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Old fashioned

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Date Created: c1952
Parent Collections: Maple Recipe Collection, Vermont maple recipes

Vermont maple syrup eggnog

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Date Created: c1984
Parent Collections: Maple Recipe Collection, Wild game cookery

Justin Morrill Letters to UVM President Matthew Buckham

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Creator: Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898
Date Created: 1872-1898
Description: Justin Morrill (1810-1898) served as a US Representative (1855-1867) and Senator (1867-1898) from Vermont, following a successful business career. His signature legislative accomplishments were the Land Grant Acts of 1862 and 1890, which used the proceeds from the sale of federal lands expropriated from tribal nations, to create land-grant colleges. The purpose of these land-grant colleges was to teach agriculture, military instruction, and mechanical arts such as engineering in addition to the traditional science and classical education that was generally taught in colleges at that time. The second Land Grant Act, passed in 1890, funded colleges in the former Confederate states and required each state to offer race blind admissions or set up a separate land-grant college for persons of color, which led to the creation of several of the historically Black colleges and universities. An additional act passed by Congress in 1887 funded agricultural experiment stations under the direction of the land grant colleges. In 1865, the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College was incorporated, after a great deal of debate about whether a land-grant college in Vermont should be a separate institution, or attached to the University of Vermont, Norwich University, Middlebury College or even possibly a merger of those three institutions. Despite the 1865 incorporation, these debates would continue in Vermont for many years to come. With the establishment of the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, Morrill became a trustee of the University, a position he continued to hold until his death in 1898. Matthew Buckham (1832-1910) became President of the University in 1871 and continued in this role until his death in 1910. He had previously graduated from the University in 1851 and served as a faculty member from 1856-1871. His time as president saw the admission of women to the University, the addition of several notable buildings to campus such as Williams Hall and the Billings Library, and the development of the State Agricultural College which had admitted no students to the agricultural course in the six years before he became President. Morrill and Buckham were frequent correspondents and eighty-two of Morrill’s letters to Buckham, along with three to George Benedict and one to Albert Cummins, are preserved in Buckham’s papers at the University of Vermont and are digitized and transcribed in this collection. The letters included here discuss a wide variety of topics, mostly related to the agricultural college and include: federal support for the University, possible donors, military instruction, Morrill’s views on the development of agricultural colleges around the country, competition with Middlebury and Norwich, Vermont legislation such as the 1890 “divorce bill” which would have separated the State Agricultural College from the University, the experimental farm, the academic progress of Morrill’s son James at the University, and the construction of Billings Library along with the potential acquisition of the library of George Perkins Marsh.

Vermont Cynic, 1948 Spring

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Creator: University of Vermont
Date Issued: 1948

Vermont Cynic, 1947 Fall

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Creator: University of Vermont
Date Issued: 1947

Vermont Cynic, 1940 Fall

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Creator: University of Vermont
Date Issued: 1940

Vermont Cynic, 1952 Spring

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Creator: University of Vermont
Date Issued: 1952

Book of Hours?

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Creator: Catholic Church
Date Created: 1325-1375
Description: Text is probably part the daily office for lay individuals according to the Sarum Use. This leaf begins in a reading from Genesis 3 in the middle of verse 1.
Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Marci Tullii Ciceronis De amicicia liber...

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Date Created: 1375-1425
Description: Texts contained in this codex are Cicero's De amicitia, Paradoxa, De senectute, and the text known as "Sallust's invectives."
Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

hec sunt statuta et ordinationex communis et hominum ac universitatis loci carpeneti...[in red]

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Date Created: 1458
Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

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