Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-06-23
Class poem, Frederick A. Coates.
Class pronhecv. Ellnice w Smith

hoiloleu custom OF smoking the pipes Oh
peace and promise was observed. This
moment was also a favorable opportu-
nifty for the various classes, graduate
and undergraduate, to show their APP
proval by giving their class yells.
E-UNDERCRADUATE BALL GAME.
The annual Alumni undergraduate
ball game took place on the College,
Athletic field Monday afternoon. The
game was loosely played on the whole
but a brilliant play occasionally oc-
Cured. The game ended with the
score 6-5 in favor of the graduates. The
batteries were; for the graduates, Fisk
and Mulcahy; for the undergraduates
Wray and Bundy.
PRIZE SPEAKING.
On Monday evening the competition
for the ParkerMerrill prizes took place
In the Freshman Parker contest the
first prize of 500 was awarded to Garland
B. Cook and the second prize of $40 to
John F. Hough. In the Sophmore-
Merrill contest the first prize of $25
went to William F. Pollard, jr; the
second of $40 to Wilfred E. Davidson;
the third of $15.to John A. Arnold; the
fourth of $40 to Ralph H. Waldo The
program was as follows:
PARKER CONTEST.
Music, Commemoration March, Roberts
| 'hn Il,11 e H.
Garland B. Cook.
2. The Deathbed of Arnold, Lippard
Robert H. Hill.
8. The Unknown Speaker, Anonymous
John F. Hough.
4. The Honor of the Woods, Murray
Russell E. Smith.
3. The Black Horse and His Rider,
Lippard
Karl l. S. Stems.
Music, Gavotte, Roeder
MERRILL CONTEST.
l. The Death Penalty, Hugo
John A. Arnold.
2. The Reply to Hayne, Webster
Theron l.. Culver.
3. Lincoln and His Times, Stafford
Wilfred E. Davidson.
4. Brutus's Speech Over Caesar,
Shakespeare
John E. Downing, jr.
Music, Grand Choeur, Spence
5. The Southern Negro, Grady
William K. MacMurtry.
o. Regulus to the Carthaginians,
Kellogg
William F. Pollard, jr.
T. Robert Burns, Curtis
Charles L Smiddy.
8. The American Indian, Sprague
Ralph H. Waldo.
Music, Offertoire in F. Vincent
DEDICATION OF Parsons HALL.
Pearsons' hall was formally dedicated
Tuesday afternoon. Thomas H. Noonan
of the class of 81, president of the
Associated alumni, presided. The first
speaker on the program was Miss NJ.
G. Higley. She was followed by Cen
eral Franklin J. Butterfield. The col
lege women next entertained with
musical selection. Dean of women.
Miss Rhoda M. White, spoke of the
ideals that should be the ambition of
Women's College President Thomas
closed the exercises with a few remarks
after which the dormitory was in
spected.
One of the features of commence
ment week in Middlebury college was
the presentation of Peele's Elzabethan
drama The Old Wives Tale" by a
cast composed of the seniors and juniors
in the college.
Believing that the production of plays
has no small effect upon the life of a
community the present production, as
well as that of the Latin play last year,
was selected because it was thought
that it would be most valuable in gain
ing a necessary interest.
There were two presentations of
Peele's drama, one Tuesday morning
and the other Tuesday evening. Both
performances justified the selection of
The Wives Tale"
The ambition of the English depart
ment, under whose auspices the play
took place, was to reproduce the play as
it was probably given in Elizabethan,
London.
Accordingly the stage of the college
theatre was remodeled to suit the pur-
pose. Two curtains We're hung, one
across the center of the stage, the
other further back at the rear of the
stage. In front of the first curtain a
grey mossgrown tombstone was erected
on the right and dirt-pit arranged on
the left. Behind the first curtain was
the home of Clunch, the village smith.
On the right was fireplace with stools
and benches about, on the left stood the
magic well. Behind the second curtain
was the cell of the sorcerer, Sacrapant.
Entrances were cleverly arranged over
which were various signs in gold such
as ITO Fairyland" and "The Road pa st
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