St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-04-28
A DAY AT DARTMOUTH.
st Johnsbury,s interests in the College.

tive of the CALIFORNIAN at Hanover 1
and the day was very pleasantly /
spent with the St. Johnsbury boys al |
Dartmouth college. The day was a
half-holiday and gave an excellent
opportunity to watch the college
BOYS in their sports. Just now the
athletes are training for the intercol
legiate contest at Springfield, Mass,
on May %. The campus was alive
with strong and inely-formed boys
training for such events as the broad
Jump, hammer throwing, half-mile
run, pole vaulting, etc. Much is ex-
pected of Henry c. Ide in the hundred
yards dash and hurdles. Mr.. Ide has
made the dash in 1912 seconds, which
is within a half a second of the
worlds best record now held by
professional. Ide also established a
record for running hurdles, and for
short time held the worlds record in
this event. If Ide can make the 100
yards dash under 1912 seconds at
Springfield he will, like Byron, wake
up and find himself famous" An
other ST. Johnsbury Academy grad
uate who is interested in athletics is
Edward K Hall, a member of the
Senior class and one of the best all
around athletes in college. Mr.. Hall
is president of the Athletic associa-
ton and one Of the most popular
fellows in his class
That the college boys do not give
all their time to athletics is proven in
ust such cases as that of Mr.. Hall,
who is one of the scholars of his class
and will appear on the commence
ment stage this year. A St. Johns
bury boy, w. G. Stoughton, is vale
dictOrian.
ST. Johnsbury is also interested in
the faculty of the college, in whose
numbers are three Academy gradu-
ates Prof. James F. Colby is Park
er professor of law and political
science and instructor in history !;
Prof. Arthur Fairbanks is assis-
tant professor of German and
instructor in logic, and D. J.
Foster of Burlington is instructor
in ora tory. Prof. Fairbanks expects
to begin his duties at Yale next fall,
having been chosen lecturer on social
ethics and the philosophy of religion
at the Yale Divinity school. Prof.
Fairbanks is arranging for lectures
on the history of social ethics, partic-
ularly of the Hebrews and Greeks;
also series of lectures on compara-
tive religion, including types of reli-
gion among uncivilized tribes, the
history of religion and the phenom-
enology of religion. DIR. Fairbanks
will also lecture twice a week on So
cial problems, such as socialism and
communism, the labor question,
pauperism, history of charity, crime,
etc. He will be valuable addition
to Yale's faculty.
Dartmouth has grown steadily in
the past ten years and is still grow
ing Within a decade there have
been added to its buildings Wilson
hall, the new fire-proof library build
ing, where the $4,000 volumes of the
college library are stored, a hand
some stone chapel and the Y. M. C.
A. building. Hiram A. Hitchcock of
New York, one of the proprietors of
the Fifth Avenue hotel is building a
hospital in memory OF his wife, which
will cost at least a quarter of mil
lion dollars. 1t is beautiful struc-
ture built of yellow brick with tile
trimmings and is perfect in every de-
tail. Rand & Taylor of Boston,
two former residents of St. Johns.
bury, are the architects 1t is expect
ed that the building will be completed
this year. 1t will add greatly to the
facilities of the medical school, and
give Hanover one of the best hospi
tails in the country.
There is universal disappoint
ment that DIR. Tucker declined the cal
to the presidency ofDartmouth, as al
felt that he would have made an ex
cellent head for the institution.
ACADEMY NOTES.
Miss Bertha Ross, 81, was il
town recently; she is teaching il
Groton.
Miss Ola Johnson, 81, has taken
position as teacher in Morrisville.
Base ball practice has begun on tn
campus, and there is fun ahead.
An Adelphian meeting will be held o
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