Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-06-28
commencement
University Of Vermont Sends Out
a Glass Of 102 Young Men
and Women.
0RATIONS AND ESSAYS
Degrees Conferred in All Dcpnrt.
ments-The Corporation Dinner,
Followed by Speechcs-Prcsi-
dents Reception at the
Billings Library.

| dents Reception mt the
Billings Library.
The 102nd annual commencement
exercises of the University of Vermont
| and state agricultural college were
| held in the Strong Theatre Yesterday
| in the presence Of an nssemblage of
people which filed the vast audi
torium from pit to gallery. The bac-
| calaurcate degree was conferred upon
90 candidates who had completed the
course In the academical department,
while the Al who had completed the
work in the college of medicine re-
ceivcd the doctorate in medicine.
| Honorary degrees were bestowed up
on five and others received degrees for
advanced work.
THE PROCESSION
The exercises at The Strong com
menced shortly after eleven o'clock
when the procession of trustees facul-
ties. alumni and undergraduates which
moved from the old college building
reached the theatre. The procession
was headed by the sherman Military
band and was marshalled by Charles
! f. Allen. The line of march was
across the college green, down College
through South Union and down Main
street to The Strong The graduates
of both departments President Buck
ham and the medical faculty wore aca-
demic costume.
IN THE THEATRE.
Entering the theatre, members of
the medical and academical faculties
board of trustees, guests of honor the
governor of the State and the presi-
dant of the University of Vermont oc-
cupied places on the stage. The two
graduating classes and alumni oc-
cupied seats in the orchestra circle
Announcement that the exercises oi
the l02d annual commencement woulc
begin was made by Marshal Allen anc
they We're carried out in the follow
ing order:
Music Waterman's orchestra.
March--'Philadelph ... Wiegand
Prayer-the Rev. Lewis
Francis. p. D., '56. Brooklyn. n. Y
Sweet Recollcctions," Hoffman
Does the Failure of Municipal Gov
ernment Mean the Failure of Demo
racy?........S sydney Moore Bunke
The Philosophy Of Progress"
Irving Cassius Cobl
"PlinY and Matteucci,'
= Howard Austin Edsor
THE significance of the Student No
lunteer Movement
Hannah Elizabeth Holmes
THE Failure of Islam
Arthur Anderson Mand e
Music-"Polsh Dance,
Schamenka
"A Shock to Pessimism,'
Ralph Foster Perry
american Idealsm,
Hugh Hammond Watson
p Literary Dcns,
Ruby Gertrude Whttemore
.rhe March of the Great White Army,
George Holland Kirkpatrick
Nusic-Waltz, Love Thoughts
Waldteufe
DEGREES CONFERRED.
! Mugic-March, Excursion Party
Howe
, Renediction-the Rev. Or, Francis
lHf. UNA i'-|' @N
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,aa;a,, oss.vs showed deep study and in
oh, T., the subjects considered. They wer
s. ,,,,.od u,,,h raro literary art and goo'
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