Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-12-12

way Morrill, hall will have served
splendid purpose. At the close OF his
address, Governor Proctor turned the
keys Of III building over 70 President VI.
II. Buckham.
Following rousing college cheer by
body Of students who were gathered on
the running track above the hall. and
selection by the quartctte President
Buckham delivered the following address
of acceptance by the university:
This would have been n happy day
to Mr.. morrill, If he could have lived to
share IT with us. For, unsclfsh as he
was-almost unconst ious of self In his
public scrvicrs--he would have seen
in what we are doing day an out
ward and visible expression of the
idea to which he gave the best part OF
his heart and his life This is not tho
first building erected in his honor and
bearing his name. and though II is the
latest it will not be the last. sooner
or later probably every state in the
Union will have either building or
some other cQuival ut memorial 90
commemorate his great services to the
nation and to rerpetuate his name m
the esteem aud affection of the coming
generations. For there is this unique
quality in the work done by Mr..
Morrill, which distinguishes 1t from
the perhaps equal merit of other
national bencfactions. that it me-
moralizcs itself by accommodating
benefits and ever increasing use
fulncss. as the years and tho dec
81 he l.
ing with n moderate endowment based
on tn" uncertain sales of public lands,
! the Morrill, Colleges have grown to bc
great treasure-houses and dlspensarios
Of national ana state and individual
heucfactions. great cducat tional poteu
cics. already rivalling the centuries
old institutions which at first they
modcstlv hoped TO supplcmont. 1t -
customary to say of the founders OF
great Institutions. that "th", bui'd"d
better than they knew" Eat soma
. times faith scars far beyond Huow!-
edge. and its visionary hor"s arc in
time eolidlhod into magnificent facts
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that ho b, 'lded better than h" knew. He
kuov that he had a great gorminal Idea
and ne had faith that tho peoul" would
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