University of New Hampshire - Granite Yearbook (Durham, NH)

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The University of New Hampshire Up Through the Years EVEN packing cases, addressed to the New Hampshire College of Agricul- ture and Mechanic Arts, standing on the lonely platform of the Norwich-Hanover railroad station one day in 1868 was the only material evidence that a new college had been founded and would, within a month, begin its first year of existence. Since the new college owned no buildings nor classrooms of its own, the seven boxes of equipment, specimens, and laboratory materials were the entire property of the college. The State of New Hampshire established the college at Hanover in conjunc- tion with the already existent Dartmouth Col- lege, when in 1866 New Hampshire obtained 380,000 by selling the scrip it had received in lieu of the actual land to which it was entitled by the provisions of the federal Morrill Act. The president of Dartmouth was also president of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, as the new institution was named, but there was a distinct board of trustees. Ezekiel Dimond, who had been appointed professor of Chemistry, also came to Hanover in August, and he found at this time that nothing had been done to secure students, though the college was scheduled to open in September. Mr. Dimond had two thousand circulars printed and distributed throughout the state, with the result that ten students registered. Only two of them showed up for the second year, and they, with the addition of a third man who joined them at that time, went on to graduate in the New Hampshire College's lirst class. Though a number of Dartmouth professors gave part time assistance, the chief burden of all the instruction fell upon the shoulders of Professor Dimond, and it may be said that he was the only professor of the college for about three years. A remarkable man, Dimond carried the entire work of Business Manager of the college, which involved planning and super- vising, construction and equipment of buildings, organizing and teaching a good part of the l15l course of instruction, lobbying at legislature, giving lectures throughout the state, handling the finances, preparing the annual reports and innumerable other duties. If any man can be called the father of the University, Ezekiel Dimond is the mang and his name should be remembered side by side with Benjamin Thomp- son's for his endless devotion to the school. Dartmouth housed the new college for three years, until the first buildings of the college were made possible by gifts from persons who were interested in seeing a state college estab- lished in New Hampshire. With the addition of small incomes from the federal government and the state, the college was able to build several buildings at Hanover, the most important of which was erected in 1871 and was known as Culver Hall. At that time it was the largest and most modern building on the campus, and it housed agricultural implements and machines, a chemistry lecture room and laboratories, some recitation rooms, and a museum. Though the faculty members of the two col- leges worked well together and in complete agreement, it cannot be said that the student relations between the two colleges were as harmonious. Most of the entering students of the state college had, at best, only a grammar school education: this meant from three to five years less preparation than that of the Dart- mouth students. And since the course was for only three instead of four years, and those years ten weeks shorter than the regular Dart- mouth school year, it is hardly to be wondered at that the Agricultural College was considered by many to be little more than an academy. Soon, however, the standards were revised, the school year was lengthened, another year was added to the course, and new courses were introduced. In 1890, an unexpected opportunity for the enlargement and permanent residence of the college was made possible through the will of Benjamin Thompson, a wealthy Durham farm- er. He bequeathed his entire estate to the people

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