I think of it now. It was well performed (or well staged, do they say?) . Really remarkable how the young folk of today can get into those things. I have learned that it was staged in a little over a month 'by that NELLIE ELJZABETH POTTLE wonderful artist, Miss Flood. If that Commencement Speaker is correct, then a two months' training would have put some of the famous Keep it up. People like to feel once in stage-stars in the shade. A big audience a while that other folk are giving them came to see it. What a fine thing for something. They will feel more kindly the College to give the people of the toward the College. It's human nature ; city and vicinity an opportunity to en­ or in these · days they say, "It's good joy a real theatre. Nothing like that in psychology". the old days. It would have been so The Junior Exhibition was above par. much per head, and the proceeds would Girls weren't so wonderful, 'but the boys have been sent to foreign lands to re­ did themselves proud. Poorly attended, claim the lost and the wandering. Now, dreadfully so. Of course, it comes on it is all free. The College has improved Saturday night. But this was a Col­ as the years have swept it forward. lege function ! I couldn't see three of the Faculty members there. What does it mean? It was a time and place for every member of the College Family. To be regretted. Commencement should start off with a bang. Whatever the ad­ ministration or the Commencement Com­ mittee or whoever may be the Promoters of Commencement decide upon for a program should be supported by teacher and student alike. That was a fine ex­ hibition on the part of the speakers, not so fine on the part of the College. And Sunday morning ! Wasn't that a steam-roller of a message that Arth� Jeremiah Roberts (note the middle name) put over on a big and popular and sympathetic audience ? The Presi­ dent of Colby is no mean scholar and no mean preacher and no mean philosopher and no mean user of the English tongue. Remember that classic on people in glass RUSSELL M. SQUIRE houses, not that they better not "throw President Senior Class stones" (that's the old jargon), but "they better move", with Jeremiahan emphasis The Colby Alumnus 179

on the "move". It was replete with good sound horse sense. I hoped, and prayed, too, that those in the graduating class might remember some of the President's sage counsel. They will. They can't 'help it. It was so put as to stick. That's the President's way. It was a great sermon, given •by one who knows human kind, and thinks a whole lot of human kind, and I rather think human kind thinks a whole lot of him. And Sunday evening's message-the old Boardman Sermon (how tradition clings !)-by •Charlie Woodman, of the '98 class, was a remarkably strong one, well delivered, impressive, forceful, thoughtful, with enough pauses to give a sinneT a little chance to think about reforming himself. It was a hopeful message, fitted right in with the times, rather harmonized things, played on the dangers and the hopes. On the whole, THEODORE R. HODGKINS highly optimistic. It attracted a large Parting Address audience, as it well deserved. Monday began at 8 :30 with a ·Chapel Address by Fred Snow of the class of meaty and most interesting-a fitting J '85. The unior class attends this event message for the opening hour of the day. :n a body. It was well represented. The Then followed the Junior Class Day Ex­ Faculty were there, most of them, in ercises, so called, on the campus. These their regalia. Mr. Snow's address was were well attended, and as usual the speaking was high class. Reminded some. of us of other days when the "world was young", and it was the for­ ward and not the backward .look. The Class Guest of Honor was Ed Colcord, one of the well known members of the well-known class of 1875. Monday after­ noon came the second production

bought expressly to wear to this Com­ MARJORIE A. EVERINGHAM mencement that the 'boys can do no bet­ Senior Class Part ter on theiT new cinder tracks than we did on the old dirt paths ! Tuesday morning gave us another in the year 1864 when he stepped lightly Chapel Address as a starter, this one by u-p to get his sheepskin. Remarkable Arthur Patten, '90-and a fine talk it man-full of vitality, full of fun, noth­ was, too, right fo the Senior class there ing "escaping the shafts of his wit. His in a body. Then came the Senior Class address "brought the house down". His Exercises, held in the Chapel because of addresses always do--they are full of the rain, all of which was first-class, appeals to common sense. then came the talk by the Old School­ At noon came the Alumni Lunch-a master, one William Smith Knowlton, room packed full of enthusiastic men former teacher, former Maine legislator, bent on booming Colby. There were always a poet, everywhere a wit, and as some wonderfully inspiring addresses, young in spi'rits and mentality as he was every one of them deserving to be repro­ duced in your pages. I haven't attended a •better Lunch in years-more than 200 t1 1ere, and how it poured outside ! Some cf it got inside the old Gym, too. Pretty strong suggestion that someone should get busy and get a new building for such fet>tive occasions. It will come, and very soon, too. Tuesday afternoon and evening were given over largely to class reunions. Good idea. We all like a little let-up on these sojourns. The afternoon was in­ terrupted by one event that is to my way of thinking very much worth while, namely, the presentation to the College by the outgoil)g class of something of permanent value. The class presented a ·bulletin board-a structure it is, and beautiful, right out in front of old South College. Norman Bassett, '91, accepted it for the College, and he said something

CLARA M. HARTHORN that should stick. Hope his remarks are Senior Class Part given rn the ALUMNUS. His main thought should get into the hearts of all. The Colby Alumnuls 181

He didn't take a text, but I could give him one : "Who passing through the val­ ley of Baca make it a well". Trustee Bassett made the point that we love our <:;ollege Home only as we beautify it and enrich it, by making everything a•bout it full of signification because of the play of sentiment about it. That's the trick. Remember the lilac bush you planted out by the front gate? Remember the elm shoot you stuck in the ground, now a swaying mass · of shade for those passing beneath it? Tr.e fellows who went through the "Valley of Baca" dug places here and there, and the rain filled the little pools for those coming after. Great thought. And the chap who woke up after years of sleep does not ask : "Who is President", but "Are the birds still singing down by the old .mill?" Right you are, Trustee Bassett. You are KENNETH E. SHAW doing a great turn by the old College and Class Oration we're with you to a man ! Wednesday was a beautiful day, cool· enough .for anyone. Then the crowds gathered, and the long academic proces­ How graceful the presentation, how lucid sion to the City Hall was on. That is a the thought, how rich in allusion, how sight worth traveling miles to witness. telling in effect ! It was a great pro­ The Hall was packed to the four walls, gram. Not the least imposing of which as was the stage. The speaking by the was the gowning of the fellows who got three students was excellent. After the honorary degrees. Then back to the hearing them, I had greater faith in campus and to the old Gym for the last what the old College is teaching. Safe, of the events, the Comencement Dinner. I ·believe. And then the address by Jus­ It was a trick indeed to pack 400 peo­ tice Riddell-wasn't that a delightful ple into the building ·but it was done. presentation of international wisdom? A beautiful touch ;.vas added, when two flags, the American and the Union Jack, were ·borne across the room by two Col­ by students, rboth of whom, as I learned afterward, serving in the World War, and placed above the heads of the chief speakers of the day, Governor Brewster of Maine and Justice Riddell of Canada. Space foi·bids the review of the ad­ · dresses. The onlv. criticism to be offered is that the dinner was started too late to be through on time. As it was, the Governor had to make use of a flying machine to keep anot_her important en­ gagement at another Maine town. It was all very delightful because Colby folk were together and were soon to separate for the summer months, there . to thmk over the events of a memorable Commencement. In conclusion : What a lot of things I have left unsaid ! The space given .me ALFRED K. CHAPMAN is taken-I can write no· more. But let Commencement Speaker me say in conclusion that we old fellows appreciate what the College is doing for 182 The Colby Alumnus us in making more delightful these days write the words that shall distribute our Back Home. "It's good psychology". It's material possessions, we shall not forget going to mean in years to come that we to leave something to the old College that shall remember the Old Home with more we have grown to love. tender memories, and when we come to Here endeth, etc.

