University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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repeat, made Vermont, and so, the University of Vermont, first a pos- sibility, and then 'a fact,-why should not this clay be set apart as a Holiday Forever to the special honor of the FOUNDER of the UNIVER- SITY OF VERMONT? We have entered already on a Second Hundred Years of ungrateful neglect ! ! . lf!! 5 ,. Kg A SN 4 , -X so 4 1 . IO

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town or Rutland. The site selected for the future University was a plat of fifty acres, on a portion of which the present main building now stands. Unfortunately most of this liberal allotment of lands was ere long alienated by those who had the property of the college in charge, until only an acre and a half remained! ln 1793 Allen offered an addi- tional fifteen hundred acres of land, if the Legislature would allow the University to be called by his name. And two years after he again pro- posed to endow the institution with an additional A1000 in lands, and 161000 more in books and apparatus onthe same conditions. Neither of these offers, however, met with favor in the Legislature. One of the reasons, which in 1797, Allen urged for the speedy ter- mination of his suit before the British Court of Admiralty, was his de- sire to erect public buildings for the University of Vermontjt the materials for which he had already caused to be prepared. These are kept, he says, in a ruinous state by my absence. Allen's business reverses, in consequence of his protracted absence in Europe and vexatious lawsuits, interfered sadly with his plans for organ- izing and equipping the college. The aid he intended and tried to render was in some degree frustrated. But no son of the University should ever allow himself to forget the debt he owes to that far-sighted and comprehensive liberality which laid the foundations of his Alma Mater. The colony of Nlassachusetts endowed Harvard College at the start with 75400, and that University is named from the man who devised some 75800 to the institution in his will. lra Allen, alone, in his prime of manhood, by one single gift, offered ten times as much as the hon- ored Massachusetts colony l Is he not worthy of special recognition at the hands of the Trustees and Alumni of this institution? lt is more than a century now since the college had birth in his brain and heart. How long shall it be before a worthy Portrait of him shall grace the walls of the Billings Library, to remind both undergraduate and alumnus of their common benefactor, and awaken the reverential gratitude which his wise foresight and his liberal gifts deserve? Why should not the hrst of Nlay, his birthday, and the day on which, at risk of fame and life, he departed on that diplomatic mission to the British commander in Canada,Ma mission which, it is worth while to 9

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES. MATTHEW HENRY BUCKHAM, D.D., 1 Presidenl. f Ex- Ojicioi H15 EXCELLENCE! LEVI K. FULLER, I HON. HON. HON. HON. HON. ON HON. HON. HON. HON. HON. HON. HON. Gozfewzor Q' ihe Sfafe. J ON THE PART OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT. HOMER NASH HIBBARD, LL.D., Chicago, Ill. GEORGE GRENVILLE BENEDICT, A.1VT., Bmfzmgxvn. HORACE HENRY POWERS, A.M., Iliorrisville. JOHN HEMAN CONVERSE, A.B., Plziladelphia, Pa. TORREY ENGLESBY WALES, A.B., Burlzhglon. ELIAS LYMAN, A.M., Burlingiofz. EDWARD JOHN PHELPS, LL.D., Bwflivzgiofz. THE PART OF THE VERMONT AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, CROSBY MILLER, Powwei. REDFIELD PROCTOR, A.M., P1'0z?01'. 1889-95 EBENEZER JALLS ORMSBEE, A.M., Bmmiw. j TYLER M. GRAVES, LGzde1f1zz'!l. 1 I CYRUS JENNINGS, H1cbba1'riz'07z. P I89r-97 WALLACE 1. ROBINSON, Harm. 1 JUSTIN SMITH MORRILL. LL.D., Sf7'0f0fd. X' GARDINER S. FASSETT, Enosbwggh. l-1893-99 CASSIUS PECK, Brook-jfefd. GEORGE GRENVILLE BENEDICT, A.M., Seerelavjf EDWARD HENRY POWELL, 144 College Sl., Treasurer. II