Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-02-09
u1iooleburY Register
Creates Oratory Endowment Fund

Creates Oratory Endowment Fund
The following from the Dayton CO.,
Herald of January 27 will be CT interest
to many Middlebury people. The SUBJ
ject of the sketch is graduate of Mid
dlebury college of the class of 1891 and
is very successful practicing physician
of Dayton, Ohio:
The handsome donation of a thou
sand dollars to St. Mary's institute to
be used as an oratory endowment fund
is announced as having been given by
DIR. D. G. Reilly, well-known Day
tonian. This gift was made some
months ago, but DR.. Reilly was reluc-
tant in giving the fact publicity, and it
was only after the college authorities
represented the good it would do S. M.
|. to make known the gift that Dr.
Reilly consented. The donation was
announced to the students of the collie
giate and engineering departments,
who alone are eligible to enter the
oratorical contest, and rounds of APP
plause greeted the announcement Satur-
day morning.
The d. G. Reilly Oratory Endow-
ment fund will represent cash prizes of
$50, 500 and $40 in gold for students
entering the annual oratorical contest
at S. M. |. who are adjudged first,
second and third in the contest These
prizes will be awarded for the first time
in the oratorical contest of 1928.
For the present scholastic year the
students entering the oratorical contest
will compete for the oratorical medal
as in past years. At a meeting of the
board of directors of the college it was
this year, if he is an undergraduate,
will be eligible to compete for prize in
the D. G. Reilly Endowment fund for
1928.
DR.. Reilly enjoys the distinction of
having won the oratorical prize at
Middlebury college during his sopho-
more year. During his last years at
this college, where he took his degree
of Bachelor of Arts, and while medi-
cal student at the University of YER
mont, he continued to take great
interest in public speaking. Shortly
after his arrival in Dayton, eighteen
years ago, he became one of the ply
sicians at St. Mary's institute, and at
the same time that he attended to his
professional duties he neglected no OPP
portunity to advocate and encourage
the study of elocution and public speak
ing. On several occasions he officiated
as one of the judges at Evolutionary
and oratorical contests of the college.
In 1903 he was called upon to deliver the
commencement address. His discourse
ranks among the most eloquent de-
lvered at st. Mary's.
In creating the d. G. Reilly Oratory
Endowment fund for the promotion of
oratory at st. Mary's, DR.. Reilly re-
marked to Rev. Bernard P. O'Reily,
president of the college, that he was
happy to have realized one of the am
billions he had cherished for years.
From the very day he won the orator
ical prize at his alma mater, he con-
ceived the desire to give to some de-
serving college an endowment fund SIM
liar to that possessed by his alma mater,
Middlebury college.
The president, faculty and students
of st. Mary's are most grateful to DIR.
Reilly for his generous gift. The ora
torical medal has been for years one of
the prizes most coveted by the stu
dents. The three prizes of $50, $50 and
$40, in gold, will supersede the orator.
cal medal. and will doubtless induce a
greater number of students to partici-
pate in the annual oratorical contest
and create a closer competition among
the contestants.