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Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. It was founded in 1800 by Congregationalists. The college currently enrolls 2,526 undergraduates from all 50 states and 74 countries and offers 44 majors in the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences.

The college is the first American institution of higher education to have granted a bachelor's degree to an African-American, graduating Alexander Twilight in the class of 1823.

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  • Gamaliel Painter

    Gamaliel Painter (1742–1819), founder of Middlebury College

  • Starr Library ca1899 Middlebury Vermont

    Starr Library, Middlebury's original library, circa 1900

  • MIddlebury VT - College Library

    The Davis Family Library, opened in 2004

  • Middlebury VT - Middlebury College

    Old Chapel, completed in 1836, served as Middlebury's primary academic building for a century

  • HillcrestEnvironmentalCenter

    Hillcrest Environmental Center, a platinum LEED-certified building

  • SnowBowlSign

    Entrance to the Middlebury College Snow Bowl, the College-owned ski mountain that hosts Winter Carnival ski races and the "Feb" graduation

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