Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-06-29

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board examinations was less than 10 pc
| cent, which places our institution in tn
same class with the medical schools o
Harvard. Yale, Pennsylvania, Chicago
and about 20 others of the best medica
colleges of the country, We are lookin
forward to the University of Vernon
medical college as one Of the leaders II
this country"
The POSTMASTER then called upon Dan
lei L. Cady. Sc. who said:
TT isn't necessary for me to say any
thing in particular about the class of 1885,
It is here. and 1t speaks for itself"
MIR CADY's POEM.
Mr.. Cady then read the following poem
COMMENCEMENT, 1911.
How bracing to get back,
And strike right hands with those
Who were our dearest friends.
Or most detested foes,
For college hates are thin
AS Cleopatra's clothes.
No harm to tell It here,
But tell it not In Cath,
That college feuds are fakes.
And fustian, college wrath;
Time mows them all away
With unremorseess snath.
The freshmen that we slew.
The soph that laid us low.
Are different persons now
Than thirty years ago.
Harbarians-what are they?
Does any frat-man know?
(.
The Ounce OF other days
We now salute with pride;
The dolts that blocked the way
Now in their Packards ride;
The Jasmine" are wise,
The "snde' no longer snide
lie who stood near the foot,
Now marches near the head:
lie drives a Morgan horse
That once pony led;
He that once owned to hunks,
Owns Aunkies now instead
We even now forgive
The Wincing monitor,
Who used to take his seat
BESIDE the chapel door:
orgive him, certainly
one year In forty-four.
Fen he who ground for marls,
Our fullest pardon bears
Since valedctory day
Hes harvested much tares;
How strange that marks keep mum,
Where Broadway roars and flares!
The oVer-good young man
Wa now re-estimate;
Perhaps he was less bad
Than dull and desperate;
Ills fit and grit were small,
His provocation great
And what Of those who felt
Such wealth Of judgment fall
As drove them tercely forth
From college home and hall!
Must every one remain
Beyond a mothers call?
| Iut Oh. you college friends.
Life has no equal need:
| ', here foes are not disliked,
There friends are friends indeed!
| Where greenhorns grow to grads
| No crouch may long succeed.
| Life has no equal need,
| Life hold no Joy so dear,
| As friendships here begun
And consummated here:
| And here, DER friendships closed,
| Grief sheds her tenderest tear.
| Alas, since last we met.
The ruthless Archer's aim
| Has laid our leader low.
| But not his noble name;
Nor shall the savage years
Assault his lofty fame.
We all were students once,
With quiz-book and with pen;
| May we be studious still
Alert and apt as then.
And not mere man,kins
When duty calls for men.
No marked or noticed phTa'
That warriors. mobiles. kings
Fer graved upon their arms,
With finer meaning rings,
Than that upon our shield
Studies and Honest Things
The verses were much enjoyed by tn
guests.
MR. BIGEL.OW'S RESPONSE.
Judge Mower then introduced Luciu
Bigelow, Of the class of 1861. VIII
said;
I'VE entered SO and we graduated 81
of whom there are now 10 who ar
nominally living Some have one foo
In the grave and some have two.
when we entered college, Presiden
Buckham was the first one that laugh
us after entering upon his professor
ship.
Industry. memory and application
mako scholarship. but 1t takes brain
CONTINUED on DaVe "a