HONORARY

In 1890 the College bestowed the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws upon George Franklin Edmunds, who was then, and had been since 1866, United States senator from Vermont. Senator Edmunds, who died in Pasadena, CaL., February 27, was born in Richmond, Vt., February 1, 1828, and so had reached the age of ninety-one years.

Without the advantages of collegiate training, he began the practice of law at the age of twenty-one, and soon rose to a high place in his profession. Having served in both branches of the state legislature and having been three years speaker of the House, he was in 1866 appointed by the governor to the seat in the United States Senate made vacant by the death of Solomon Foot. He received four successive elections by the legislature to this position, and remained in the Senate until his voluntary retirement in 1891. He early became one of the leaders of that body, both in the general work of legislation and on matters of parliamentary and constitutional law [missing text] In 1880 he received thirty-four votes for president in the Republican National Convention, and in the following year was chosen president pro tempore of the Senate.

Dr. John Fay Miles, who received the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1868, died at his home in Hinesburg, Vt., March 2, in the hundredth year of his age. He was born in Hinesburg January 2, 1820, and practiced medicine in his native town from 1843 to his retirement in 1890. He retained all his faculties in a surprising degree to the end, and was active in local affairs, holding the office of town clerk until his death.