University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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The l7Qor7. ll-ieederblclx Bllllngg. T is with a pride and pleasure which we are confident all our . readers will share that we are permitted to dedicate this num- ber of the LARIEL to FREDERICK BILLINGS, CLASS or 1844, and to affix to it his portrait as a frontispiece. At the dedication of the Billings Library in june, 1885, Presi- dent Buckham said of Mr. Billings: How came it to be the rare good fortune of this institution-one of the lesser lights of learning, in Mr. XVebster's phrase L-to have been made the recipient of so princely a gift? The lesson is one of profound signihcance, honorable to learning, honorable and full of encouragement to the ministers of learning. It so happened that forty-five years ago this institution had a corps of instructors such as few institutions, great or small, have ever had, gifted and devoted men, capable of inspiring with the love of learning minds susceptible to fine influences. There was here a youth-I do not say there was but one-on whom these influences wrought most happily, inspiring him with a love of all things high and noble. Wlealth afterward came to him, but it did not vul- garize himg honors, but they did not daze him: vast opportunities, but they did not tempt him. He remained amid all so constant to the high impulses of youth, so true- hearted and natural and simple, that he never ceased to believe wholly and heartily in the University which gave him nurture, in the unequaled greatness of the men to whom his boyhood looked up, and in the supreme ,excellence of the old-fashioned collegiate training. And this building is his expression of his estimate of learning, of his convic- tion that nothing within the compass of art is too fine or too costly to set forth the praises of good literature, and good philosophy, and good teaching. Happy the insti- tution which can inspire these high sentiments in its sons, thrice happy the devoted son to whom it is granted to express for himself and for all, the reverence and affection felt by all for such an institution ! Frederick Billings was fitted for college at Meriden, N. H., and entered the University in 1840. A letter is extant which he 5