The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-06-19
Rev. DR.. Vincent Eaton Tom
linson of Worcester, Mass,
Brought a Message
in OPENING 47TH
COMMENCEMENT
Exercises " ~ Held in the
Unive .ist Church
N -sterday

Goddard's 1916 graduating class went
, to church yesterday. Exercises that
marked the opening of the seminary's
47th annual commencement were held at
the Universalist church in the forenoon
at l0;30 o'clock. Rev. DR.. Vincent Eaton
Tomlinson of Worcester, Mass, delivered
the commencement sermon and appropri.
ate music interludes were filed by the
girls glee club, Miss Mildred Kent as
soloist and the church organist, Prof.
w. A. Wheaton. There was present
large congregation, including number
Iof people, relatives and friends of the
graduates who are in Barre for the va
rious events that are to make up the
commencement week program at the
school on the hill
| For the first time in days there were
sunny skies Sunday morning and even
though forenoon shower, which set in
while the services We're under way,
threatened for the moment to have its
dampening effect on spirits, the weather
continued measureably pleasant and the
first event of the June closing may be
described as a worthy precursor of the
exercises that are to follow through the
week. The church was attractively dec.
GRATED with ferns and over the rostrum
the senior class motto, "Facta Non
Verba," was framed. Members of the
senior and junior classes acted as ushers
and toward the front of the nave several
tiers of seats We're reserved for the grad
uates and the faculty board.
Dr. Tomlinson's address was OF the
kind that fingers long in the memory.
1t was in conformance to long estab-
lished custom on commencement Sunday
that he addressed, in closing his sermon,
a few words of parting advice to the 1916
class, whose members stood while the
clergyman spoke. The sermon was a
storehouse of cpigrams and significant
quotations from the prose and poesy of
these and other days. The Worcester
clergyman, like Dean Lee S. MeCollester
of the Crane Theological school, who ad-
dressed the graduating class at Goddard
in 1915, is a graduate of Tufts. where
Prof. Q. X. Hollister of the seminary and
Rev. j. B. Reardon of the Universalist
church also matriculated Something of
the pleasure which DIR. Tomlnson expert
anced speaking to the seminary students
was reflected in his opening remarks and
IN the brief introduction by Rev. Mr..
ReaTdon as each referred reminiscently
% old days at the Medford institution.
While the seniors and members of the
aculty were marching into the church,
Prof. Wheaton played the organ volun-
tba rob fvor,
Meyerbeerl and the service opened with
he anthem Rejoice Ye with Jerusalem"
Spinneyl. Not in many Goddard grad
Iation weeks has the music been such a
inc feature as Yesterday. The chorus
york of the girl singers was a revelation
o the congregation and it is to be hoped
hat the glee club may be heard again
efore the doings of the week are con.
luded The invocation followed the first
lusical number and then the responsive
eading, with Rev. Mr.. Reardon leading.
The glee club was heard again in
Hark, Hark, My Soul" tShelleyl and
fterward DIR. Tomlinson read the scrip
ire lesson. To his prayer the glee club
ing the response by Beethoven and just
afore the sermon Miss Mildred Kent
ing Like as the Hart" (Allitsen). Prof.
'heaton playing the organ accompani-
ent.
The Address.
DR.. Tomlinson was introduced to the
aggregation by Rev Mr. Reardon. who
'oke of his own intimate acquaintance
ith the preacher in former times. DIR.
omlinson prefaced his sermon with re-
arks concerning his visit TO Vermont.
his soiourn at Middlebury college and
en- in Burlington while en- route to
IRE. His text was taken from the first
apter of St. Johns gospel, the 2sth
rse. which reads, rabbi, where dwell
. thoug"
The preacher drew an analogy between
e dwelling that is material and the
elling that is in ones thoughts Lies
'at highway is not question of com
mites, streets and street numbers, he
d. but rather question of where one
not at home in his thoughts. After =
we are not so much concerned with
tangible aspects OF our environment.
went on. as we are with the realm of
ught wherein character is moulded
-tiny is shaped by the place we make
ourselves in that realm We are rich
poor. according 20 our spirit. The
n with million dollars is a pauper II
re Is penury in his thoughts The dsv
y be cloudy or sunny, according to
disposition. In these present davs.
preacher said. this last axiom is espe-
" applicable. Outside conditions
2 no bearing on our actions II we
nse the right locale in the realm Of
night
here is world of broad thought and
where thoughts are narrow Which
YOU choose! some men are a. much
horne in the solar system as others
IN their own back wards. II Is true.
speaker continued. that We are gifted
arriving degrees with the faculty for
those things that are en-
aning Here be- quoted from a well
fn poem 20 Indicate that much nav
ID for the asking in Gods great uni
r even though sorrow and doubt b.
1na on every side
ans happiness on esrth is determined
slv By the hospitality with which 70
rcs tie thoughts that enrich life.