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[[Image:Middleton.jpg|frame|As shown in [[Grove Hills]] promotional films.]]
 
'''Middleton College''' is a small, liberal arts college in [[Lawndale]] where [[Jake Morgendorffer]] and [[Helen Barksdale]] met and began dating during the late 1960s. They graduated in the Class of '72 ("[[The Daria Database]]"). The campus is revisited in "[[College Bored]]," and is referred to a few times through the series. [[Coyote Yeager]] and [[Willow Yeager]] were presumably at Middleton as well, as the four knew each other in 1969 and would go on to live in a commune together after graduating. ("[[That Was Then, This Is Dumb]]")
 
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When Daria and her family visited the college, the current Bursaw was a corrupt, dodgy man: he refers parents who need loans to a "family business" who have "very agreeable terms" and have "a variety of interests"...
 
 
== Middleton College in Fanfiction ==
Jake and Helen's days in college have been covered in several fanfiction stories or series, including "[[All My Children]]", "[[The Lost Seasons]]" and "[[Falling Into College]]". In the [[John Lane (series)|John Lane Series]], the football team is called "The Mud Daubers".
 
==Real life counterparts==
We know that Middleton is a small liberal arts college dating back to Colonial America, at which time it was all-male and religiously affiliated, and has a second-tier reputation. One possibility is [https://www.wlu.edu/ Washington and Lee University], founded in 1749 as a Presbyterian institution.
 
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