The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1908-06-19
STATE NEWS.

Middlebury College will be held
June p to "a, and will be notable
because of the induction into office
of a new president, Rev. John NJ.
Thomas, d. D., formerly of East
Orange, N. j. On Sunday morn
ing, June 81, Pres. Ezra Brainerd
will deliver the baccaleaureate SER
mon to the graduating class, and
in the evening the college Y. NJ.
and Y. W. C. A. will be addressed
by Rev. Rufus c. Flagg, d. D., of
Newport. Class Day exercises and
the annual meeting of the Phi Beta
Kappa society will be held during
Monday, and in the evening eight
representatives of the Sophomore
and five of the Freshman class will
speak for the Merrill and Parker
prizes. Following the awarding of
prizes, the various fraternities will
hold their annual reunions in their
rooms. Tuesday is commencement
day this year. There will be a
meeting of the alumni in the college
chapel, followed by the graduating
exercises and the comforting of
degrees in the Congregational
church. After the degrees are con-
ferred, there will be an alumni lunch
con served in the town hall, and the
day will close with the class re-
unions in the late afternoon and the
reception by President and Mrs.
Brainerd at their residence in the
evening. On Wednesday, June "a,
President Brainerd will hand over
the keys of the college to DR..
Thomas. This event will be pre-
coded by another meeting of the
alumni in the chapel, at which a
picture of DR.. Charles E. Prentiss of
the class of 1864, will be unveiled.
DR.. Prentiss was for many years the
librarian of the college, and this
picture is the gift of the alumni,
among whom he was much beloved.
The Inauguration exercises will be
simple, but impressive, and repre-
sentatives of a great number of
colleges and universities will attend,
including many presidents of other
colleges.
The baseball season of the Uni
versity of Vermont, Burling ton,
which closed recently, was the most
successful in sixteen years. The
team had one of the hardest sched-
ules it ever went up against, but
of the twenty-five games played won
fifteen, tied two, and lost eight.
Most of the defeats came at the
opening of the season when, owing
to lack of outdoor practice, the
team had not struck its gait, says
The Free Press. In the record of
the season one of the most remark
able features is that of Collins.
This now famous side-wheeler has
been in the box in fourteen of the
hardest games of the year. Of
these contests he has won eleven,
tied one, and lost but two. To his
ability in the box is due
much of the years record. Next \
years prospects are rosy, for the
team loses but one man, Smith, /
by graduation. Gardner, the prem
Ter shortstop, who has this season
had two offers from the major
leagues, will be back. Gardner
has now signed with the Boston or
Red SoX team of the American
League; burlington, by many
critics considered the best college
catcher in New England, will stop
the Blenders again next season;
Pitchers Hunt, Haynes, Collins,
and Mcconnell are all undergrad
yates; Third Baseman Paquet, for
whom George Winter predicts a
major league career, and Watkins,
the first baseman, will be back in
the ring in 1909 With this mat
erial for a starter and good prep
school timber to fill out the college
men expect another season to clean
out anything on the college base
ball map. This season Vermont
is entitled to the championship of
New England by virtue of having
defeated every college of note in
that division of states with the
exception of Williams and of Yale,
with whom no game was scheduled.
Yale has been beaten by several
teams, which have fallen before
Vermont. however.
YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS.
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