NORTHFIELD  , a

village of Washington county, Vermont, U.S.A., in Northfield township, about 35 M . S.E. of Burlington, in the Green Mountains region . Pop . (1910) of the village 1918; of the township 3226 . Northfield is served by the Central Vermont railway . It is the seat of Norwich University, founded in 1819 as the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy at Norwich, Windsor county, Vermont, by Captain Alden Partridge (1785-1854) . Captain Partridge was a professor in the U.S . Military Academy in 1813-18'6 and acting superintendent of the Academy in 1816-1817, and was president of Norwich University until 1843, he founded various other military schools besides the one at Norwich . Norwich University was incorporated in 1834 under its present name, and in 1866, when the buildings at Norwich were burned, was removed to Northfield . The charter requires " a course of military instruction, both theoretical and. practical," and the discipline of the institution is military in form and principle . In 1898 the university was recognized by the General Assembly of Vermont as the military college of the state . It offers courses leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in civil engineering, in electrical engineering and in chemistry .

In 1908 it had 13 instructors and 168 students .

Dewey Hall (1902), the administration building, was named in honour of Admiral George Dewey, a former student in the university . In the township there are outcrops of good granite and of verde antique, and along a range of hills E. of the village there is a deposit of very fine black slate . The hills furnish excellent grazing for cattle, and much milk is shipped to New England cities .