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

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graduate School ALBERT F. DAGGETT B.A., M.S., University of New Hampshireg Ph.D., Columbia Uni- versityg Dean of Graduate School. XX , f , ' ,Qu .1 ' if W I H 31 C49 L. I-IE Graduate School, which has offered instruction since 1903, has for its objective the bringing together of faculty and qualified students in a spirit of scholarship and research. The graduate student is given opportunity to specialize in some field of knowledge and to develop a maturity of thought and attitude toward his professional field so that both his professional and cultural life may be enriched. During the period of its existence, 895 graduate students, representing some 90 edu- cational institutions, have received the master's degree. This year Ends approximately 800 graduate students at various stages of development in their graduate programs, with 225 students from 19 states and 5 foreign countries in residence. 18

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Ngriculture HARCJLD GlllNNliLL B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Cornell Univer- sity, Dean of College of Agriculture - , A , ' J j i 1 Q i DUCATIONALLY, the College of Agriculture offers a broad program of study in which every student is subjected to training in the Humanities, and in the Bio- logical, Physical and Social Sciences, as well as to the more specific technical knowledge relating to the various phases of agriculture, forestry or home economics. The college is organized into 12 major departments with an enrollment of degree curricula to about 125 students. Available to degree students for specialization are more than 20 programs of study, each with its own technical and professional objective. An increasingly larger proportion of the graduates are continuing their education in the graduate schools throughout the country. Only a relatively small number turn im- mediately to production. Others find satisfying employment in teaching, extension, re- search, civil service, industry, and commerce. 17

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1 , .-If Z . -- 'I 'QJ - -f Hood lqlvuafe OOD HOUSE, our College Inlirmary, was dedicated in 1952 under the sponsorship of Charles Harvey Hood. It has a twenty-six bed capacity with facilities for various treatments and diagnostic procedures, such as x-ray and laboratory analysis. Student welfare is tended by a competent staff of one full-time physician, who is Director of the Student Health Service, two assistant physicians, and a consulting psychiatrist. They are assisted by seven registered nurses and a secretary. 19