Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-09-23
VISION OF SERVICE" THEME
OF ADDRESS
Nearly Hundred Boys Already Regis
tered in 1925 Glass With Sixty
Girls

When Rev Paul Dwight Moody,
new president of Middlebury College,
assembled the rostrum in the Mead Me-
mortal chapel yesterday morning to
deliver his first address on the occa-
sion of the opening OF college for the
fall semester, he looked down upon the
largest undergraduate body that had
ever been assembled in the institution.
-Four hundred and ffty-seven students
have already registered, with the pro-
cess of matriculation still incomplete.
The new presidents entrance into
the college life was made without Os-
tentation At the hour for the chapel
exercises he and President Emeritus
Ezra Brainerd led the procession of the
faculty to the chancel, where he pre-
sided at the devotional service with
out even the formality of being intro
duced to the students as the successor
to Doctor Thomas.
President Moody's address described
a "Vision of Service, in which he pic
tured an education as a great respon-
Sibility rather than a privilege The
address was a stirring appeal for
breadth of vision and earnestness of
effort in attempting to understand
the problems the world is facing Not
to study conditions as an end in them
selves but to study conditions that we
may have our share in righting them"
he defined as the purpose of higher
education
After the address the students form
ed on both sides OF the long walk down
the chapel hill and cheered the new
president as he and Doctor Brainerd
passed through the lane. At eleven
o'clock the students assembled for their
classes.
The accommodations OF the college
are taxed to their utmost to care for
the record registration. In spite of the
higher entrance requirements, the
mems freshman class already numbers
nearly one hundred, with other matric-
ulations assured. The women freshmen
were limited to 60, and it is said as
many more had to be refused admis-
sion IN accOr.a.'' crowded dormitOry
iacilitisj There are about so men
roomiug in private families in the vii
lage. as the three dormitories and fra
ternity houses were insufficient to
house them.
Pres. Moody's Address
President Moody's address was as
follows
Vision for Service
1t is a very happy tradition which
DEGREES that the very first day Of the
new college year before actually he
ginning work in the class rooms, we
pause for a moment to see our tasks
face to face, and i'll company. This
new year of study is momentous for
some of US, and l use the first person
in no editorial sense. For like some
of you too am a beginner, and while
not in one sense Freshman, in an
other | am. | presume | shall always
take peculiar interest in two classes,
the class of 1929 and the class OF 1925.
The former is not in as much need OF
guidance now as the latter. 1t is to
them that 1 would say most this morn
ing.
This new step means a greater de-
gree of freedom than you have known
before And freedom like most other
things is capable of the very
greatest abuse. Most of the abuse con-
nected with it is based on a miscon-
ception concerning it. 1t is not free
dom from restraint This is false free
dom and is after all, only another form
of bondage The locomotive which be-
gan to chafe at the restraint of the rails
and their rigid disregard of SO many
pleasant things along the way, and
broke from this restraint would only
find itself impotent beside the track,
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