LIST OF RETURNING GRADUATES

BY THE EDITOR

"Are there as many graduates back Chase, '24, Thomas J. Crossman, Jr., as usual ?" '15, Edward J. Colcord, '75, G. H. No question is more often asked at Glover Campbell, '15. Commencement time than is this one, D-Arthur J. Dunton, '97, Frederick R. and no question is so difficult to answer. Dyer, '98, Rex. W. Dodge, '06, Carroll The only basis for a correct answer is E. Dobbin, '16, Vernelle W. Dyer, '15, the list of registration cards kept in the Albert F. Drummond, '88, Prince A. College Office, and yet there are always Drummond, '15, H. R. Dunham, '86, a great company of graduates who re­ R. W. Dunn, '68. turn for a day or for the play or for E-Harvey D. Eaton, '87, Frank H. the lunch or dinner and never think of Edmunds, '85. the urgent request that everybody regis­ F-Arthur L. Field, 'OS, Clarence L. ter. Flood, '05. Answering the question above, I be­ G-George A. Gorham, '91, H. A. Goffin , lieve that a greater number of gradu­ '16, George A. Gould, '08, John R. Gow, ates were ·back on the campus this year '23, Leon C. Guptill, '09, Charles E. th an ever before. Certainly more of Gurney, '98, Everett H. Gross, '21, them packed in for the annual lunch of Walter 'L. Gray, '95. the General Alumni Association. Tables H-James H. Hudson, '00, George W. were placed for the usual number, and · Hall, '75, Howard T. Hill, '20, Fred­ as the rain came down in sheets during erick T. Hill, '10, .Stephen H. Hanson , all of 'Tuesday forenoon, even the "usual '95, Myron C. Hamer, '20, Leon D.· number" was thought too large. As it Herring, '16, Drew T. Harthorn, '94, was, about 200 men found their way in­ Lionel Hebert, '25, Frank B. Hubbard, to the Gymnasium �or the lunch, and '84, chairs were at a premium. More gradu­ J-Cyril M. Joly, '16, Merlin C. Joy, '06, ates registered than last year, and the Archer Jordan, '95, Reed V. Jewett, exercises for the most part were more '95, Frank H. Jones, '14, Francis M. largely attended. Joseph, 'nl, Henry N. Jones, '05, Rob­ The following is a full list of those ert L. J acabs, '25, William B. Jack, '00, who signed their .cards at the College Franklin W. Johnson, '91 Office: . MEN'S DIVISION K--Frederick J. Kinch, '25, William Smith Knowlton, '64, Hersey R. Keene, A-Frank W. Alden, '98, Dan iel W. '04, D. W. Kimball, '94, Herbert L. Ashley, '15, Robert B. Austin, '98, Kelley, '80. Chancey Adams, '85, B. S. Annis, '85, Basil B. Ames, '23, Charles W. Atch­ L-Lewis G. Lord, '03, Fred Foss Law­ ley, '03, Elmer W. Allen, '03. rence, '00, Lewis L. Levine, '16, Na­ than Levine, '21, Harry E. Lewin, '20, B-Dudley P. Bailey, '67, John A. Ralph Libby, '24. Barnes, '24, George K. Bassett, '97, . Norman L. Bassett, '91, William E. M-George Merriam, '79, Huber t J . Bur.gess, '21, Albion W. Blake, '11, Merrick, '99, Ernest H. Maling, '99, Arthur H. Berry, '94, William J. Chester R. Mills, '15, Walter T. More­ Brown, '23, Ralph K. Bearce, '95, John land, '22, Harold M. Morse, '14, Cyrus L. Berry, '24, Chauncey L. Brown, '21, K. Merriam, '75, George E. Murray, C-Walter Cary, '90, Clark D. Chapman, '79, Howard R. Mitchell, '72. '09, Wilford G. Chapman, '12, Leon W. N-George T. Nickerson, '24, Herbert L. Crockett, '15, Charles Carroll, '85, Newman, '18. Harry M. Conners, '93, N. H. Crosby, 0-Edward S. Osborne, '97, Robert E. '87, Randall J. Condon, '86, Manley 0. Owen, '14. . The Colby Alumnus 183

P�W . Mayo Payson, '14, Carroll N. Eunice E. Chase, '18, Jennie Coch­ Perkins, '04, Wilder W. Perry, '72, J. rane, '04, Avis M. Cox, '23, Alice A. Gleason Perry, '20, 1Fred M. Preble, Clarkin, '16. '81, Warren C. Phil!>rook, '82, Donald D-Doris W. Dickey, '23, Doris Dow, '25, ,E. Putnam, '16, Arthur B. Patten, '90, Alice Bishop Drew, '20, Catherine H. L. Paikowsky, '19, H. A. Perkins, Clarkin Dundas, '17, S. Ernestine '22, R. H. Pulsifer, '86. Davis, '05, Florence E. Dunn, '96. R-Eben G. Russell, '75, Mark E. Rowell, F-Mary C. Ford, '24, Hattie S. Fossett, '85, Walter J. Rideout, '12, Fred W. '07, Elsie Lawrence Fentiman., '11, Rowell, '14, Ray Robinson, '15. Mildred B. Flood, '17, Margaret T. S-William A. Smith, '91, Leo G. She­ Gilman, '24, Ruth Goodwin, '22, Don­ song, '13, Galen F. Sweet, '19, George nie Campbell Getchell, '24, Dorothy 0. Smith, '93, Joseph C. Smith, '24, Gordon, '24, Ervena I. Goodale, '24, Edward H. Smiley, '75, H. E. Smith, Madge Wilson Gray, '95, Mildred C. '22, Hugh A. Smith, '20, Chester C. Hawes, '23, Marion Horne Hunt, '18, Soule, '13, Fred A. Snow, '85, Glenn Carolyn L. Hodgdon, '24, Ethel L. W. Starkey, '05. Howard, '05, Martha B. Hopkins, '03·. T-William A. Tracy, '14, Ernest H. K-Annie Lee Knight, '97. Tupper, '00, George F. Terry, Jr., L--Mabel Dunn Libby, '04. '22, Her.bert W. Trafton, '86, J. Odlin M-Grace Martin, '2'4, Anne F. Murray, Tilton, '75, John F. Tilton, '88, Ar­ '20, Clara P. Morrill, '94, Lucia H. thur M. Thomas, '80, Joel E. Taylor, Morrill, '93, Frances H. Morrill, '94, '21, Carroll D. Tripp, '25. C. Esther Murray, '18, Grace Chaney V-Harry S. Vose, '99, Ernest E. Ven­ Masterman, '00, Nella M. Merrick, '00, tres, '01, Grenville E. Vale, '24. Meroe F. Morse. '13. W-Lester F. Weeks, '15, Edwin C. P�Phoebie Vincent Parker, '17, Har­ Whittemore, '79, Arthur G. Wright, riet M. Parmenter, '99. Etta Purington '97, Percy F. Williams, '97, Evan R. Parsons, '99, Ellen M. Pillsbury, '11, Wheeler, '14, Charles M. Woodman, Lily S. Pray, '95, Antoinette Ware '98, Herbert E. Wadsworth, '92, Percy Putnam. '16, Alice M. Purinton, '99. Warren, '79, Linwood L. Workman, '02, R-Ruth Brickett Rideout, '15, Helen V. Elwood T. Wyman, '90. Robinson, '10, Marv Margaret Rice, Y-George W. Young, '77. '21, Sarah Pennell Reed, '13, Ethel C. Robinson, '16, Ethel M. Russell, '00. WOMEN'S DIVISION S-Anne Choate Sweat, '22, Cecilia A. A-Grace Warren Atchley, '03, Bertha Simpson, '24, Margaret Brown Staples, Terry Arnold, '18. '17, Laura M. Stanley, '22. B-Harriet Vigue !Bessey, '97, Dora T---.Ruth Harlow Tobey, '21, Mary E. Libby Bishop, '13, Louise M. Benson, Tobey, '15, Mildred Todd, '24. '00, Marion E. Bibber, '24, Mary Brier, V-Mary E. E. Ventres, '00. '22, Elizabeth Whipple Butler, '21. W-Mary E. Warren, '23, Lucile Rice C-Mary Low Carver, '75, ,Anne M. Wheeler, '18, Annie Harthorne Wheel­ Caswell, '18, Jennie Farnum Collins, er, '08, Lizzie H. Waldron, '15, Daisy '15, Marguerite Chamberlain, '15, Murray Wilson, '18, Grace Wilder, '21.

