Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-06-27
Twenty-Five Men and Women Re.
ceived Degrees-List Of
Honors.
EIGHT PHI BETA KAPPAS
The Honorary Degree of Doctor Of
Divinity Given the Rev. Isaac Chip
man Smart Of Burlington-
Governor Proctor Made
Trustee of College.

| Trustee of College.
| Middlebury June 25.-The exercises
of commencement day at Middlebury
| College opened at $3.50 a. M when the
| annual meeting of the Associated
Alumni was held In the college chapel
| Following this meeting at 1890 a.
m, the exercises of the graduating
| class were held in the Congregational
| Church. Tho student body members
| of the graduating class, alumni fac
ulty and trustees forming in line on
the college campus led by Colonel
Thad Chapman. marshal, and the Mid
! dlebury Cornet band, marched to the
church where the exercises were held.
The programme was: Music: prayer,
President Brainerd; salutatory ad-
dress, Mary Louisa Pratt; Grafton,
our Liberty" Walter Lawrence Bar
mum; Grafton. The College Man in the
Industrial World" Thomas Howard
BARLEY; music; essay. ave Caesar
Ave Christie" Marguerite Harwood;
Grafton, The Extension of Federal
Power" Bernard Joseph Mulcahy; es-
say, THE Decadence Of Business In
tegrity," Susan Beatrice Miner; music;
Grafton, THE Worth Of It." James
Montrose Duncan Olmsted essay. Ian
guage Consciousness" Mabel Ethglyn
stevenson; Grafton, Three Qualities
Essential to Success" Chester Munroe
Walch music; Grafton with valedic-
tory addresses. Reason as Charac-
teristic of the Age" Joseph Patrick
Mccormack; comforting of degrees;
benediction.
THE GRADUATING CLASS.
The members OF the class Of 1907 are
W. 5. Barnum, Cornwall; T. II. Bart
ley, Vergenncs; W. r. Bristol, Yer
gennes; H. l.. C1ishrnan. Middlebury: Z.
NJ. Cove. New Haven Mills; r. l. Hasel-
tine. Waterbury; F. p. Long, Bangor,
Pa; W. s. Maggs, New London, Conn.
I. p. Mccormack. Bethel. 3. ]. Null
cahy. Hardwick; ]. NJ. d. Olrsted, Sun
cook. n. H: C. l.. Percy. Marlboro.
Mass, c. A. Perkins. Hampton, n II;
@. A. Ratu, Proctor; c. VI. Walch. Hud-
son Center. n. n.
YOUNG LADY GRADUATES
The Misses X. A. Adams, Pittsford V
w. Child, Mddlebury; Marguerite Har-
wood. Swanton; G. T. Hughes. Fair
Haven; S. B. Miner, Middlebury; A.
Mosier, West Berkshre A. r. Murdoch
Warren, Ohio; +. A. Powers Bennng-
ton; NJ, l.. Pratt. Paxton, Mass; NJ. E.
Stevenson, Worcester. Mass.
: HONORs AWARDED.
Commencement honors were: ]. P. Nc
Cormack, G. NJ. Walch. w. l.. Barnum
j. VI. 2. Olmsted, 7. H. Barley. Wo'
men: NJ. l.. Pratt. NJ. e. Stevenson
Ma rguerite Harwood.
Highest honors: Greek, Chester NJ
walch; Latin. Thomas H. BARLEY ant
Mary L, Pratt; French. T. II. hartley
Joseph p. Mccormack. Guia A. Patti
and c. NJ Walch.
Highest honors In history and politica
science were awarded to Marguerite Hnr
wood for work in history and r. j. Null
cahy for work in political science.
Honors in history and political science.
f. NJ. Cove; mathematics, J. p. Me
V Cormack: natural history. W. F.. Bristol
!, and r. I. Haseltine. Highest honors in
I chemistry to r. NJ. Cove, ]. T. Nc
Comack and J. NJ Olmsted. The degree
= OF masters of arts was awarded 10
Charles G.. Barnum. 'o5, in chemistry;
v Marie Murkland. Smith College. 'o6, in
: Greek and philosophy: Maud NJ. Fucker
; %, in Spanish language and literature.
PHI BETA KAPPA
$ Following elected to the Phi Beta
). Kappa society: w. l.. Barnum. T. II
= BARLEY. ]. P. Mccormack, James Ohm
|, sted Chester NJ. Walch, Marguerite Ha-
J. wood. Mary l.. Pratt and Mabel f.
Il | Stevenson.
|, New trustees of the college, his ex
?, celency. Gov. Fletcher n. Proctor anc
the Hon. Rufus c. Flagg. GO,
HONORARY DEGREES.
@ /. l.. D.. the Hon. Elias Huntington
e Bottusn, II.
, u. D.. the Rev. Isaac Chapman Smar
"a of Burlington
). D. D., the Rev John Martin Thomas
e 80. of East Orange. n J.
After the presentation OF the dirlo
# mas and degrees came the corporatio
= dinner at The Addison AT p. m.
=. This evening the annual commence
ment concert was hold in the Congrc
gational Church and all those presen
enjoyed the programme rendered b
The Schubert Male Quartette. Robor
u Martin, first tenor, Charles W. Swain'
second tenor, William w Walker, bari
. tone. DR. George r. Clark, basso, as
:, sisted by Charles T Grilley, imperson
-. ator, and DorinEs orchestra, of Tro!
N. Y.
= Directly following the concert cam
= the presidents reception at his resi-
dencc and the commencement ball z
"a tho opera house. Doring's orchest r
. OF Troy n. Y, nine pieces, furnishe
=. music for dancing.