The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10

including Ryland Fletcher uf YER
mont, Thomas II. Seymour of Con-
neoticut. Horatio Seymour of New
York, William Pitt Kellogg of Lou
isana, and Thomas Bragg of North
Carolina; four lieutenant Governors
and sixteen Congressman besides
large. number of foreign ministers
and consuls.
Of the prominent lawyers amonc
the graduates are William Augustus
Beach, remembered by those who
recall the famous Beecher trial, Luz
Their r. Marsh, partner of Daniel
Webster, Luther X. Dixon, justice of
the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.
Jonathan Tarbell of the Supreme
Court of Mississippi William L. Lee,
chief justice of the Hawaiian Is
lands, and B. F. Spaulding of the
Supreme Court of North Dakota.
The successful business men who
received their education there are
scattered all over The coun-
try and in other countries.
Their occupations include man
ufacturing of various sorts.
banking, ranching, planting and rail
reading.
1t was Capt. Partridge's idea that
the training of the cadets should
make for peace through preparedness
for war, so it is not surprising to
learn that more than fifty cadets
have won distinction in the ministry.
This list includes such names az
Rev. A. A. Miner, Bishop w. r. Hunt
ington, Bishop Eliot of Georgia, John
Holbrook, one of the founders of the
Chicago Theological Seminary, Rev.
Elisha Adams, one Of the founders of
Tilton Seminary, and Howard f.
Hill, kindly remembered in Montpe.
lier.
More than hundred nave engag-
ed in teaching and have filled respon-
sible places as presidents of univer-
stiles or as professors in some of the
leading colleges and universities Of.
the country. -
More than fifty have taken up
journalism and the list includes some
distinguished names.
Literary work has engaged the at
tention of one hundred or more and
some of those have attained emin-
ence, while $50 or more have taken
up the practice of medicine.
This is only a brief suggestion Of
the eminence attaine,. in Ii il tary and
civil life by graduates of this modest
institution, and as there are fully 500
of its earlier students about whom
nothing has been learned II is safe
to say that few educational institu-
lions in the country have sent out q
larger number of distinguished men,
and still can point to so large pro-
portion of students who have 1illei
honorable positions.
Degrees OF bachelor OF arts ana.
| bachelor of fence in civil engi3-
eering, i'll chemistry or in science
and literature are conferred on s-I-
dents who complete the courses lead
ing to such degrees. The degree CT
master of arts, master of science or
civil enginee' may be conferred on
graduates of two years standing at
Norwich or any other college who
have spent at least one year in post
graduate work under the direction of
t.c faculty. Graduates who des 'e
TO II gage in teaching il ermont we
entitled to a five year certificate
without eXah nation n. Juates C5-
pecia'iy II, nmmende by the pccgj-
dent are commissioned second leu
tenants in tn National Guard.
w. A. Ellis. who has rctn librarian
and curator, has been engaged for
nearly two years in writing a history
of the university and it is now in
course OF pull licatioh from the Cap
ital City Press.