University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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THE ARIEL, 1907 after the chartering of the academic college, the medical college was organizedg then followed the agricultural col- lege g and now our scientific school is in full blast in all its branches. W7 ith this development of course there was a steady increase in the number, and improvement in the equipment of the buildings. Today our university is ranked among the best, in the minds of even disinterested people when they base their judgment on facts. Her academic college, her medical college, her agricultural college, her scientific school,- all stand side by side with the best. Thus stands our Alma Mater today, founded on the bed-rock of faith and determination, and built of adamant, the unsubdued and unsubduablef' Bravely she has shouldered her responsibility as a chartered university, and she cannot but carry her work to a just completion. Such she is and therefore welove her. Iustly her sons the World over thrill with pride and burn with devo- tion at the name of their Alma Mater. We can do no better than to join with our Sophomore brother:- Raise her proud battle cry Shout, shout that name on high For her we'll live and die Grand old Vermont! Long shall her name survive Long shall she live and thrive Nobly her sons shall strive Grand old Vermont!

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10 THE ARIEL, 1907 , Founded a century ago by General Ira Allen, is it any wonder that Vermont has a career of which she may well be proud! From her very conception she has had instilled in her innermost being, those beautiful and hardy qualities which were the means of bringing our western continent into being. Hers has ever been the spirit which prompted our forefathers to recoil under op- pression and to put their backs to the rock and fight for the right. Hers has ever been the spirit which took' Ticonderoga, the spirit which hewed a state out of a wilderness. Hers has ever been the spirit which aimed at the truly high and worthy things of life and fought on to victory. Temporary defeats and discouragements could not daunt her. Even in the face of black despair, she fought steadfastly on. Frequent conflicts, waged unsel- nshly for others' good, in which she was ever the victor be it by ever so narrow a margin, have given her that grand, rugged, and beautiful character which is the best that man knows. Striving on with renewed vigor after each repulse, she has steadily gained in her acquisition of power, and has literally carved by hand her existence and prosperity out of the world's granite, of course al- ways having the most explicit faith in and dependence on the Omnipotent. As time has flown she has steadily climbed the ladder of advancement. Ever mindful of her birthright to become a university, she has persevered in develop- ment along the different highways of learning. Soon

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12' THE ARIEL, 1907 General 1Rusb GZ. 1bavohins, ELTLE. E DEDICATE this issue of the ARIEL to a stanch friend of the University, a Vermonter of Vermonters, a gallant defender of the Union during the Civil War, and a good fighter always for the rights of man, and for the ideas on which the' fathers originally founded the government under which we live. The first time the writer of this sketch met General Hawkins, he was in Burlington with the hope to find in one of the University builde ings the right place in which to hang a large painting for which the walls of his own house nowhere gave sufficient room 3 but unfortunately, a suitable position could not be discovered. One painting in the library, his gift, must be familiar to many who have no suspicion whence it came, the admirable portrait of George P. Marsh, by Thomas VV. VVood, the well-known artist of Montpelier and New York. -- A few volumes of exceeding rarity and value were given to the library in 1897. These came originally from the Ambrosian Library in Milan. One is a photo-lithographic reproduction of the Ambrosian codex of the Old Testament, the Syra Peshito of the 6th century, once regarded by the Roman Catholic church as the most ancient of the complete manu- scripts of the Old Testament. The work is in two volumes, imperial folio, and appeared in 1876-83. A second work is a like edition of the Syra Hexaplaris, a Syriac reproduction of the famous Hexaplar Greek text of the Old Testament, a codex found in the East and taken to Milan in the 17th century. A third work is an ancient liturgy written in the 9th century by an archbishop of Ravenna, of which sixty copies only were made. A fourth imperial folio contains passages and pictures reproduced from an old vellum Iliad, along with some scholia on the Odyssey, and is one of the most beautiful books ever produced by the art preserva- tive.