. A history of Vermont, with the state constitution, geological and geographical notes, bibliography, chronology, statistical tables, maps, and illustrations. ed through the school districtsof that state. Mr. Hall also introduced the use of theblackboard into schools, organized the American Insti-tute of Instruction, and was fora time principal of AndoverAcademy. The Middlebury Female ^^g^t Seminary, which had been ^.- |^ established in 1800, the same « .^ year as the college, was takencharge of in 1807 by MissEmma Hart, who later becameMrs. Willard, the founder ofTroy Female Seminary, which s
. A history of Vermont, with the state constitution, geological and geographical notes, bibliography, chronology, statistical tables, maps, and illustrations. ed through the school districtsof that state. Mr. Hall also introduced the use of theblackboard into schools, organized the American Insti-tute of Instruction, and was fora time principal of AndoverAcademy. The Middlebury Female ^^g^t Seminary, which had been ^.- |^ established in 1800, the same « .^ year as the college, was takencharge of in 1807 by MissEmma Hart, who later becameMrs. Willard, the founder ofTroy Female Seminary, which set a hisfh standard for the ,^ ^, ^, ^ * Hon. George I. Edmunds education of women. A few years later, in 1814, she opened a school at her own home. The State Teachers Association was organized in1850; endowed libraries began to appear; some of theschools of academic grade were founded which havelasted on, doing good work to the present time ; thework of the colleges went on nobly. Among the gradu-ates of Middlebury College were young men who weredestined to make educators, authors, scholars, statesmen,and college presidents. The University of Vermont. 230 HISTORY OF VERMONT began to send forth youth who were to fill officesof state,—judges of higher courts, members of Con-gress, governors of Vermont, and even one Vice-Presi-dent, — besides college presidents and many college andseminary instructors. Norwich University, the oldestmilitary college in this country with the exception ofWest Point, was established in 1820. Its graduatesserved in the second Seminole War, and have servedin every subsequent war of the country. No less thantwo hundred and seventy-three commissioned officersfrom this institution served in the Mexican and Civil wars. Two men who long honoredtheir state and the nation in theSenate chamber at Washingtonput themselves on record aschampions of the cause of edu-cation in no narrow or meansense. George F. Edmunds wasthe great exponent of a nationalunivers
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