Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-07-06
WORK OF 100 YEARS.
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGES CONTRlBU-
TON TO CHRISTIAN PROGRESS.
President Boardman of Maryviiie Colleg.

Rev. Samuel B%oardman, ID. d, IL" ID
president of Marvville CTenn.) col
iege, delivered the address of the even
ing before the Christian associations of
Middlebury college. at the Congregation.
al church, Sunday evening, July l.. His
topic was historical, 1.-THE Contribution
of the First Century of M%iddlebury
College to Christian Progress Follow
ing is his address in part;
The first students of Middlebury col
lege were the sons and %grandsons of the
heroes of Quebec, T~iconderoga and Ben
nington. DR.. Beman told us at the semi
centennial that his own father partici-
pated in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga
by Allen and Arnold. The college was
located at M~iddlebury, certainly a set
Element of remarkable men Daniel
Foote, Gamaliel Painter, Seth Storrs,
Daniel Chapman, samuel Miller, Darius
Matthews and kindred spirits. I'm this
place the intellectual life of fifteen
hundred graduates has been formed.
Though no one of our number has Occu-
pied the presidency. yet one. an Illus
trious senator. who vent from a farm
almost under the caves of the college,
refused the vice-presidency, a place in
the cabinet. and a seat on the supreme
court of the United States and was re-
garded, had he lived, TO be sure of the
presidency rs any one can be before
nomination and election. Another of
our number often presided over the sem
ate, and the dignity of his presence. as
Charles Sumner expressed if. seemod to
fiji the whole chamber. as of one every
inch a senator. \ third brother was q
long honorcd Judge of the United States
supreme court. Fourth was an excep-
tiouallv distinguished Ambassador 10 the
court of ST. James.
Middlebury was necessarily modelled
after Yale. Harvard and Dartmouth,
from which it received its first instruct
ors. Dartmouth almost belongs. in half
parts. to Vermont, separated only by the
thread of the Connecticut river. It
holds lands in Vermont, donated to it by
our legislature when il was per-
haps expected tia one college would
suffice for New Hampshire aud the
New Hampshire rants. Dartmouth has
received from Vermont Asa Burton.
Ebenczer Porter. Daniel Chapman. Thad-
deus Stevens. James and George l..
Marsh, Asa y. Smith, Walbridgc A..
Field, and many others of her most ili1s-
trious sons. II has furnished tro presi-
dents to this college, one of them a native
of Vermont. Tile two urc-cnt worthy
senator, from Vermont, both natives OF
the state, were graduated in W." same
class at Dartmouth T.. INfl.
The University of Vermont, though
chartered earlier Than MlddlcburY col
lege, was not set in operation TIL a
beginning had been made i'm this place.
If its establishment had immediately fol,
lowed it, charter it Is not likely that
M%iddlcbury college would have existed.
The fact that Burlington, notviths .-G
Ing its exceeding beauty of situation.
was more remote from Southern New
England. whence most of the settlers
came. accounts for the smaller popula-
ton at that early day than was then
found at Middl' bury. and for their
smaller probable resources; difficulties
also among the founders there had de-
laved the development of the university
For a century they have kept pace. some
what unlike but not unequal in the no
bic rivalry and mutual hclptulness OF
Christian education.
The breadth and Catholicitv of ouI
work affords US especial satisfaction
All the great religious bodies have been
represented. In the Roman Catholic
communion the Right Reverend BishOI
E1gar i. Wadhams has been known rs
rc.ourccful and indefatigable prclate
In the Protestant Episcopal church
Bishops IIoushaw and Whitaker OF
Rhode Island aud of PENNSYLVANIA have
been greatly distinguished for fidelity
aud for success. In the Methods
Epis,cpal church President Stclhel
Olin and many others have been dis
tiuguishcd. In the Baptist George Il
Ide. Ira Chase. Prot. Thomas j. Couant
q member of the Bible Revision commit
tee and many others. OF PRESBYTERIAN
there have been three moderators Of tn
general assembly. and many distinguish
cd pastors and teachers. OF Congrega
tioralists a still larger number have hel,
positions of cminence and power. Q
Tnivcrsalists few stood higher 10
scholarship and literary ability tina
Thomas J.. Sawyer. who recently passe,
away. having been long ago honOrer
with a doctOrate from Harvard. an.
with the highest amendments of hi
denomination.
What a uoonifccnt output ,yas thot n