Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-06-23

man measures all things by the standard of
his profession, he needs not charity, not humility,
but knowledge in its truest, broadcast sense lie
needs to come out of bis shop. The physician
and lawyer must forget tie functioaGries, and
come as men. If the Frenchman comes to
Shakespeare as Frenchman, or the msthema-
tician comes to Milton as mathematician, he
will be doomed to disappointment, but let him
come as man, and he will find brother
There are no partizsns in literature. Nine
parts of Homer to-day belong to man, only one
part to Greece. The pedant has soaked out all
his blood in the pursuit of his calling. and lit
erature furnishes the blood of manhood to fill
out the form and erase the wrinkles If one
can read the sorrows of Leah, or Cordelis, or
Cowper's Lines TO his Mother, or Burns Golfers
Saturday night, and feel no lump in his throat, or
no sympathetic tenderness in his heart, then
in the mild words Of the Grecisn, " Let no such
person be my friend or sit at my fireside'' No
man can afford to neglect literature The writer
has sublime power. He paints monk, par
son or a woman as he sees them, and the whole
world gees them with his eyes and moulds its
opinions Of them to his standard. Why has God
given this wonderful power to any mani 1t is
that those who feel may quicken those who do
not. The best literature has much Of the woman
IL H. Int Elthl AOICt US 10 become, IN
a sense, womanly, and so in the true signifca-
ton Of the term, gentlemen. We need some
thing TO counterfeit the wear and worry and dis
gusts of professional life, which blunt the senses
The physician should be capable of emotion, yet
capable Of arresting it. 1t is no wonder
that physicians are such inveterate smokers,
turning to this indulgence as a relief to the dull
routine of professional practice. But it would
be better TO seek recreation and rest in literature
which cheers and not ine5ristes, soothes and not
supplies The Professor spoke Of the external,
general and social advantages flowing to a man
from the study Of literature, and closed with the
suggestion that in every medical and exclusively
professional school there be established profes-
sorship of literature, to teach thst the humani-
ties are necessary in developing the true man, as
distinguished from the professor, and he assured
the audience that we're such course followed in
the medical schools, it would hsye an influence
which would make itself felt in every hospital
and by every bedside in the land
The discourse, Of which the above is but
weak AMI imperfect abstract was a powerful one
and can be properly appreciated only by those
who were fortunate enough to hear it. The vale
dietory was a really good one, which is rare
thing to say Of College vaedictories.
The graduating class numbered seventeen as
follows
Blaisleli, Elson George, Vermont.
Boylen, Charles DIN, Vermont
Briggs, Melburn Sylvester, P. q.
Campbell, George William, Vermont
Campbell, james Jr, Connecticut.
Crittenden, Rufus Asaph, Massachusetts
Goddard Gamplio ASHLEY p ID
Hgbee Eiwin Wilbur, Vermont
Jackson, Samuel n, P.O.
Mcpherson, Drummond Thomas, p. o.
Patten, John Clark, Vermont
Petty, Charles William, Vermont
Pierce, Henry Harrison, Vermont
lockwood Heman Sheldon. New York.
Shsttuck, George, New York.
Watson, Irving Allison, New Hampshire.
Weston, Eugene 5 Vermont.
Mr. b. D. Grout acted as marshal.
The music was most excellent, although in the
eternal fitness Of things, a piece Of lively dance
music Immediately following the prayer was to
our cars not the most appropriate thing in the
world
FEST RsGpESr Y. V.M-Eiwsri T. Green
leaf, Of winooski, private in Company E, LIST
Regiment, Vermont Volunteer Militia. has been
promoted TO the position Of Fret Lieutenant
and Aijutant, vice George +. Davis. removed
from the State. Aljutaut Greenleaf served
through The wsr with credit, and returned home
Sc First Lieutenant, conmsuiing the Is. Yer
n Mt Light Battery.