University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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would stray into the High School, ivhich used to be on Coll 9 Street, forget- ting that he had graduated. In more recent times it may be that the regulation was to keep him from distracting the attention of the operators in the telephone exchange until he should know better. Perhaps it was to make him remember his early training as he passes under the gloomy shadows of the (Jollege Streef Church tower. mt € lb mil pell Wl P in the Old iMill tower we have a bell to the tune of which many genera- tions of IJermonters have sprung out of their warm beds and gone to say their prayers. There was a time when attendance at morning and evening prayers was compulsory. Finally attendance was required only once a day N and now we attend military five mornings a week in place of that. The records show that a man, often a student, was paid to ring the bell during the first and second quarters of the last century. In 1817 a year ' s wage for this was four dollars. In 1825 fifty dollars was paid out. In 1835 a man received fifty-nine dollars for blowing the horn. The bell seems to have been out of commis- sion quite often as this term appears several times, but no explanation is given. , Today we never hear it ring except when its triumphant notes broadcast to the world the more important victories of our teams. oAll orders are reversible. This bell whose stern mandates we once obeyed now obeys our more lenient wills. (Cije Pron e ugt of Jofjn . otnarb 7JN a niche in the wall of the central portion of the Old iill is placed a bronze bust of ohn T. Howard. This man was one of the University ' s most generous benefactors, yet it is but the irony of fate that if you should ask any undergraduate about this memorial, there is not one in a hundred who would give you the slightest satisfaction, so unaware are they of its presence. y. Yet they pass it a score of times each week. cMr. Howard made possible the present Old Jill. He presented the Uni- versity with the statue of Lafayette, which stood so long at the head of College Street, and is now located opposite the Medical building. In 1884 he bought and remodeled the Levi Underwood homestead at the north end of the campus and presented it for the use of the iMedical department, which had outgrown the building then occupied at the south end of the campus. The fountain on ' the front campus, whose waters have baptized for the second time many under- graduates, was also his gift. In recognition of his many services the citizens of ' Burlington contributed the money for this memorial. i)e l ount Poulber ' nrHERE is another object in front of the Old ill, of which we are more conscious for two reasons: One, because we cast our eyes down instead of up, and two, because gathered around the ' Moulder in military formation once a year, we see installed the new Scabbard and ' ■Blade, and ' Boulder socie- ties, which are its living counterparts. In 1846, in the village of West Hartford, near White liiver function, this sphere, ground smooth and symmetrical by centuries of swiftly-falling water, Twenty-three ' ' ' ' ' ' . .- . ' ' J ' ' '

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72: TT SZZT ' shadows, and then hears a shout from a running company of huskies just off the farm. There is a rumble of feet, a heavy shock as frosh meets lurking soph, ' periodical splashes, and flashing lights as men in green hats bear away brokers heads from the fountain ' s brink. ' Damp and sick, frosh and soph alike crawl sheepishly home to bed, and Ira oAllen resumes his eternal vigil. ' But there are other scenes which the fountain could tell of if speaking, were one of its virtues. One moonlight morning in une, 1899, the seniors having finished gowning Lafayette ' s statue, decided to clean up Converse Hall. cAbout 2 a. m. they gave the freshmen and sophomores a ride to its brink and tossed them in. Only one captive is reported to have escaped in slippers and gown to a safe hiding place. It is also an unwritten rule that the most popular senior shall pay for this distinction with a bath at Qo ' T ' T sncement time in ohn Howard ' s tub. i ortt) ibe of College Street ' TITHE north side of College Street still seems like hallowed ground to us, even though we be upperclassmen. It is said that the very sidewalk trembles with rage when a green cap dares to tread upon its immortal surface unaccom- panied by his betters. cA shudder of revulsion runs through every true Ver- mont man when a freshman desecrates this promenade with his lowly steps. Swift punishment befalls him who violates the long-standing rule forbidding this unsacred procedure. Why such a custom should have originated we are allowed to guess. Our forebears may have feared that the absent-minded frosh Twenty-two ' ' ' ' ' '

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A i zzz: TT ?!i S zzzzzizz: ZZl 7i tfas discovered. Workmen constructing the Central ' Vermont lijailroad came upon an enormous pot hole seventeen feet deep, and connected with the surface of the rock by a fissure six feet in length. In this hole were lying the 1{ound ' Boulder and another stone of less regular dimensions. The ' Boulder was thrown into a dump but later discovered by some engineers, who rescued it. Professor Hitchcock of ' Dartmouth, a noted geologist, hearing of its per- fect form took his class to see it, and fully intended to remove it to ' Dartmouth, but governor ' Paine of IJermont, then ' President of the Central IJermont ' E ail- road, claimed it by right of ownership and had it moved to ' Burlington by team. It was placed on a sandstone base about where it now lies. For fifty years it remained undisturbed, until in 1894 a crowd of first- year men on the eve of nAll Saints ' ' Day, took it for a journey over the campus. The next two years, also, it took leave of absence on Hallowe ' en, in 1897 going as far as the Hash House where it was satisfied to remain for some time. The freshmen tiring of t his removed it to a base in front of the iMuseum. Six months later, the seniors getting their ire aroused and forgetting their dignity, moved it back to its original position. The last ramble it took was in the fall of 1902 when it stepped down to talk with Lafayette, who was weary for want of attention on his lofty platform at the head of College Street. ' But now as the foundation of the ' Boulder society it rests permanently on its base, revered by frosh and senior. Twenty-four