Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-06-22
KHAKI AND CAPS AND GOWNS
was unable TO be present on account of
military duties In Washington.
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country service obtaining a brief fur
Tough for return to pay homage to their
alma mater. Two of those absent were
men on active naval service, - Harry
W, Hyde of Worcester, Mass, and r..
Douglass Esten of Webster, Mass, who
recently sailed on the u. 5. Supply SHIP
Bridge, as DR.. Thomas announced at the
exercises later in the church. Those
in khaki were; Seniors Bresnahan, Hub
bard, Lang, Lee, Kicker, and Vaughn,
who are in training at Plattsburg OF
Harvard military camps, and number
of undergraduates. Senior Benedict,
in naval service, stationed on Bumkin
Island in Boston Harbor, was in the
senior line, in navy clothes, and among
the juniors, Eastman was also in the
blue jacket and wide-happing trousers,
The rest of the class were in the cap
and gown. All the undergraduate
women were dressed in white.
The alumni section of the procession
was the smallest in years, war condi-
tons properly having kept many from
returning for the usual gay reunion
time, But those who did return, many
of them to see the new group of college
buildings for the first time, were inn
pressed with the improvements and at
the same time found all of their old
haunts to visit, The largest delegation
in proportion to the size of the class
was that of 1897, and they won, in
consequence, for the year the McCul-
Tough reunion cup.
The number of townspeople and visi-
tors viewing the procession was smaller
than usual, as was true of the attend
ance at the exercises in the church, but
the room was nearly filled though in
other years it has been crowded to the
doors.
The ceremonies were carried out on
its spacious platform whose only deco
ration was one huge American flag
which covered all of the wall space be-
hind the pulpit. In front of the big
bars and stars of red, white and blue,
sat the scholarly group of the faculty,
few members of the college corpora
ton, guests, and in the center the pres
dent of the college.
Vittum's orchestra furnished music
while the class was entering the church
and taking seats in the front pews. After
Marshal Chapman had called the con-
gregation to order, President Thomas
delivered prayer, sensing in his invoca-
ton the special solemnity of a wartime
Commencement.
Madalene X. Foster of Walpole,
N. H., had the honor of the salutatory,
in Latin, which The Register reporter
frankly confesses his inability to faith
fully report Miss Foster delivered a
series of salutations to the president,
the faculty, the corporation, and the
class, conveying a sense of dignity to
the proceedings if not enlightening many
of those present with the message she
bore. Miss Foster was followed by
Charles Ridgley Lee, Jr., of East
Orange, N. j., who mounted the plat
form in his soldier uniform, and erect
in military posture, spoke on the history
of the patent laws. Marguerite Eliza
beth Heaphy of Lee, Mass, presented
an essay on "The Woman of Yesterday
and the Woman of Today, sounding
again the call to service which women
should hear today as they did in 81
and '76.
The president of the class, Harold M.
Davis of Malone, N. Y, ably delivered
an Grafton, differentating between the
theoretical and practical in human life,
and bringing his theme to very clear
focus of the happy medium that was
necessary for success.
Miss lEuldah May Thomas, daughter
of President Thomas, was one of the
speakers. Miss Thomas is to become
teacher of home economics in Miss Ger
trude Cornish's school, 1.-THE House in
the Pines" at Norton, Mass, miss
Cornish being Middlebury graduate),
and she was much in earnest in
her essay on ''The Place of Home Eco
Monies in the Higher Education of
Women, pleading for its wider adop-
ton in college curriculums, especially
in view of the demand that the war
would make on future generations of
housewives for real efficiency in the
home.
Dan Owen Mason of Middlebury, de-
livered an Grafton on THE Far-reach-
ing Significance of Cuba's Fidelity to
the United States" speaking ably of
the political history of the island and
the manner in which today it is linking
forces with the United States in prose-
cution Of the war
Marie Louise Champagne of Fitch
burg, Mass, presented "a Broader
Conception of Success" handling her
subject well and speaking with ease and
conviction of the higher ideals that
should govern mans struggle for sue
cess. In front of her there were some
of her class in uniform who must have
felt sense of great pride when she
paid tribute to the men who gave their
life for their country.
Unquestionably the feature of the
commencement speaking came at the
conclusion when Webster Evans Miller
of Pittsfield, Mass, delivered an GRAFTON
on "The Unconquerable Man. Mr..
Miller, leaning on cane which it is his
misfortune to need through life, moved
his hearers to great feeling by his mas
terly address hinged upon these lines
There is no chance, no destiny, no
fate,
That can circumvent, or hinder or
control
The firm resolve of determined soul.
The Spartans of old and the Belgians
of today will be immortal for their cry
of "Invictus" said he, and it was the
same with individuals as with nations,