The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-08-16
Commencement at Burlington.
rlIr AIraiNt uirNioN.

The alumni reunion ~ tuI Ihht /
lloase, on Wednesday, was II very
pleasant affair Hon. Robert S. Hale,
of Elizabethtown, ~ Y, was Master of
Ceremonies Short and telling speech
cs were made 10y Gen. p. H. Wash |
burn, Of Woodstock; Prof Buckham,
Hon. Il. d. Culver, of Brooklyn, n. Y.
the orator and poet of the day, Dr..
Andrew Peabody, of Cambridge, Mass
George L. Houghton, of st. Adams;
and VIM II. Merriam Of Troy, \. Y
The exhibition of the Junior class
took place in the evening We give
the names Of the speakers and their
themes; Necessity of Pure Litera-
ture, Henry Clay Barnes; Lives Of.
Glory have parallel Lives of Suffering
Mason Bill Carpenter; Enthusiasts
and Fanatics, Joseph Dudley Denison,
The Worker aud his Work.
COMMENCEMENT DAY.
The graduating class numbered
eight The names and the subjects
OF their 'pieces' are as follows:
Productycucss Of American IDEAS Albert
Galatt Whitemore, West Milt0n
Tho beginning and the End of Revolutions.
Washington spencer Cillcy, jericho.
Tendency of Civilization to Universally. Jos
cph Shouiop. South licru
The Law of Progr ss i'm History. Ira Edmund
ShatIuct, Burlington.
Faith IN the Truth Albert Phelps. South He
The Oil Age oftho Scholar. Charles Edmund
Parker, Gorham, Ne.
Reciprocity. not Compensation. Uc law of the
Universe. Henry Orson Wheeler, South Hero.
The Ideal IN Actual Life Walter Perrin
Smith, iialdwick.
CANDIDATES FOR THE 1tNsrrRs pEGREr.
Thucydides as a Historian Oscar Atwood,
Cambridge.
Utility and Progress the End of Modern Phi.
losophy. Erastus Franklin Bullald, Lewis, y
Degrees were conferred rs fol ovs
The degree of Master Of Arts, in course, on
Benjamin Franklin Mower, class of iSil; Ma
thauiel Porter Gilbert class Of 1851; Oscar At
wood, Horace Barlow, Erasius Franklin i5ullard
Dennis Donovan, Sullivan French Gale, Franh
DcmIng hoyt of the class of 1864.
HoNonm DEGREES.
The Honorary degree of Master of Arts wal
conferred ON Henry Clark, of Rutlaud; Asa San
dcrsur. of Essex Edward Conant, of Randolph
Rev. pliny Holton White, of Coventry, and Prof
iii Whitney Blake. Jr of New Haven. Ct
The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Diyiut,
was conferred on Row john. Russell Hculclt, q
tie class of 1917, Professor in the Bangor Ihco
logical seminary; Rev. George Nye Boardman
of limghampton, n. y; and ltoN. Albert HOpsoi
Dailoy,of sheldon, of the class of 1913.
The honorary degree of Doctor OF Laws wa
conferred On John Alexander jameson. Of th
} class Of 1876, Judge of the superior Court q
Chicago, and Professor of the Constitutions
Law IN the University of Chicago. Hon. Wihau
Almon Wheeler of Malone, ~ H.. and on Hon
Ihaddcus Stevens, of Lancaster, PA.
THE CORPORATION DINNER
Followed the public exercises at til
American House
Appropriate speeches we're made b
) President Angel, Mayor Wales, {
Burlington; Gen. Washburn aud OIL
} ers. We give the remarks of Pres
dent Angel, as we find them in tn
Free Press, as they throw considerabl
light on the present condition of hi
: University;
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n VAS to be carried still farther forward and $
lie It lad hccn egmined II t" '' rase fnd al ,0
to Qoo ana to hl5 sg@ 5 nngion has 9o o da6 e"
Ig he was happy to announce that there had be
tie any 'S1 previous vi appeaton i s5ooo and ~ had
n doSo od P bac 5h9t tine MG@f s @oa D. al
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re and tho rest must be secured during the day
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st what the University means to do with the fun,
}, and he answered that she means work. y,
year. if the subscription lists were He'd
would SIT down with Brother Mars aud drink
the inspiration of Pocsy, but this year lac moa
work. II was proposed to perfect the huildiu,
to beautify the park in front Of the college,