SUMMER SCHOOL FACULTY, 1918 GUY POTTER BENTON, D.D., L.H.D., LL.D. President J. FRANKLIN MESSENGER, Ph.D. Director of Summer School and Professor of Education WELLINGTON E. AIKEN, A.M. Assistant Professor of English CLARE DUDLEY BUCK Instructor in the School of Expression, Boston FRED DONALD CARPENTER, A.B. Assistant Professor of German ELIZABETH V. COLBURN, A.M. Art Director, Public Schools, Lakewood, Ohio AMY DEAN CRAM School of Expression, Boston SAMUEL SILAS CURRY, Ph.D., Litt.D. President School of Expression, Boston SAMUEL F. EMERSON, Ph.D. Professor of History GEORGE G. GROAT, Ph.D. Professor of Economics BERYL M. HARRINGTON Supervisor of Music, Public Schools, Burlington FLOYD B. JENKS, B.S. Professor of Agricultural Education ROBERT T. KERLIN, Ph.D. Professor of English Literature, Virginia Military Institute MARY E. KEYES, A.A. First Assistant, Director of Practice and Training, Boston Pub lic Schools JOHN W. NICHOLS Instructor in Vocal Music MRS. JOHN W. NICHOLS Assistant Instructor in Piano SHELTON J. PHELPS, A.M. Professor of Secondary Education RUTH MARIE ROGERS, Ph.B. Assistant in English Speech, Vassar College ROBERT SILVERCRUYS Candidat en Philosophie et Lettres, University of Louvain; HENRY C. TINKHAM, M.D. Dean of the College of Medicine CHARLES LEE TRACY Instructor in Piano JAMES H. WORMAN, Ph.D., LL.D. GENERAL INFORMATION LOCATION The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College is located in Burlington, a beautiful city of about twenty-five thousand population, and one of the finest residential centers in New England. The city is built on a hillside sloping down to the shores of Lake Champlain where it has its greatest width. The buildings comprising the University group occupy a site upon the summit of the hill overlooking Burlington. The University hilltop commands a western view of a large section of the Champlain valley and the Adirondack Mountains and an eastern view of Mount Mansfield and Camel's Hump, the highest and the third highest, respectively, of the peaks of the Green Mountains. In addition to the natural beauty of its location, the attractiveness of the city itself and the healthfulness of its surroundings, Burlington is peculiarly well fitted to be the home of a University, affording as it does, the cultural advantages of a small city while avoiding the dangers and abstractions of the larger centers. The University is convenient of access from all points, Burlington being served by two railway lines and by the Lake Champlain steamers. The country round about possesses many points made famous by their historical associations. The names of Ethan and Ira Allen-the latter having proposed to the Legislature the founding of the University of Generals Amherst and Montcalm, Philip Schuyler, Commodore Macdonough and others connected with an early period of American history, and George P. Marsh, George F. Edmunds, Edward J. Phelps and Gen. O. O. Howard identified with a later period in national affairs, give color to the region wherein the institution is located. The University of Vermont was the first distinctive State University founded in the United States of America. HISTORY AND CHARTER LAWS OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY The original constitution of the independent republic of Vermont, the draft of which was completed at Windsor, July 2, 1777, just as the news came of Burgoyne's invasion of the valley of Lake Champlain, contained in section 40, relating to education, this declaration: "One grammar school in each county and ONE UNIVERSITY IN THE STATE ought to be established by direction of the General Assembly." This was the earliest declaration in the constitution of any American State in favor of a single State University. When the new State proceeded to grant townships, and it granted many of them in the years immediately following the organization of the commonwealth, in almost every instance a grant of one right of land was made for a college; and these grants subsequently became the property of the University of Vermont. One of the most active of the group of men who interested themselves in establishing an institution of higher learning in the State was Ira Allen, to whom Vermont is indebted perhaps more than to any other man for its existence as a State and for the preservation of its integrity during the troubled years preceding its admission to the American Union. In 1789 Allen, while a member of the Legislature, offered to give four thousand pounds if such an institution were located by State direction at Burlington. The Legislature declined to accept the offer but appointed a committee to consider locations for the proposed State University. The first General Assembly after the State became a member of the Federal Union granted the charter of the University of Vermont, November 2, 1791; and by a vote of 89 to 37 for all other places, the University was located at Burlington. The corporation of the University was organized the day the law creating it was enacted and Ira Allen was one of its members. The preamble and first section of the charter law read as follows: "Whereas, the education of youth is necessary for the advancement of morality, virtue and happiness, and tends to render a people or State respectable; to promote which, establishments for Seminaries and Colleges have ever been patronized by all good governments; and whereas several grants of land have already been made by the State and private liberal donations have been offered, for promoting so needful an establishment within the same, which demand the attention of this Legislature for laying the foundation of an institution so beneficent to society; therefore, "It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont, that there shall be and hereby is a College instituted and established at such a place in the township of Burlington in the County of Chittenden as the Corporators hereinafter named shall think most convenient for that purpose, to be known and designated by the style of THE UNIVERSITY of Vermont.” The Act of Establishment provided that the Governor of the State, the Speaker of the House, and the President of the University should be members of the governing board, and vested in the Trustees of the University of Vermont full power "to appoint, elect, support and remove from time to time, all such officers and servants as they shall find necessary; to direct the studies of the youth; to establish professorships and professors, and provide for their support; to make and establish all necessary rules, regulations and bylaws, for the orderly government of said University (provided always that the said rules, regulations, and by-laws shall not tend to give preference to any religious sect or denomination whatsoever); to grant and confer such degrees, literary titles, honors, and other distinctions as other Universities, Colleges and Seminaries have done or may of right do; and to do any other thing which shall be found necessary for the government and welfare of such an institution." In 1810 the General Assembly passed a law providing that thereafter the House and Senate in joint session should elect all trustees of the University of Vermont. After the charter had been granted, there was considerable delay in the organization of the University, due in part, it is probable, to the absence from the country of Ira Allen. In 1800 the University opened its doors to students, and instruction was begun by President Daniel C. Sanders. Since that time it has continued the work for which it was organized with the exception of a period during the War of 1812, when the United States Government took possession of the college building, using it for an arsenal and barracks. In 1872 women were admitted to all courses in the academic and scientific departments. |