The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-04-13
Montpelier Seminary.

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Exercises At the Opening Of the Spring
Term. What the Principal, DR.. J. W..
Hatch, has accomplished in Three Years.
The opening week of the spring term
at Montpelier Seminary will be long re-
membered by the students and all hose
connected with the school. 1t was the
week OF the Vermont Annual Conference
OF the Methodist Episcopal church, and
M ontpelier Seminary was brought vivid
before the minds of the members.
on Thursday at eleven o'cl ock the meet
ing was turned over to the interests of
the Seminary. The students and faculty
came In body, and were enthusiastical-
~ greeted by those present. DR.. Hatch,
VINO came three years ago to be princi-
pa! oI the school, at time when the sit
uatlon was 80 discouraging that there
was a general feeling that the school
was breathing its last" and who has
achieved remarkable success in building
up the school to be live and vigorous
institution, outlined in his report the
work OF the school during the three year
PERIOD, and spoke of the general, en-
couraglng outlook for the future. He
stated that at the close of this school
year the Seminary will have met all its
expenses for three consecutive wears. and
during that time considerably improved
the property; that within the same period
the available resources will have in
creased by about 500, 900, and the debt
reduced by $1,000. He also stated that
the school graduated in 1915 the largest
class IN the history of the institution,
These facts, showing the growing
strength. of the Seminary, give promise
of bright future. Before the meeting
adjourned, the students gave their rous-
ing school cheers and songs, and those
members of the Conference, who, before
''Old M. S." made itself heard, might
have been somewhat Indifferent, were
strongly convinced that the spirit of the
school spelled "Vlctory'
The results of the meeting were plain
ly seen on Friday afternoon, when MANY
members of the Conference took advan-
tage of the invitation to inspect the
school and the work of the different de-
partments. The visitors left with the
impression that "They are doing things
up there on Sem. HILL" and things
worth while.
The climax of Montpelier Seminary's
part in the weeks activities was reach I'd
on Saturday evening, when the Semi
nary banquet was held in Armory Hall
with nearly 300 present. The very air
2 was charged with enthusiasm, and the
spirit of M. S. rang through the hall un-
til it threatened to disocate the roof.
The success of the evening may be sum-
? med up in the words of Bishop Hamil-
ton, who remarked: Il have attended
between fifty and seventy five banquets
during this last quadrennium, but this
Z beats all the banquets have attended
in the six New England States' The
students kept things humming with
songs and cheers for everyone, while in
the balcony merry dozen of fair goods,
who were not able to be seated with the
rest because of the large number pres
7 ent, vowed that others might eat:
waldorf salad, cold ice cream,
We are not blue, we are not green,
We are just as happy as we seem,'
A group of Alumni bravely attempted
some of the old slogans, which, if bit
weak in spots, ended with a vim. The
Wesleyan University alumni declared:
1--WE have no YELL
But when we YELL
We yell like-anything"
2 And they certainly did, marching
about the tables with their spirits at the
highest notch.
The program follows:
POSTMASTER, Rev. A. W. Hewitt
"Home Again"
1.-THE Trustees" Rev. r. F. Lowe
"Why Christian Seminary"
Bishop John w. Hsmilton, D. D., LII. D.
Vocal Solo, Selected,
Eleanor Pepper Sands, A. B.
"The Conference and its Institution of Learn
3 ing"
Chancellor franklin Hamilton, D. D., LII D.
"Vision and Achievement" DR.. Hatch
1.-THE Faculty." Emily 70 Glover, M. L, A..
"a Boys Life at Montpelier Seminary"
Mr.. Robert Plastridge, 'ls
"a Girls Life at Montpelier Seminary
Miss Mary Welsh, '18
CDR. Nutter's Song"
2 Rev. A. W. Hewitt officiated as toast
master in his own original way. Rev.
R. F. Lowe, in representing the trus-
tees, commended the school for the sue
cess attained, and pledged the coopera-
ton of the trustees.
Bishop Hamilton said: II have been
interested in the spirit of sympathetic
reverence you have shown for your AL
ma Mater, and now, with a man here and
8 a business management, | would TAKE
7 stitution in New England, including Bos-
ton University" He urged the school
@ to stand always, as it does now, for the
highest ideals and the true spirit of de-
mocracy represented not in the words of
the mar who said
II am from dear old Boston,
The home of the beans and the cod
Where the Cabots speak only to the Lowels,
And the Lowells speak only to God"
4 but in those of the man who replied:
"I'm from the town of New Haven.
o The home of the truth and the light,
Where God speaks to Jones in the very same
5 He used to hadley and Dwight"
Chancellor Hamilton, in introducing
2 his subject, said: ''This certainly is an
occasion that we shall never forget. Our
0 friend Hatch has proved that he can
hatch the egg of inevitable bankruptcy
into an American eagle! The fu-
ture of the State is inextricably inter-
2 woven with the prosperity of Montpelier
Seminary. When you remember that
. out of the bosom Of this school has come
men like Hewitt, who Yields such a
s classic pen that the slightest production
of that pen is gladly accepted by the
most exclusive magazines in America;
when Won have GREAT ad,tora like w alter