MEETING CONNECTICUT VALLEY COLBY CLUB

BY ROYDEN K. GR.EEL.EY, B.A., '13

The annual meeting of the Connecti­ those present that his short visit to the cut Valley Colby Club was held May 1, old world was greatly appreciated by 1925 in the Hotel Bond at Hartford, him and very much worth while, both Conn. to himself and to Colby. It was a great pleasure to have Presi­ The Rev. Arthur B. Patten, of the dent Roberts with us, particularly so class of 1890, acted as toastmaster and because we did not see him last year. proved very capable in this capacity. He submitted his usual talk about Colby Short talks were made by Daniel Ashley and a brief account of his impression of and Wilbur G. Foye. I. L. Cleveland the Europeans. It was evident to all acted as cheer leader. 184 The Colby Alumnus

Charles F. T. Seaverns of Hartford "Four Colby men, Wilbur G. Foye, V. was unanimously elected J.>resident, as S. Farnham, Crary 'Brownell and Roy­ were Harry Hamilton executive com­ den K. Greeley, witnessed the baseball mittee and Royden K. Greeley, secretary. game between Wesleyan and Colby, It was voted that the dinner enjoyed by which was· won by Colby, nine to two. In the Colby baseball team, in Middletown, spite of the bitter cold day, the game Conn., just after winning from ·wes­ was a good one and the four alumni leyan, should be paid for by the Club. stayed in the field to the end. It was There was a record attendance of thirty­ seven. The food was excellent and reported on the Wesleyan campus, after plentiful. Orchestral and vocal music, the game, that the Col1by boys were the made possible by the president of the cleanest group that Wesleyan had met 011 club, made the evening perfect. the diamond in a long time."

THE NEW YORK COLBY ALUMNI MEETING

BY RALPH E. NASH, B.A., '11

The annual dinner of Coliby graduates Edward B. Mathews, '91, Professor of in New York and vicinity was held at Geology at Johns Hopkins University ; the 1Birthplace of Theodore Roosevelt, 28 Harrington Putnam, '70, Retired Justice East 20th St., 1Friday, March 13th, 1925. of the Supreme Court of New York ; and The large and representative gathering Edward F. Stevens, '89', Librarian of of both men and women graduates Pratt Institute, were speakers, each showed that this historic place was very bringing his reminiscences of college happily chosen. The entire house was days and comments upon Colby's educa­ at the disposal of the Association or the tional contributions in the present and f · evening, and for an hour rbefore the din­ future. ner opportunity was given for inspecting Mrs. Annie Pepper Varney in the city the many interesting contents so inti­ on a special .mission for the college, pre­ mately connected with this great Ameri­ sented the needs and plans of the can. ·During the evening a moving pic­ Woman's Division. ture film was shown, presenting scenes Our "Prexy Rob" was present and re­ and incidents in the life of Mr. Roosevelt. ceived the usual hearty ovation and de­ Through the good efforts of the toast­ lighted attention. master, Merle W. Crowell, '10, editor of The following officers were elected the American Magazine, the Association for the ensuing year : had the rare pleasure of receiving as President, William 0. Stevens, '99 ; guests of honor, Ellis Parker Butler and Vice-President, Mary Bickmore Tefft, Arthur Guiterman. Mr. Butler in clever '93 ; Secretary-Treasurer, Ralph .E. Nash, humor told us how to be humorists. Mr. '11. Executive Committee : Thomas Guiterman delighted us with readings Grace, '21, Merle W. 1Crowell, '10, Lois from his charming and inimitable verse. Meserve Flye, '02.

TRIBVTES TO LESLIE COLBY CORNISH

'BY HERBERT C. LIBBY, LITT.D., '02

Out of · the wealth of tributes paid to the contemplation of the model that ne the memory of Judge Leslie Colby wrought. The spirit of love and light Cornish, of the class of 1875, I have se­ that animated our late Chief Justice as lected the following chiefly because they he moved among his fellow men is not seem best to express the genuine affec­ dead but liveth to lead on those who tion which citizens held for him : are left 1behind. In very truth his works FROM GOVERNOR BREWSTER, OF MAINE and his life say to us today and tomor­ _ "The State of Maine has a rich heri­ row, 'I am come that ye might have life tage in the life of the leader that is and that ye mignt have it more abun­ gone. Our lives will each grow better in dantly.' " The Colby Alumnus 185

FROM CONGRESSMAN NELSON, '98, OP. that this death brings to the State, and MAINE all good causes within it, and especially "I cannot hope to express in words to those institutions which for many the deeper meaning of so great a Joss. years have had the benefit of his guid­ Death has taken from us a friend, dear ance and eminent service. and true, a citizen loyal to every great "To Coburn Institute as student, alum­ interest in life, a man, just, sympathetic nus, trustee, benefactor, counsellor, and and lovable, a judge of wonderful learn­ loyal friend, he has brought honor, and ing, ability, integrity, and common important aid, especially during the sense. Judge Cornish stood pre-eminent critical years of the history of the in this state as a citizen and as a jurist. school. No greater loss could come to us. His "In proud sorrow the school mourns life and character have been an inspira­ today, and long will mourn this illus­ tion to the youth of this state, his friend­ trious son. A career like that of Justice ship, a valued possession. Every mem­ Cornish justifies the sacrifices and ful­ ber of the Maine Bar loved, honored, and fils the hopes of those who have founded respected him. and maintained this Institute. "We of Augusta who knew him as a "The Trustees record their gratitude friend and neighbor are saddened be­ for the courtly, constant friendship and yond measure. The whole state joins fellowship of this ideal Trustee and for with us in our sorrow. the honor and privilege of association "The first essential to the tranquility with him in the work of the Board for and order upon which our civilization many years. "His presence enriched his friends, rests, and without which it could not en­ . dure, are courts of justice presided over his absence makes them poor, but his by men of such unquestioned character influence will continue to inspire to the and integrity as to command the absolute greater experience which his life makes confidence of the community. Such a possible and brings near, and will quick­ man in the highest sense was Judge en their loyalty to the great causes to Cornish. Because of his life work the which he was so deeply devoted." people of Maine have a deeper reverence for the courts, a more exalted conception of the honor and obligations of the legal profession, and a keener sense of duty to maintain, unimpaired, the dignity of the law and the sanctity of justice. "Judge Cornish has passed on, but his . hfe work at the Bench and Bar of Maine

remains as a rich heritage to· future generations." FROM CHIEF JUSTICE WILSON OF MAINE "His was a remarkable p�rsonality­ patient, kindly, scholarly, cultured 1 dig­ nified a � courteous, but full of vigor . � and virility ; he was ideally fitted for service on the bench. His well trained mind was strong, clear and logical in all its processes, compelling in its reasoning and sound in its conclusions with a natu­ ral instinct for justice and fair dealing." FROM THE 'BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF COBURN CLASSICAL INSTITUTE "The Board of Trustees of Coburn Classical Institute meet today in the shadow -0f great sorrow caused by the death of Leslie Colby Cornish, LL.D., lately Chief Justice of the Supreme Ju­ dicial Court of the 1State of Maine. "They would place in perm'anent re­ cord their consciousness- of the great loss The Late Judge Cornish of the Class at 1875 186 The Colby Alumnus

