Hampden Academy - Sedan Yearbook (Hampden, ME)

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4 THE SEDAN much as to pay for the goods it stole during the war. It would be a deplorable thing to have war resumedg' yet it would be a still more ominus thing to permit Germany to win her game of camouflage and bluff. The election of Dr. Angell to the Presi- dency of Yale University, is one ofthe most significant events in higher education. Hitherto, Yale has taken her President from her own men. Now, she goes outside and selects one who has never in any way been connected with the institution. New England colleges have been regarded as narrow and parochial, yet, one of the most typical of them turns to Michigan for a new president. It is a welcome demonstration of the unity of spirit which animates American scholarship and nationalization of American work in general, regardless of locomotion or tradition. JOHN BURROUGHS America without the kindly face of John Burroughs, brooding over his hills and, will hardly seem America. While Bur- roughs is being claimed by the whole coun- try, he is in a special sense New York's. He was a prophet of nature, who was born of our simplest country life and continued to loins and he had a vivid streak of the Irish race in him from his beloved grandmother Kelly. Certainly, he had the Celtic elo- live in it. He sprang from New England quence and imagination. Did he get his fine culture from the coun- try school he attended? Scarcely! It somehow inhered in him. He passed from the education of a country academy, and from school-teaching through a clerkship in the U. S. Treasury, and a doctor of letters at Yale, to the undisturbed cultivation of fruit and literature. Burroughs expanded vastly in the purely literary life. He lived the real life of the country with a new and understanding zest. Before his halycon days, he had poured Winter Sunshine into hearts of ice, mar- ried Birds and Poets. Since then, he has fared forth among Fresh Fields , inter- preted nature's Signs and Seasons , and sent Far and Near his estimates of Literary Values. The paths of all men led to his rustic door. Roosevelt loved to go there. Here were two great men, and vastly different in their lives, who had but a single thought when they were together. From book to book, from friend to friend, from one scene of nature's 'divine beauty to another, Bur- rough's genius grew. He was the greatest of our nature writers-and perhaps the time will come when his works will be accounted the greatest figures of our literature. Like his beloved Thoreau, like many students of nature, he was a philosopher. Near the end 'of his life, his reflections upon cosmic questions were expressed with more free- ldom than power. He leaves no successor- no one can wear his mantle, but his influence will survive and express itself in millions. THANKS T0 ALL VVe sincerely thank those who have made this issue of our paper possible, our adver- tisers, who have helped us on the financial side: those who have contributed articles for publication, and last but not least, our teachers who have helped us untiringly and willingly to make this, our last issue this year, a success.

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E SEDA Vol. ll HAMPDEN, MAINE, JUNE 1921 No. 2 1-1ArCi'i3i5EFiin'1ZIEi,Zxii5Eiv1Y fllnmmencement Humber Printed by The Seely Printing Co., Brewer THE SEDAN STAFF Editor in Chief Associate Editor Athletic Editor VESTA PARSONS, '21 HELEN PATTERSON, '22 ORMAN ROWELL, '24 Literary Editor MOLLIE CARLE TON, '21 Exchange Editor SYBIL HUNTING, '21 Business Manager Ass't. Business Manager Personal Editor ORRIN KIMBALL, '23 MARY COWAN, '22 WAITIE MADDOCKS, '22 EDITORIALS The day is rapidly approaching Qune 10th to he exactj when we must all say good-bye to our schoolmates of this friend- ly and happy school year. Some, our digni- fied i?j Seniors, are leaving us to go out into the world to take up their various voca- tions in life, never to brighten the portals of Hampden Academy again as students. As for the remaining boys and girls, they will return refreshed after the summer vacation, to spend, it is hoped, as studious a year as this one has been-also a merry one: for, as the old saying goes, All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. VVe must also say good-bye to our teachers who have helped us to obtain our present stock of knowledge. lt is not certain whether we shall have the same faculty another year or not. We trust we shall! PROGRESS OF THE WORLD Nothing is more familiar, more a matter of course, in our political history than the transition from one presidential administra- tion to another. Nothing is more impres- sive than the soundness of republican insti- tutions. Mr. Harding is the 29th President of the United States. He has entered upon the 34th Presidential term, and the l33rd year of the American Presidency. How many other countries in all the world, at all comparable with this, have had 29 suc- cessive chiefs without a Revolution? This young nation has become one of the oldest in unchanged government. The Allied Powers hnally have fixed the German indemnity at a mere minor fraction of the damage done and have provided for its payment on the easiest terms. Official authorities report that Germany has lie- tween eight and nine billion marks, new capital invested: yet the German govern- ment pleads poverty and inability to do so

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THE SEDAN 5 Waterman, Alvan, Waterman Vile think that Alvan must be -a woman- hater, because none of the fair maidens of Hampden Academy have ever succeeded in winning his young affections. junior Exhi- bition, Manager of the Senior Drama, Graduation Part. Torrens, Marcia L., Miss Highty-Tighty Here is the school musician, second only, in our estimation, to Paderewski. We ex- pect that she will have a wonderful career. and possibly she will entertain kings and queens by her art. School Pianist 135, School Orchestra Qlj, junior Exhibition, Senior Drama, Class Prophecy. Parsons, Vesta M., Birdie ln the comedy role, of Higbee of Har- vard, Yesta made her debut as Malvina, a dashing young widder from the West. She is one of the Academy's intellectual High- brows. We expect great things of you Vesta. Class President flj, Girls' llasket- ball Team 125, Manager of Girls' ll. li. Team 115, Sedan Staff flj, liditor-in- Chief Sedan ill, ,lunior Exhibition, Sen- ior Drama, Graduation Essay.