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

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It soon became apparent that most of the Woman students and a good many of the men could not accurately be clas- sified in either of the categories which the name of the institution suggested. Wllen, then, in 1914-, constant expansion made some administrative division es- sential, the college was divided into the T Hall Walk

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The legislature quickly enacted the necessary decrees, and in 1891i the senior class held its graduation. exercises in a cow barn, the first building erected on the campus. As rapidly as possible after this, the state built four other buildings: Thompson Hall, Conant Hall, Nesmith, Hall and a building to house the college shops. A11 these are still in use. uT', Hall, little changed, still houses the offices of the President and other ad- ministrative oiiicers. The others have been enlarged and remodelled beyond all recognition of the original structures. 'The most marked effect of the new en- vironment Was an increased enrollment, and in 1893, when the new buildings became ready for occupancy, there were sixty-four students, ten of whom were women. There had been but one woman student in all the previous years of the existence of the college. - Thompson H all

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Across Campus from Morrill Hall three divisions of Agriculture, Engineer- ing, and Arts and Sciences. This latter group grew more rapidly than the other two. i Moved hy its alumni to follow the ex- ample set hy other states, and feeling that by now with its many courses and its more than one thousand students another name would more nearly de- scribe the group as a whole than the one originally adopted for the institution, the legislature in 1923 renamed the col- lege the University of New Hampshire, and reorganized it, creating within it w.mummwrmwmwsmmsmxswmx xxwinmmwwmsxwsxswsxmmswmwmswMx ww:msw xmwmmsN 1 wwQw:,ssmsxm ses+awwas 'wmam,m-5,111-,mmw.wsm, .:.,. 1 WW., :mm-mann-was-5-mrfn-, ,wsmmtwm