Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-02-04

XII. MIDDLE
Middebury College is what
call the American college type Chartered in 1900 was the twenty
higher education to be established in the United
States It's charter sngy free from UNCONVENTIONAL state
requirements its sole looking to state oversight being that
the of the college shall be laid before the legislature
often required and may also be repealed or saowed by the
legislature this legislative exercised
legislature authorized the president and fellows of Middle
bury College establish coordinate institution for the higher edu
cation women The growth the womens college has been gnf
that date the number of having increased from So
1908 1 in 1913 Women students form at present nearly
of the student body.
college village Middlebuy which has population
At beginning the last century, when the college
organized had population of approximately 1900 considerably
that time than the population of Burlington The town on
the main line railroad between New Montreal
tive respects the TYPICAL somewhat Isolated small
New England town.
The of the college sepepetua
ing alumni with resolution of the board
1872 nominating three candidates tor each alternate vacancy AL
of alumni The board meets
regularly Commencement and January There few special
meetings. The prudential committee composed the Mddebury
meets frequently The finance committee consisting mainly of
the York members Of the board meets call New York
City The committee on instruction spends about week the cos
The board representative active,
body Of visitors, similar to that of
University passed the Representatives but
withdrawn in the Senate.
The administration the college
character the smaller colleges The president the
work of the college, conducts the correspondence
pendu of and FORMS in most institutions the connection
the college the general public The other officers admin
college, and superintendent of buildings and grounds The introduce
college would compcae the problem admnsra
ton but for the fact that the registration place. the faculty
the and instruction the except where these
so large that they must be divided into sections
To the ample thirty 1870 there has
been added the womens of thtyv and the Porter
Athletic Field eighty presented in 1912 The buildings of the
college the periods which they erected
Painter Hail. dooy built in 1884, the chapel in 1886; and
Starr Hail. dormitory, in 1861. These all structures
dgnifed architecture The Starr Library 1900 at cost
of $50000 the Science Hall $4,000
tho
nasum completed in June 1872 cost of
quite elaborate building for chemistry costing $000
completion The value the buildings apparatus approx
mates $70O00 having been practically doubled the last
under the energetic administration of the president
the buildings arranged present they would with slight
tons afford accommodations we'll adapted college
Of from ESQ to 300 Students The library additional reading
The endowment which had little appre
ciable growth until within which has
productive endowment of $40O00 An additional
being sought
The financial the institution therefore,
the present time approximately $00000 Of this
added during President Thomas administration among
trbutors being the General Education Board which