Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-30

dence life may be pre-eminently success
full for each one of you if you but exercise
the needed wisdom and self control 1t
Is easy to make missteps, if in our pride
of opinion we trust to our own strength.
1t is easy to fail in the search for truth,
and to wander along in the mazes of
error without knowing it, if we are wise
only in our conceit.
May yours be that calm and reveren-
tial temper of mind that apprehends
clearly the pathway of duty. May no
narrow, selfish ambitions obscure your
vision of those aims that are highest and
best; but pure in purpose and free from
the storms of passion, may your souls
like our mountain lakes, reflect in their
quiet depths the peaceful stars of heaven.
In all the Joy and sorrow of the coming
years may you be guided by Him who
came into the world to be "the way, the
truth and the life Ponder well His
teachings, and the world will have for
you deeper significance. Follow Him
in a noble elf.sacrfice to help along
| ignorant and suffering men, and the
preiudices that befog the reason will
clear away. Live in communion with
God, and the Spirit of truth will guide
you into all truth.
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS.
The annual address to the Christian
Associations of the college was given by
the Rev j. w. Bixler, d. D., of New
London, Conn.,, Sunday evening in the
Congregational church. He took for his
theme 1.-THE Well-Balanced Man" He
used as an illustration the building of
the cantilever bridge across Niagara,
showing how they began at each pier
and gradually built out toward each
other until the two ends met and We're
joined together. He pointed out the
principle that for each pound of weight
on the main span there must be a
counteracting force of anchorage on the
opposite side.
His theme was well chosen, and finely
treated, finishing with the injunction
that each man must prove himself "well-
balanced when it came to the affairs of
life.
CLASS DAY EXERCISES.
A steady downpour of rain during
Monday forenoon necessitated the post
ponement of the class day exercises of
the outgoing class of Middlebury college.
After waiting in vain for the rain to
cease the exercises were announced post
poned until o'clock Tuesday afternoon
when the following programme was car
ried out:
Planting of the ivy by the senior class
address by the president, Samuel Lee
Abbott; ivy essay, Bessie Mabel Bump
will and presentation, Charles Beane
Weld; class grafton, Sanford Henry
Lane; class history, Harris Hazetor
Holt class poem, Isabella Mather Blake
class prophecy, Fannie Lord Nlilliken
The class day committee was Charles G
/ Barnum, Harry S. Fisher, Sanford H
} Lane, Helen H. Fielden junior marshal
Clifford d. Cushman.
The attendance had reached the di
! mensions of a crowd when the Senior
class marched across the campus and
planted shoot of ivy at the north enc
of Starr Hall. They then marched tC
/ the platform and took their seats.
President Abbott in behalf of the class
welcomed the visitors to the exercises
After short address he introduced Mis-
r Bessie NJ. Bump, who delivered the "Ivy
Essay" This essay while serious, wal
nevertheless full of humor.
, The next was the "Will and Presenta
tion" by c, b. Weld in which he be
5 queathed to the class of 1906. ga box o
! sawdust with which to stuff their empt,
heads" to the class of 1905 he gave tn,
r "Book of Knowledge" to the class o
Y 1908 he gave "milk bottle on whicl
, the youngsters might thrive" while t
/ the Faculty he gave "Pinkerton De
: tectiye 4"