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Nov 12

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Middlebury Loses First World Cup Quidditch Game Ever to Michigan (Saturday Coverage)

**UPDATE** To view an unofficial document listing up-to-date Quidditch World Cup scores, click here. According to the IQA, “muggle technology is going berserk around all the magic on Randall’s Island this weekend, so [there will be] no live stream.” At this point, Twitter continues to be the best venue to follow the action (@middquid on Twitter). Sunday afternoon brackets are still being decided. Stay tuned.

Michigan celebrating the win over Midd, they are the first team ever to do it. (via FattyFTW on Tumblr)

The University of Michigan made history this afternoon after handing Middlebury College its first World Cup defeat ever in. For a Twitter feed recap of the game, click here.

Other games from Saturday:

1st game: 100-20 win over Yale

2nd game: lost to Michigan 70-60

3rd game: win over UCLA 80-30

4th game: win over Vaasa (Finland) 140-40

 

Nov 1

Tourguiding Tales: Midd’s Charter

November 1, 1800 – Middlebury College received its charter. Middlebury was the 29th college in the nation to be chartered and the 20th to open. The first President of the College was Yale tutor Jeremiah Atwater and the first class consisted of seven advanced grammar school students. The classes began one week after the charter was approved and classes were held in the Academy building, which once stood behind what is now Twilight Hall. Atwater was quickly replaced by Professor Frederick Hall, who brought Middlebury to life with his captivating lectures, filling the library with books and the labs with equipment from his years of studying science in Europe.

All of this information came from the book, The College on the Hill: A Browser’s History for the Bicentennial by David Haward Bain and “A Walking History of Middlebury,” website by Glenn M. Andres. The Tourguiding Tales is unofficially and possibly unwillingly provided by the Admissions Office. Check out the Middlebury Myths Debunked!