The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-07-01

the college and talked with the students
was at first inclined to believe that the
connection with Dartmouth College had
better be retained, even at the expense
of the Thompson bequest. This out
side opinion has, however, had much to
do with the question of removal.
A third thing that has had to do with
the removal has been the desire to
establish state college under state
control, Independent of Dartmouth
College. Despite the fact that so MANY
of the illustrious sons of New Hamp-
shire have been graduated at Dart
mouth, the average man has perhaps
had some of the feeling kindled through
out the state by the great college war
seventy-five years ago. Local interests
also desire college nearer the business
center of New Hampshire.
If determined effort had been made
on the part of the friends of Dartmouth
College to make the advantages of the
connection superior to those offered at
Durham, the Thompson bequest might
have been rejected or turned over to an
exclusively agricultural school, as was
possible if kept separate from the pres
ent State College. The legislature.
however thought it better to have one
state college, and to give $780, 900 for
new buildings at Durham, than to give
81 900 for additions to the shop at
Hanover.
In the farm and buildings at Han
over over $4,000 has been invested.
Of this at least $4,000 will be lost by
the forced sale necessary. AS much
more will be needed to supply facilities
obtained at Hanover practically with
out expense. The $780, 900 appropriated,
and the money to be received from the
sale of property in Hanover, will supply
model buildings much superior to those
in Hanover. The Durham farm, how
ever, is much inferior, and has been
exhausted by the sale of the hay.
The location is on the very border of
the state, almost as near Maine as the
present location is near Vermont, and
is in the vicinity of manufacturing
towns.
The college cannot be opened at Dur
ham before the fall of 1892, and per-
haps not before the fall of 1898. A
class OF the students has surveyed the
real estate, and the trustees are consid-
ering the question of location for the
buildings. They must be placed upon
certain land, which lies on both sides
of the railroad station and at a distance
of about half mile from the village.
The property, however, cannot be
turned over to the college for some
weeks.
The income of the State College at
present is over $40, 900, and will become
$4,000. After the year 1910 it will
also receive the income from the Thomp-
son fund, which fund will then be more
than 100000. While the work which
the school will try to do will be ex-
pensive, its facilities will doubtless be
ample.
During the past year, in response to
a request, the doors have been opened
TO women. Two are in the class en-
tered this college year. There are indi-
cations that during the time the college
remains in Hanover, and later, at Dur
ham, good proportion of the students
will be women.
Your agricultural readers may be in
terested to know that cordial relations
exist between the grange and the COL
lege. On the one hand the grange at
Hanover has over two hundred men,
bers, including majority of the faculty
and many of the students; on the
other hand, the master of the state
grange and one of the past masters are
included among the trustees. X.