Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-12-09
ST. ANDREWS DINNER.
M iddIebury Represented by Mr..
Hepburn and President
Thomas

Over 700 of the leading citizens of
New York city heard from Middlebury
last Thursday evening at the annual
dinner of the St. Andrews society.
This is an organization of Scotchmen
and men of Scotch descent, to which
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has devoted en-
thusiastic attention in recent years.
Mr.. Carnegie's influence has made it
one of the most prominent and success
full of the national societies in the me-
tropolis.
The president of the society this year
is Mr.. A. Barton Hepburn, Middlebury,
II, who presided at the dinner last
Thursday and spoke on 'St. Andrews
Day." The toast, ''The Land o.
Cakes" was responded to by Mr.. Car
negie who had this to say concerning
Mr.. Hepburn:
'Your chairman has alluded to the
ability of the Scotch for getting there.
first want to mention his own ability
for getting there President of a
great bank, president of an important
organization in our great city, the
Chamber of Commerce, and finally, cap
ping them all, with no higher heights
to climb, president of the ST. Andrews
society.
''What is the secret of his success?
Fidelity to his trust In all our panics,
in all our revolutions in credit, there
was not one Scotchman's name dis
honored.
After the conclusion of Mr.. Car
negie's speech, Mr.. Hepburn explain
ed that Doctor Woodrow Wilson, gov
ernor-elect of New Jersey, had been ex-
pected to respond to the toast "The
Land We Live In, but had cancelled
the engagement only a few days be-
fore. In introducing President Thomas
as his substitute, Mr.. Hepburn said:
1--WE learned early IN life, when in
trouble, to go to our mother to have
wrongs, real or fancied, righted, and
perplexities resolved.
Confronted with the embarrassment
resulting from Mr.. Wilson's change of
programme at such late date,
naturally turned to my Alma Mater,
that grand old college nestled among
the hills of the Green Mountain State,
college that graduated its 10th class
in June last, and for more than a
century, with New England economy,
New England efficiency and New Eng
land conscience, has been contributing
to the education of the nation.
Founded in the early years of the
Republic, she caught the spirit of the
Fathers, which found expression in the
work she did; the spirit still exists and
| felt sure my call upon her would be
honored. | knew President Thomas,
knew his ability as evidenced by the
largely increased student body, increas-
ed efficiency of management, improved
tone and spirit since he assumed the
presidency of Middlebury College; cal
led President Thomas on long distance
explained my predicament and asked
him to supply the place. He replied,
I'll do the best l can know, and
you will presently, that the best he can
do parallels the best that any of our
leading educators can do.
"Our college professors work for
meagre salaries, md yet they go every
where, see everything, enjoy every
thing and seem. to get the most out of
life. We are all familiar with the work
they do in their respective institutions,
but there is another service, no less i'm
portant, which they render in contri-
buting to general education. They
write books-not the best sellers, not
income producers, but text books, re-
ference books, economics, sociology,