Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-06-29
Monday in University of Ver'
mont Commencement Given
Up to Seniors.
EXERCISES ON COLLEGE GREEN
Began with the President Ad-
dress and Finished with Plant
ing Of the Ivy beside the
Billings Library.

Enrly Monday morning the threaten
ing appearance OF the sky gave riso to
the fear that rain might mar the exercises
OF class day at the University of Yer
mont, bat the clouds drifted away. and
by two o'clock in the afternoon, when the
speaking began, the weather was almost
ideal.
The exercises were therefore held upon
the College Green, where some 600 people
we're present. Most of these were resi-
dents Of Burlington, hut large number
of visiting graduates of the university
were to I've seen scattered through the
audience Five musical numbers were
rendered by Barton's orchestra
The program opened with an address
by George benjamin Wheeler of West
Rutland. president of the class Of 1911,
who said in part:
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS
"a thousand friends, associations and
customs present themselves before us as
sadly we go our way. Incidents, habits,
and most important. the very environ
ment of the college home itself.--from
these we must shortly sever our al
together too brief connection. You who.
living in this beautiful garden spot, have
yearly seen classes go and others come
to take their places may come to regard
this day as Il mere perfunctory affair
a matter of tradition. 1t is the latter
but it is more; It is the signal of our
departure from you. and our occasion
for rendering You the thanks YOU so
truly deserve for the tolerance and
kindlincss that YOU have shown us dur
Ing the brief course of our university
career.
Members of the faculty: It now ha-
comes my duty in the name of the class
to tender you our last farewell. The
years that we have spent under your
careful though sometimes seemingly
uniustifiahly severe guidance are at an
end. We have handed in our last blue
books. OF what those years have prohted
us. | need not speak. We stand before
You the epitome Of scholas site learning.
But there is more than mere learning for
which we owe YOU an unpaYable debt,
and In comparison with which the mere
accumulation Of booldsh facts Is nothing.
1t is the reflection Of the complex Of your
personalities in ours, acquired through n
happy association. that We must regar d
as the essential quality that renders lis
fit to leave Vermont. and present our
selves before the world as graduates of
an ancient and honorable seat of learn
ing. 1t is in the light of this that we
offer our appreciation Of your efforts in
our behalf Here | must pause to pay
our humble recognition to the memory
Of one who has left us, but whose work
and memory live on. 1t is to Matthew
Henry Buckham that the university owes
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| forty years. For the fact that our univer.
sity ranks high among the institutions
| Of learning in this country. thanks is due
| almost solely to him and to his wise
foresight. And this work will go on
| Another has been chosen to seize the helm
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| selection If Or. Guv Potter Por.or n,
one can doubt. with y record az 70
markable achievement behind him anl
a national reputation among educators
one can foresee a most felictous caree
for the Green Mountain College.
| "CIasSmates: We have spent four bus,
years mere together and now we mus
part some of US perhaps to meet NJ
more. hut Wnether we be scattered owe
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Harold Henry Fisher OF Morrisville
in mood partly humorous, and partl,
serious, reviewed the class history
during the four years OF the college
course. The following is an extrac
from his address;
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