Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-06-23


minutes, and planted the ivy of the
class of 1916, again singing the ode,
which was as follows:
Today we plant thee, Ivy, here
Just as a parting touch
From this, our class, who leave this
year,
To the school we love so much.
Thy memory will keep alive
Our love and loyalty;
And as thy tendrils upward strive,
We II strive unwaveringly.
And every year, o Ivy, grow
In beauty and in grace;
ne 'er may wind so roughly blow
To tear thee from thy place.
We II look for thee when we come
back
Each year to b. II. S.
Nor will we ever courage lack;
Like thee, vel onward press.
Baccalaureate Sermon.
The Centre Congregational church
was filed Sunday night for the bacca-
laureate exercises of the graduating
class of the high school, the sermon be-
ing preached by Rev. Nelson Kellogg,
rector of ST. Michaels Episcopal
church. The platform was decorated
with palms and flowers. Seats on the
right were reserved for the members
of the graduating class and on the
left for the members of the school
committee and faculty of the high
school.
Rev George +. Tomkinson, pastor
of the First Baptist church, read scrip
ture and Rev. Delmar Il. Trout, pas
tor of the Universalist church, led the
responsive reading, offered prayer and
gave the benediction. Frederic G..
Adams sang a solo, Mrs. Helen G.
Brasor being at the organ.
Rev. Mr.. Kellogg took for his text
part of the eighth verse of the sew
enth chapter of Hosea: Ephraim is a
cake not turned.
He said that this ancient country
of Ephraim had no settled national
policy and was not strong enough to
stop the flow of other nations into it
but was buried in them. Hosea said
that the country was a cake not yet
turned; it was ready to make or to
break.
Mr.. Kellogg said that he did not
icies, as that is not his business, but
we all ought to pray to Almighty God
that, as was the case in the SOS, we
we should be true to our nation and
to our God.
just at this time there is crisis
and one of the things we can be
thankful for is that we are coming
forth to meet it better prepared for
what is before us than at any other
time before in our history. Just at
this time each year there is a crisis
for the schools and colleges are turn
ing out young men and young women
in the making. They are cakes that
are not yet turned.
A crisis spells opportunity. Even
with half the world at war we are
| being led into the greatest opportu.
nifty this country has ever known
This age gives the chance to work out
our own particular bent, each in his
own way, for the opportunities were
never so numerous. A tremendous OPP
portunity is facing these young peo-
| pie to settle in scientific ways ques-
lions ranging from the price of meat
and the high cost of living to church
unity.
| Vocation means work. We have
discovered that to be useful; to do
what is right, we must work. Not
all of us have to wash dishes or hoe
| potatoes to be useful but we must do
some kind Of work. He declared that
there is no distinction between secu-
lar and religious work. God calls
each of us to do His work every day
You cannot take a secular thing and
a religious thing and have them meet
once on Sunday on common footing
and be successful. TO be true to his
God man must be true to himself al
all times.
TO join opportunity, vocation and
truth together requires n high IDEAL
Every ideal that is high and worth
while is summed up in that saying OF
Jesus Christ that he was to do the
will of His father who sent Him.
To the graduating class he said thai
their crisis is at hand and each mus
turn his own cake. To be true TO sell
and to God is fulfilling the highes
destiny. Man is man and master o,
his fate.
Graduation Exercises.
The graduation exercises were helc
Tuesday night in the Auditorium anc
were attended by an audience that, a
usual, filled the theater. Interest. a
always, was directed towards the an
nouncement of the Austine prize win
ners and the honor pupils of the sever
al classes, while this year there wa
added interest in the fact that Milo L
Hillegas, who has been chosen commits
. sioner of education of Vermont. wa
5 the speaker of the evening. Mr., HillC