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Vulgate Bible

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Date Created: 1250
Description: Text is Jeremiah 29:8-31:19.
Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Vulgate Bible

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Date Created: 1200-1299
Description: Text is Lamentations 4:17-end; Baruch 1:1-2:24.
Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Hecyra

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Date Created: 1450-1499
Description: Text is from the end of Act 4 through the beginning of Act 5 of The Mother-in-Law.
Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

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 Alumni Weekly vol. 15 no. 30

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Creator: University of Vermont
Date Created: 1936
Parent Collections: University of Vermont Alumni Publications, Vermont Alumni Weekly

Carrie Chapman Catt to Marion R. Horton

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Date Created: 1919-09-12
Description: Catt discusses the ratification process around the country and her belief that a different procedure may be more effective in Vermont: having members of the Governor's political party speak to him unofficially and sending letters to all legislators who have pledged support for ratification. Copy, enclosed in letter to Olzendam.
Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection

Samuel Howard Strong to Lillian Herrick Olzendam

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Date Created: 1919-10-06
Description: Response of a legislator from Fayston, Washington County, who is not in favor of a special session as women already have the right to vote in town elections and will likely be given full suffrage at the next legislative session.
Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection

Lillian Herrick Olzendam to Carrie Chapman Catt

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Date Created: 1919-10-12
Description: Olzendam reports on a visit she had with friends of the Governor, stating her understanding that he does not want to call a special session for fear that legislation other than ratification would pass, and that if this obstacle could be overcome a special session would be called.
Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection

Lillian H. Olzendam to Frank L. Fish

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Date Created: 1919-12-22
Description: Olzendam asks the Honorable Frank Fish of Vergennes, as a supporter of suffrage, to sign a petition to the Governor to call a special legislative session for ratification and to forward the petition to other well-known men in his social and professional groups.
Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection

Frances E. Rastall Wyman to Annette Watson Parmelee

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Date Created: 1919-10-27
Description: Wyman explains to Parmelee the succession of presidents of the VESA between 1913 and 1915.
Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection

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