G VOLUME VII NUMBER 2 ■GUMPSES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE LIFE DURHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLISHED BY THE COLLEGE The New Hampshire College desires to call the attention of all seniors in high schools and of others interested to the opportunity the state provides for advanced training at Durham. To that end several special copies of the college paper, setting forth in some detail the work of the different divisions of the college, will be mailed as issued. The annual catalog will follow these special copies and this illustrated booklet. Please accept these with the compliments of New Hampshire College. Volume VII FEBRUARY, 1916 Number 2 iScto llampSfjire College ^Bulletin Entered as second-class matter August 5, 1907, at the Post Office at Durham, N. H., under Act of Congress of July 16, 1894 GLIMPSES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE LIEE This booklet has been issued by the College to answer some of the many questions received in Durham every day New Hampshire College Campus. GENERAL INFORMATION. The widespread interest in the New Hampshire State College has prompted the preparation and publishing of this bulletin, which, together with the college catalog, it is hoped, will afford a comprehensive view of this institution in its social and scholastic activities. The fact that it is a State College means that it is a part of the state educational system. It is conducted for the benefit of all of the people of the State. Students coming here may take work in agriculture, in engineering, in home economics or in arts and science. These are the general divisions, each of them including many courses and subjects. HOW TO GET IN. . The entrance requirements are simple. The graduation credential from an approved high school will admit any candidate who has taken in high school a course which cov¬ ers the college entrance requirements. The usual four- year high school course does this, though there are occasional exceptions. The college catalog which is sent to any one on request will explain the different division requirements in detail. FOR MEN AND WOMEN. New Hampshire College is for men and women. At present, of the 600 students here, there are 500 men and 100 women. The women are enrolled in the Home Eco¬ nomics or in the General Arts and Science course. This latter is a course planned for those who seek a general education which will fit them for teaching, other professional work, or business. Women may take any course, however, and they frequently elect agricultural subjects. S M I T H Hall lAJ 0 C IM ’5 D O R M ( T O M Y c 'i^L' I“(all MCN’S DORrllTORY Ballard Ha l l 1''Mo('^£n'5 Dormitory WHERE THE COLLEGE IS. The college is located at Durham, a small town near Dover, in Strafford County, in the southeast corner of the state. It was originally established at Hanover in connec¬ tion with Dartmouth College, but in 1893 the state accepted the property of Benjamin Thompson, a farmer of Durham. It took his farm for a campus and established the college there as an independent school. The Thompson farm is at the edge of the village of Durham, and furnishes a very satisfactory site for the college. Durham is reached by the western branch of the Boston & Maine Railroad, and is about half-way between Boston and Portland. It is a small village, with the result that the students find little there to distract them from collegiate interests. Since moving to Durham eleven large brick buildings and many other minor ones have been erected, yet so rapid has been the growth of the college that several more are imperatively New Hampshire College Forest. CoMMtNctMENT Day March IaJorcester Game needed. One of the latest is DeMeritt Hall, an $80,000 structure, most admirably arranged and equipped for elec¬ trical and mechanical engineering and drawing. Another new building is Fairchild Hall, named by the trustees in honor of President Fairchild. This is the dormitory for men. It will accommodate 106 students, giving each two students a study and bedroom. The women who come to Durham and who, since the establishment of the course in Home Economics, are coming in constantly increasing numbers, have two dormitories devoted to them. Men students not accommodated in Fairchild Hall are housed in the homes of the several Greek letter fraternities repre¬ sented here, and in residences in the village. STUDENTS. The students of New Hampshire, because of the courses offered, fall naturally into three groups. First, there are those who are taking the four-year courses in agriculture, arts and science, or engineering. Secondly, there are stu¬ dents who are taking two-year courses in agriculture or in engineering. Thirdly, there are students who come to Durham for periods varying from one to five weeks in the winter, to take one or all of the many short courses in agri¬ culture offered each year. THE EXTENSION SERVICE. There should be mentioned here still another group of students, those who do not come to Durham. They are busy with their daily cares at home. They are not boys and girls of college age; they are either men and women or young boys and girls. The college is striving to serve the entire state. To this end, under the direction