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The New Hampshire College of Agriculture (NHCA) was founded in 1866. Ultimately, NHCA moved to Durham, where classes started in 1893, and it became the basis for today’s University of New Hampshire.
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A ticket to a medical lecture from 1824, admitting Cornelius T.F. Brachett, suggests the openness of education at Dartmouth to the public.
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At the right and head of the cadaver, Dr. C.P. Frost leads Dartmouth medical students in a dissection class in 1872.
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Almost a century after its founding, a modest faculty offered a largely traditional undergraduate curriculum. Nathan Lord’s unpopular defense of slavery, criticized by students, faculty, and the public alike, played a significant role in his ultimate resignation of the presidency.
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At the Physics Laboratory in Reed Hall at Dartmouth College, Professor Edwin B. Frost examines a patient’s broken arm in 1896. In one of the first x-ray experiments in America, Frost joined basic science and medical innovation.
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The first Tuck graduates. Left to right: Oliver Wallace Foster, Edward [?], and (front row, l-r) Henry Nelson Teague, Walter Blair.
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Not everyone, of course, can remain always and exclusively devoted to the life of the mind. The dedication by “Daniel Boone” reads: “Me for the woods and fish ponds, to hell with the Halls of Learning.”
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Constructed by Thayer Engineering students in 1876, the model truss was built for display at the Philadelphia Centennial International Exhibition, the first World’s Fair held in the United States.
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Computing has been part of Dartmouth’s teaching and research for more than two centuries. Foreground: Thacher slide rule, patented in 1881. Background: Mechanical computation machine. Both objects in the King Collection of Scientific Instruments.
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With high praise from the papers, the appointment of President Ernest Martin Hopkins at Dartmouth demonstrated the College’s embrace of modern organizational practices in 1916.
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George Walker's call for a broad liberal arts education as a predicate to business life and service to the nation is as familiar today as it was 150 years ago.