FROM ARTHUR G. STAPLES, EDITOR LEW­ of the countryside-genuine characters ISTON JOURNAL of ancient days of whom he had innum­ The death of Chief Justice Cornish is erable stories. One who has been blessed unexpected. A few days ago we asked with an acquaintance with this side of about him and the word was, "He is get­ Justice Cornish, remembers a flickering ting along pretty well for him." fire of logs in his library, a low sweet The closing phrase suggested that for voice through the twilight of the flames some months, indeed for more than two and a series of tales of these early years, the former chief justice of Maine geniuses of true wit and humor-tale af­ has been in rather failing health. One ter tale as he would spin to his friends. might see it in an enfeebled voice as he One need not mention his learning in spoke last winter to the Maine Bar As­ the law or his standing as a lawyer anti sociation ; a tremor that made one sense a Just ice. These have been proven in the failing strength, and to wonder why the long years of his service in all Gorl decreed that such good men should capacities. We have placed him along break, crumble and pass on, as all men S'ide the greatest names in New England must. jurisprudence. He ranks with Chief' His name was on the program of the Justice Shaw of Massachusetts-and his NP.tional Association of Mutual Savings facile, easy-reading opinions couched in Bcmks, at Poland Spring last week but flowing phrase, cogent, lucid, calm dis-. he was not there and we asked his per­ passionate and sound, will be LAW rnn2i friends at Augusta about him, but through ages. There was never any t!iey said sadly that his health was not straining for effect. There was never good enough to allow him to attend. any ambiguity of statement. He built Thus the news of today but confirmed up his opinions into the clarity of crystal, forebodings. And in this news we join and with such literary graces, such fit­ all Miaine in the sense of loss, irremedi­ ting words and phrases that lawyers able so far as the influence of a great love to find them and remember them as man is concerned, but like all great dis­ epigram or axiom of simple Truth. tresses enriched ·by the assurance of He had the true judicial mind. This tho e benefits that have accr ued from a mind is of that sort that sees both clients life of service, actuated by all that was evenly and squarely. He did no evapo­ noble and aspiring, touched by no stain ; rated thinking ; no merey level thinking ; _ aspiring, free, and sound. 1but p°lain and honest thinking to the end of inescapable conculsion, based on Chief Justice Cornish was a product of Justice. This• was his aim. If he missed Maine stock, a graduate of Maine school it ever, it was but another proof that and colleg·e and a true son of our State. men are mortal and no man is without Yet, he was fitted to grace any court on error. There was to sav the least no earth, a cosmopolite in intellectualism purpose in Judge Cornish's life to deal and in spirit. There was no gathering in any other substance than equal jus­ of great men, in which he was not dis­ tice. tinguished by his charm. He was a fig­ ure of note in that most difficult test of FROM EDWARD J. COLCORD, COLLEGE men, the American Bar Association. His CLASSMATE learning and his art of expression were No one will ever know what Cornish· the admiration of all. His wit was was for years and years to most of our sparkling and original and his sense of class. To me he was more than a friend. humor was perfect. Such a conversa­ I never wrote to him for advice, appre­ tionalist, as he, rarely is found in any ciation for efforts made, or for comfort generation. He had the art of expres­ in hours of trial, but he always met my sion, the gif.t of silences, the most spon­ needs with his wise and affectionate taneous repartee and a fund of analogy words of help. There was such a widely and of story always to the point that generous spirit in all he said or wrote, seemed beyond the gifts of ordinary man. such a warmth of feeling for us all, and One of the charming elements of a he S'eemed to be thinking of us so much friend"ship with Judge Cornish was an at all times that we knew always what insight into his profound love for the it is to have one true friend who would native born-the Yankee of the New never cease to · remember and watch for England soil. There was an enkindling our welfare. of his eye at the mention of old worthies Never were replies more touching and The Colby Alumnus 187 grateful also when I wrote to him on Cornish brought the thoughts of our the occasion of the death of his brother­ members .constantly before us by sim­ in-law and his beloved wife. I think ple and yet always effective plans' of ' that to these two great losses also we are union or by appeals for sympathy for to look for one of the causes of his going sol'l'be one of us who needed to be

IN MEMORIAM:

BY THE EDITOR

LESLIE COLBY CORNISH; LL.'D., '75 that outline there given one learns that The following brief announcement, he secured his A.B. from Colby Univer­ taken from the Lewiston Evening Jour­ sity in 1875 ; Harvard Law School 1879- nal, gives the simple facts of the pass­ 80 ; LL.D., Colby, 1904, 'B'owdoin College ing and the life career of one of ·Colby's 1918 ; University of Maine 1920. He most devoted graduates : was a member of the Legislature of "Augusta, June 24.-Leslie C. Cornish, 1878 and was admitted to the 1bar in former chief justice of the Supreme 1880. He was a member of the /State Judicial Court of Maine, died at his Board of Har Examiners for five years, residence here at 8 o'clock standard was associate justice of the Supreme time this morning. Judicial Court March 31, 1907-17, was "Justice Cornish has been in frail appointed Chief Justice June 25, 1917. heatlh for !sometime. This caused him "Notwithstanding the professional de­ to resign as chief justice four months mands upon him he has served as trus­ ago, before the completion of his terms. tee of the Augusta Savings Bank since He had been confined to his bed the 1892, and its president since 1905. He past week. While sitting up and hav­ long was actively interested in the ing his breakfast served, he passed affairs of the Lithgow Library, being a away without any warning. Mrs. Cornish trustee since 1883 and pre ident of the died a year ago. They had no children. board since 1904. His interest in his "The active life of the Chief Justice college has grown if possible with the has been full. His devotion to the pro­ years. He is chairman of the college fession of the law and to the service of board of trustees and has been a trustee the court are appreciated especially iby of the Coburn Classical Institute since those of the legal profession. Yet in all 1901. He has been active in the direc­ this he found a way to be of service torate. of the American Unitarian Asso­ in many ways, not all of which are ciation and was president of the Maine chronicled in "Who's Who." But from Unitarian Association 1917-18. 188 The Colby Alumnus

