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Middlebury: Town
and College
Footnotes
1 In the beginning it
was the town's college. The pioneers from Connecticut and western
Massachusetts who settled the frontier village of Middlebury also
founded Middlebury College and nurtured it through its early years.
They wanted the area to grow and prosper and be inhabited by an
educated and religious citizenry; a college would help achieve
all these ends. The origins of the college are therefore interwoven
with the history of the town and the aspirations of its early
settlers. (Stameshkin,
p.14)
2 Final chapter of
Middlebury College Charter: Sec. 9. Provided nevertheless, and
it is hereby further enacted, That nothing in this act, or any
part thereof, shall be construed to extend to, or give to said
corporation, by virtue thereof, any right to hold, possess or
enjoy any property or estate, which has been heretofore been granted,
or intended to have been [sic] granted, or given in charge
and reserve, for the use of a college, or colleges, in this state;
or granted or intended to have been granted, and appropriated
by this state, to the University of Vermont. (Stameshkin,
p. 30)
3 The college requested
a state loan in 1814 and 1815 and was turned down... The trustees
did make a compromise move in 1814 when they oredered their lobbyists
to instruct the assembly that the governor, the lieutenat governor,
and several legislators could have places on the board in return
for state aid. The college offered similar deals, again unsiccessfully,
between 1824 and 1826. No changes were made, and no funds were
forthcoming. (Stameshkin, p.
39)
4 A thousand comforts will be aforded
and not a few salutary restraints will be imposed which must be
wanting at the "common table". The demands of feeble
health can be met; and those irregularities, which sometimes disgrace
the public dining hall, will be avoided. The students will diffuse
on the right hand and on the left a literary influence; while
they promote in no small degree their acquaintance with real life;
with "men and things." (National Standard, December
28, 1824 in Stameshkin, p. 121)
5 Stameshkin,
p. 119
6 Stameshkin,
p. 120
7 Stameshkin,
p. 93
8 Stameshkin,
p. 156
9 Stameshkin,
p. 280
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