Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-07-06
BACHELORS OF ART.
MlDDLEBURY COLLEGE SENDS OUT
ITS 930 DELEGATION.
Graduating Day Opens with the Annual
Meeting of tho Associated Alumni
New Onicers and Necrolog Record
Orators and Orations- Con IN en- cement
Concert Closes tho Week.

Concert Closes tho Week.
MrDDLEBuRY, June rs. This was grad
uatiug day at Middebury college. The ex-
ercises opened with tho annual meeting of
the associated alumni in the college chapel
at 9.45 o'clock, the president, vice-pres-
dent and president pro tenn all being absent
NJ. A. Brooks of Midd.ebury occupied the
! chair.
Secretary T. E. Boyce then read the re
port o, the committee on nominations, ap-
| pointed yesterday. The nominations were
as follows: President f. q. Swlnngton,
class of 1875; president, j. w. Ten
Brooke class OF 1884; secretary, Prof. Thorn
as Il. Boyce, class OF 1876; central committee,
| Prof. Boyco, Prof. James and W. II. Button
committee on neurology, Prof Eaton. Prot
Boycs and +. Il. Button; ora5or, George
u. Wright, class of 1874 alternate, Miss
NJ. d. Chellis, class of 1885, poet, Marvin
H. Dana, class OF 1856 alternate, Miss
Anna Belle Sheldon, class of 1899.
This report was accepted and adopted
and Prof Boyce then read the report of the
neurological committee for the last year,
which, reerrnnged according to year Of
graduation, was as follows:
The Neurological RECORD.
1928, Samuel Evarts OF Cornwall, Vt. 4,
died in Boston, Mass, April 49, 1898.
1898, Rev. Eleizer j. Marsh, at Lsomin-
ster, Mass, March IA, 1898.
1899, Rev. Hiram Bingham, at Wind
ham, Ohio, November IL, 1892.
1889, Eliphalet Young Swift, at Den
marx, Iowa, June 10, 1892.
1910, Henry Is. Farrar, at Middlsbury,
VT, September s. 1892.
1912, Timothy c. smith, at Mddlobury,
Vt, February &c, 1893.
1913, Sumner Albse, at Cambridge, Mass.
January II, 1898.
| 1853, Charles S. Colburn, at Pittsford,
Vt, April 8, 1898.
1853, stephen A. Walker, In New York
city, January II 1898
1878, Rev. Charles N. Brainerd, at Brat
tleboro VT, June -, 1898
No additions to the list of deceased grad
yates were forthcoming and the report was
adopted as presented
DR.. James B. O'Neil of Portland, Me-,
class of 1888, was then called on for re-
marks, and talked Interestingly for some
minutes. Prof. Eaton followed with a
short.talk in regard to the curriculum.
Voting for a candidate for the board of
trustees was then begun. In accordance
/
have the privilege of voting for three per
sons as members of the corporation, when
ever there is vacancy. From the three
getting the highest number Of votes the
corporation may select one as a member of
their own board. Three having the most
votes were Henry H. Vail of New
York city, class OF 1860; Edwin H.
Highley Of Worcester, Mass, class of 1868,
and DR.. John a. Mead of Rutland, VT
| class of 1864. Tho secretary was instructed
to present these three names TO the corpora
ton for their consideration, the board be-
ing then in session, and the meeting ad
journed sine die.
Commence ENoroises.
Next in order came the graduating exer
cises in tic Congregational church, which
began shortly after II o'clock. Following
was the programmes:
Grafton, with salutatory address, The
March Of Reform, Edmond Robert Stur-
| tevant, Ware, Mass; GRAFTON, The Coming
Man, Gilbert Everts Cady, Mitdebury; es.
say, Conscience and Civilization, Mary
Bradley Dunshee, Bristol; oration-philo-
sophioal, The Land of the Might Be- Louis
Taylor, Mamaroneck, n. Y. Grafton, The
! Social Vision, James Bernard Donoway,
Nergouncs; Grafton, Mammouism, William
Joseph Douglass, Norwood, y. y; essay,
| The Power OF W.T. Emma Howard Dorsey,
Middlebury; oration-scientflc, The Work
ingman's Refuge, Frank Barrows Sesley,
| Delhi n. y; Grafton, The Glory of In
perfection, George Levi Eassoltine, Bristol:
GRAFTON, The Error Of Technical Training,
| Henry Gerard Mesathlin, Harwich, Mass. /;
essay, The NGlue of Biography, Susie Frau
ces Wilder, Ludlow; GRAFTON, philosophical
The Evolution of Truth, Edgar Russell
Brown, Jackson vile; GRAFTON The Dstr-
button OF Wealth, Ben jamin Clement Miner,
New Haven; GRAFTON, The Claim for Pen
sins, Paul Gilbert Ross, Poutney; grafton
Freedom aud Poverty, benjamin Franklin
Wyrue, Minneapolis, Mimi. grafton, with
valedictory addresses, Our Present Oppor-
tunity, Charles Everett Hessel grave, Og-
densburg, n. y. masters grafton, The
Prophets Work, John Martin Thomas,
East Orange, n. j.
Comforting OF Degrcos
AT the conclusion of tho exercises degrees
were conferred as follows: A. b., in course,
on the members OF tho graduating class
A. NJ, in course, on the members of the
class Of 1890 A. NJ, out of course