VERMONT DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 49 



The University graduates next Summer its 100th class and celebrates 

 its Centennial. Its Alumni will turn next commencement to their 

 Alma Mater as does the Moslem to Mecca. They are making a mighty 

 effort to raise a million dollar endowment fund, for endowment, mark 

 you, and not for buildings. As President Buckham has said, it is to be 

 a universal fund — "dollars from undergraduates, tens from young gradu- 

 ates, teachers, ministers, lawyers, doctors, engineers, chemists, farmers; 

 hundreds from those in prosperous business or professions; thousands 

 from the captains of arts and industries: and at least a few tens and 

 hundreds of thousands from those whose accumulated millions represent 

 a sacred trust for the public good." 



The University has been a credit to her Mother State, and it, in 

 turn, has honored her. She asks of her Mother a gift in honor of her 

 hundredth birthday. Is it too much to ask once in a hundred years? 

 Are her Trustees presumptious in view of the liberality to kindred 

 colleges in every other state? Vermont gave to the Nation Justin S. 

 Morrill, the father of the agricultural colleges of the country. In his 

 brain was conceived the thought which bore fruit in every state in the 

 land. In the library of every agricultural college in the country stands 

 his bust. In every such institution his name is honored. On the 

 campus of many stand buildings bearing his name. Morrill Hall in 

 New Hampshire, in New York, in Tennessee, in Iowa and a dozen 

 other states. We ought to have such in his native State. There should 

 be a Morrill Hall on the hill here in Burlington. Let it be no longer 

 said of the people of Vermont that they consider that in Mr. Morrill's 

 person they have discharged their debt to the agricultural college 

 movement. Let there be a substantial evidence to the contrary. Let 

 the State's contribution to the centenary fund of the University be an 

 agricultural building. In view of her crying need, in view of the 

 State's duty and ability, in view of the universal realization of this 

 duty elsewhere, the Trustees feel confident that their reasonable request 

 can hardly fail of respectful consideration and hearty acquiescence. 



Mrs. Galusha. — Honored indeed is the Woman's Auxiliary in that 

 through their organization they are able to present to a Vermont 

 audience so distinguished a speaker as follows in the treatment of the 

 next subject. Doubly proud are we to-night that we have with us 

 his friend and the friend of every Vermonter in the person of our 

 Honorable Senator Proctor, who will entertain us with some remarks 

 and present the speaker. 



Senator Redfield Proctor: Ladies and Gentlemen. — I thank you for 

 your pleasant reception. I am so sorry that I can neither sing nor 

 recite, but there is one consolation about it, I shall not be called upon 

 for an encore. 



It has given me great pleasure to come here to-night, but I have mis- 

 trusted that you have conspired to add to it by getting up this very 

 delightful spell of weather to show me that the State has lost none of its 

 old time vigor. (Loud applause.) I have seen in my time, and it is a 



