Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-06-27

w eunesday's Exercises.
The annual meeting of the associated
alumni was held in the college chapel
Wednesday forenoon at s 80 o'clock,
Rev. c. 5. Murkland presiding The COM
mittee on nominations, William w.
Gay, 1G, Webster Ingefsol, - and Harry
Powers, 50, made the following report
which was accepted. President, Rev.
Charles 5. Murkland, d. D., 81; vice
presidents Fred G. Swinington, 10.
Robert VI. Collins. 50, 5. j. Preston,
50. David y. Burke, 81; secretary.
Ernest c. Bryant. 81; orator, w. II.
Cray, 7G; alternate Ii. W. Northrop.
-; poet, c. w. Prentiss, 9G, alternate,
James A. Lobban, 9S neurological
commttee,,C, +. Prentiss, g. Thomas
K. Boyce, &C. The procession, headed
by Il. NJ Chapman, marshal, and the
Ethan Allen band of Wey bridge, formed
at the chapel and marched to the church.
commencement Exercises, Program.
The graduating exercises began at II
O'Clock with prayer by President Brain
erd. Overture, Child Arcadia" G.
Marie; .Salutatory Addresses, John
Reginald Dutlield; Grafton. The Essen
tial Factor, David Arthur Burke: Philo-
sophical Essay, Contemplation versus
Action, Edith Florence Barrett; Ora
ton, The Philosophy of Epicurus. Orvis
X. Collins; Faust Ballot Music, Gounod
Scientific Essay, The Antiquity of
Man, Elizabeth Bowles; Grafton, The
Progress of international Law, Fred
erck Arthur Hughes; Sociological
Essay, The Pauper Problem. Ruth
Sophia Murdock Grafton, Heroism
in History. Wilfred Judson Stone;
The Top Gillett; Grafton, Individual
hit
sophical Grafton, Independence in Poll
itcs, Percval Wilds; Grafton. with
Valedictory Addresses, Defects in Our
Jury System, Gilbert Waldo Roberts;
Finale, "Burgomaster," Roeder. Con.
ferring of degrees, Benedction.
Graduating Class and Degrees Conferred.
The following degrees in course were
awarded to the graduating class David
Arthur Burke, B. S., Port Henry, n. Y;
Orvis X. Collins, A. b., Ferrisburg, VT.
George Rufus Drake, A. b., Bristol, VT
John Reginald Duffield, \. B., Rutland
VT; Frederick Arthur Hughes, B. S.,
Mddlebury. Vt; Frederick Bingham
Miner, b. S., Bridport, VT. Gilbert Wal
do Roberts, a. B., New York, n. y.
Middlebury, VT; Fay Alton Simmons,
B. S., Dorset, VT. ;Wilfred Judson Stone,
B. s., Vergennes, VT; John Everett
Thompson, B. s., Tarrytown, n. y;
Charles Arthur Voetsch, b. 5, New
York, y. Y. Julius Abner Wilcox, b. s.,
Crown Point, y. y; Percval Wilds, A.
B., Middlebury, Vt; Edith Florence
Barrett, b. s., Manchester Center, VT;
Elizabeth Bowles, b. s., Middlebury.
VT; Bertha Ruth Collins, B. $, Ferris
burg, VT; Anna Reese Deuel.. b. $,
Millbrook, n. Y; Ruth Sophia Murdoch,
B. s., Akron, O.
The following were awarded Com
mencement Honors and elected to the
Phi Beta Kappa society: Gilbert
Waldo Roberts, John Reginald Duffield,
Edith Florence Barrett, Ruth Sophia
Murdoch. Perclyal Wilds, Elizabeth
Bowles.
Highest honors in French and highest
honors in German were awarded to John
Reginald Duflield.
President Brainerd conferred the follow
ing honorary degrees Brsinerd Kellogg,
IS, New York, IL. D.; Charles Hatch, |
New York, Judge Appellate Division New |
York Supreme Court, Ii. D.; Rev. Cal |
vim b. Moody, Il, Syracuse, y. Y, ID. |
d.. Rev. Charles Seymour, Bennington,
ID. D.; Hon. a. b. Hepburn, vice-presi- /
dent First National Bank, New York, \. /
b. The corporation dinner followed, at |
The Addison.
Very Important Announcement.
President Branerd announced 10 the .
press at the close of the corporation .
dinner that at the meeting of the board .
of trustees a very important action was
taken. They contemplate the establish
ment of separate, but affiliated college
for young women. That the trustees
realize on the one hand the great and
growing and Just demand of the young
women of this country for higher edu-
cation, and on the other hand the evils
that result from "feminiZing" of a col
lege founded for the education of men.
In this way the policy of Middlebury in
matters of co education will be unite