Middlebury College
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The Middlebury College is a prestigious, private liberal arts college in Addison County of the U.S. state of Vermont.
History
Originally founded in 1797, the Addison County Grammar School, was appointed on November 1, 1800 to college.
At Middlebury College made Alexander Twilight, the first American of African descent ever at a U.S. college or university, its conclusion. 1883 female students were first admitted, making the Middlebury College one of the first liberal arts colleges in New England was with coeducation.
Organization and study
The Middlebury College accepts about 2,300 undergraduate students on from across the U.S. and many other countries. It is known for its highly sophisticated foreign languages , literature, environmental and international studies. From several magazines, it is now classified among the top liberal arts colleges in the USA, often counted among the so-called "Little Ivies " (in reference to the " Ivy League ", a term for a group of traditional colleges in the northeastern U.S. with an excellent reputation, such as Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, Columbia University, Cornell University and Dartmouth College ) ..
Famous people
Lecturers
- Charles Baker Adams, naturalist
- Robert Frost, poet
- Bill McKibben, an environmental activist
- Oskar Seidlin, Germanist
- David Stoll, an anthropologist
Graduates
- Julia Alvarez, author
- Eli P. Ashmun, politicians
- Anna Belknap, actress
- Hedda Berntsen, sportswoman
- Vanessa Branch, actress and fashion model
- Elbert S. Brigham, politicians
- Ron Brown, 30th U.S. Secretary of Commerce
- Titus Brown, politicians
- T Cooper, writer
- James Cromwell, actor
- Jim Douglas, 80th Governor of the State of Vermont
- Robert Gober, artists
- Lado Gurgenidze, Georgian banker and politician
- Lyman Enos Knapp, politicians
- Emily McLaughlin, Actress
- Jeff Lindsay,
- Samuel Nelson, Judge from 1845 to 1872 at the Supreme Court of the United States
- Amanda Peterson, Actress
- Amanda Plummer, actress
- Dana Reeve, actress and singer
- Avital Ronell, Israeli Germanist
- Shawn Ryan, television producer and screenwriter
- James Tufts, politicians
- Jake Weber, actor
- Silas Wright, 1845-1847 Governor of the State of New York