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
Then 
Now