Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02
letter from Dartmouth College
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, }
HANOVER. Oct. 26, II. {


Editor Rutland Herald Six hundred
dollars has been raised among the stu
dents and citizens and forwarded to the
Chicago sufferers. Several boxes of cloth
ing have been secured, which we hope
will be of much use to the poor and desti.
tute about Port Huron.
According to the new catalogue, the
whole number of students now attending
college ia 39S, about 80 less than last year
The Freshman class numbers SO, small.
err class than has entered for some time
The cause is, no doubt. due to,the change
of terms. We have students from all
parts Of our land six hail from Connecti-
cut, ten from Illinois, Indiana sends five,
Iowa six, Kansas one, Maine 30, Massa-
c1usetts 48, Mobile five, New Hampshire
one hundred and forty-four, New York
twenty-five, Ohio eleven, Vermont:eighty-
nine. etc.
1t has perplexed your reporter many
times to conceive why Vermont parents
send their boys over the Connecticut to be
educated, when they have institutions
of high standing in their own Green
Mountain State. Middlebury College
numbers less than 60 students. and many
of that number hail from adjoining States,
while Dartmouth claims 80 all from Yer
mont. Are the students better educated
| here, and have they better advantages ?
or is it because Dartmouth is an older in
stitution and has graduated larger num-
Der of students? Our opinion is that it
becomes the people of State to sustain,
in a healthy condition, State institutions,
| and not go beyond the borders to procure
what can be readily obtained within their
own limits.
The Thayer school of civil engineering
have been surveying railroad line be-
tween Hanover and Lebanon, for practice,
under the instruction of Mr.. Howe of
Newport N. H, assisted by Profrs, Quinn
by and Fletcher. Gen. Thayer gave, not
long since, to Dartmouth, his check for
5000 The General is a rich old bach
elor, worth about 100000. He gave $780,
900 to erect a Town Hall in Braintree,
Mass, his present home. He has been
unwell for some time, and cannot long
survive. His sge is SO years.
MEDICAL COLLEGE.
This building is soon to be repaired; the
entire "bowels" are TO be removed. Hon.
E. H Stoughton, of New York, has kind
ly donated $4,000 to accomplish this
long desired result. The medical COM
mencement occurs Thursday, Oct. LIST.
The examining committee consist of Drs.
Wheeler and Russell of New Hampshire,
aud Butler Of Vermont. DR.. John Or
drOnaux, lecturer on Medical Jurispru-
dence," delivers the Grafton. This is the
seventy-fifth annual commencement of
the medical college. For saveral years
we have no iced decrease of Students
in 1869 the class numbered 81, in 107OI
"A, while the present class counts only 40.
The solution of this j. evident. Medical
colleges situated in small towns have seen
their day. Students demand, and will
have instruction where hospitals are
plenty, and where they can have both
clinical practice and lectures. The city
affords every convenience for this, and
thither medical students will, and do go,
in large numbers. Some persons can
learn more from observation than from
books, and the more opportunities offered
there to witness clinical practice. the bet
ter are they adapted to perform their du-
ties in the profession. Medical colleges |
in the country have been productive of
much good, but they will eventually be-
come thing of the past.
SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT.
This building now presents most i'm
proved appearance. The annual COM
mencement of this department will occur
upon Wednesday afternoon, of commence
ment week, instead of Thursday.
The good old game of football has
again came in vogue. The game is con-
Quoted according to fixed rulea, and thus
far no strife has marred the pleasures of
the game except of friendly nature.
Congreg tional singing has been intro
duoed at chapel exercises, and meets the
approval of all.
Prof. G. A. Young, was elected July
last, an associate fellow of the American
Academy at Boston, and also received
the honorary degree of Phi. D. from
Hamilton College.
Gen. E. F. Noyes, the new Governor of
Ohio, was graduated from this college in
'57. He lost leg at Blxff's Mills near
Atlanta, Ga, July 4th, 1864. Since that
time he has practioed law. In 1866
he was Probate Judge of Hamilton county.
Salmon P. Chase, once Governor of Ohio,
was also a graduate of Dartmouth.
We have maAy graduates practicing
law in Chicago. and some have been
materially injured by the late disastrous
fir. Perhaps it would be of interest to
some to hear the names, which we will
give. E. W. Evans class '38, B. F. Aver
'46, Charles Hitchcock 81, E. G.. Hooke
'57, VIM. G. Grant 81. Perdinas Bass 80,
John Hutchinson '53, B. L. Peass $50, R.
H. White $50, Edwin Greene '63, A. B.
Baldwin '65, T. G. Adams 60, L. L.
Wood '66, f. J. Burnham so.
The Governor has fixed upon the Both
of November as day of Thanksgiving in
this State. The annual proclamation has
not yet appeared.
VIM. OHazan, class II, died June
2Sth of consumption on board ship near
Malta, in the Mediterranean. He was
going to India, where his parents reside.
He was faithful student, and Jealous
christian we feel assured that he has gone
to a happier home.