"These are but some of the outstand­ Phalen, Brookline, Mass., who preceeded ing interest that have o�cupied an active Rev. Mr. Fenn as pastor. Mr. Phalen mind, studiously inclined and ever help­ pronounced the benediction. ful." "Rev. Mr. Slocombe, who preceeded And the following report of the fun­ Rev. Mr. Phalen as pastor, conducted the eral services which appeared in the services at the grave, and after verses Augusta Kennebec Journal is here re­ from the Sermon on the Mount, the produced : Lord's Prayer was repeated by all. "'And sa the shadow on the dial Rev. Mr. Slocombe gave the benedic­ Ran back and left thee always young.' tion. -Whittier. "During these services, the members of the 1Bar stood close by, grouping in Simplicity and dignity marked the loving companionship about the grave funeral services for the late ·Chief Jus­ as the last words of tribute were spok­ tice Leslie C. Cornish, held, two o'clock, en for their late loved Judge. Friday afternoon, from the Cornish "At the house the V1onderful profu­ home at 47 Green street. Dignitaries, sion of flowers were most artistically friends and neighbors gathered from far arranged, the casket being completely and near to pay their final respects for banked in these silent tokens of respect Judge Cornish, the kind judge, the ki nd and love. Every room was filled with neighbor and the kind friend. flowers of all kinds. The services at "At the time of Mrs. Cornish's death, the grave were graced by the rarest of Judge Cornish selected the Scriptural June days. It was sad and lovely and passages and the poems which were read the sincerity of the final demonstration at the services. He said it was comfort­ was deep seated in the hearts of the ing and consoling the manner in which many who attended and by the expres­ the services were carried out. At the sions of many more who could not attend time, or shortly after, his nephew .made but who sent beautiful flow.ers as means a memorandum, so that the services car­ of expression. · There was no .music. ried out Friday for the l�te Jud

mate and playmate through boyhood Point, Miss Viola !Coombs ·of Bowdoin­ days of the late Judge; President Arthur ham, Mrs. Herbert C. Lj.bby and Mrs. J. Roberts of Colby College, of which Arthur J. Roberts, Mrs. Eleanora S. Judge Cornish was chairman of the Woodman of Winthroo- Center, Miss Board of Trustees and closely associated Lydia·C. Moses of Bath, Mrs. K. M. Wen­ with since his college days ; Edward dall of Providence, R. I., Mr. and Mrs. Smiley of Hartford ·Conn., a classmate Harris Woodman of Winthrop, Miss of Judge Cornish in the class of 1875 at Ruth Bowker of Portland, Mrs. Dean 'B. Colby College. Small of Portland, Mrs. J. Colby Bassett "The State House and the city build­ of Boston, Allen L. Bird of Rockland, i.ug offi.ces we.re closed between the hours Miss Margaret Percival of Waterville, of two and three o'clock, in :ce<>pect to Rev. Charles E. Young, Mr. and Mrs. the late Justice Leslie C. Cornish. The W. W. Vaughan, Mrs. Langdon Marvin order for the closing of the State House and W. S. Bradley of Hallowell. wns ;?iven by Gov. Ralph 0. Brewster. "One Maine man of wide experience The closing of the city building offices made the remark that never before in his was through order of Mayor Ernest L. 40 years' career had he seen such a McLean. demonstration of respect and love by "The flag on the State House was people in all walks of life for one who placed at half mast .at the announce­ was retired from active service. The ment of the judge's passing away and judge touched eyeryone.' remained so until after the funeral. The 'So when a great man dies, flag on the Kennebec county court house For years beyond our ken, and the Augusta municipal huilding were The light he leaves behind him also in similar position. Shines upon the paths of men.' " "Among those prominent in the affairs of state and judiciary present were : SAMUEL JOSHUA NOWELL, B.A., M.A., '82 "Gov. Ralph 0. Brewster, ex-Gov. Per­ Colby mourns the passing of Samuel cival P. Baxter ; Judge Clarence Hale Joshua Nowell, a graduate in the class of Portland, Judge John A. Peters, U. S. of 1882, whose loyalty to the College in federal court, Judge Fred Emery Beane many ways has long been appreciated of Hallowell, Judge Arthur Chapman of and whose generosity has been a matter Portland, Judge George H. Worster of of record for many years. Mr. Nowell Bangor, Judge William H. Fisher, supe­ has lived a useful life, filling many rior court ; President Kenneth C. M. Sills positions of public trust. He was born of Bowdoin Colleg·e; Dr. E. C. Whitte­ in Sanford, Me., on July 12, 1853. Most more, secretary of Colby College board of his life has been devoted to business of trustees ; Dr. Julian D. Taylor, Prof. pursuits, although for a dozen years Herbert C. Libby, Pt·of. Thomas D. Ash­ he was principal of the Rockport High craft, all of Colby College ; Dr. Tilton of school and for a very short time of the Lexington, Mass., of the class of 1875, Waterville High school. He served his Colby College ; Judge George C. Wing native town as its treasurer and tax and his son, George C. Wing, Jr., of collector. He was at the time of his Auburn ; Sidney St. F. Thaxter and death on Thursday, July 9, still engaged Leonard A. Pierce both of Portland, in business, that of hardware. A broth­ Charles E. Gurney, Herbert E. Trafton, er survives him, his wife dying a few Bernard Archibald of Houlton, James H. months ago. Hudson of Guilford, John P. Swasey of Canton, Ralph Parker of Rumford, HER.BERT MELVIN MOORE, B.A., '87 Mathew Laughlin of Bangor, Charles H. The class of 1887 has had a remarka­ Bartlett of Bangor, Terrance B. Towle of ble record in the number of those who Bangor, Fred L. Wilson of Portland, have dropped from its :i;anks, and rthe­ Cecil Clay of Belfast, Fred L. Hayden of AI.UMNUS much regrets to record the Portland, A. H. Whitman of Portland, pm:::

of Maine for several years, died at his made his rounds after the steamer had home here Thursday after a long illness. been cleared of its passengers. Mr. Moor�, who had been a resident of "Mr. Russell was partly clad and Pemaquid since last Fall, was born at was lying in his bunk. It is presumed Milo, and received his education in the he felt an ill turn coming on, to which pul:lic schools of that town, at Monson he was subject, and lay down in his Academy and Colby College. He was bunk, where he expired." principal of 'Bar Harbor High school for Mr. Russell was born in Canton, two years, served two terms in that Mass., March 18, 1855. He se cured his capacity at Fairfield High and in the education largely through his own ·spring of 1890 became superintendent efforts, graduating fro.m Colga·te Acad­ of the schools of Yarmouth, Freeport emy, New York, and then from Colby, and Pownal and after five years' service, and still later from Boston University he accepted the position of superinten­ School of Law. He followed the pro­ dent in Orono and Old Town. He re­ fession of his choice with marked fidelity, mained there until 1914 and then re­ serving the town of Gloucester, Mass., turned to Yarmouth High as principal, where he settled, in numerous ways. So resigning in 1922 because of ill health. scrupulous has he been in his dealings He then went to Milo to reside, and with clients and fellow citizens that he with his health improving to a marked has enjoyed in a very marked degree degree, he went to Pemaquid, hoping to their confidence and regard. He was resume his school work. appointed a few years ago a member of Mr. Moore was a member of Casco the Massachusetts Public Service 'Com­ Lodge of Masons and Cumberland Royal mission. Arch •Chapter. He leaves a wife, Mary RoGER ASHURST PuT NAM, E., and a son, Carlton. B.A., '15 The College regrets to report the CHARLES ALBERT RUSSELL, B.A., LL.B., death of one of her younger graduates, '76 Roger Ashurst Putnam, of the class of Next year, the class of 1876 is sched­ 1915, on Monday, June 15, at his home in York, Maine. No details of his death uled to celebrate its 50th anniversary, other than those contained in the follow­ but the little group to return will 1be ing news dispatch have been received : without one of its well known members, York, June 16-Town Clerk Roger A. Charles Albert Russell, whose sudden Putnam, 35, one of the -best known at­ death occurred on May 13, last. The torneys of York .County, died Monday following news item which appeared in night at his home here after a few one of the Boston papers tells the story days' illness. He was a native of York, of his sudden passing. and was educated at York High school, "A telephone message was received at St. Johnsbury, Vt., Academy, Colby Col­ the police station e·arly -this afternoon, lege and 'B'oston University Law school. stating that Charles A. Russell of this After completing his law course, he city, had been found dead in a state engaged in partnership here with John room of one of the Eastern ,Steam.ship C. Stewart. He was a member of Stas­ Company's boats on docking at 'Boston. pinquid Lodge of Masons, the York "The body of Mr. Russell was found by County )Bar Association and the Ports­ the purser of the steamer Boston which .mouth Lodge of Elks. Surviving is his arrived from New York shortly after wife, to whom he was married last seven o'clock this morning, when he winter, three brothers and two sisters.

