The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-01-13
brought out some facts of interest to

the average parent and reader.
President Thomas, in speaking of
the college said: "Middlebury College
is without doubt an ideal institution
for the higher education of the peo-
pie and l may say that by the people
l mean the youths and maidens of
Vermont, for Middlebury draws so
percent of it's students from within
the borders of the State, while the
remainder, for the most part, come
from the rural portions of New Eng
land.
"The college strives to impart to
the student the true manhood or wo-
manhood which has Always been char
acteristic of Middlebury and that we
succeed is amply attested by the in
creased number of students enrolled
in the freshman class this year, full
thirty over that of the year before.
This increased number of students is
not due either to solicitation on my
part or on the part of the faculty, for
| have learned that the student who
has to be asked to go to college, does
not do his best, nor is the moral eff
feet good, for the welfare of the col
lege. The student at Middlebury to-
day is the one who comes unsought,
but who is there because he wishes
an education, and is willing to work
and work hard to get one. That is
! the kind of man, and this applies
to the women, too, whom we can do
the most effective work with at our
institution on the Otter.
! I'm regard to the first step toward
moulding the Middlebury of the flu
ture, | would name the new dormi-
tory, which will soon be erected for
women. This building will afford ac-
commodation to 60 women and will
aid along the lines which the college
has adopted as it's policy, that is to
keep the women and the men apart
in the following of the curriculum of
the course, with the recitations, lee
! tures and examinations In different
halls: in fact to make of our college
the highest type of co-educational in
stitution, without making it literally
SC. This new building of which
speak will be started by the first of
! April and completed about November
| 1st 1t will be 10 feet in length, AZ
| feet in width and four stories in
height, making it, when completed,
one of the most modern dormitories
of it's kind in New England. The re-
alization of this new building rests
solely with the benevolence of DR.. d.
X. Pearsons of Chicago, but native
of Brandon of this State. He offered
to give $4,000 to Middlebury of $780,
000 could be raised within year.
let out, the plans completed and be-
fore another fall the students of Mid
dlebury will be occupying the build
ing
Athletic development is a thing
which the public always expects to
hear of when the word college is
heard and may mention the fact
that the college has had football
team ON the gridiron and intends to
have a baseball aine on the diamond,
but we have thought it better to have
no representative team in basketball,
as it takes too much of the boys
time. | have purchased myself, how
ever, the Tod Catholic church prop
erty and have turned it into a gymn-
asium, where class and practice
games are held daily by both men and
women. We have but few Mnutpe-
lier boys there at present, but hope
to see the time when there are more |
and i'm fact when Vermont is even
better represented than II is now, so
that every high school boy may have
the benefit of college education"
President Thomas will leave for
Randolph this morning where he J.,
scheduled to speak and tomorrow
will be present at the annual meet
ing of the Woodstock Congregational
church, where he will also give
short talk. This will end his triT
and he will return to resume his du-
ties at Tine college