Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-05-28


of learning, that all of them had direct
ly or indirectly received aid from such
institutions. Among those who have
honored us abroad would be George p
Marsh and +. j. Phelps. Among sage
in the national senate would
appear Prentiss and Collamer, Edmunds
and Foote. Among congressman Nal
lory and Morrill, were masters on tariff
questions; Sade, Meacham and Foster
got hearing when they rose to speak.
The fame of the Bench has been in
creased by such names as Paine, Will
liams, Phelps and Redfeld. For elo-
quence and power of thought among
clergy we should point to Burton,
Merrill, Worthington Smith, Child, At
water and Lord. For educators would
rise into notice James Marsh, Wheeler
and Labaree, Hough and Stoddard,
Buckham and Wickham. And Vermont
might claim a reflected light from some
who have gone from her borders,
Beman, DIN, Larned.
6. The higher education promotes
unity and fellowship through the entire
community, especially through a com
munity that seeks by industry and
obedience to law to advance the inter-
ests of humanity. 1t is natural that
persons of education should associate
and form societies of limited numbers
for mutual pleasure and Improvement,
but this does not destroy, rather it in
creases a desire for the public good.
divides society into classes for the sake
of cliqush display and enjoyment. A
professional life, the common, almost
the necessary, resort of the educated
man, leads inevitably to converse with
the people at large. We might think
the law furnished as good basis of
separate Independent life as any pro-
fession; but Rufus Choate, in an address
on the American Bar, says: THE sym
pathies of the lawyer in our system are
with the people and with liberty. They
!
people; they are with what you call the
Masses he springs from them; they
are his patrons; their favor gives him
bread; it gives him consideration. 81
The prosperity of the people employs
and enriches him"
A high intelligence, wide informa-
ton is required of no one more than OF
the physician. Each years discoveries
require constant study, unceasing in
vestigation. Yet no one knows the
people, from highest to lowest, so wei
as the one who practices medicine. The
family physician is member of the
household. The victim of disease, lying
in distress on his cot in a hovel, smiles
as he sees the doctor enter the door
Long circuits, by day and night, binC
the county practitioner to the scattered
dwellings Of a township.
The clergy exercises a unifying powel
through the State more obviously anC
more extensively than any other elias!
of our citizens, and they have acquired
a college education or its equivalen
more uniformly than the members o
: any other profession. They are als'
friends of the children, and general,
take interest in primary schools. TIT
? State receives important service from
, them as educators without expense
They do more for the State than tn
) State does for the colleges. 1t is re
/ ported that there are $50 Congrega
tional ministers actively employed il
| this State. Other denominations hav
: a like-minded ministry. For man
years the Methodists have given grea
t Catholic clergy have perhaps more in
= huence over the young than any othe
; religious teachers Here are hundred
' of intelligent men whose employment
akin to that of the school teacher
2 They come nearer to the pupils tina
- any officers of the school system eXcep
the classroom teacher. Some of ther
t overawe the child and are looked up t
e with reverence; some OF them are CON
4 panions sufficiently mature to be goo
f advisors; some are playmates who dc
e wise sports that waken the intellect
: The power of such class through pas
e requirements, present good will an
v plans for the future is not to be est
e mated at a money value.
+ become matter of great public inter
= est. The original foundation of a co
f lege is generally due to private rattle
= than public beneficence. In its growt
= and services to the population at larg
it naturally turns for help to the friend
i of education and to the State as
T. whole. But the State aid is seldom the
n main dependence. The usefulness c
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