Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-06-29
IDEAL WEATHER
FOR CLASS DAY
CONTINUED from page o.

such a body of men 1t Is necessary that
fraternity considerations shall have abso-
lutely no weight in the choice. Again per-
sonal popularity alone should not be suf-
tlcient for election into the society. This
body of students. IL they are to do the
things set before them to do, must be a
body of workers and 1t is man, times true
that popularity and honest conscientious
work in the interests of ones fellow stu
dents do not go hand In hand.
To accomplish the greatest possible
amount of work this society should be
composed of men who have, throughout
their college course, shown n disposition
to work not primarily for their fraternity
CT for some small body of men. but for
their university. They should be the men
who nave done the most for Vermont in
the various phases of student activities.
Men who seem to possess a love of the
college and who place that love ahead of
all other considerations. To become a
emil of the Boulder society a man
may havc various characteristics may be
Interested in athletics, in literary, debat-
inE or other fields, but these interests
should be grouped around one central re-
uuisite and that requisite SHOULD be col
leGe loyalty.
In short it Is the duty of the Boulder
society above all else to see that under
graduate life runs its course smoothly
and to the best interests of the students,
faculty and university as a whole. In ac-
ceptlng and supporting new customs or
ether changes in the life of the univer-
sity 1t must be as certain as It's own judy
mcnt can make 1t that 1t Is working for
the best interests of every one concerned.
Following music by the orchestra, Guy
Wallace Powers of Athens delivered the
campus Grafton. He said in part:
CAMPUS GRAFTON.
Our inheritance Is more than ma
terial. In these college halls and
among the whispering trees there lives
the spirit of those great men who have
labored so earnestly in behalf of high
er education; in this university men
like Sander. men like Marsh and Tor
rey and Wheeler. 'Other men laboreI
md We have entered into their labor
For four years we have been living
nnder their influence. We have been
p privileged few enjoying the richest
md fullest heritage of those men who
have gone before us. Professor Bcne-
dict characterized a college class as
an aristocracy of learning. and oblIg-
srchy of efficiency. He says we should
breed hearts of fine grain. noble
spirits, whose motto in all thought,
feeling and action is noNlesse ohlige."
During these last few days many of us
have been asking ourselves; Have we
made the best possible use of the four
years that are now history? No. we
have not. Opportunities have come
70 us and gone by; opportunities for
study and for play. Problems have
presented themselves to us which we
have cvaded and shirked many times.
We have failed to take a decided stand
upon questions of right and wrong,
We have passed our courses, but have
Ne gotten from them all we should
No. The regrets are ours. but the al
,Oted time for our college course is
over and we truly stand at tho com
nenCement of life. Let us take hce
rom our four years spent in college
and the regrets that cluster abou,
these last days. so that when our years