The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-27

The School Hall Was Filled
With Relatives and
Friends
The final exercises Of the Goddard sem
mary commencement week were held
this morning when class of so students
received their diplomas. The exercises
were held in the school assembly hall,
which was well filled with relatives and
friends. The hall was decorated with
ferns and over the platform was hung
the class motto, In 0mnia Paratus.'
The class marched in, marshaled by Paul
Cate Those who read the very interest
ing essays that made up the chief part
OF the program were Frances Nj. McWil-
liams, Graniteville; Percy j. Pitkin,
Marshfield Alice R. Avery, East Barre
John l.. Berry, Jeffersonyille; Berton F
Middlesex; George Edmund
Milne, Barre, and Josephine NJ. Lucchinai
Barre.
Those who graduated were:
Arbuckle, Abbie Ruth
Avery. Alice Rosamond
Beckley, Flora Elizabeth
Blain, Ruby Arlene
Bolton, Ruth May
Bruce, Rena Elizabeth
Carr. Gladys Irene
Davis, Eva May
Davis, Irene Mae
Dutton, Anita May
Gilbertson. Alice Helen
Hopkins, Ellen Miriam
Kennedy, Sue
jenkins, Doris Lillian
Lamberton, Helen Minerva
Lance Beatrice airline
Lance. Lillian Flora
Lewis, Anna Lila
Libby, Emily Maria
Lord, Fern Eyie
Lucchina, Josephine Marian
Macaulay, GeorginR
Mcfarland, Ethel Adeia
McWilliams. Frances Mary
Moran, Harriet Theresa
Poor Marjorie Hattie
Pratt, Frances NJ
Reed, Alice Gertrude
Stoddard. Lucie Elizabeth
ViRneault. Phyllis Genevieve
Wark. Orilla
Worcester. Marjorie Louise
Berry, John Lester
Brown, Charles Dinsmore
Brown, Walton Charles
Flanders, William Dana
Gaul Charles John
Gormley, George Fred
Howard, John Timothy
Jones, Merritt A.
Kelley, james
McGarghan. William Daniel
Milne George Edmund
ONeil Clyde Walter
Pitkin, Percy John
Pitkin, Royce Stanley
Samuelson, Carl Oscar
Sawyer, Warren Asa
Tillotson Berton Freelon
Weller, Richard Daniel
Salutatory Address.
The program opened with music by
Cleayes' orchestra, which was followed
by prayer offered by Rev. Stanley G.
Spear. Then the orchestra gave another
selection. The salutatory, with essay
"The Epic" was given by Frances M
McWilliams OF Graniteville. After max
ing the alumni and friends welcome she
turned to the subject in hand, making
her plea for the epic because the tend
ency of the reconstruction movement
seemed TO tend to sweep away from the
schools of classical learning, taking the
great epics with them. After defining
the epic she gave as its chief qualities
the interest inspired by its details and
skill in writing and its supernatural be
ings brought almost to life. To be OF
the first class an epic must be we'll mar.
rated with its scenes lifelike, tender
lofty and pleasing. The Had and the
Eneid, she gave as the classic example:
and compared them, ending with plea
that in spite Of the splendid translation:
of them, they be studied and known
in the original by students of to-day
Efficiency Engineering
Percy j. Pitkin of Marshfeld spok,
next, taking as his subject, Efficient
Engineering" He said in brief that civ
ilization had advanced more rapidly il
the last $50 years than it did in the pre-
ceding 1000 years, especially along tech
nical lines. The thing that needed at
tention at present was the education o.
the engineer. In technical schools there
is no differentiation between student,
with memory brains and reasoning
brains, little between one branch ot
technical work and the others Will
modern psychology it is easy to discover
for which line a youth is mentally anC
temperamentally fitted. Handling sucl
men as individuals and teaching them by
the lecture method has received great
impetus through the war. And thus il
is only by placing students at the task
for which they are best fitted, the plac
ing being done by competent teachers
that engineering in all its branches ear
keep up with other lines of endeayor.
Women Physicians.
He was followed by Alice r. Avery ot
East Barre, who spoke on Women il
the Medical Profession" She began by
saying that all over the country in mos
any place it is easy to find woman doc
tor But this state of affairs has moi
been long existent. The first woman
doctor received her degree in ls49 aftel
many difficulties and opened an office il
New York, where her practice grew
very steadily. The thing that has really
established women in the medical worlC
is the war She gave as an instance tn,
well known story of the first Frencl
woman doctor who got into the servic,
by signing only her last name among
the volunteers. She was not cordially
received, but came out Of the war will