Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-27

Only ono other academic school in the
state has hall with any where near .h,
seating capacity of the seminary chapel.
The whole number Of students registered
during the past year is 235, an increase o
over forty sic per cent over the preceding
year.
Two noon day prayer meetings have
been sustained during the year, and tho
attendance upon the class meetings hal
been from 40 to 80
The new catalogues are just out. Sept
to Prof. Bishop for a copy for yourself
and for your friend intending to attcn,
school the coming year.
Two additional rows of trees have beer
set out on the campus and efforts are to b,
made TO construct appropriate walks ant
drives and put in fountain.
OF the boys in the graduating class one
goes 10 Yale college, one TO Brown
university, three TO Wesleyan university
and one is as yet Undecided.
Nearly one fourth of all the members o
the Vermont NJ E. confereE ce have beer
students in, or teachers of, either Newbury
Springfield or Montpelier seminary.
All of the boys in the graduating class
are members OF the band society. The
lady graduates are equally divided between
the aesthetic and ladies' literary society.
The full house at the piano recital on
Monday evening very plainly showed the
high estimate placed upon the musical
department by the citizens of Montpelier
Letters concerning rooms, registry
catalogues, information desired, etc., NAV
be addressed to Prof. Bishop at Montpelier,
during the summer.
The fact that there have been over 80
conversions the past year is proof positive
that this school is not place where young
people lose their religion and imbibe
skeptical opinions.
The number of graduates this year is
twelve. The faculty might easily have had
a larger number had they been content to
maintain the low standard of scholarship
which they found.
An evidence of the thoroughness secured
in the college preparatory department is
seen in the fact that Dartmouth, Middle
bury and Burlington colleges admit semi
nary graduates without examination.
With two exceptions the past year all
of the teachers have roomed at the board
ing house and taken their meals with the
students. So far as possible the design
has been 10 make the hall a home for the
students.
Ten of tho students are fitting for the
ministry and two of these expect to
become foreign missionaries. OF the
ladies three expect to enter the foreign
field and the school may yet rival Mt
Holgoka in missionary spirit.
w. R. Clark, d. D., j. o. Peck, d. d.,
Judge Homer WhippIe,l Judge Cooley,
who wa, lay delegate to the last two
general conferences, and large number
of their distinguished men have been
students in Newbury seminary.
The friends of the school regret TO
learn that Miss Clara j. Bemis has resi- IN.
ed her position as teacher of the art
department and can only hope .that this
branch of school work may be as successful
the coming year as it has been the past.
Prof. Huxley. who has taught elocution
at the seminary the past term, has been
offered $500 for single months work in
teaching next fall. 1t seems a pity that
the school cannot afford to retain him as
professor of elocution and English litera-
ture.
The committee to invest the funds OF
the endowment consists of such men as
j. d. Beeman, F. p. Ball, l. N. Hall and
A. j. Willard. all of them successful
financiers, hence no fears need be enter
tanned concerning unsafe or unwise invest
ments.
During the past term FIVE pianos and
two organs have been in constant use
during the day and evening. Under the
efficient management of Prof. Hadley this
department has been constantly increasing
in interest and now ranks second to no
other in the state.
The selection of William II. Tirrell, A.
b., to serve as professor OF science The
ensuing year is acknowledged to be very
fitting. 1t is purposed to make this
important department one of the principal
features of the sch Dol, and to introduce, as
soon as possible, every facility for practi-
caly illustrating the great facts of physical
science.
The newly prepared rooms, the increase
of carpets, the new fitting up an d furnish
ing of the parlors and reception rooms,
the eighty new spring beds, the papered
walls, tinted ceiling and lambrequned
windows of the dining halls, the new
pianos and organs present, to the old
students, an agreeable contrast to the
former condition of things.
The four secret societies with their
elegantly furnished halls and their unusual
facilities for culture in debate, etc.,
together with thelweekly lyceum. open to
all, present advantages in this line
unequaled by any othor school in this
state. Many of the graduates have
acknowledged that the practical benefit
which they gained from participation in
the exercises of these societies was equal
to that gained by the studies of the regu-
lar course.
The theological department at Newbury
seminary, the parent of the Vermont
Methodist seminary, was the earliest
theological school of the NJ. E. church in
America. Doctor, afterward bishop, o.
G. Baker, was then principal and the
work done in that branch was quite
extended. The department was afterward
removed to Concord, N. H., and later to