The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-07
From the Vermont Chronicle.l
utdduebury college In 1873.

graduated at Harvard, the leader in class
studies of minds like those of Shaw and
Buckminster in the class of 1900, and be-
came the pastor and personal friend of Fish
or Amcs at Dedham. Uuder his presidency |
what was liberal in attainment was second |
only to the symmetry of the college order
in training, and this prcfo'mo, if it must be-
for the touch of nature had his sympathy
within the rule, if stricken well, even il the
full hand refused to train itself on all the
cords of which his own was the master SO
as to associate teachers, the unique man
nerism 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 preference over his
own. and the enthusiasm of his own profess
sor of languages, receiving the Greek in
shirt and form with the classes. and i'm
pressing all of language as all of life for the
time. 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 indicated, under
his rule,
"when the seniors and sophomorcs came to Ill
VIDE
And the former were all on the presidents
side"
The class of 1928 in Middlcbury college
was represented at their late fftieth
anniversary. by three members, Joseph
Battcl of New York, Harvey Button of
Wallingford and Merritt of Clark PCult-
ney, men in good health, and of estimable
personal character, with the traces of their
college fellowship in their pleasant counte-
nances They were, indeed. the mature,
well-respected men, n studious, well-or-
dered youth might have promised they
should be. They are. too. AS it is under
stood, successful men, each in the sphere
and to the degree, their aspirations may have
urged in their pursuits. Their class was
highly esteemed in its olcge period, par
ticularly when. by seniority, the college
dignity in scholarship and the leadership in
college affairs fell to them. At this period
acts of incorporation were obtained for the
Phlomathesian and Beneficial societies,
associations which dated back to the earlier
days of the institution. More particularly,
in connection with the successful studies of
this class, the Pathological society was then
first organized and with them first, and
afterwards for years, ingraincd itself upon
the style of scholarly thought and feeling in
the college, and stimulated in habits of re-
search the men since devoted to the service
of pathological learning. Its library in
addition to the society's purchases, COM
prised, in good part, the handsome patri-
mony of their accomplished professor, in
books bought chiefly in Germany, and was
open daily for consultation in u room adj
Joining his own lecture room and study,
into which the atmosphere of his own en-
thusiasm entered, with sometimes the soft,
hushed tones of voice, animated with no
spirit ruder or more sordid. Robert Bridges
Patton, p. d., Gotting, A. b., Yale, 1917,
professor of languages, Middlebury, 1873
%; after at Princeton, and the University
of New York died 1899.
There were eighteen graduates of the
Glass of 1928. OF these Julian G. Buell.
of Castleton, was one of the ablcst and
most aspiring, and died among the earliest
starred in the Tricnnial. Professor Thorn
as j. 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 lfe-racc OF study up
on which he had then fairly entered. The
late Edgar l.. Ormsbec of Rutland. was
Buell's roommate in college; he found his
taste suited more exclusively with matters
of thought than of science, but with all his
facility of wit INDUCED no slight of intel
lect to avoid true scholarship. The late
Eli b. Smith, of New Hampton Seminary
was his townsman from ShOreham, and
aided Ormsbee to recall the stores of local
anecdote with which its neighborhood
seemed to be enriched. Benjamin IIagar,
from Montreal, was their first French schol-
ar. teacher in Washington, he died, the
first of their list, in 1927. Lewis MELON
aid Of Middlebury, was their Poet, a true
one. Nobody misses the true fire now, in
lines recalled with the themes of fifty years
ago. Francis Markoe was from Phadel-
phia, and brought with his early scholar
ship, a maturity of habit and knowledge OF
the world to the class, acquired in life and
at sea which, in its best essence, they were
not slow to assimilate in intercourse, COM
mended by elegance and heartincss of ad-
dress, manly figure, a Plantagenet face
and 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, n quiet, reserved
studious man, upon the sunset of who's,
feeling shadow might dwell but not a chill
Alvah Day and John b. Shaw were chill
dren of the light, the former by complex.
ion. Their proper historian was Tllden
Eventually, in the Phrcnol gca sense
W his forte, then and since, whatever
could be known of men or events, with Il
finish and vitality of statement showing
that he was meant to live after, and over
for others the scenes in which he bore st
well his part
The record of the gentlemen just prescn
ut Commencement, is attested to all Yer
monters, upon the Triennial, IN majuScuG
htteris, equal to Hon. Button was If Clar
endon by birth; Clark from Middlctown
They never belonged to the class of poo
scholars, or of poor men, but paid all the,
owed and had all they wante !, and dc
served all they have got. The world is thu
letter Tor them, and seems to have under
s'oou II. lhey, 100, are something the bet
ter for the world. Their associate only wa
present at the Alumni Dinner, on Tuesday