Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-06-27
TOO MUCH GAS AT WINDSOR.
THIRTY-TWO GRADUATES.
Large Class at Montpelier Seminary
Prizes Awarded.


Montpelier, June 20.-The gradual
ing exercises at Montpelier Seminary. |
hold this morning in the chapel. at
tracted the usual large audience.
Thirty-two young men and young wo-
men received diplomas at the hands of
Principal l.. A. Bishop, making one of
the largest classes ever sent out from
that institution Their names, resi-
dences, and the courses they have com
pleted, follow:
Latin scientific course--Grace Lillian
Allen. Ferrisburgh; Ruth Elizabeth Par
ker Johnson; Ada Anna Peck Johnson.
College prepa ra tory course-Margaret
Edgerton, Northheld; Clinton Herbert
Goodnough, Barton Landing; James Mel
son Sesver. Wareham. Mass.
Modern course-Sad Alma Boyce.
Willamstown; Bertha Leonora Clogston.
Willamstown; Sadie Harriet Pond, East
Berkshire; Finette Ellen Williams. Put
ney Charles Bayley Adams, Randolph
Center: Howard sheldon Buckley. Wat
erbury: Glenn Carroll Carpenter. Cabot;
Edward Leonard Clark, Willamstown;
Stephen Brooks Collins. st. Adams, AL
bert Everett Edison, Randolph Center;
Earl Asa Parker. Waitsfeld Walter
Ina IlH'S W HUN, Nl'lttp"ll'
Elocution course-Rertha Leonora Clog
ston. Wiliamstown.
Piano course-Erma Gladys Brown,
Sheffield; Amy Olive Goodspeed Mont
gomery; Dorothy Eliza Parker. Mont
gomery.
Vocal course-Erma Gladys Brown.
Sheffield; Charles Morton Sherburne.
| Montpelier.
Commercial =
Bancroft Calais Edgar Howard Burn
ham. Calais Albert Wendell Marsh,
Waits River
Shorthand course--Ciertrude Addie
Chaffee, Morrisville; Matte Belle
Gould. Danville: Achsah Helen Guern-
sey, Rochester; Maude Ellen Johnson,
Moretown: Hazel Annie Twombly, Bar
| ton Landing.
GRADUATING EXERCISES.
Following the singing of the Bridal
! Chorus" from the Rose Maiden" by
the Seminary chorus class. the gradu-
| atinE exercises were opened with
prayer by the Rev. r. F. Lowe of st.
Adams The programme consisted of:
Grafton. The Transportation Prob
lem" Edward L. Clark: Grafton, The
Panama Canal" Albert f. Edison; ora
tion. The Race Problem Of America,
Howard s BulSelcy; piano solos. Dor
othy e Parker; essay, The Mission of
Fiction" Sadie a. Boyce; grafton,
Public Spirit Versus the Almighty
Dollar James y. seaver; grafton.
The Enlightenment of China" Cln-
ton Fl. Goodnough.
Vocal solo. Charles NJ Sherburne; es-
| 70 npI T,,a
Bishop McCabe," Grace l.. Allen; ora
ton, "Ecctricity in Transportation"
Glenn c. Carpenter; piano solos, Amy o.
Goodspeed; Grafton, "Cubas Destiny"
Charles r. Adams: oration. rs the new
immigration Dangerous to the United
States?" Walter l.. Wilcox; vocal solo,
Erma G. Brown.
| PRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Principal Bishop addressed the grail
uating class and after a few earnest
words OF advice gave each a diploma.
Ava riding the prizes came next and as
the successful ones went forward to re-
ceve them they We're loudly applauded.
The prizes of 81 and 81 first and second
| for both ladies and gentlemen at the
junior prize debate, held last winter,
were awarded to Agnes Warren and Dor
othy e. Parker, II. Ray Hall and Harold
| Z. Bishop respectively
| For the prize debate held in May the
first prize of SIS went to Charles b. Ad-
ans of Randolph Center. the second
prize $40 to Harold r. Bishop OF Mont
pelier.
| The first prize for ladies in the prize
speaking, held last Tuesday night went
| to Dorothy L. Parker of Montgomery,
who recited Bobby Shaftoe" This
prize was IS. The second for ladies 81,
was awarded to Margaret Fdgerton of
Mortified. Her selection was Little
Alexis Bear story" The first prize for
gentlemen IS, was taken by Walter L.
Wilcox of Moretown. who rected Som
bre." the second 81, went to Charles p.
Adams Of Randolph Center who gave
Senator Thurston's "Plea for Cuba" in
the United States Senate shortly before
the breaking out OF the Spanish-Amer-
| lean war.
| The scholarship prize for the best re-
cord during the school year a set OF
! books was given to Miss Grace L. Allen
| Of Ferrisbureh First and second prizes
| of books for the best thesis during the
year by member of the graduating class
or student who had been at the in
stitution two years or over were awarded
to James y. Seaver of Wareham, Mass.
and Harold f. Bishop OF Montpelier
In announcing plans for the coming
year Prof Bishop stated that with the
exception of two changes the faculty
will he the same as II now is Miss Fanny
Chamberlain, the art teacher and e, A.
Hamilton, instructor in Latin and Greek,
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