Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-02-26
Birthday Banquet.

| banquet was held IN the starr Commons
last Monday evening. One hundred and
twelve sat down to tables made attrac-
tive with flowers and favors, and en-
joyed supper of exceptional excellence
in the quality and quantity of both food
and service. The jollity and good feel
ing between faculty and students, which
has always characterized these ban
quets, was as much in evidence as in
former years.
The toast list was exceptionally inter-
esting. Washington's illustrious career
exerted on the nation were very fittingly
described.
New anecdotes and ingenious specula-
tions in regard to his life added spice
and interest to the more serious part.
The college and what it stands for, col
lege life, and each students relations to
it were discussed in the several toasts.
The Bachelors Table," which was
organized at the first Washington's
Birthday dinner and the "Maid's Table,"
organized last year, were very much in
evidence, and by the references to the
different members of the Faculty and to
each other in their songs, the two tables
created great deal of merriment.
The following is the programme and
toast list, which was wttily desig-
mated on the menu as the "FirelW Works. {"
The toastmaster, President Brainerd,
was introduced as ''the cannon cracker"
and bore out the name very creditably
by his interesting remarks and his pleas
ant way in introducing the speakers.
THE FIREWORKS.
President of the Day, Harry F. Markolf
Orator, George r. Wilson
Declaimer, Sanford II. Lane
TOastmaster, President Brainerd
The Sentiment: Our College and the Day
We Celebrate.
The Responses:
Edmund T. Dufiield, for the Senior Glass
Samuel l.. Abbott, Junior Glass
Justin NJ Kicker, Sophomore Glass
Frank G.iGage, Freshman Glass
Mr.. Wilson's Grafton >on Washington
and Mr.. Lanes defamation, selection
both very interesting and well deliv-
cred.
Mr.. Gage spoke on the loyalty and
respect his class felt for the college and
their determination to keep up the stand
ard set by the classes who have gone
before them
Mr.. Kicker spoke of the achievements
of his class andlits relation to the college,
also of Washington and his relation to
the country.
Mr.. Abbott very ably discussed the
true relation of a college man to his
studies on the one hand and to athletics
and social life in college on the other.
Mr.. Duffield spoke of his class's feel
ings toward the college it was so soon to
leave and its concern in the future well
fare of it, expressing the hope that the
labors of the founders of the college
would be perpetuated.
The POSTMASTER then introduced Mr.
Suzuki, of the freshman class, who gave
toast in his native language. A trans
lation was read by Mr.. Caldwell
Mr.. Suzuki spoke of Japan and its
relation to the United States, referring
to the United States as its intellectual
mother. He spoke of Japan's determin-
alton to ever defend its indisputabe
rights. He congratulated us on behalf
of his nation on having had such a great
and good man as Washington to help in
shaping the growth of this nation in its
infancy.
Mr.. Reed l.. Carr, of New York CITY. of
the Class of 1901, spoke in behalf of the
alumni of Middlebury college. He said
there were over seventy alumni of this
college in New York city and among them
could be counted many men who were
helping to shape the affairs of the ma
ton. He spoke of those prominent
among the early alumni, mentioning
Hon. E. j. Phelps, Hon. Solomon Foote
and Gov. Silas Wright. Among the liv-
ing holders of degrees, Judges Hatch and
Mclaughlin of the Appellate court of New
York were mentioned, and Hon. A. B.
Hepburn, who is distinguishing himself
in relation to financial questions.
Mr.. Carr told of the great interest
of the New York alumni in the well
fare of the college, and of their hope
that the college would make an increas-
ingly good record.
The last toast was given by Prof. Nc
Clifton for the faculty.
Prof. McGiltOn kept his audience con-
vulsed with laughter by his good stories
and witty references to George W."
and other individuals who had been
more or less before the public. He con-
cluded his toast with an eloquent and
fitting reference to the man in whose
honor the dinner was held.
Great credit is due Prof. Bryant, who
had charge of the arrangements for the
dinner, for carrying them through so
admirably. 1t is very evident that an
urgent need of Middlebury college is
building, property planned, equipped,
and endowed, which shall be the center
of its social life. The marked success
Of Mondays celebration, success
achieved in the face of great material
difficulties, accentuates that need.
What the college hopes for, and what
1t believes must soon come is an
adequate place Oh its own grounds, to
entertain itself and its friends.
Every readers attention is called to
the ''Want" and For Sale" columns of