The story of the life and work of Oren BCheney, founder and first president of Bates college . at the world calleda brilliant man. By that we mean that hewas not a magnetic public speaker, or a dis-tinguished scholar, or an author. He mighthave been either of the latter, had he foundthe time for the scholars study that he de-voted to the executive business of his life-work, but, early in life, he became a discipleof doing things. Born of a family distin-guished for business or diplomatic life, hisbent was towards the constructive side ofeducational work, towards the founding ofschools, the man
The story of the life and work of Oren BCheney, founder and first president of Bates college . at the world calleda brilliant man. By that we mean that hewas not a magnetic public speaker, or a dis-tinguished scholar, or an author. He mighthave been either of the latter, had he foundthe time for the scholars study that he de-voted to the executive business of his life-work, but, early in life, he became a discipleof doing things. Born of a family distin-guished for business or diplomatic life, hisbent was towards the constructive side ofeducational work, towards the founding ofschools, the management of their wideninginfluences, the shaping of their policy, andthe extension of their influences. A teacher ofremarkable ability, said to have been a moralinfluence in every school over which he everpresided, his restless soul was continuallyasking for enlarged opportunities for theyouth of the land and begging of itself thequestion of its own duty. It is thus that wesee that Dr. Cheney became a Carnegie says Pioneering does notpay, but President Cheneys pioneering was. OREN B. CHENEY 305 of a different sort. He found the New Eng-land country life, especially in Maine, a-hun-gering and athirst for education. He sawboys, who like himself, walked fifty milesanon over the hills to the little barren acad-emy struggling for existence amid the snowsof a bleak Maine country side. A teacher become preacher, a principalbecome proselytizer, a man of affairs feelingthe blood of a line of business ancestry stir-ring within him, Dr. Cheney could not endurethese conditions. Many times he has saidto the writer: I simply could not see theseambitious boys and girls ask for instructionand not receive it. He planned and hefounded. He was in at the beginnings, andthus all over Maine the influence of this manwhose death closed his earthly career onTuesday, has beneficently extended, as a spurto educational and moral reforms. A list ofschools that Dr. Cheney either founded byper
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