The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-12-01
From the Montpelier Wntchman.
Home Lecturers.


Home Lecturers.
a recent article in the IVatchman,
called out by the modest announcement of
Lieut.. Maury that he is prepared to lecture
during the winter for sI20 night and
expenses, commends itself TO every one as
sensible and iudicious. In SAKE and East
man we have poets known to the world.
They are men who have established for
themselves a permanent fame, and char
acter for Vermont literature wherever
works Of superior merit are read. In
selecting the names Of two or three Of the
gentleman given in the list Of lecturers, in
the article referred to, do not intend or
design to make invidous comparisons;
they are all gentlemen of recognized
ability.
Prof G.. n. Boardman of Mddlebury
College, is a man of large stature and of
commanding presence. He has heavy
full, deep toned voice, cultivated and cor
rect. His essays in leading Quarterlies,
his sermons and public addresses are all
characterized by sound learning and accu-
rate research, by great huency of language,
by splendor OF imagination, by loftiness
of thought by sympathy with the nature
of man, and by transitions always graceful.
In his description Of nature, he rises to
the height Of a true poet. al should like
to live in world of ohm Wilson's making,
says Allan Cunningham. So would you
of Prof. Boardman's. How lovely would
be the hills how romantic the mountains
how clear the skies, how beauteous the
light of the half-risen sun, how full Of prom
ise the wales, and of music the streams !!
The song Of the birds would be forever
heard, the bound of the deer forever seen /;
thistes would refuse TO grow, and hail
showers to descend ;while, amid the whole
woman would walk, pure and unspotted
creature, clothed with loveiness as with
garment, the flowers desirous Of being
pressed by her white feet, the wind feel
ing enriched by her breath, while the
eagle above would hesitate to pounce up
on the lambs, charmed into a dove by the
presence of beauty and innocence. And
in all, whether he speaks of nature, litera-
ture, or science, he goes up to the mark at
once.
j, X. Colby, ESQ, Of St. Johnsbury, is
q gentleman well known to the patrons Of
learning through the State. As teacher
he is learned, upright, deliberate, resolute
and impartial He is possessed of finvincible
reserve whenever reserve is necessary OF
great discernment in determining the char.
acter and procivities of his pupils; Of
distinguished self-command and calmness
and of unbending purity of life and express
sion. He is master of all he teaches and
Of all the subjects he writes upon, and
as lecturer he cannot fail of investing
his subject with interest and instruction
Rev. Franklin D. Aver, of St. Johns.
bury, is young man, not more thar
twenty.six, graduate of Dartmouth COL
lege, and of Andover Theological Semi
nary. Years ago he was distinguished
as writer in the Excelsior Club at St
Johnsbury, and this is no small praise
for the club numbered such as are now
eminent as editors, lawyers, divines ant
essayists. As a writer Mr.. Aver is {
man of taste aud Judgment. He is master
of the imaginative and beautiful he ha
the faculty of treasuring whatever he pro
nounces good. either as an idea or simile
and in his re-inspiration it loses nothin!
of its original fire or lustre; his style i
ersy, and remarkable for richness Of ex
preston. His own ideas of man and hi
duties to the world, of the world itself, o
religion, of social order, all attest that h
is not deficient in strength yet, in all thes
it is manifest that he leans less to the aus
tere and the gloomy than to the genil
, and the charming, As lecturer he is sur
, to interest, and to gain the attention of a
audience. F.A.A.
IVcst Randolph, Nov. 8th, 1858.
A WIDE-AwAKE 'LADY,"-A "lady
yas detected a few davs since. in mock etin