Middlebury College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Middlebury, VT)

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Fnmmncnws Orme: MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE Mlunualxunv vlnuowr TO THE CIASS OF 1918 I am glad for an opportunity to express my appreciation of the loyalty of the class of 1918 to the college, a loyalty of which I am always conscious when I have any appeal to make to any group of Mid- dlebury students. ' I know that you believe in the college and are jealous of her honor, that you stand at all times ready to co-operate to the best of your ability in every endeavor to advance the college wel- fare. If at any time your acts are not guided by wisdom, I know I can rely upon your willingness to accept suggestion and upon your instant response to any counsel which is based upon frank statement of fact and supported by privilege to work for genuine purpose to do about improvement and institution. sound reason. It is a great college men and women of such I their full part in bringing to raise the standards of the Your years in Middlebury have witnessed the Sreatest material expansion our college has ever known. The addition of Hepburn Hall and the Mead Mem- orial Chapel and the magnificent bequest of the late Colonel 3030911 Battell have increased our facilities to a greater extent than has been effected in any sim- ilar Period in the one hundred and seventeen years of the life of the college. I trust that these substant gains in the institution with which you have been con- nected will impart to your individual lives the spirit of ambition and achievement, that in your own life work and in the cultivation of the spirit that is within you there may be a constant and confident striving for better thingsg for large attainment in the things of the spirit not less than in outward success, and in all Your striving you will have the earnest wishes, and in every success you will add to the joy, of him whom I trust you have come to feel is your loyal friend. ial

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PRESIDENT JOHN M. THOMAS

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