. Bowdoin Orient . come back her sons who had achievedsuccess in art and letters, in medicine, theology,education, law and statecraft. As one after an-other of these successful men arose to speak, hewas applauded generously; but when the littlefarmer-preacher stood up to address them, thiscrowd of Bowdoin men broke forth it was easy to see how large a place ElijahKellogg held in their hearts. In a style almostconversational, as a father talking to his sons, hetold the simple story of his life. Effective it wasindeed but perhaps not so eloquent as when in1890, looking back ove
. Bowdoin Orient . come back her sons who had achievedsuccess in art and letters, in medicine, theology,education, law and statecraft. As one after an-other of these successful men arose to speak, hewas applauded generously; but when the littlefarmer-preacher stood up to address them, thiscrowd of Bowdoin men broke forth it was easy to see how large a place ElijahKellogg held in their hearts. In a style almostconversational, as a father talking to his sons, hetold the simple story of his life. Effective it wasindeed but perhaps not so eloquent as when in1890, looking back over a stretch of half a cen-tury, he said: I stand here today like an oldtree among the younger growth, from whosetrunk the bark and leaves have fallen and whoseroots are drying in the soil. Then I could standwhere the roads divide that lead to Mere Pointand Maquoit. and hear the roar of the Atlantic inone ear and of the falls of the Androscoggin in BOWDOIN ORIENT i73 .. , i.,i mi*n\^ :H--;:- />^^. *iWr» mtt»m^»mm «—liidBtnm w|i ifpw ?wl«w»»»i>i«M7w. t*-^ ??!»?»—<» the other. Today I have not heard a word, ex-cept the two words Bowdoin College. But thereis no decrepitude of the spirit. Moons may waxand wane, flowers may bloom and wither, but theassociations that link the student to his intellec- tual birthplace are eternal. All friends of the College will be grateful for<his memorial of a unique, winning and large-souled man, a lover of boys, a favorite son ofBowdoin. 174 BOWDOIN ORIENT THE BOWDOIN ORIENT Published every Tuesday of the Collegiate year by The Bowdoin Publishing Company* in the Interests of the Students of BOWDOIN COLLEGE EDITORIAL BOARD Austin H. MacCormick, 1915,Dwight H. Sayward, 1916,John F. Rollins, 1915,Don J. Edwards, 1916, Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Alumni Editor Athletic Editor DEPARTMENT AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS Donald W. Philbkick, 1917,Rogers M. Crehore, 1917,J. Glenwood Winter, 1916,William S. Cormack,
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