St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-21
VERMONT NEWS.
Middlebury College.

Middlebury College entered Sept. Is
upon the fall term of its ninty.eighth
year. The initial steps for it's organiza.
ton were taken in 1898. The charter
was secured Nov. 1, 1900. Hence the
faculty and trustees have begun their pre-
parauions tor the observance of the CEN
t%ennial. Indirectly the college is an off.
shoot from Yale. Rev. Timothy dwight,
ID. D., president Of Yale, visited Middle
bury in 1898 and advised that the Addi-
son County Grammar School, the build
ing Tor which was nearing completion,
should be developed into a college. Its
principal. Rev. jeremiah Atwater, D. D.,
a Yale graduate, was made president,
when the charter was granted. He re-
tanned the office nine years. The remain.
ing presidencies have been as follows:
Rev. Henry Davis, D. D., 1S10-1S17;
Rev. Joshua Bates, d. D., 1S1S-1S39;
Rev. Benjamin Labaree, D. D., LII. D.,
1S40-1866; Rev. Harvey D. Kitchel, D..
D., 1s66-1S73; Rev. Calvin B. Hubert,
D.. D., 1875 1880; Rev. Cyrus Hamlin,
d. D., LII. D., 1880-1SS5; Rev. Ezra
Brainerd, LII. D., 1886. DR.. Hamlin
now resides at Lexington. Mass. His
PiNotdNhSJ liz says WAS tuC OdSlS vi Ills
old age" He arrested an accumulation
Of debt, amounting to several thousand
dollars annually. He r~eorganized the
departments of natural history, chemis-
try and general physics; reconstructed,
catalogued and rendered more practic-
ally useful the library and provided the
students with a reading-room, a gymna-
stun aud commodious clubhouse where
good board could be obtained at an eco
nomical price. Under the leadership Of
President Brainerd, LII. D., the endow.
ment has been doubled through the bene
icence of Mr.. Charles Starr; the range of
studies has been expanded chemical and
biological laboratories have been added
and equipped; elective courses offered a
gymnasium furnished with all needful
apparatus; and electricity has been in
PRODUCED into the library and reading
room.
A new library will be dedicated as a
feature oil the centennial, a legacy of$5O,-
900 having been received from the late
Egbert Starr of New York city. The
plans have been prepared under the direc-
ton Of DR.. Henry H. Vail, go, of New
York. The work OF construction will be
begun in the spring. The library was es-
tablished in 1909. 1t now contains 22,-
500 volumes, and is a depository of Gov
ernment publications.
The present faculty consists of twelve
professors. The entering class numbers
thirty students, and the total ofstudents
is fully equal to that OF recent years.
The educational privileges of the college
are open to young m
Among the living graduates of Middle
bury are Hon. Edward ]. Phelps, ex-
minister to England; President J. E.
Rankin, D. d., Of Howard University.
Washington; Rev. James l.. Barton, D.
D., secretary of the foreign department
of the American Board; Rev. George w.
Brooks of Ashmont, Mass; Rev. l.. J.
Phelps of Berkeley Temple, Boston,;
President Brainerd and Professor How.
ard and Professor Bryant Of its faculty,
and it's assistant librarian, DR.. Prentiss.
The plans for the centennial provide
for utilizing the occasion, not merely for
purposes of history, but of educational
progress.
Reunion Of Fourteenth Vermont.
About 60 old veterans of the 18th regi-
ment Vermont Volunteers. attended a re-
union which was held in the City Hall at
Vergennes last Wednesday. The regi-
ment closed it's term of service with the
proud distinction Of being the only YER
mont regiment, or separate Vermont or
g%anization, that never had on its rolls
the name of a single deserter. 1t is
doubtful il this can be said of another
regiment that served as long as the Four
teenth in the entire army Of the Potomac.
Promotion for a Vermonter.
Lieut.. Col. Daniel D. Wheeler, chief
quartermaster, United States volunteers,
is assigned to duty as special inspector
of the quartermaster's department ofthe
United States army, with an office at
Washington, and while so acting will
have the rank OF colonel. Col. Wheeler
enlisted from Cavendish, Vermont, in the
fourth Vermont volunteers in 1861. At
the close of the civil war he was a ~lieuten-
a~nt-colonel and assistant adjutant gener.
al OF volunteers. In May, 1866, he was
appointed lieutenant in the first United
States artillery in 1879 was transferred
to the quartermaster's department with
rank OF captain, and has risen through
the successive grades to His present rank.
He is a highly efficient and worthy officer.
The Vermont State Syndicate (limited)
is Fair Haven's latest corporation. 1t
has been organized by Englishmen to
quarry roofing slate. The capitalization
is 1915, 900, divided into 750 shares Of
$500 each. The concern has boughttwo
quarrics, one on Scotch hill and n in
South Poultney.