The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-19
MjddIebury College.

We recognize in q corresp ondcnt of
the New York Evangelist a visitor at
the late encemcnt, Rev. Samuel
Strong Howe. OF Iowa city, an alum
nus of the class of 1929: that of Ed
ward ID. Barber, still freshly remem-
bered at Middlebury as a citizen, and
Calvin T. Hubert, Daniel Roberts and
Truman NJ. Post, who survive to share
with Mr.. II. the sympathies and honors
of o distinguished class:
MIDDLEBURY, VT, July Z, 1881.
The e~ighty-first Commencement of
Middlebury College has Just past. 1t
has been a success; and by the inaug-
uration of DR.. Uamlin as President,
the college seems about to take a new
departure. Without detailing the order
of exercises at length, it may suffice to
state that the inaugural address of the
president was of the most practical
character, showing what had been be-
gun and done during the year, and the
needs of the institution for the years to
come. The North Hall painter Hall)
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north section of it has been changed in
to a magnificent library-room, with
four stories of shelves, assembled by
easy flights of stairs; the lower stories
| with books for frequent consultation
and daily access by the Faculty and stu
dents, and with numerous departments
of thousands of volumes that may be
supplied by funds from its many BEEN
factors Git is to be hopod) that may
arise. Seven thousand dollars have al
ready been expended on this library.
the museum taking the place of the old
library-room. The philosophical room
he's also been renovated with glass cases
for the apparatus. The south end of
Painter Hall has been converted into a
gymnasium at the request of the stu
dents, with other changes, rei%uvenat-
ing the rooms and buildings; for which
end much labor and money have been
expended.
The address before the Alumni, as
well as that Of the president, was well
adapted to counterfeit the dogmas of
false philosophy and pretensc of science.
Rev. III. N. IIudson's lecture (now al
Ii, ID. by his Alma Matters comforting
power was a very remarkable discus
sion on the topic of Requirement, in
contrast with Culture; showing that
merely intellectual attainmcnts of rea-
son and the understanding, without the
culture of the feelings, the suscepti-
bilities and the heart, is q false theory
of education. 1t is much TO be hoped
that the Doctor will produce it substan-
TALLY in print, as a most scholarly and
clO0uent performance.
The graduating class, although small,
had well.delivercd orations, without a
single trip of the tongue or slip of men,
DRY. They all appear to be young men
of mark.
Time would fail to comment OH the
concert and promenade, instead of the
old disused Commencement ball, show
.ng advances in Christian civilization
i'll Vermont. But who can tell the
changes in Middlcbury, in neat groves
and parks from the college campus TO
the extremities of the village, all gay
and green? May these go on to per-
lection, and the college be perpetual.
1t is not about to die, but has become
instinct with life and hope, and is des-
tined TO last as a blessing not only TO
Vermont, but to the whole land and to
the wide world, while the Green Noun
tains shall endure and the everlasting
hills remain, amid which this loveliest
of places is uncovered.
ALUMNUsLyRoM Iowa.