Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-14

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE NEwS.-A cor
respondent of the Springfield Republican
writes to that journal the following, re-
lative to the present condition and pros
poets of Dartmouth College:
Falling in with a gentleman who re-
sides at Hanover, | learn that President
Smith of Dartmouth College, who went to
Jamaica to regain his health, is greatly
improving, and will return with renewed
health Prof. Woodman of the same in
stitution, who was sick with pneumonia
and whose life was despaired of, is now
recovering, and undoubtedly will be re-
stored to health. This institution seems
to be in flourishing condition under the
direction of its able Presidents and Pro-
| fessors. Since President Smith took the
direction of the college, period of five or
six years, its freshman class has gone up
from 10 to "a. The college now contains
422 students. There are now nineteen
Professors connected with the college, and
among them are some of the ablest young
men i'll the country. 1t was recently
stated by a newspaper reporter that Dart
mouth had among its Professors none
younger than 60 years of age. The trus-
tees are all over GO, but the faculty have
not SO nearly gone to seed. The agricul-
tural department is just getting under
way, the class numbering only seven.
Two hundred acres of land have been
purchased across the street from the col
lege, and it is proposed to make it an ex-
detrimental farm. The college has realized
nearly 100000 for the benefit of its agri-
cultural Experimentation from the
State and the balance from the grant of
public land.
A new building 60 by 100 feet, four
stories high, is to be built, this year, and
in it gathered the various branches of the
college bearing upon natural history and
the natural scienees-something that has
been long needed. The college has re-
ceived within few years donations to
the amount of 100000, but most of it
has been given to add some new depart
ment to the institution, and for funds to
be applied for general purposes it is not
so rich as some of the other New England
colleges; but New Hampshire is taking a
greater interest in education, and I'M
doubtedly it will make good any deficien-
cy. 1t only needs to be thoroughly
awakened to be brought up to the mark
Prof. Huntington, who has been nearly
the whole winter on Moon Hillock, as
we Yankees call it, is an assistant OF
State Geologist Prof. G. FL. Hitchcock OF
Dartmouth college. He reports some
wonderful views, and his companion, a
photographer, secured some excellent
photographs of frost crystals and cloud
views. The wind blsw frequently at the
rate of one hundred miles an hour. Prof
Huntington proposes to spend winter
upon Mount Washington, if a sum can be
raised to defray the expense. 1t would
require $1,000, and there ought to be
enough interested to readily make up the
amount. The Smithsonian Institute will
furnish instruments for making obperva-
tions, and who will come down with the
, greenbacks? The plan is to go to the
} Tip-Top house at the close of the season
} and remain until the opening of travel
} the following year. Those remaining at
} the summit during the summer would be
J instructed how to make daily observations
} while there, and this would make years
] record.