Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-06-28
IN CAP AND GOWN.
Monday at the University of
Vermont Given up to
the Seniors.
ON THE GREEN.
Day Which Began by Giving Freshmen
Bath in the Waters of the Foun-
tain Ended With Usual Senior
Promenade Receptions, For
NAL and Otherwise.

The class day exercises in connection
with the programme of tho 96th com
menCement of the University of Vermont
were held Monday afternoon upon the
college green. The conditions of weather
were well nigh perfect, and except for an
occasional heavy swayng OF the trees by
the wind which drowned the voices of the
speakers for the moment to those distant
from them, could not have been improved.
Seats were arranged in a semi-CirClc
about desk placed under the edge of the
group of pines below the Billings Library
and a large number attended the cXcr-
Cises, which were excellent in character.
The programme was longer than usual,
and in those assignments i'm which matter
of a lighter vein was permissible, often
very amusing.
FRESHMEN GIVEN A BATH
The exercises of class day were not the
| first of Monday, i'm so far as the senior
class was concerned. Its male members
| were active very early in the day and
Monday mornings SUM- looking over Mount
| Mansfield. nodded good morning to La
fayctte CARRIED in decorous cap and gown
with which he had been supplied during
the night. Several freshmen and a few
sophomores babe farewell to the senior
class during the gloomy hours OF the
night Near the hour of midnight and al
ter the cap and gown had been placed up
on the statue of Lafayette Il tour WAS
made of the dormitoTy and buildings in
which freshmen sleep peacefully and any
freshman found In his room was brought
forth and cast into the waters of the
| fountain on the college green in accord
ance with the tme-honored custom. Some
begged lodgings from their friends and IN
other ways absented themselves from
their rooms and thus escaped. The duty
was not performed without some resist
lance on the part of the undergraduates
and not a few mon bore marks of the con-
nict Monday morning.
THE SENIOR WALK
At o'clock the seniors gathered at the
chapel for their last meeting and at its
close started on tour of the houses Of
the different professors The residence Of
President Buckham was the first visited.
A cordial welcome was received and on
leaving the class went to several of the
houses of the different instructors where
they were pleasantly received and said
goodbye. The professors responded in
every case and in one or two instances
were otherwise prepared for the coming
Of the class.
/ CLASS DAY EXERCISES.
The exercises of class day were begun
shortly after o'clock when the seniors
led by the class marshal, Carroll Durham
Partridge, marched to seats placed for
them on the green to the music of the
opera house orchestra, which played at
intervals during the programme.
The presidents address was given by
Joshua Bartlett Kirkpatrick. who said the
class had gathered for its last class meet
ing. 1t was impossible for them to separ-
ate without some expression of sentiment.
During the past ii had been his duty to
preside over meetings of the class aome
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