University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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THE ARIEL, 1908 NIEDICAL COLLEGE-:MAIN ENTRANCE

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il? ,, -. i .vp--i , -' 7' . A' 5 v -2 I t in f vi- m l --::-',-Qi:-' .,.Z5'gf'1 lu? 'i HES gnfnrelnurb The purposes of this volume are manifold. The Editors desire that it may promote loyalty, that it may perpetuate old traditions and establish new ones, that it may give us a keener vision in the solution of problems which confront us, and in short, that it help us to a richer and truer under- graduate life. They have also attempted to make the book a kind of mirror, reflecting much of the good- humorecl buffoonery and excess of animal spirits which lie upon the surface and hinting at the deeper purposes which underlie college life, and, above all, a remembrancer of college scenes and names and faces. Q- . i 7 ' f- 2 : ff n nun 1 : : :Ill llll . --nn u ' . u I I. .- lff' 'u Il ui ' Ja . .. 42. fi, ,Ar-'J I 1-vi' I' ' . I -7+ x f f 'E S- i 1?

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THE ARIEL, 1908 7 Efubn fiillstnnrtb Guuhrinb BY lD.XRWIN P. TQINGSLEY HAT is the University of Vermont? A corporation? An institu- tion chartered by the State, owning' certain lands, buildings and equipment? A home of sound learning? A college with a numer- ous body of undergraduates, and a representative and honorable body of men and women who have completed its courses? Yes, the University all that. But no one query, nor all put together, however completely they seem to cover the question, really tells what the Uni- versity is. It is supposed in these modern days that the future of a university or cola lege: the question of whether it is to be a source of light and leading-depends almost altogether on the number of its buildings and the extent of its endow ments. Wfe have seen universities, so-called, spring up in a night. Some of us who are familiar with the poverty of our own Alma Mater, who know in part the history of its heroic struggles through a hundred years, are at times disposed to forget the richness of our own heritage and to envy those institutions which have been blest by the modern way of doing things. Swept off our feet by the rush of modern life, we sometimes admit that in this day and age the millions should come first, and the university or college will then follow as a necessary consequence. Still, to the great body of educated men, and especially to those whose date of graduation goes back twenty years or more, Alma Mater is some- thing which has as little relation to equipment and endowment as love of country has to national wealth. The Scotchman loves Scotland, but certainly not because of its natural wealth. He loves his native country because of its poverty, because of its traditions, because of the bitter struggle which has developed the iron in the Scotch blood and the fiber in the Scotch brain. Indeed, it has not been demonstrated yet that the most splendidly equipped university, created yesterday,