Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1922-06-16
PRESIDENT MOODY
IS INAUGURATED
CONTINUED from page one)


be found among her graduates, and
when the nations life was at stake the
student body, almost as an entirety,
sprang to the defense of the constitu-
ton and the flag. The isms and falla-
Cies of the day have found no lodge
ment in her curriculum or teaching
force and while she believes in the full
est liberty under the law, the unbridled
license which has made such Roadway
in various countries of the world, has
not entered her halls or tainted her
scholarship. Equally does she stand
1O1 a broad, cultural education. She
believes that the primary purpose Of
a college education is to develop the
highest type of manhood.
To help the unframed mind discover
itself learn its aptitudes and develop a
basic character on which to build a
useful life is still the real object of
the College training.
Nor should we lose sight of the fact
that the founders we're Cody men and
that Middlebury has always stood as a
Christian College In these days of
religious Iaxity it behooves US to see
that our student life is still kept in
touch with the higher things which
tend to develop the religious charac-
teristics which exist in some degree mi
every searcher after truth
These | conceive to be some of the
principles on which the life of our Col
lege and her hopes for the future are
based, and which, originated and fos-
tered by her first two Presidents both
graduates of Yale College, we pass on,
with hope and confidence, to Paul
Dwight Moody, trained in and a grad
nate of the same University as the
President of Middlebury College.
And now it is with peculiar pleasure
that, acting in behalf and with the
authority Of the Fellows of Middle |
bury College, l welcome you, Paul
Dwight Moody, to this new field Of la
Dor. You come from a long line Of
ancestry, strong adherents of the prin-
cipes for which this College stands
We believe that something Of the spirit
of the Crusader which marked the life
OF your worthy and noble father has
been woven into the very fibre OF your
being
You will find that the duties of your
position will tax your abilities, your
judgment, your patience and your
manhood in no ordinary degree, but we
believe you are peculiarly fitted for
the tasks before you and that you will
find success and happiness in their So
luton In behalf of my fellow Trus-
tees | deliver to you the Charter OF
Middlebury College We commit it to
your trust and keeping with the great
est confidence. You will meet diSap-
pointment5 and shattered hopes, you
will be dissatisfied with your achieve
ments, the results which you anticipate
will not always be attained, but let me
leave with you the words OF the pro
phet of old.
what doth the Lord require of
thee but to do Justly, and to love
mercy, and to walk humbly with thy
God"
We believe that the College is enter
ing upon the period of her greatest
usefulness, and with the hope and
prayer that your administration may
he crowned with richest blessings and
that your life in your new field may
be one of happiness and abundant sue
cess, in the name of my fellow Trustees,
| declare you duly installed as the
tenth President of MiddIebury College
Middleburys Aim
In his Inaugural address President
Moody declared that the most lmpOr-
tant thing in education is not theoreti- ;
cal or practical education but the train