Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-06-26
ON THE GREEN
Senior Walk, Kappa Alpha Theta Re-
ception, Phi Beta Kappa Election
and Promenade at the Billings
Library.

|
tered so many class day orators, and were
| hlled long before the exercises commenced.
| The exercises were of an excellent charac-
| ter and were very smoothly conducted.
| The orchestra in attendance played a
march at o'clock to the music of which
| the members of the class, arrayed in cap
and gown followed the class banner from
the mill across to the Billings library,
| then down across the green to the seats
| reserved for them at the front of the semi
| circle.
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
| The programme was opened with the adj
| dress of the president, James Edward
| Donahue in which he welcomed the
| friends of the class to the exercises Of
the afternoon. He outlined briefly the ber
| etts derived during their four years
course at the university, touched upon
class and college spirit and The
| ways in which it is best promoted,
Congratulated the intercollegiate debat-
ing team on its victory over college far
advanced in debating and recommended
that they be allowed to wear caps. He
referred to the moulding influence of the
faculty on their lives and entreated the un-
dcrgraduates to cherish and guard the un-
STAINED honor of Vermont. After touching
upon the sadness accompanying
their departure from college sur
oundings and friendships formed here.
foo much We ave now nranared 10 eml"rif
nupon the border of the sea Of me- and we
should rejoice to see its breakers rolling be-
fore us; should rejoice that others may now
reap the benefits of our labor; should re-
mnrinor who bas ,,ot nod tho s,n,o nro,ara-
Ition for tho etornoe of ,ifo nc u.o have -
!
CLASS HISTORY
| The class history was given by Levi Miller
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h,d ti. t ,e r'i 80. ~ ~,
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class as they assembled ON the tirst We'd
nesday OF their course the athletic cncoun-
ter with the class Of 1901, the inroads made
upon their class by the faculty in spite Of
their brave and hard-fought battle, Of the
valuable additions to their class in its sec
ond year, the change of the secretarys Of
nee to the mill because of the frequency of
their calls and the roughness Of their shoes,
and their trip to and from the Dewey cee-
bration at Montpelier. In their junior year
there We're more additions to the class and
many Jokes were played upon each other.
In closing Mr.. Munson called attention to
the improvements about the college and
considered 1t a great honor to have been
present during these improvements
pot1r,,p op.r,,,
INA io>'
/ The boulder Grafton was then delivered bv
George Grin Bryant. In his Grafton Mr..
b hiy"n' gave Inc , history OF the boulder
Nersity where il still seemed to incline To its
old custom of moving from place to place.
The speaker then put forth two thoughts as
coming from the boulder to tho careful OH
server, The first the deeper realization of
iiatule processes as SHOWN ny the present
Inc second as coming from the rounded.
smooth surface of a once rough stone which
time has shaped as it does the human char
acter.
CAMPUS GRAFTON.
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,ii oiiv ~ Pi"Ni"s 'lat tHe framing oil
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CLASS POEM.
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ne poem ""s thcil dciINered by Irvine
~ man NH II was wei Wilttch ana de-
nnVi'u ~ "a MANNER "hiCh addtd huch Ia
'.' Inv ~ -. - WI soou thoughts ciothcd
PIPE GRAFTON
me pipes were theh distributed among
'le maze ana female members of the class
ana HShtou by inc majority AS the smoke
was waited eastward by the gentle breeze,
hurry blSS JoEher gave the pipe Grafton
iie ehtmerateu the members OF the class
as theS vHteieu ana the strenuous workers
among 'ner i'uthper VINO nave increasingly
looh'u alt'r the Weiiare or the class, In
reviewing tie prlhcipai events or thcit
'p"iSo ne c"ileu attention tothe predictions
the glee club, the final erection of the
SSS,,''n's'' ~, t''e nip VI the silent
onh ''a ,i' al i",e Vi we piach cat
| go 60 ~ f'tt =. WIN d reiei
oho,,,.,s ia ,t' ",I oussce'eu possible
thought u,n,,,d ha c,,it'' ntt;,, "i'eh 1T
Thn orcbost,,, thna ,,1e,
after which an essay on The New Spirit
- ''''NN'''i was SVEN ny MISS Geneva