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Green Mountains region. Pop. (1910) of the village 1918; of the township 3226. Northfield is served by the Central Vermont railway. It is the seat of See also:

Norwich University, founded in 1819 as the See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

LITERARY

Literary, Scientific and Military See also:

Academy at Norwich, See also:

Windsor county, Vermont, by See also:

CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain Alden See also:

Partridge (1785-1854). Captain Partridge was a See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor in the U.S. Military Academy in 1813-18'6 and acting See also:

SUPERINTENDENT

superintendent of the Academy in 1816-1817, and was See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of Norwich University until 1843, he founded various other military See also:

SCHOOLS

schools besides the one at Norwich. Norwich University was incorporated in 1834 under its See also:

PRESENT

present name, and in 1866, when the buildings at Norwich were burned, was removed to Northfield. The See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter requires " a course of military instruction, both theoretical and. See also:

PRACTICAL

practical," and the discipline of the institution is military in See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form and principle. In 1898 the university was recognized by the See also:

General See also:

ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

Assembly of Vermont as the military See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

college of the See also:

state. It offers courses leading to the degrees of See also:

BACHELOR (from Med. Lat. baccalarius, with its late and rare variant baccalaris—cf. Ital. baccalare—through O. Fr. bacheler)

Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

Science in See also:

CIVIL

civil See also:

ENGINEERING

engineering, in See also:

electrical engineering and in See also:

chemistry.

In 1908 it had 13 instructors and 168 students. See also:

Dewey See also:

Hall (1902), the See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration See also:

BUILDING

building, was named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

ADMIRAL

Admiral See also:

George Dewey, a former student in the university. In the township there are outcrops of See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

GRANITE (adapted from the Ital. granite, grained; Lat. granum, grain)

granite and of verde See also:

ANTIQUE (Lat. antiquus, old)

antique, and along a range of hills E. of the village there is a See also:

DEPOSIT (Lat. depositurn, from deponere, to lay down, to put in the care of)

deposit of very See also:

FINE

fine See also:

black See also:

SLATE (properly CLAY SLATE; in M. Eng. slat or sclat, from O. Fr. esclat, a small piece of wood used as a tile; esclater, to break into pieces, whence modern Fr. eclat, the root being seen also in Ger. schleissen, to split)

slate. The hills furnish excellent grazing for See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, and much See also:

MILK (0. Eng. meoluc; from a common Indo-European root, cf. Lat. mulgere, Gr. ?t dXyetv)

milk is shipped to New See also:

England cities.

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