Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-06-29
Monday at the University
Of Vermont Given up to
the Seniors.
EXERCISES ON TIE GREEN
Presidcnt's Address by II. W. Smith Tho
Class History, Glass Essay, Campus
Grafton, Poem, Address to Under
graduates, Pipe Grafton, Ivy
Grafton and Glass Song.

The class day exercises in connection
with the 95th commencement of the Uni
versity of Vermont took place Monday
afternoon on the College Green in front
of the Billings Library The weather was
favorable, the shade trees shielding from
the sun the heads of the many people as
sembled. The senior class formed in line
back OF the DibraCy and marched to the
seats headed by Marshal Austin carrying
the class banner of purple and old gold
The Howard Opera House orchestra fur
nlshed music for the afternoon.
AS soon as the members OF the class
were seated II. w. Smith delivered the
presidents address. He said in part.
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
Friends and Classmates-We are about
to graduate. After four years of trying
vicisstudes under relentless professors we
are anxiously awaiting the last gift of
our Alma Mater" President Smith re-
ferred briefly to the history Of the class,
differences with the faculty Glass
scraps" etc, and continued: Commence
ment is now at hand Soon ninety nine as
! an active organization will be a fact only
to brighten pages of history. As class it
Is fitting that we meet and say something
at least make a bow-in a formal mannor
to our friends. We who are seniors to-
udN snail De freshmen tO-nOTrOW III the
greater university of life. The future de
mands our immediate attention. If we
wish to win we must enter the race at
once. And so, | say, we cannot stop to
annoy our friends with sentimental effu-
sions."
After a brief address to the faculty and
members of the graduating class Mr..
Smith closed as follows:
When Time shall have weighed us
down with age we shall look back through
the years of turmoil and strife of human
existence and see fac away in old Vermont
between the green hills and lovely lake
the little valley which nourished and fos-
tered our youth and then our eyes will fill
with tears Let us be true and loyal to
our grand old mother Let us ever swing,
swing together, and shout for the U. V.
/ NJ"
CLASS HISTORY.
Next came the class history by s. C.
Dunlop in which many of the achieve
nients of the class, their victories over RI
val classes, and other doings for the last
/ four years were wittily chronicled. The
greater part of the history was devoted
to the first two years of the class exist
ence, class banquets. foot ball rushes and
the like.
THE ESSAY.
Miss Paddock then read an interesting
essay on tclepathy. She said In part:
Mark Twain made the discovery sew
eral years ago that certain things which
had been regarded as curious condolences
were no more accidental than the sending
or receiving of a telegram. He gave the
discovery the name of me telegraphy
termed a little later "Telepathy" by the
Society of Psychical Research in England
| This society has convinced the world that
mental telepathy is not a Jest and they
of mi n
impress and be impressed by another mind
otherwise than through the recognized
/ channels of sense"
! Miss Paddock gave number of exam
pies of the working of telepathy taktr
| from her own experience and continued:
Il wonder If as year after year some OF
us return tc our Alma Mater we will not
think Of the absent ones who may be al
the time thinking of us and forgetting fol
a little the various changes that will have
| divided that time from this If we may not
again In thought alone be here as we are
! to-day with life all before us and all it:
fulness and beauty unfolding as lily tC
the sunlight. Miss Paddock closed by
reading the poem of John Coburn, &c.
81 This was followed by a selection by the
orchestra. c. b. BroWnel then spoke as
follows
CAMPUS GRAFTON.
now at the end Of college course, which
has been of so much profit and pleasure Il
u.s. should with our past experience ash
! ourselves what really is the aim and valu,
OF college education.
The training of a college graduate OF
century ago was limited for the most par
} to the study of the classics. Primarily tn
classical curriculum was established fo
the sake OF knowledge to be gained from
the ancient authors. Now Greek and La
tin are studied almost solely for their dis
ciplinary and refining influences and tn
seeker for learning has to step outside tn
classical curriculum. Early in the presen
century scientific investigation began It
unparalleled career; political economy
modern languages and lastly sociology
3 have been added TO the college curriculum
, hese new studies have broadened the ain
Of the college education until to-day it /
no less than to make capable, cultivate
5 and aspiring human beings.
= The education OF an individual by til
college involves three fold process. IN
flrst thing Is to develope and train the IA
tive Faculties and capacities of the stu
0 dent; the second process is to make hir
5 acquainted with all that man has though
, and done in the world; thirdly. the studon
! should be inspired and filled with enthus
iasm. This then is the aim of liberia
e ducation, to make men and women O
strong mental power, large attainment
and high purposes
l.. e. Daniels read the well-Mritten clas
n poem which he had composed, being fol
8 lowed by the address to undergraduate
by r. p tlendrck, who said in brief:
ADDRESS TO UNDERGRADUATES.
1T has long been the custom to address
to the undergraduates of this Universit
a more or less lengthy monologue contain
d ing barrels Of good advice and vauabl
o precept exempli1ed by the individua
n members of the graduating class-and c
i the faculty
S First to the class of 1902: You who ar
= still freshmen but who. by the aid of tn
blessed honor system, are about to be ac
Vanoed into the realm of valor and ID
trigue, the land OF the "bloody soph." b
y virtue of your valor plus tho moral SUI
J. port OF the faculty you have asserted an
: defended your right to carry canes. No
that the faculty In it's infinite wisdom Ia
abolished those old customs which wi
ries of our college days, it devolves upo
you the coming sophomore class to re-e;
a tablisn some new customs that will stml
" late class spirit and promote class riva
il ry."
A Mr.. Hendricks then turned to the soph'
"a mores and laid down many precepts as
A their treatment of the freshmen and bi,
!, ding them to foster "class scraps" Att
- addressing few words to the senior clai
-, and the faculty he said
- 1T is needless for me to enumerate u
IexcellenCes which have adya ncad tba oil