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Then
- Number of students: 50
- Number of veterans: 35
- Percent women: 0
- Tuition, room and board: $1,200
- Fulltime faculty: 5
- Percent faculty of color: 0
- Areas of study: social studies, science, mathematics and languages
- Staff: 0
- Student accommodations: blacksmith shop and tents
- Renovations: Mather and dining hall
- New construction: sugarhouse
- Fashion statement: flannel shirts
- Footwear: saddle shoes and penny loafers
- Emblematic dead tree: removed from in front of dining hall
- Books in library: 12,000
- First graduating class: 1
- First commencement speaker: author Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Poem read at commencement by: Robert Frost
- First fundraiser: $3,800 from a benefit concert by Rudolf Serkin and Adolf Busch
- Endowment: $0
- Marlboro Citizen ad: “Will exchange furnished room in rural Vermont for Florida lodging.”
- “We are interested in broad general education, cutting across the narrow lines of specialized interest.” —Walter Hendricks, president
- “Marlboro’s first aim is to develop citizens who will be effective in the task of making American democracy succeed.” —Marlboro College prospectus
Now
- Number of students: 260
- Number of veterans: 2
- Percent women: 49
- Tuition, room and board: $46,000
- Fulltime faculty: 40
- Percent faculty of color: 10
- Areas of study: 34
- Staff: 67
- Student accommodations: 11 dorms plus cottages
- Renovations: admissions building
- New construction: greenhouse
- Fashion statement: flannel shirts
- Footwear: Sorels and bare feet
- Emblematic dead tree: removed from behind admissions building
- Books in library: 75,000
- Graduating class: 70
- Commencement speaker: author and environmentalist Bill McKibben
- Poem read at commencement by: Verandah Porche
- Recent fundraiser: $1,275,946 for 2011 Annual Fund
- Endowment: $36 million
- Marlboro Citizen ad: “I’m looking for a new best friend. Candidates should be Jewish, neurotic Freudians and pathological narcissists.”
- “We want to provide access to a broad range of knowledge that contains the seeds of its own expansion.” —Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, president
- “The college promotes independence by requiring students to participate in the planning of their own programs of study and to act responsibly within a self-governing community.” —Marlboro College mission statement
