The Schenectadian, portraying the advantages, attractions and opportunities of the electic city . institutionfrom 1804 to 1866, and the land was acquiredin 1812. The original plans for the buildingsand grounds were prepared by the Frenchengineer, Jacques Ramee. The first buildingerected was that now known as North Col- lege, completed in 1814. Tbi^. and the .Snu:hCollege, built later, conform to the pleasin;.^architectural simjilicity of the Ramee the leadershij) of Dr. Xott. Unionsearly progress was rapid. By 1825 its studentbody was numerically greater than that ofeither Harvar
The Schenectadian, portraying the advantages, attractions and opportunities of the electic city . institutionfrom 1804 to 1866, and the land was acquiredin 1812. The original plans for the buildingsand grounds were prepared by the Frenchengineer, Jacques Ramee. The first buildingerected was that now known as North Col- lege, completed in 1814. Tbi^. and the .Snu:hCollege, built later, conform to the pleasin;.^architectural simjilicity of the Ramee the leadershij) of Dr. Xott. Unionsearly progress was rapid. By 1825 its studentbody was numerically greater than that ofeither Harvard or Yale, and up to the periodof the Civil War, with the exception of a fewyears, it continued to hold the place of honora^ the countrys largest college. It was thetirsi American institution of learning to placeits scientific course on an equality with thetraditional classic course—a departure fromthe established order of things regarded, atthe time, as revolutionary in the , was also the first college in this coun-try to include a course in civil engineering inits Cntlii/r Library and General Building 17
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