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

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v Foreword We have in the following pages striven to place before our readers facts that in themselves constitute an accurate record for the past year. If, in so doing, we have promoted, to even a slight degree, the 'interests of our college, ive shall feel amply and fully repaid. On account of the change of date of publi- cation, records that would appear another volume of The Granite are of necessity herein contained. - THE EDITORS.

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6 THE 1914 GRANITE Dr. Edward T. Fairchild A During the brief period that Dr. Fairchild has been associated With us and our College, he has achieved a position in our hearts, of the highest love and ad- miration. His personality as a leader, and the high ideals of manhood that he advocates and lives, have gained for him friends innumerable, and it is as a token of our sincerest esteem and hearty greeting, that this volume of the GRANITE is dedicated to him. Dr. E. T. Fairchild is anative of Ohio. He Was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan and Wooster University, and received the honorary degrees of Ph.D. and LL.D. His Whole life has been devoted to teaching and educational Work. He taught in a Normal School in Ohio and also served as superintendent of schools in that state. Later he Was city superintendent for a number of years in Kansas and for eight years a member of the Board of Regents of the Agricultural College. He has served for three terms as state superintendent of public instruction in Kansas, an honor Which has come to no other occupant. During his administration, state aid for high schools operating and maintaining courses in agriculture and domestic science Was secured, With the result that l60 high schools have such courses, He secured the adoption of a uniform course of study for the public schools of the state, including the rural schools, the village and graded schools, and the high schools. Agriculture was made one of the regular required branches of instruction in the rural schools and an optional branch in graded and high schools. As a result agriculture is being taught in practically every rural school in the state. Candi- dates for county teachers' certificates of the first grade must pass an examination in elementary agriculture. State aid for Weak school districts to the extent of 375,000 may be secured. . ' In speaking of his Work, one of the authorities in the state says: That State Superintendent Fairchild has made remarkable contributions to human uplift in Kansas. He has formulated workable and up-to-date courses of study in every rural grade and high school in the state, which has resulted in untold good to the rural schools. Dr. Fairchild is chairman of a committee of the National Educational Asso- ciation on Rural Schools, having associated with him such men as Dr. Bailey, of Cornell, and Dr. Elliott, of Wisconsin. He is also president of the National Edu- cational Association. Mr. Fairchild has a Wife and four children. His older son is a graduate of Kansas State University in the mechanical engineering course, and his older daughter has completed two-years' study in the same institution. The younger son is in the graded school in Dover, and the other daughter is not yet old enough to enter school.