Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-07-20
HONORABLE RECORD.
MlDDLEBURY COLLEGE IN THE VARl-
Gus WALKS OF LIFE.

sketch Given by Rev. samuel Boardman
of Maryville College of the Work of
Alumni of "Old Midd"-Long Lists of
Distinguished Names.
The following is a part of Rev. Mr..
Boardman's address before the Christian
associations on Sunday evening, July {:
As a result of this work of the college,
and of the University of Vermont, which
was also exerting much influence for ed
u~catlon, and of the schools and academies,
Vermont early obtained an eminent repu-
tation for intelligence and virtue. 1t
may be doubted whether any of the old
er colleges of the country can show from
$500 to 1915, before Painter Hall was
erected, a larger proportion of students
who attained emlnence for brilliant
service and usefulness than did Middle
bury college.
There has been a peculiar flavor of col
lege character in Middlebury, as in TIar-
ward, Yale and Dartmouth. There has
been an independence and downright
ness, reminding one of Bennington and
seth Warner. In their sermons. their
speeches in congress, their books, their
wit, their politics, and their theology,
they have done their own thinking and
stood for a positive quantity, a little
distinguished from any Others in making
up the public sentiment of the world.
Walter Chaplin was secretary of the
Vermont Domestic Missionary society !;
William Slade of the Board of Popular
National Education Miles p. Squier of
the Geneva Agency of the American
Home Missionary society Otto 5. IIoyt
of the American Education society /;
Benjamin Chase of the American Bible
society; Orson Douglass of the Colonial
ton and of the Seaman's society: Will
lam Patton of the Presbyterian Educa-
tional society; Ira NJ. Allen of the
Baptist Tract society: Henry b. Hooker.
for many years of the Massachusetts
Home Missionary society ; Ova p. Hoyt,
district secretary of the American Board !;
George C.. Beckwith, for thirty-five years
secretary of the American Peace society /:
John Spaulding for sixteen years secre-
tary of the American Seaman's Friend
society; Benjamin p. Stone. for many
years secretary of the New Hampshire
Home Missionary society; Sheriden
Gitteau of the Maryland Tract society,
and of the Sunday-schoOl Union for
twenty.eight years. Edwin F. Hatfield
was stated clerk of the Presbyterian
General Assembly for thirty-seven years.
and also moderator of the same. John
W. Chickering was secretary of the
Massachusetts, and also of the Con-
gressional Temperance societies. Enoch
c. Wines was the founder and secretary
of the National Prison Association,
Washington Roosevelt of the American
Protestant society. James L. Barton is
now secretary of the American board.
Some of u brethren have rendered
very long professional service. Luther
sheldon was pastor at Easton, Mass, for
y years; Calvin Hitchcock in Randolph.
Mass, for 30 years samuel c. Aiken in
the first Presbyterian church of Utica.
\. y. and the first Presbyterian church
of Cleveland, Ohio, for 10 years; Reuben
Post in Washington, d. c., and in Char
lesion, ). c., for about 40 years .AlOnzo
Church, professor and president of
Franklin college, Ca. for 43 years /:
William Patton, pastor in New York
(ANN ~ B'h Nv y 0dlC OOIll ID ENltIlt
was a pastor - years Isaac y. Sprague
preached 90 years John W. Chickering
was a pastor in Portland, Me-, 80 wears {:
Martin NJ. Post in LoganspOrt, Ind, 81
years ErdiX Tenney in Lynn, y. H.. 81
years Cyrus b. Drake in R0yalton 40
years Truman NJ. Post in St. Louis 81
years Charles Goodrich IN New Orleans
}3 years Byron Sunderland in Washing
ton, ID. c.. - years. George Howe of
the class of 1922, having taken the
ValedictOry here and at Andover. and
having been appointed Philips Professor
of Theology in Dartmouth college at the
age of p, was compelled for health to
remove TO South Carolina. He was there
for over 81 years professor and president
OF Columbia Theological Seminary. The
semi-centennial of his Inauguration as
professor of Biblical EXegesis was cele-
brated with great interest in November.
is5l. His pupils came together from all
parts of the South,
Some of these men have welded tre-
mendous power in the pulpit. Prof.
Fitch of \ ale used to cite Carlos Wilcox
rs a model sermOnizer. Sylvester Lar
ned probably stands alone OF all Ameri-
can preachers for the impression he
made and the fame he achieved at so
early an age, dying at t%wentv-four.
Thomas Charitol Henry became so
conspicuous that Yale conferred on him
a doctorate when only ten years out of
college. DR.. Beman when aroused, said
a graduate of the University of Vermont.
was equal to any three men you ever
heard. stephen DIN would at times
hold vast audiences %entranced and breath
less with his burning logic and ire
sistible earnestness. Few American
preachers have mingled more of logic
and of lofty poetry than Truman NJ.
Post.
In many ways the alumni have pro-
NOTED the great work of education. Hon.
stephen a. Walker, valedictorian of the
class of 1858, was ten years a commission