Word: vermont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only other Easterner besides Carter to break the domination of Western skiers in these two events was third place winner John Morton of Middlebury College in Vermont...
...such misfortune hampered him at the Eastern Veterans Championships of March 9, 10, at Bromley, Vermont...
American colleges and universities have trained men for war since 1819, when a former West Pointer went up to Vermont to found a college (now Norwich University) where military instruction would be part of the curriculum. The idea gained popularity. During the Civil War, Congress voted to provide free land for civilian colleges that agreed to offer military instruction to their students. In 1916, this "land-grant" system of military training was transformed into the present-day Reserve Officer Training Corps...
...lend his name to a colonial college where classroom supplies, according to local history, consisted of 500 gallons of New England rum. He would be proud as ever today. News reached the Dartmouth campus in Hanover, N.H., that a Canadian Pacific freight train had been derailed in nearby Vermont, capsizing untold thousands of cases of beer. One contingent of Dartmouth Indians made off with nearly 200 cases the first night, and a mob of them got away with 300 more the next night. The liberated liquid is now buried around campus in snow-covered mounds...
Last year Harvard finished fifth in the Carnival, after Dartmouth, Middlebury, Williams, and Vermont...