NEWS NOTES OF THE FACULTY

President Roberts, with Mrs. Roberts, has been made a full professor by action is spending the summer at the old Pea­ cf the Board of Trustees of the College. body home, in Gilead, Me. Professor Everett F. Strong, of the Professor William J. Wilkinson, of department of Romance languages, is the department of his tory, represented spending some weeks this summer in' the college at the inauguration of Wes­ Europe. He will be accompanied by one leyan's new President. Prof. Wilkinson of the students of the college, Abbot The Colby Alumnus 191

Smith, '26, son of Rev. William ·A. Smith, '91, and Lois Hoxie Smith, '04. Professor Anton Marquardt left on Saturday, June 13, for California to spend the summer with his family.

Professor Herbert C. Libby and Mrs. Libby are spending the summer at West Boothbay Har1bor, Me. Profe sor Libby gave Commencement addresses at the Little Blue School, Farmington, Gardi­ ner High school, Concord, New Hamp­ shire, High school, and the Ipswich, Ma sachusetts, High school. During the year he has given over 75 addresses be­ fore the Rotary clubs of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. Professor Ernest C. Marriner recent­ ly represented the Kiwanis Club of Wat­ erville, of which he is president, at the international meeting of Kiwanis Clubs. PROF. Wm. J. WILKINSON Professor C. Harry Edwards is con­ Elevated to Full Professorship ducting a summer camp for boys. Professor Webster Chester is again ·conducting a summer camp at Mount undertaking classroom work for the Vernon, Maine. second semester.

Mr. Malcolm Mower, Registrar of the Professor Edward H. Perkins of the College, has just been elected treasurer department of Geology has recently writ­ of Coburn Classical Institute. ten for The America Journal of Science an article, since reproduced in pamphlet Dean Nettie M. Runnals and Pro­ form on "A New Graptolite Locality in fessor Florence E. Dunn are spending Central Maine, With Notes on the Grap­ six weeks in. Europe, sailing from Mon­ tolites". treal about .the middle of July. Professor Nathaniel E. Wheeler of Professor Curtis H. Morrow has re­ the department of Physics has recently cently had published an important little written for the Journal of the Optical volume entitled' "The Preparation of Society of America and Review of Sci­ !So"c ial Science Papers. The booklet is entific Instruments (May, 1925) an ar­ "prepared to meet the needs of classes ticle on "A Simple Experimental Proof in economics and sociology at Colby .. of Ohm's Law for Laboratory Use". In to help students use standard methods his introduction Professor Wheeler in writing social science papers". The writes: "For sev,eral years we have been 1booklet is bound to serve a mos.t useful using, with a good degree of satisfac­ purpose. tion, the following simple arrangement Professor Carl J. Weber is again of apparatus-which was devised by the teaching in the Johns Hopkins Summer writer and first used at McGill Univer­ School, Baltimore, Md. sity-for the verification of Ohm's law in the electrical laboratory work of our Professor and Mrs. Benjamin E. Car­ elementary students. This desicription ter and' family are spending the sum­ is published in the hope that the method mer at their summer home in Connecti­ will be, found more satisfactory and cut. Professor Carter has shown ex­ more suitable for usage in elementary cellent improvement since his recent op­ laboratories than the stock experiments eration, but he did not feel equal to usually adopted for this purpose". 192 The Colby Alumnus

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AMONG THE GRADUATES BY THE EDITOR

