Impact of the Spanish-American War
on the Middlebury Campus and Community, 1898

 

 

 
Since relatively few Vermonters served in the Spanish-American War, the Middlebury Register provided only brief summaries of wartime developments. Patriotism, imperial ambitions, and opportunities for manly heroism and sacrifice enabled by war nevertheless captivated the minds of many Americans in 1898, including many men at the college. Indeed, evidence suggests that Middlebury students celebrated the war even as they failed to don military uniforms. As David Bain notes in The College on the Hill, only two Middlebury students appear to have served in the Vermont Volunteers: Michael Halpin '1898 and Ernest James Waterman '1899.

 

 

"Get a refrigerator and a palm-leaf fan":
A Middlebury student writes from Cuba

 

Manhood, War, and Middlebury:
College Ephemera

 

Henry Sheldon's
Spanish-American War Scrapbooks