Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-06-28

The One Hundred and Seventh Com
mencement of the College began in the
Congregational church Sunday morning,
June 90, with the Baccalaureate Sermon
by President Brainerd. The text was
taken from CxIx, 1855: "Great peace have
they which love thy law" and the SER
mon is given in part in another column
CLASS DAY.
Monday morning at 10 80 o'clock were
held the class day exercises of the class
of 1907 on the college campus. Led by
the junior class marshal, NJ. D. Holmes,
the seniors forming in line in front of the
chapel building marched to the library,
where took place the planting of the
class ivy by B. j. Mulcahy. From the
library the class marched to the platform
constructed on the campus and prettily
draped with the class colors, where the
following programme was rendered: Ad-
dress by the class president, Carl Lisle
Percy; ivy grafton, Bernard Joseph Null
cahy: will and presentation, Thomas
Howard BARLEY; class Grafton, Chester
Munroe Walch; class history, Mabel
Ethelyn Stevenson; class poem, Joseph
Patrick Mccormack; class prophecy,
Myrtle Arabelle Mosier.
ALUMNI DAY.
The exercises of alumni day COM
menced with a preliminary meeting of
the associated alumni in the college chap
ter building. A committee on nomina-
tions for officers for the ensuing year was
chosen as the following: William w.
Gay, '76; Edward NJ Roscoe, '96, and
Duane j. Robinson, '03.
The preliminary meeting was followed
at II a. m. by the public meeting of the
associated alumni in the Congregational
church. Ex-Gov. John w. Stewart, '46 ;
presided at this meeting and introduced
the principal speaker Of the occasion,
Nathan Button Smith, '63, of Pulaski
N. Y, who delivered an interesting ad-
dress, which will be found in another
Prentiss Cheney Hoyt, 's9, of Worcester,
Mass. read his poem, written for the oc-
casion.
In the afternoon at three o'clock the
annual meeting and elections of the Phi
Beta Kappa society were held in the col
lege chapel. Following these came the
faculty tea in the college library and the
D. X. E. reception of the fraternity
house.
THE PRIZE SPEAKING.
The Congregational church was crowd
ed to it's doors Tuesday evening with the
usual representative crowd to hear the
annual speaking contest for the Parker
and Merrill prizes. This worthy
event. taking place in the evening, has
always been very largely attended by the
citizens of this and surrounding towns
and this year was no exception.
In the Parker contest the order was
Belshazzar's Feast, William Hoyt Car
ter; The Volunteer Soldier, Richard All
ken Currier; Eulogy on Lafayette, Rob
ert Fletcher Hunt: The Fireman's Prayer
Harlan Sylvester Perrigo; The Unknown
Rider, Paul Dunton Ross.
In the Merrill contest the following
was the order: Eulogy on Garfield, Ray
mond Millard Coleman; Toussaint L
Overture, Clifton Starr Hadley Rober
Burns, Carl Sumner Martin; Protection
of American Citizens, Arthur Wallac
Peach: The Grave of Napoleon. DAME
Jones Kicker; Eulogy on Grady, Leonar'
Dow Smith, To the South American Re
publics, Ray Adams Stevens The Ma
tional Flag, Philip Anson Wright.
The judges were: E. C. Hoyt, 'S9; Ma
than d. Smith, '63; w. w. Gay, '7t
The Parker prizes of $50 and $40 wer
awarded; First, Harlan Sylvester Perrigo
, Jr.: second, Robert Fletcher Hunt. TIL
Merrill prizes of $25, $50, Sl5 and 81
were awarded: First, Ray Adams Ste
vens; second, Clifton Starr Hadley
third, Leonard Dow Smith; fourth, Al
tn ur Wallace Peach. Prof. Williar
Burrage was the presiding officer.
TOWN BEAT COLLEGE.
The Middlebury College base ball teal
was defeated in very exciting game {
ball by the Middlebury town team hel
Tuesday afternoon, to 3. Batteries
Munson and Stewart for the town team
and Cove and Ross for the college. Th
feature was home run by Higgins.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES.
The exercises of commencement da
at Middlebury College opened at 81
a M, when the annual meeting of ii
Associated Alumni was held in the CO
lege chapel.