Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-06-29

The class poem, read by Miss Ruth
Browne Adams. was entitled, "l9l6s Leg
acy." It was vers lbre and after the
manner Of Longfellow's "Hiawatha":
IN the land of our green mountains,
In the land of our Vermont state.
Stands an old and splendid college
on a hill beside the water
Ciirt upon its shore with mountains
Brave and eager to this college
Came n band OF youths and maidens.
Came the seekers after treasure
Treasure sought by countless people.
| spirit of the dance then echoed
Far from humdrum toll and routine
Saying, Music gay and dancing,
Happiness and joy have given
''Hark the clock has finished striking.
Silence reigns DER all around me.
flushed are all the spirit voices,
| Yet their gifts are ours forever.
Let us keep them. use them, blend them,
Til one voice instead of many
Can express what they have given,
TIL the spirits all united
Form the Spirit of 10"
BOULDER GRAFTON.
! Carroll Milton Pike. who delivered
the boulder Grafton. constructed n SYM
| bolical history of the historic stone.
Many theories have been advanced as
to its origin and intended symbolism.
AS a matter of fact the boulder was
brought here from the Connecticut
valley, having been eXcavated during
| the construction of the Central Yer
mont railroad An older son of the
university, attempting to explain the
why Of the boulder, states that at
| some early time in the university's
history. when the fountain on the
campus was still a fancy. freshmen
were taken to the Winooski for
their required immersion. In one spe-
cial case freshmans head was found
to be wooden. and after the third i'm
mersion it was of stone. Then the
boulder was removed to tho Old Mill
The boulder represented the spirit of
solidarity among the class members.
Its steadfastness and flrmness" car
ried their own lesson. And the Boulder
society strove to impart it's teaching
to one generation after another.
| ADDRESS TO UNDERGRADUATE
Paul Lewis Ransom's address to un-
dergraduates included the following:
| Friends of the university, classmates
and undergraduates of Vermont this
is very interesting time in which
to be alive. History is being made as
never before. Nations and peoples are
| meeting the greatest crisis the world
| has ever known. The United States,
| the richest and weakest great nation,
stands face to face with war.
THE State needs leaders. men and
women who know the past, who under
stand the present and who can look
| into the future and are not afraid.
There is no better place that I know
of for the development of leadership
and loyalty than the college. And l
know of no better undergraduate insti-
tuition than the newly formed Students
Union. The only aristocracy that ex-
lists there is the aristocracy of ability,
and we need that kind of aristocracy.
PIPE GRAFTON.
Two or three women Of the class
timidly attempted to strike match to
| light the tobacco in the pipes dis
tributed to them and ALL and those
matches simply wouldn't light The
only smoker in the class appeared to
be the Pipe Orator himself. Walter
| Glare Wood. He took few puffs at
the opening of his speech and didn't
| continue. I'VE are smoking together
now for the last time but our memoir
| les he said. will not cease at the
end of the pipoful. for as we glance at
the walls of our room the old pipe Will
look down at us and whisper. Back to
the old campus with me. my boy; back
to the old friends whom you loved so
well: come with me to the Centennial
! Field and listen again to the crack of
bat az the boys work and win for old
Vermont
The smok. like burning incense
| towers;
SO should Il praying heart OF yours
With ardent cries
| Surmount the skies:
| This think and smoke tobacco"
IVY GRAFTON.
Roderick Marble Olzendam in his ivy
Grafton urged his classmates to look
for opportunities in Vermont. in choos-
ing their life work. He conducted
them in imagination up Mount Mans
field where they might look down
upon vermont. the Unspoiled Land"
what does that mean? 1t means we
are looking down upon a state full OF
opportunities. You and | are the chill
dren OF the university. the grand
children of the State Of Vermont, Are
we going to turn our backs upon our
mother and upon our grandmother?
when final adjustment comes in
the present world cataclysm, when the
boys who go from us to-day have all
returned. bringing glory to Vermont.
our commonwealth will have a great
many more opportunities for her sons
and daughters. Are you ready to go
down there and help to make little old
Vermont n yet more worthy State. To
make every one of those valleys team
with agriculture and industry, to re-
clothe these mountain areas with for
ests for present and future use and
enjoyment?
"Oh you may find a proudor dame
With jewel at tho ear.
; And richer robe and louder fame.
| But never face so dear.
No queen has had for followers
A holder train of men:
And when again the need is here