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. The New Hampshire College Monthly. as rundown and overgrown with forest of some 65 acres was aboutall there was of any considerable valueon it. The first year after it cameinto the possession of the college, ityielded about 15 tons of hay and a few apples. It now yields in a favor-able season 150 tons of hay, fills alarge silo with ensilage and produceslarge quantities of vegetables, grains,etc. Twenty years ago saw the collegeat Hanover with a faculty of sevenmembers, about 30 students, anexceedingly meager equipment andan income of less than $30,000, halfof which was experiment
. The New Hampshire College Monthly. as rundown and overgrown with forest of some 65 acres was aboutall there was of any considerable valueon it. The first year after it cameinto the possession of the college, ityielded about 15 tons of hay and a few apples. It now yields in a favor-able season 150 tons of hay, fills alarge silo with ensilage and produceslarge quantities of vegetables, grains,etc. Twenty years ago saw the collegeat Hanover with a faculty of sevenmembers, about 30 students, anexceedingly meager equipment andan income of less than $30,000, halfof which was experiment stationmoney. Last year there was a facultyof 34 members, a student body num-bering 248 and the total gross incomewas $153,000. Twenty years ago students couldgain admittance if they had had halfof a high school training, and a highschool or academy diploma was ampleevidence of fitness. Today onlycertified graduates and such as arecapable of passing full examinationsare accepted for four-year and ten-week courses in. <3R££N HOUSES. The New Hampshire College Monthly 67 course. In the third place, it has hada tendency to make the chemicalcourse unduly attractive to manybright men who, on account of thelimited classes and the presumablyhigh standing of the men in theseclasses, wish to enter the chemicalcourse in preference to taking otherwork for which they are by naturebetter fitted. Another result is thateach year several men are disap-pointed in their ambition to take the either limit the number of studentswho are permitted to register in ourengineering courses, or else the statemust provide us with the facilitieswhich we need. We need more recita-tion rooms to accommodate moresections. We need more instructorsto teach them. We need more toolsin our shops, and more apparatus inour laboratories, not only to accom-modate our growing classes, but tomake our instruction vital and effi-
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