Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-08-07
rrsddIebury College in 1923.

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uTddIebury College in 1928.
| AS a master in education the mind of
! President Bates was distinguished by
! the largeness and refinement of his ideas
| He graduated at Harvard, the leader i'll
| class studies of minds like those of
| Shaw and Buckminster in the class of
| 1900, and became pastor and personal
! friend of Fisher Ames at Dedham. I'm
/ der his presidency what was liberal in
| attainment was second only to the sym
| metry of the college order in training
| and this pro t0rma, if it must be, for
! the touch of nature had his sympathy
! within the rule, if stricken well, even
| if the full hand refused to train itself
! on all the chords of which his own was
| the master. So as to associate teachers.
| the unique mannerism of HOugh, true as
! it was bold, awakened no jealousy of its
| telling power upon the minds and hearts
| of their pupils, having with so many a
/ preference over his own, and the en-
| thnsiasm of his own Professor of Ian
| guages, receiving the Greek in spirit and
/ form with the classes, and impressing
! all of language as all of life for the
( tune, he watched and aided, waiting to
/ give their quickened faculties higher
| power from his own divine philosophy.
! And SO was the order Of college training
vindicated, under his rnle, ....#..--
When the Seniors and Sopho'nores came
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And the former were AL on the Presidents
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The Glass of 1923 in Middlchury Col
! lege was represented, ut their tiftieth an
! niyersarv, by three members, Joseph
Battell of New York, Harvey Button of
| Wallingford, and Merritt Clark of POult-
| ney, men in good health, of estimable
! personal character, with the traces of
/ their College fellowship in their pleasant
| countenances. They were, indeed, the
| mature. well-respected men, a studious,
well-ordered youth might have promised
! they should be. They are, too, as it is
understood, successful men, each in the
sphere and to the degree, their aspira-
tons may have urged in their pursuits.
/ Their class was highly esteemed in its
College period, particularly when, by
seniority, the college dignity in scholar
ship and the leadership in college affairs
fell to them At this period acts of in
corporation were obtained for the Phil
Omathesian and Beneticgnt societies, as
sOciations which dated baCkto the earlier
days of the institution.
More particularly, and in connection
| with the successful studies of this class,
the Philogical Society was then first
organized, and with them first, and
afterwards for years. ingraiued itself
upon the style OF scholarly thought and
feeling III the College. and stimulated in
habits of research the men since devoted
to the service Of biological learning. Its
library, in addition to the SOcietys pur-
chases, comprised, in good part, the
handsome patrimony of theiraccompIish-
ed Professor in books bought chiefly
in Germany, and was open daily for
consultation in a room adjoining his
own lecture-room and study, into which
the atmosphere of bis own enthusiasm
entered, with sometimes the soft, hushed
tones of a voice, animated with no
spirit ruder or more sordid.
There were eighteen graduates of the
Glass of 1928. OF these Julian G.. Buell.
of CastletOn was one of the ablest and
most aspiring, and died among the ear
Hest starred in the Triennial. Professor
Thomas T. Conant was his competitor
for the highest college honors, and he
survives to illustrate the ability tasked
in the contest, and the dignity of the
life-race of study upon which he had
then fairly entered. The late Edgar L.
Ormsbee of Rutland was Buells ROOM
mate in college; he found his taste suit
ed more exclusively with matters of
thought than of science, but with all his
facility of wit INDUCED no slight of in
tellect to avoid true scholarship. The
latn nf IIov1 N4N,,
Seminary, was his townsman from Shore
ham, and aided Ormsbee to recall the
stores of local anecdote with which its
neighborhood seemed to be enriched
Benjamin Hagar, from Montreal, was
their first French scholar. A teacher in
Washington, he died the first of their
list, in 1897. Lewis Mcdonald of Mid
dlebury, was their poet-a true one. No
body misses the true fire now, in lines
recalled with the themes of fifty years
ago. Francis Markoe was from Phila-
delphia, and brought, with his early
scholarship, maturity of habit and a
knowledge of the world to the class, ac-
quired in life and at sea which, in it's
best essence, they were not slow to as
simulate in intercourse, commended by
elegance and heartiness of address, a
manly figure, Plantagenet face, and a
versatility in the use and pursuit of
knowledge welcome to their circle Twi-
light, long of Bloomington, as minister
and teacher, was adumbrated alike
when senior, in complexion and tone,
quiet, reserved, studious man, upon the
sunset of whose feelings shadow might
dwell but not chill. Alvah Day and
John B. Shaw were children of the
light, the former by complexion. Their
proper historian was 1ilden. Eventual
ity, in the chronological sense, was his
forte, then and since, whatever could be
known of men or events, with a finish
and vitality of statement, showing that
he was meant to live after, and over for
others, the scenes in which he bore so
well his part.
The record of the gentleman just pres
ent at commencement, is attested to all
Vermonters, upon the Triennial IN ma
iuscaIIis Rtteris, equal to Hon. Button
was of Clarendon by birth Clark from
Middletewn. They never belonged to
the class of poor scholars, or of poor
men, but paid all they owed and had all
they wanted, and deserved all they have
got The world is the better for them.