FENWICK L. HOLMES, '06, NOTED LEC­ enthrallment and roibbery of a great TURER AND AUTHOR , people and a suggested method of Fenwicke L. Holmes, '06, has become rescue". In the proem to the book, Mr. in recent years a lecturer widely known Hall wri.tes : and widely advertised. A recent an­ "An .attack on any long existing in­ nouncement in the Boston papers gives stitution, no matter how vicious, nearly the following statements : always causes its author to ·be subjected "The greatest thing in Boston, Wed­ to ridicule as a dreamer or wild theorist. nesday, address by Fenwicke L. Holmes, But herein will be found neither dreams noted lecturer and author on mental sci­ nor visions, but only plain, cold facts ence. Subject : 'How to get what you which are known to every well-informed want', at Convention Hall. citizen. ; and no theories will be offered, '"Morosco Theatre, New York was but natural and necessary conclusions crowded during a six months' engage­ from undeniable facts". ment. Garrick Theatre, Philadelphia, Passing over the historical side of the was unable to seat the throngs. Trinity book which is extremely well presented, h Auditorium, Los Angeles, and Eighth in fact, from beginnin,g to end of t e Street Theatre, Chicago, filled with 10!!-page v·olume, there is evidence of eager listeners. The phenomenal suc­ most careful thinking and reasoning cess of Mr. Holmes' manv books and from well established facts, we can men­ M his lectures places him among the great tion only the "Rescue". r. Hall writes : leaders of thought in America today. "The method of relief is simple. "Fenwicke L. Holmes has a vital, con­ "1First, aibo li h the tariff and pay the structive message of truth to give to expenses of the Governmen.t by t�e the world. He is a finished speaker of method now employed for paying eighty­ winning personality and great charm."­ six percent of them, until an amendimient !New York Wo1·ld. to .the Constitution can be adopted that Free Public Lectures : Wednesday, will make a direct tax practica·ble. May 13-How to Get What You Want ; "T'hen take care of the trusts". This Thursday, May 14-Fear and Nerves­ is to be don,eby the enactment of legis­ Their Cause and Cure; Friday, May 15 latio11 making any combination of forces -How to Make Your Mind Make Your that will work in restraint of trade an Money ; 1Sunday, May 17---'Brains and outlaw institution. Health as the Result of Spiritual Force ; The book is stimulating. It will Monday, May 18-The Psychology of arouse the reader to a keener interest Your Own 1Body ; Tuesday, May 19-The in the government that governs him. If Twenty ,Secrets of Success ; Wednesday, it should lead to needed reforms, such May 20-Why Die? Thursday, May 21- as Mr. Hall has in mind, the book will Psychology fo r Everyday Living. have served a most useful purpose. Mr. Holmes lectures every year in The book is most attractively bound, one of the New York theatres to large and is printed by The Waverly Press, crowds. He spends his winters in Cali­ 'B'altimore, Md. fornia. APPOINTED TO lMPOR'.!'ANr OFFICE . "TARIFA" A BOOK BY GEORGE w. HALL, Miss Grace R. Foster, '21, 56 Engle­ . '75 wood Ave., Buffalo, N. Y., recently at­ George W. Hall, '75, of Washington, tended the national conference of three D. C., long connected with the Govern­ Fellowships at Colum1bus, Ohio. At this ment, has recently written a most in­ Conference Miss Foster was appointed structive volume on the tariff. The title a member of the executive committee of of the book is "Tarifa". The purpose the Fellowship for Cln:istian Social of the volume is well set forth in the Order. The meetings were addressed by sub-title of the book, "A story of the Sherwood Eddy, now intimately known 194 The Colby Alumnus to man.y Colby undergraduates, and at 8 o'clock at the home of the bride, other social leaders, and was of far­ Rev. A. E. Kingsley -0f the Hebron 'Bap­ reaching influence especially as it affects tist Church an acquaintance of the bride the Youth Movement of -0ur own country. during her school days at Hebron Acade­ HEADS IMPORTANT BUSINESS my officiating. The bride was given in marriage by her f.ather, William M. The ALUMNUS is in receipt of adver­ Crawford. tising matter from the F-0ss-Soule Press, Mrs. Davis was educated at Lawrence Inc., of Rochester, N. Y., at the head of High school and Hebron Academy, grad­ which is Clarence L. Foss, '15. The uating fr.om the latter institution in matter is most attractively gotten up, 1922. She is a member of the lodge of and is striking evidence of the excel­ Rebekahs. Mr. Davis is a graduate of lence of the workmanship of this print­ the Nashua High school, and of Colby ing plant. College in the class of 1924, where he ADDISON B. LORIMER '88, CALLED TO was a member of Zeta Psi fraternity ; NEW YORK C H URCH and he was the leader and president of Colby graduates will congratulate Dr. the college glee dub during his student Lorimer , '8'8, on his recent call to a days. He is a memiber of the Masonic New York Church as it means a larger lodge. field of usefulness. By nomination of Mr. and Mrs. Davis• after the reception the New York City 1B'aptist Mission left for a wedding trip to Quebec, Mon­ Society, 1Dr. Lorimer w.as unanimously treal and the White Mountains. On called on April 23, la t, to the pastorate their return they will be at home at 182 of the Harlem 1Baptist Church, 219 East Main street, Fairfi.eld.-Lewiston Jour­ 123d Street, New Y-0rk City. On April nal. 26, Dr. Lorimer resigned his Portland, REED-DAY WEDDING Me., pastorate, and will begin work in Harmony, June 19.-0ne -0f the more his new neld on September 1. The New charming of June weddings took pl.ace Y<>rk iGhureih is an institutional and in Harmony on Thursday evening when social .center. Dr. Lorimer will have Miss Ethel May Reed of Harmony ·be­ four full-time associates to help him came the ·bride of Claren.ce Raymond carry on the work of this important Day of Providence, R. I. Rev. L. G. church. March, district superintendent, per­ ·CRAWFORD-DAVIS WEDDING formed the ceremony which was held in Waterville, June 18.-The wedding of the Methodist church. The bride was George Milford Davis of Nashua, N. H., given in marriage 1by her father, Reuel and Miss GJ.enys· Irsteen Crawford of Henry Reed. Fairfield, took place Wednesday evenjng The bride is the daughter of Mr.

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ELIOTT E. BUSE, B.S.. '20 SETH G. TWICHELL, B.S. . '20 HUG H L. ROBINSON, B.A., '19 Holds Important Business Position Teacher in Concord, N. H. High Leaves for Missionary Fields

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Tientsin is about 2001 miles s:rnth of LEO G. SHESONG. B.A .. '13 Peking on the Grand canal. It already Prominent Portland Alumnus 196 The Colby Alumnus

land has for several years been employed to call her my Alma Mater. If Presi­ in the United States· postal service. dent Roberts said 'no lady ever smokes', The bride, who is a graduate of Coliby it would just increase my high esteem of College, '07, has for 17 years been a him. teacher and music director in Worcester WM. KEELY, '64, YOUNG AT 82 schools. She •came to the High 1School of Commerce, when it was first organized "Past 82 years of age ; busy from six as a teacher of French, having studied A. M., to 11 P. M., traveling Notary Pub­ a8road following her graduation from lic : preparing affidavits, and other Legal Co1by. Forms ; a trustee of Alderson Haptist ·Seven years ago Miss Morrissette or­ Junior College ; senior deacon, Charles­ ganized the first orchestra at the High ton Baptist Church ; life-commander G. School of Commerce with 17 young pu­ A. R. Post ; voters' registrar ; election pils as members. Since then the number commissioner ; U. S. census enumerator. has increased to four orchestras with a In 1923, visited Vicksburg Military Park, membership of 125. This year Miss -and as representative of the Governor Morrissette also organized' a band of 30 of West V·a. accepted from his Commis­ boys. sioners, the Memorials erected for the With the returns from the annual con­ West Virginia soldiers killed· in the siege cert this year, together with what bad of Vicksburg in 1863 ; and presented the remained from other years, the orches­ same to the care of the Military Officer tras were able to make a gift of band of the U. 1S. War Department in charge uniforms to the school to the value of of the park; also P.ast Judge Advocate, $1200, $40() more being pledged by the and on Council of Administration, on pupils. staffof Department Com·m ander of West In addition to her work with the five Virginia, G. A. R., on the staff of Na­ musical organizations Miss Morrissette tional Commander G. A. R., and Aide." continued to teach one class in French. Such is a summary of the life-story of Last winter she coached the Auhurn William Keely, of the class of 1864. Vi oman's club choral class besides her school activities. With the close of the JOHNSON-GRANT present school year Miss Morrissette Cards have been received announcing gives up her position at Commerce.­ the marriage on June 27, of Grae e Wo 1·cester Telegram. Wilma Johnson and Wendell F•ay Grant. MANN-FARNUM JOHN W. BRUSH, '20, CALLED TO NEW Cards have been received announcing HAVEN CHURCH the marriage on June 20, of Melva Mer­ cedes Mann and Marlin Downer Far­ T·he First Church, New Haven Con­ num, both of the class of 1923. necticut has called Rev. John W. Brush, of the Stroudwater church, near Port­ A LETTER FROM CHINA land. Mr. 'Brush came to this church in What the ALUMNUS means to gradu­ September; 1923. He was graduated at ates who have settled f.ar from- the Col­ Colby College, Waterville, in 1920, re­ lege hearthstone is splendidly illustrated ceiving high honors at his graduation. by the following paragraphs .clipped He was graduated from' Newton Theo­ from a letter written by Myrtle Aldrich logical Institution in the dass of 1923, Gi·bbs, of the class of 1917, now connect­ was ordained in Portland, January 19, ed with Nanking University, Kiangsu, 1924, and is the first pastor of the China : Stroudwater church. The religious work "The last mail from America brought on this field has had an interesting his­ the long awaited ALUMNUS. . I have just tory. The church building is located at finished' reading it. At the first sitting Glenwood square. Without a .church or­ I glanced through it, reading now and ganization behind it the .Sunday school then a short article and especially look­ grew into a congregation, over which Mr. ing for news of graduates whom I knew. Brush became the first minister. He T·he editorial on 'Colby's Position on has successfully met and solved the prob­ Women Smokers,' attracted my atten­ lems that naturally arise on such a f ield. tion. I am glad and proud that Colby We can but regret to have th i promising has taken thi position. In fact, if she young minister leave us, but New Haven had taken any other I should be ashamed is fortunate.-The Baptist. The Colby Alumnus 197

