Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-06-26

BURLINGT
Albert Clarke Freeman. Barre.
Lawrence Hubbard Frost.
Willmantic, Conn.
Clarence Charles Gerard
Springfield. Mass.
Bernard Horace Gilbert. t.......C Concord
Matthew Hammond Griswold.
Kensington, Conn.
Byron Harold Hermann. st Albans
Howard Delmar TGnman,
West Charleston
Frank Ballard IIunt...........F Fairfax
Grattan George Irwin
South ITadley Falls, Mass.
tIorizel JanVier. ......St. Adams Bay
Theron Dyke Jenkins. Winthrop, n. Y.
William Henry Lane .... Burlington
Walter Sidney Lyon. North Craftsbury.
Joseph Francis OBrien. Merlden, Conn
Herbert Scott Pattee,
Manchester, N. H.
willard phipard ..... Brooklyn, ~ Y.
HoVegim Pohan. ..... Providence, r l.
Erwin William Reid . Brushton. ~ Y.
Frank Elmer Rowe. Nashua, y. H.
Harry Leslie Stilphen Gardner Nc.
Everett Joseph Stone. Bristol
Charles Henry Swift. .Pittsford.
Thomas Joseph Tobin Saranac. ~ Y.
George Andrew Tredlck.
New Castle, y. H.
Franklin Charles Young,
Peacock, n. H.
FRANK Hw1ck ....... .Naugatuck, Conn
SENIOR HONOR LIST
t..f.
Fiske Curtice Nelson Hitchcock. VIII Ed
ward Ayzer. Mary Jean Simpson. Bessie
Marian Thaycr. Wesley Raymond Wells
Honorable mention for meritorious the
ses-Hovey Jordan, Cora Alice Parkhurst
Wesley Raymond Wells.
Philo sherman Bennett przc-Cora AL
len Parllhurst
Honor men uuedicinc)-Le James
Barber, Robert Valentine Boyce, Erwin
Stillman Bundy, Howard Delmar Hin
man. George Andrew Tredick.
Medical faculty prizes for special merit
IN mcdicinc-Flrst prize. Howard Delmar
liinman; second prize, Robert Valentine
l}oyce.
Woodbury. prize for greatest proficiency
in clinical work-Robert Valentine Boyce.
NINE MEN HONoRrD
The nine honorary degrees conferred
We're as follows:
Ebert Sidney Brigham, State commits
sioner of agriculture master OF science
Serene Stansbury Pratt, secretary of the
New York city chamber Of commerce.
master Of arts
Charles Marellus sturgess of Albany.
y T., Methodist preacher, doctor Of
divinity.
Edgar Bockwith. apstor of the presby-
terrain Church, Haywood, H., doctor of
divinity.
Charles Albert Catlin of Providence.
r. /. university trustee, doctor Of.
science.
Samuel Parkes Codman Of Brooklyn,
doctor of humane letters
Horace Kent Tenney, president Of the
Illinois Bar association, doctor Of laws
Thomas Waterman Huntington Of San
Francisco. sur-cou, doctor of laws
Governor Allen NJ Fletcher. doctor of
laws.
The audience stood while the Governor
received his degree. In enumeratnE the
reasons why the university was confer
ring the degree, President Benton said:
,ier, legislator, governor, in recognition
IF your worthiness as a citizen your
Qualities Of political leadership. your firm
statesmanShip your wisdom in admins
ration, ana above all. for the far-scelng
vision which led YOU to initiate the move
nent for the appointment of the Vermont
commission with rs promise
Il unified educational system for this
tot I.tt ,,.in
ional model for every other State in tho !
luipn, and that therefore, will rebound |
20 the great benefit Of the cause of cdu- /
,ation m general throughout America, |
hus guaranteeing to you the distinction
If being pioneer in the movement which |
viii be pointed to by all the generations /
II the future as the beginning of the dav !
when newer and better standards Of edu-
ational efficiency were established; con-
er the degree of Doctor of Laws. houorls |
'ausa.'
The president added that it had been
iesired to honor Coadiutor Bishop Weeks
llso, but that the privilege had been
waived for the present in favor of VIII
Jams College the bishops alma mater.
which is this year conferrlng a degree up-
m him.
The Rev Rollin Thurman Hack of
lousatonic, Mass. received after o5 years
he degree of bachelor OF arts, to which
ie was entitled in 1875, hut viii. 4 he was
hen prevented from taking by an attack
# pneumonia,
Additional to the prizes announced on
he program was the Bissell prize Tor
roErcss, granted annually TO a member
T the junior class, and given yesterday
o Rodney Ray Ellis of Poultney
The Philo sherman Bennett prize was
RESENTED to Miss Cora a, Parkhurst by
jtan Perkins, and the medical faculty
lizes We're presented by Dean Tinkham.
'ho told Howard Delmar Hinman. I'm
andinG him nrst prize. that this was the
eWly created physicians first fc, and
dded, may you never receive a smaller
zee. To Robert Valentine Buycc he
ave second prize and also the Wood
ury prize for general proficiency in elm
,al work, telling Mr. Boyce that we
xpected you to take first prize, but YOU
ave made up for it by taking two
rizes"
PRESIDENT REVIEWS YEAR.
Tho president spoke briefly in review of
he uniYersity's record the past year
1uchlng upon the nine years of srryice
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