Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-07-06

Making Alma Matters story.
GROUP TIE SECOND. 1s20-lsiO.
Fuller in number the column appears,
Vending its way through the next score OF
years.
Masters were found of endurable stuff,
Fowler, and Turner, ana Adams, and Hough,
Setting to rights all the systems of science,
Training atrue generation of giants,
Notable leaders of notable men,
Never to fade from our memory's ken
While, rs when Israel saught Canaan's land,
y Joshua guided, with masterful hand.
And now Alma Mater revealed her true
worth.
Sending her sons to the ends of the earth,
Judges and iurist1 and preachers of truth,
Leaders of senatcs and teachers of youth,
Charming a world with melodious measures.
Op'ning our souls to shakspearen treasures,
Solving d~iplomacy's knottiest knot.
Statesmen, who walked withou. blemish or
blot,
These, Alma Mater, thy Jewels of gold,
Never to pass from our memory's hold.
Trout THE THIRD. l~siO-l>ao.
And now the scene another picture shows.
The line contracts, The column thinner grows.
Yet onward still they move without dismay,
Whilc "Bcniamln their ruler" leads the way,
And Alma Mater lays all fears TO rest.
lis chiefs with Bible names that suit her
best
Tho now we call him Benjamin or Ben,
No soul alive had dared to do il then
A leader prudent, digniied, d%evout,
Alert to all within and all without,
The culDrits Opened al their Utmost souls,
When ne bcnignly hauled them DER the Goals.
And those who learned of him,-we need not
name.
The age has felt their power and guards their
fame.
Wherever great achievement must be done
flrr linn Nafars mud a ,p.,,. 90.
To probe the solemn depths of law Divine,
Or set in truer phrase each sacred line,
To punish crime, to solve a railway tangle,
or do brave battle at the Bloody Angle.
To fill all parts in lifc's great melodrama,
To govern states, or teach Il nation grammar,
To graphic boldly every human i'll,
It's Middlebury always fills the bill!
o TIE FOURTH. lS6O-l,so
Like a storm swooping down on a landscape
serene,
The approach of grim war casts a gloom on
the scene.
Thrust aside are the Muses. and tasks
ac13"uic,
Fo" the turmoil of tern preparations polemiC
No wing Freedom should wear without blemisl
her crown,
Forth they marched with the song ana the
soul of John Brown
Marched ~away-many a one-who returned
rot again,
But whose names. glory. crowned, swell the
roll of the slain.
And those names ne'cr shall lack our warm
tribute of tears,
Tho now dinly di-cerned meath the dust OF
the years.
With great gaps in its ranks, where the
braVcst were gone,
Through the following years still the colum
moved on.
BY the courage and faith of the faithful and
few.
Amid perils and gloom it was guided safe
through
Alma Mater her Parker holds dear to her
heart,
Who, her sentinel stanch, watched the dark
ness depart.
GROUP THE FIFTH. lS00-l9O0.
Loi with motion animated,
Tripping gaiiy DER the stage,
Going fast, As tho belated,
Now appears the modern age.
Age that seems almost demonic,
Flashing incandcscent jets;
Age electro telephone,
Age of bikes and cigarettes,
Alma Mater feels the movement,
CLOVIS with warmer life ana hope,
Thrills with progress and Improvement,
Looks abroad with wider scope.
Fen the fossil r%hynchonella
Has to hear of Kellogg's grammar.
And beneath his stone umbrella
Quakes in fear of Seeley'S hammer
Blessings fall IN fuller measure
Into Alma Matters hand;
In her store-house richer treasure,
Fairer halls about her stand.
Some men swear by JOve or Juno,
Some by Venus, some by Mars,
But our Alma Mater-you know
Says, quite simply, "Bless my stars"
Bless those orbs that round them cluster,
still unwilling rays divine,
Lending literature new lustre,
Setting science in her shrine
Alma Mater, in confusion,
Thought her children all were brothers.
That was but a great delusion,
Now she finds that there are others;
Other forms and other faces,
Such as ancient poets tell US
Once adorned the classic graces
Or the muses. of fair IIellas.
Alma Mater-all the sweeter-
Now a broader nag unfurls,
Makes humanity completer,
Treats alike her boys and girls
The five fold column disappears.
A moment, now, the stage is bare,
Yet many another hundred years
Shall follow after, still more fair.
And truth divine. inspirer of the past,
Shall light their progress, while the ages last