Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-06-26

ing.
Baccalaureate Sunday, June 81, was
also an ideal day, the weather being
clear, though rather warm. The Bac-
calaureate sermon of the day, delivered
at the Congregational church, was the
last one by the president, Ezra Brainerd,
who this year resigns the chair, after a
most successful administration of twen-
ty-three years. An abstract of the ser.
mon will be seen on another page.
AT 8 p. M, came the observance of the
anniversary of the college Christian as
sociations, with an inspiring and helpful
address by the Rev. Rufus C. Flagg, D.
D., of the class of '69.
Monday, Glass Day, was continuation
of the splendid weather of the two pre-
vious days. and the exercises of the class
of 1908 were carried out on the campus
as below:
Planting of the Ivy.
Senior Glass.
Address by the President,
William Russell Wheeler.
Ivy Grafton,
Roy Dyer Wood.
Will and Presentation,
James Lyman Lovejoy.
Glass Grafton,
Moody Dole Holmes.
Class History,
Pearl Cynthia Fuller.
Class Poem,
Vera Phoebe Powell.
Glass Prophecy,
Mary Katharine Kendall.
The Glass Day committee consisted of
Arnold Roberts Manchester. BENJAMIN
Edward Farr, and George Henry Sever
ence, Jr, Junior Glass Marshal, Frank
Augustus Farnsworth, Jr.
On Monday evening the annual speak
ing contest for the Parker and Merrill
prizes was held at the Congregational
| church, which edifice was, as usual filled
to its capacity. This particular function
is always attractive. and was no less SO
than usual this year. Long before the
doors were opened a large crowd was
assembled on the spacious steps of the
old church.
Music of high order was furnished
for the occasion by Doring's orchestra
of Troy, n. Y. The freshmen who won
in the preliminary contest competed for
the Parker prizes of $50 and $40, and the
sophomores. similarly chosen, worked for
the Merrill prizes of S25, $50, $l5 and
$40, all prizes being given for oratorical
eXcellency.
The prize winners in the Parker con-
test We're: First, Benjamin S. Stewart
second, Edwin S. S. Sunderland. The
| four Merrill prizes were awarded as fol-
lows: First, Lyman Alton Morhous;
second, George Edward Shaw; third,
Richard Aiken Currier; fourth, Robert
Fletcher Hunt. The contestants and
their subjects follow.
For Parker prizes-''The Bell of St.
john" Edwin S. S. Sunderland; "Robert
of Sicily" Earl Harrison Gale; "Charles
Sumner" Woodburn Prescott Harris;
THE Attack on Fort Wagner" j. Gordon
Peach; "The Soul of the VIOLIN" Ben
jamin S. Stewart.
For Merrill prizes-"Address at Union
Square" Richard Aiken Currier; "The
Tribute of Two Republics" Egbert
Charles Hadley: "An Appeal to Arms,
Robert Fletcher Hunt; The March OF
the Flag" Harold DEMO Leach: "The
Eloquence of O'Connell," Lyman Alton
Morhous; ITO the South American Re.
publics," Robert Cecil Ryden; "Our Pub
lie Men," ."sGeorge Edward Shaw; "The
Conservation of Resources" Robert
Royal Twitchell.
Tuesday, this year, was Commence.
ment day, this change being necessitated
by reason of the inaugural exercises OF
the new president, DIR. John NJ. Thomas
which were planned TO occur on Wed
nesday. Shortly after ten the marshal
Col. Thad. NJ. Chapman, got the process
sion started, beaded by the Middlebury
band; then came the distinguished guesti
of the occasion, graduates of this anC
other colleges. with the faculty anC
alumni, followed by the classes of tn,
college of both sexes. The procession
marched to the Congregational churcl
whare the nrOQram was Carried ont /,