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Excerpt from Oration by Prof. Brainerd Kellogg, and Poem by Mrs. J. C. R. Dorr: Delivered at the Pioneer Centennial Celebration, Middlebury, Vermont, July 4th, 1886
This same idea of an earth-born commencement took shape in.tbo Cadmean myth. Killing a serpent that guarded the fountain of Mars in Beofin, Cadmus sowed its teeth and immediately there sprang up out of the earth a me of armed men who slew each other; only fivo survived, and these with Cadmus founded and built the aspiring city of Thebes.
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