Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-07-13
HONOR OF OLD MIDI
LETTERS AND ADDRESSES OF GEN.
TENNIAL DAY.

College Presidents and Professors Express
Their Respect for the old College and
Her Graduates-Gov. Smith and GEN.
Mccullough speak.
John w. Stewart, IL. D., class of AZ,
who presided at the centennial services
in the Congregational church last Thurs
dav morning, read letters of congratula-
ton and regard from President William
Dewitt HYDE of Bowdoin college, Presi-
dent seth Low of Columbia university,
President Arthur r. Hadley of Yale,
President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard,
President George Harris of Amherst,
President W. II. p. Faunce of Brown
university, President James 3. Angel
Of Michigan university, President
c. Stanley Hall of Clark university,
President 4. j. Brown of Norwich uni
versitv: also from United States Senator
Redfield Proctor and Justice David J.
Brewer of the United States Supreme
court.
Special regret was felt at the absence
of President Hadley of Yale, because
Middlebury college is the child of Yale
college. President Hadley was detained
from being present for private as well as
official reasons. Rev. c. J." Mitchell, as
sistant dean of Yale, and the son of one
of the ex-presidents of Middlebury, was
Nale's official representative, and Prof.
John Henry Wright was Harvard's Off
cial representative.
The letter from Rev. c. b. Hulburt,
one of the ex.presidents of Middlebury
college, wa in part as follows: 81 re-
call nothing that forbids a joyful partici-
patton in the gala day that crowns the
old college with a centennial glory. In
81. while a Junior at Dartmouth. | re-
celved from an old Thetford academy
schoolmate. himself a student in Middle
bury college, a copy of DR.. Posts adj
dress on genius, given at the seml-cen-
t~ennial, as the alumni orator the year
before. This address ! read and reread.
Z was c%aptivated by its imagery and eX-
%uberance. While afterward | somewhat
modified my estimate of it, | yet regard
it an extraordinary production. | have
been thinking if Middlebury college in
20 wears could produce a Post. what a
huge fellow he must be when she has
worked on for double that time. 1t is a
lOv to me to hear that the college is wax
ing stronger in all lines of expansion ;
not lacking, ! hope too. in the exercises
of a certain imperialism that keeps thing
IN moving order. 1t gives me pleasure
to send you my most cordial greeting in
view of the prosperity of the college
under your administration. May many
more wears of service for the college be
accorded to you. the trustees, the alumni
and her bepefactors for your united fidel-
itv to her interests. Included in my re-
grets for my absence, | send congratula-
ti0ns and best wishes and hopes to all
old friends
The letter Of Attorney John c.
Churchill of Oswego. y. y. 10, was of
special interest. lie wrote as follows :
II attended the s-emi-centennial in 1870,
since which ! have been very little in
Middlebury, and have anticipated great
pleasure from the approaching anniver-
sarv. True, | understand ! would not
meet a single classmate, and that very
few of the men of my time remain, but
it would have been a great pleasure to
visit the things that remained and to see
AIlt lllDION tlltllc kIldL IdNt Uctu IIdAlt
and are making, and especially to make
the acquaintance of yourself and of the
new men who fill so creditably the
places of those we honOred and loved,
You knew, perhaps. ID. c, Il. Clarke Of
this city, my classmate in college and for
half a century my loved and hOnOred
friend. He was a man of the soundest
Judgment and brightest intellect and
finest scholarship, fAcile princeps in my
time and few superiors at any time. We
frequently discussed the question of the
comparative advantages of the small col
leges. such as Middlebury was and still
i. with the great universities, and our
conclusion always was that we had nc
occasion TO regret that our lot had beer
cast with the former. We believe thai
The advantages We derived from the init
mate personal ASSOCIATION, acquaintance
and friendship of such men as president
Labaree, Prof. Stoddart, Twining
Adams and Smith, could not have beel
profitably exchanged for anything thu
latter had to Ofler."
The luncheon in Centennial Hall
which followed the exercises at tn,
church, was attended by about 800 per
sons. Former Governor Stewart acteC
as POSTMASTER. At his right sat Cover
nOr Smith of St. Adams. After thu
repast the tOastmaster, in a few words o
welcome, introduced Gov. Smith, witt
spoke a few words concerning the large
and smaller colleges of our country
Each college he said would have its owl
place and work in the field of education.
Prof. Wright of Harvard was mex
introduced. lie expressed the greetin,
of that institution and Its alumni. Onl,
the work of the Cuban summer schoo
nov going on prevented the presence an
personal greeting of President Eliot. II
spoke of the graduate work of the univer
stiles and also of the public sentiment o
the students. With the faculty is unite,
the moral sentiment of the students. Col
lege students are picked men, and as W