Middlebury College - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Middlebury, VT)

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PREFACE... CONCEIVED in 1798 by Timothy Dwight, Samuel Miller, Darius Matthews and Gamaliel Painter, Middlebury College enrolled its first student on November 5, 1800. Dedicated to the single pur- pose of affording a broad, liberal background to its students, the college has adhered to this prin- ciple throughout its one hundred and forty years of existence. No attempt is to be made in this Preface to list the names of illustrious graduates or to trace a factual history of the growth of the college. A wilderness college, its history is probably much Jeremiah Atwater 1 800- 1 809 D ® SF

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' avis 317 4 Joshua Botes 7-1839 r e fa c e Benjamin Laba like other country colleges which are conceived by men for the purpose of pure education; and which advanced through the years usually without suf- ficient funds to cover the needs of an expanding institution. Now under the guiding hand of Paul Dwight Mcody, the college has experienced the rule of nine previous presidents. There is an essential need of mentioning the fine work which they have dene in devoting many years of their lives in the furtherance of the principles, ideals and tradi- tions of the college. The story of the founding and the subsequent century of struggle for ex- istence is really the story of these presidents ' terms in office. To them the college owes much. And so this book is dedicated to them. It is an attempt to achieve something of the reality of of the life at Middlebury as it is and has been lived, with the hope that it presents, to even a small degree, some feeling of the spirit and ideals that life imparts. In everyday reality this life is not too unlike that life found on a good many college campuses throughout the country. But in spirit and ideals Middlebury means much to its alumni and undergraduates in the way of dem- ocratic amicability, and the solidification of hopes and aspirations. Middlebury offers the inspira- tion of good fellowship and human understanding of which its physical self is the living and domi- nant symbol. We who have tasted of this spirit; we who have felt its daily presence in mind and in body, go forth, we hope, the wiser for our experience here. For some of us this experience may have seemed directed toward a microscopic hodge-podge of as JA 3 ID