University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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soutli by Massachusetts. Within these boundaries, in a mountain land, dwell a mountain people. Their watchword, sprung of those virtues that gave the land birth, is Freedom and Unity. The little clearings, with their lonely cabins, have given place to fertile fields, over wliose green acres white farmhouses preside. Where once a struggling ham- let reared itself from out tlie wilder- ness, perchance at the falls of the Big Otter or back upon the elevated moun- tain slopes, attractive villages now lie nestled in the cool embrace of watered valleys, or perched high, with com- manding vision, on wooded hillsides. Woodstock. IManchester. Bristol. Pros- perous cities, Burlington, Rutland. St. Albans, not yet grown so large as to be inimical to the pioneer spirit of their builders, overlook Champlain and the Connecticut and the inland waterways. It is a land of a thousand colorful mountain ] eaks ; of mossy dells and

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im-. PICTURESQUE VERMONT IN PICTURES Hoincspiiii .itid Imck kiii jackets. Flintlocks. Tall, lean iiitii. hiti honed. Connecticut and Massachusetts horn. Filterina; northward through primeval forests. Eni])ire huilders. Cleariiitfs among the trees. .Stuiii)) filled clear- ings. Clearings with log houses. Smoke rising. ' (»nien. Children. Frosts that eree|) out of the deep swam])s. ]?liglited. meager crops. Scanty stock. Sickness. Accident. Hostile man. Hostile heast. The Green Mountain hoys. Ira .Allen. Ethan Allen. Sctli AVarner. Remem- ber Baker. War. Vermont. It coui- prises 10,000 square miles. It is hounded on the cast hy the Connecticut River, on the north hy Canada, on the west hy Lake Champlain. and on the

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wild gorges; ot tiiikliiiir watiit.ills, hidden from the sight of nun, and turesque fences, and pasture land and slow-moving, rushing rivers, that turn the wheels of enter))rise: of seeluded mountain trails and panoramic maca- dam; of lakes and i)onds ; of old, i)ic- meadow ; of sunnner skies and winter snows. The state is 150 milis long, PO miles wide on its northern honhr, and Id on its southern. Its jiopnlation numl)rrs . ' J50.000. Its largest city is Turlington, residential. tree-grown, facing I.. -ike ( ' liam|)lain. liacke l hy the Green Mountain ranges, n city of 25.000 inhabitants, the lumii- of the University of Vermont, which was founded hy Ira Allen, jiioneer, soldier and statesman, land liolder. industrial- ist, scholar. In the stum])y fiilds. where the early settlers so lahoriousl v drove their furrows beneath the sli.idow of .Mansfiild. Camel ' s Hum)) and Kil-