Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-02-10
All Departments Represented at
the Annual Banquet at
Young's Hotel, BostOn-Fifty
Guests Are in Attendance.
SPEECHES OF LOYALTY
President Benton Tells Of the
Worth of Vermont's Graduates
in the Worlds WOrk-A List
of Interesting Addresses on
the Program.

Boston. Mass, Feb. S.--Menhers of
tho faculty brought most gratifying
greetings from the four departments
arts and sciences medical. agriculture
and enGineering-to 80 odd graduates
of the University Of Vermont. who
gathered tonight at Young's Hotel for
the cath annual banquet Of the New
England Alumni association.
Prof. Carroll W. Doton Of the NJ. T.
T., Vermont, %, presided. Ralph A.
men get more out of small colleges
than large and that graduates there
from have greater intellectually and
greater capacity for Sustained mental
effort. He voiced the aim Of Vermont
to make itself useful at all events
attractive if may he.
President Guy Potter Benton. after
speaking of Stewards prowess on the
baseball field, and ex-Gov. Eugene ross.
'Sls political star being still in the
ascendency. told of the high rating of
The medical department in class A with
IIarvar I'd. Johns Hopkins, Columbia, etc,
and added that Vermont doctors were
| coming to realize the preventive value
Of medical knowledge in a way that
those of other States We're not
As to engineering. he said Vermont
born man had built the Grand Central
station In New York. and the ideal of
that department was the work Of Colonel
Goethals in Panama. The triune pur-
pose Of the agriculture department, he
said, was to create scientific experts. to
train teachers and to make farmers.
OF the last five classes graduated from
that department he declared, nc-third
had settled on farms.
FINALLY" said President Benton tho
supreme mission of the university is to
prepare men for the life temporal and
the life eternal having always a rcver-
| tial attitude and faith in God
| The message of Prof. j. W. Notey.
| 81. from the engineering department
was that constantly he heard of the
demand for Vermont men in the West
| and elsewhere. From three engineers in
| Vermont at his graduation. he spoke Of
there being between 50 and 20 to-day,
and he appealed for funds for a new
engineering building.
| Prof F. f.. Clark. "a. said comparison
of the medical department with the biz
| ones Of the country was not wise since
Vermont wanted to be a first-rlass small
medical school. Then he told of there
being more men from Vermont practicinc;
medicine in and around New York city
| than from any other medical school out
| side Of New York city He added that
| the Vermont State board of health
closely affiliated with the medical school
ranked second to Massa chusetts in New
England and ninth in the whole coun-
| try.
Prof. r. e. Jacobs OF chemistry.
| formerly with NJ. J. T., read an appre :
citation of his late predecessor. DR..
Nathan +. Merrill. a half brother of the
late I. Warren Merrill. eX-mayor Of
Cambridge. He said DR.. Merrill's old
quarters We're going to be transformed
| into q faculty club room.
| Bert II. Hin, 30. of the American
school of Athens, Greece. gave his opin
! ion that Greece would not enter the
war because she might be starved in
one month if any one of the Mediter-
ranean countries shut off the supply
of wheat. her principal sustenance.