Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-07-27
Large Number of Distinguished
Educators Will Be in Bur
lington October 5 and 6.
PRESIDENT TAFT MAY COME
College Men from All Parts of the
Country Will Participate in
the Exercises and Make
Addresses.

! If the plans now being made are sue.
cossful, President William Howard Taft
will be in Burlington October G. and will
| speak at the Inauguration of President
Guy Potter Benton of the University Of
| Vermont. responding on behalf Of the
| United States, to the address cf welcome
| by Mayor Robert Roberts
Yesterday afternoon there vas A met
ing of the committee upon arrangements
| for the inauguration consisting of Elias
| Lyman, Judge L. G. Mower. Ctsa!ts
| Peck. Mayor Robert Roberts and Red
! field Proctor, and tentative plans for the
| Inauguration ceremonies We're drawn up
| These include an educational conference
| and addresses by large number of dis.
| tlnGuished speakers from all parts of This
| country
| Two days. October s and g. will be 60
voted 70 the Inauguration OF President
Penton. The speca. exercises IN counec-
tion with the event will open on the
| morning Of tho 5th with general educa-
| tional conference. which will he Of wide
| interest to teachers and will undouhtcdlT
d!aw Il large attendance. The afternoon
of this DAY will be devoted to special
educational conferences upon different
lines of work, and the teaching OF vari-
GUS individual subjects will Re taken
up in great variety. Man prominent
educators will be present, and their adj
al iesses will be of much value
! The evening Of the 5th will he import
ant from an educational standpoint. for
at eight O'Clock. in the First Church,
! there will he n lecture by the Rev. pr
| Frank Wakely Gunsaulus, pastor of the
| Central Congregational Lndrch of Chi
oaEo and president Of Se Armour insti-
! tute Of Technology, who is "one of the
| biggest men in the world" as President
| Benton puts It, DR.. Gunsaulus will speak
| uIon The Heroism of Scholarship"
Friday. october e. will he Inaugural
! tion day. In The Strong theatre. ~
nine o'clock IN the morning, will he
held the formal reception OF delegates
from colleges and learned societies.
The roll of these Will be called, ea'h
delegate responding by rising in Ms
seat as his name is read.
Then will follow seven-minute ad-
dresses by number of distinguished
men. Dean George II. Perkins Of the
! University of Vermont will preside
| The speaking will open with an ad-
|
! Roberts, mayor of Burlington.
! Some distinguished educator possibly
| from Canada, will respond to the address
of welcome, on behalf of the foreign uni
versities throughout the world. DIR. Will
| liam Oxley Thompson, president of ohio
/ State University, and also president of
| the National Association Of state Uni
vcrsities. has been asked to respond on
] 10 ,tnit ne
America, and has accepted the invitation.
| 1t is expected that DR. y. Lawrence
/ Lowell president of Harvard University.
! will respond for the American univcrsi-
( ties other than state universities, and
that President William Arnold Shanklin
of Wesleyan University. Middletown,
Conn, will respond on the part of the
New England universities President
Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia Uni
versity, New York city. will be asked to
speak on behalf of the colleges and uni
versites OF the East. and for the colleges
on denominational and private founda-
| tionS President Lcmuc Herbert Murlin
of Boston University will probably re-
| spond.
It is expected that other educational
interests will be represented as follows:
| The universities of the South. by Dr.
| John Newton Tillman, president of the
| University of Arkansas. tho universities
| of the West, by President Edmund James
| James of the University of Illinois. the
ohio colleges, by President Herbert Welch
| of Ohio Wesleyan University: the Yer
| mont colleges and universities. by Prcsi-
| dent John Martin Thomas of Middlebury
| College: the women'S colleges of the
| United States by President Nj Cary
| Thomas of Bryn Mawr College Bryn
| Mawr, Pennsylvania; academies and
| seminaries, by Principal Edward A.
| Bishop of Montpelier Seminary; the
| town superintendents of Vermont by a
| superintendent yet to he chosen; Miami
| University from which DR.. BENTON has
| just Gomez, by Acting President Raymond
| NJ. Hughes; the religious press by DR.
| James Monroe Buckley of Boston. editor
| of the Christian Advocate; the cduca-
| tonal press, by DIR. Albert Edwin Win
ship. editor of the Journal of Education:
| public education in Vermont. by Hon
| Mason $. stone, State superintendent or
education; and the United states Bureau|
! of Education, by phihnder Prlcstlcy
| ClaXon Of Washington, ID. G, national
| commissioner of education.
At noon there will be buffet lunch
| served probaply III the gymnasium, and
az 2:30 o'clock In the afternoon there will
| be n procession ms upon commencement
day. The column will form upon Uni
vcrsty place, marching down College
and Church streets to The Strong thea
tire, where the inaugural ceremonies will
| take place.
| Elias Lyman will preside The exer-
ciscs will open with scripture readings
by the Rt Rcv. A. c. A. Hall. Episcopal
| bishop of Vermont, followed by the sing
ing Of one of Luther's great hymns. The
bishop win then offer prayer, and there
viii be an address by some undergrad-
uate OF the university, yet to be appoin,-
| ed.
| Following this will be an address by n
member of the university faculties. not
| yet chosen. and President Darwin p.
| Kingsley of the New York Lie Insur-