Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-06-29
University Of Vermont Sends Out
a Glass Of Ninety.one Young
Men and Women.
0RLTl0NS AND ESSAYS
Degrees Conferred In All Department. ID
The Corporation Dinner, Fol-
lowed BY Observation-Disclosures
Reception and Play at Grass.
mount In the Evening.

101st commencement of the University
of Vermont and State Agricultural
College were held yesterday morning
in The Strong Theatre in the presence
of Il large audience. The occasion was
one of interest and dignity. Bac-
calaureate degrees were conferred up
on 43 young men and young women
who constitute the graduating ella So
of the academic department and the
doctorate in medicine was conferred
upon the As graduates who had COM
pletcd their work in the college of
medicine. Masters degrees were given
four candidates. No honorary DOCTOR
atcs were granted this year.
\ 1916 o'clock yesterday morning
the commencement procession formed
ON the college grounds and marched
to Tho Strong Theatre in the follow
ing order
Shcrman's band; marshals. Charles
l.. Allen. assisted by DR. James y. Jcnnc
and Capt. Henry O. Wheeler under
graduates, academic and medical alum
nj and graduates of other colleges;
Era duating class. academic graduating
class. medical faculties, trustees and
guests. army officers. governor of the
State and president of the university.
There was Il change this year in the
place for holding the commencement
exercises from the old Howard Opera
House. made memorable by many dis
tingushcd academic occasions. TO the
new Strong Theatre. completed within
the year. The theatre was we'll filled
at eleven o'clock. the time scheduled
. he
ccssion entered the building. members
of the medical and academic faculties.
board OF trustees. guests. army Off
GERS governor Of the State and presi-
dent OF the university. advancing to
| their places on the stage. The aca-
demic and medical graduates. together
with the alumni Of both departments,
occupied seats in the pit. President
Buckham and members Of Il medical
faculty were atti. 4 in academic COS
tune. The musical ra't % te pro
gramme was furnished by Watcrman' 8
| orchestra.
The order of exercises was as fol-
lows
Music.
March," Zenobic.". ...... -. ....K King
Prayer. Rev. \. w. Clark. \. D.. SO
Music.
Sclcction-"Bohemia Girl.'.. Balfe
/ I. The Commercial Value of Morality.
Lee Harris Hulett
. Wordsworth as a Nature Poet.
Sylvia Sophia Shilvock
3. The Recent Phase of the Nitrogen
Question,
Willard Monroe Gambcll
Music.
Moroccan wild Flower) ....... Loscy
4. The Well-rounded lifc,
Everett Valentine Perkins
:. The Modern Achilles.
| Mabel Louise Southwick
6 Tho Advantages of a Technical Ed
ucation.. Fred Bonar Wright
: The old and the New in the Medi-
cal Department.
Thomas Ahcrn Shaughnessy. \. r.
Muse
sweet Caresscs (Valsc MelodiGuc)
langcy
Degrees conferred
Music
March-"Salute the Flag
Picrson. Jr
| BcncdictiOn heN' i'I' Ni"'
The orations Of the graduates were
lthoughtful and interesting showing on
thc mart of each. thorough research and
familiarity with the subject in hand Rare
literary merit entered into the compost
tion of each discourse and The delivery
was uniformly excellent
DEGREES CONFERRED.
The degrees we're then conferred the
candidates being presented to President
Buckham by the deans Of the resceptive
departments. Tic degrees were awarded
in the following order:
Bachelors of art-Martin Wakefield
Chaffee of Morrisville. Mae Louise Cliff
ford, cum laude. of Burlington. Everett
Valentine Perkins of Brdgewater Cor
Incrs Mabel Louise Southwck, cum
iaude, OF Burlington.
Bachelors Of phiosophy-Em Emma Potter
Rean of Milton. Frank Ernest Beckley of
Barre, Ethel Watkins Chapman of SUIT
ton, Isador Colodny of Brooklyn. N. Y.
Alice Margaret Durfec. cum laude. of
burlington, Daisy Maude Enright of
Windsor, Lee Harris Hulett Of Gran
vile. n. Y. Amy Emily Metcalf OF Will
lIiston, Martha I.orine Reynolds. cum
laudc. OF Bellows Falls, Sylvia Sophia
Shilvock, cum laude. Of st. Albans, Ernest
Nelson Worthen Of Barre.
Bachelors of science in civil engineer
ing lin absentia)--Thomas Riley Barrett
of Adams, Mass. Leon Herbert Sault.
cum laudc. of Randolph
Bachelors of science in electrical en-
gincering-Alfred James Rassett of Taun.
|ton Moc. Harold Calvin Rickford nj