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FREDERICK A. POTTLE, '17, WINS YALE Colby was true to her tradition and PRIZE though she had hea'rd nothing recently The largest prize offered at Yale Uni­ directly for Colby she had heard n.othJng versity, the John Addison Porter prize against it. She has never been sorry of $500 has •been awarded to Frederick that she chose Colby and I am more than I Albert Pottle, of Oxford, Maine, for his thankful for all the influences which essay entitled "The Early Literary Ca­ received there to say nothing of the fin.e reer of James1 Boswell" (1758-1769). instruction. Pottle graduated from Colby College in "Those articles 'From the Campus 1917, received the degree of M. A. at Windows' make me feel as if I were Yale in 1921, and will receive the degree back there once .mor.e. Things are por­ of Ph.D. at Y·ale on June 17. He will trayed so vividly. return to Yale as an instructor in Eng­ "Last but best of all are tho�e won­ lish for the academic year 1925-26. derful articles about the Rededicatio·ns of Pottle formerly taught at Hebron Acade­ the Old Chapel. To be able to read the my, Hebron, Maine, and Deering High addresses delivered at such a time as this school, Portland, Maine, and from 1921- and such a fine description of the exer­ 1923 was an assistant professor of Eng­ cises themselves is another one of the lish at the University of New Hamp- bright lights which helps me, way out hire. here in Ohina, to go forward with my The John Addison Porter prize was es­ tasks even though they are often dis­ tablished in 1872 by the Kingsley Trust couraging." Association, the Scroll and Key Society J. G. ROUNDS, '68, KEEPS U P I NTER.EST IN of Yale University, and named in honor C of Professor John Addison Porter, B.A., OLBY Yale, 1842. It is offered annually for " I suppose I should keep in touch the best essay on any subject of general s:>mewhat with the college although I human interest. T•here was no award in left it in the sixties to go into the army 1924. and I left for Iowa two weeks after I "The whole number was greatly inter­ got my discharge at the close of the war _ esting and these memoirs of Colby make and all my interests have been here since. me realize why my parents helped me to Th:e state was new and undeveloped and choose Colby for my college. I remem­ the demands of our strugglin.g churches ber our High school principal wanted my and colleges have ibeen heavy. After m'other to send me elsewhere as 'Brown, putting in fifty years in a ·bank, I re­ for instance. But my mother had heard tired some five years ·ago; but after tak­ rumors as to the faith of President ing the world easy for two or three , Faunce and felt that it would influence years, in a weak moment I was induced the whole institution. She felt that to accept a job in the city's service, but 198 The Colby Alumlll�

have always kept up my connection with that a permanent faculty tends to hold the college and with its chapter of D. K. the interest of the graduates. I cer­ E. I have

1ater than February 10, was the news. of a tour under his direction. Local that Ralph L. Baldwin, well known musi­ guides will be employed in the chief cal leader, composer and writer, had cities. The many offices and representa­ been engaged as conducting musical di­ tives of Bennett's Travel Bureau will rector of the new broadcasting soation. be at the disposal of members while in ''The committee in charge also an­ Europe." nounced the engagement of Elliot E. Irving Ross Stanwood, '16, should be Buse as manager of the broadcasting addressed at. 150 Congress Street, 13'os­ service. Mr. Buse, who ·has been in the ton,-not his home address but one from field service division of the group depart­ which mail may most conveniently be ment of the company took up his new forwarded. Mr. Stanwood is with the duties yesterday. He is a graduate of Charles E. Bed:aux Co., 17 Battery Place, Colby College, class of 1922. He was New York;,. Industrial Engineers. He 1born in 1896 in Dubuque and prepared is a senior engineer and is in charge for co·llege in Tennessee. At Colby he of the work now going on at The Cellu­ was a football player, a member of Phi loid Co., Newark, N. J. Delta Theta, and president of the hon­ orary senior society, the Epicureans. Harry H. Upton, '17, has· just gradu­ "In wartime Mr. Buse became a lieu­ ated fr·om Newton Theological Institute, tenant at Plattsburg Camp Grant, Illi­ and in April, last, received a call to · nois, and entered the service of the Trav­ become pastor of the Central Baptist elers in 1920. His voice will soon be 1Church, Bloomfield, N. J., at an excel­ familiar to radio listeners.'' lent salary and with an excellent field for large usefulness. Gladys Warren Radebaugh, '15, holds an executive position of considerable re- Roy M. Hayes, '18, is now principal ponsibility with the Welch Manufac­ of the Washburn, Maine, High school. turing Company (store fixtures). Her Mr. Hayes writes the ALUMNUS that he address ,is The Merton Hotel, Grand is the proud father of a son who "at Rapids, Mich. ten months promises·to rip Maine's lines to shreds at some future date as a Co1by Elizabeth W.hipple Butler, '21, is the son". mother of twin girls, born in July, in Waterville. Seth G. Twichell, '20, with address at 28 Thompson Street, Concord, N. H., Richard A. Metcalf, '86, should now be is teaching chemistry and physics in addres ed at Stuart Court, Stuart Cir­ Concord's High school. cle, Richmond, Va. Dr. Leon D. Herring, son of Mr. and John P. Flanagan, '14, is an income Mrs. E. C. Herring of 229 Main street, tax inspector, connected with the U. S. has returned to his home following his Internal Revenue, with offices at the graduation from the University of New Postoffice Building, Bangor, Maine. York Bellevue Medical school. Dr. Otis B. Read, •09; is Secretary of the Herring holds a commission of First State Executive Committee of the Young Lieutenant in the Reserve Officers Medi­ Men's Christian Association, with office cal Corps. He expects to stay in Wat­ at 39 North Main Street, Concord, N. H. erville about ten days after which he will go to Montclair, N. J., to take up R. A. Lowell, '14, should now be ad­ hospital work. dressed .at Standish, Maine. Irving M. Devby, '18, remembers the Victor R. Jones, '08, is conducting one editor of .the ALUMNUS with an invita­ of the parties that will tour Europe this tion to attend the commencement exer­ summer under the management of the cises of the graduating class of the Col­ Bennett's Travel Bureau. The pros­ lege of Medicine, University of Ver­ pectus says of Professor Jones : "Prof. mont, of whkh he is a member. Jones has made seven trips to Europe, has studied at European Universities "I want to let you know ·how I have and spent two years with the French enjoyed reading the current issue of the Army. He speaks the languages of all Colby ALUMNUS. It is indeed a wonder­ of the countries to he visited and his ful way to keep in touch with the College knowledge of Art, History and Litera­ for those of us who so seldom have the ture will be of great value to members privileges of returning to the scenes of 200 The Colby Alumnus our student days. You are doing a won­ Elizabeth Marian, on June 11, last. derful service for the college, and I only Oliver L. Hall, '93, gave the Memo­ hope that all of the alumni are respond­ rial Day address this year before the ing as they should." so writes Victor R. Grand Army and American Legion Posts J<>nes, '08. of Eastport.

Letters addressed to C. S. Richardson, Alberta S. Marsh '18, writes the '17, 149 Fifth Ave., are returned marked ALUMNUS to say that she has a fine "Removed". Graduates should exercise daughter, Miriam Eloise Marsh, horn great care in notifying the College when January 29, l·a t. Mrs. Marsh lives in they change addresses. Pittsfield, Mi�ine.

Mr. ·and Mrs. Myron C. Hamer, Julius H. B. Fogg, '02, has recently (Hamer '20) announce the ·birth of been in Europe on business.

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