of Professor John C. Kendall, director of the Experiment Station, agricultural assistance is given to those who desire it. This is done through cor- 9 respondence courses, traveling schools, demonstrations, the work of field agents of many kinds, and the organization of boys’ and girls’ clubs. It is from the college also that work of securing county agents is directed and there is also extension work in home economics. This carrying of the college to the people has been done for many years by the agricultural division, and similar work is now being done, though not on so comprehensive a scale, by the engineering and by the arts and science divisions. These two divisions have issued bulletins giving lists of faculty members who are ready to give lectures anywhere in the state where they may be desired whenever their duties in Durham will permit. The response on the part of the people has been gratifying and there is already a greater demand for services than can be met. FRATERNITIES. There are seven fraternities, two of them being chapters of national organizations, and the others local. These are all Greek letter societies, and students are taken into them in the freshman year. The fraternity houses, near the campus, photographs of which are shown on another page, are centers of much undergraduate activity. The women students have similar organizations, and the three Greek letter sororities occupy the same prominent place that the fraternities do in the case of the men. ATHLETICS. New Hampshire is well represented in athletics. This year the college secured the services of Mr. W. H. Cowell, formerly of the University of Pittsburg, as physical and athletic director. Mr. Cowell is a football, baseball and basketball expert, and an all-around athlete of more than usual ability. He was assistant coach in football for the 11 Haskell Indian school team, and declined the place of assistant at Carlisle to come to New Hampshire. His first football season here has been remarkably successful, and New Hampshire rejoiced in the defeat of Worcester Poly¬ technic by a score of 20 to 0 in the big game of the year. In track. New Hampshire scored a victory over Rhode Island last season by 78 to 38, and in the meets with Bates and the University of Vermont failed to win first place by the narrowest of margins. Public Exercises in Gymnasium, MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS. As the college has a regiment of infantry, it necessarily has a regimental band, and this organization gives concerts in the spring and lends yeomen service at all athletic con¬ tests. Besides the band, there are two glee clubs,—one for men and one for women,—and a college orchestra. Both clubs give concerts in Durham each year, and the men accompanied by the orchestra make one or two tours through the state. This year two of the concerts will be given in Maine. 13 THE CADET CORPS. As in the case of all state colleges, students at New Hamp¬ shire are required to take courses in Military Science and Drill. On drill afternoon companies are at work on the campus, a signal squad is wig-wagging from the tower of Nesmith Hall, and perhaps two wireless squads will be seen with their portable field apparatus talking to each other across a half-mile stretch of fields and houses. There are elective courses in Military Science, as well as prescribed ones, and this spring there will be instruction work in trench¬ digging under the direction of Lieutenant S. J. Sutherland, the United States Army oflScer in command here. DRAMATIC CLUB. Last year, students under the direction of the Women’s League, an organization of women students and wives of members of the faculty, gave in Dover, New Hampshire, Madeleine Ducette Hiley’s “Mice and Men.” The pro¬ duction was so successful that a dramatic club was organ¬ ized which this year has given in Durham, Hawtrey’s “Private Secretary,” and now has another play under rehearsal. Members of the casts are chosen through com¬ petitive trials and the coach is a professional. RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS. There are two religious societies, the College Christian Association for the young men, and the Y. W. C. A. for the women. Regular weekly Sunday afternoon meetings are held in Thompson Hall by the men, the addresses being given either by some out-of-town speakers of note or by members of the college faculty. The Y. W. C. A. holds a regular meeting each Thursday evening in Smith Hall, one of the dormitories for girls, and it also conducts Bible study classes in the winter. Students are always made 14 welcome at the Durham church, where socials and enter¬ tainments make pleasant the winter months. OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. Each of the three college divisions has a club, the oldest being the Agricultural Club, the next the Engineering Club, and the third the newly organized Liberal Arts Club. These three, which include both students and members of the faculty have regular meetings, and by lectures and papers delivered by members and by men and women from outside, stimulate interest in the subjects of the three divisions. There are several other student organizations devoted to educational matters. Among these are ‘‘The Scroll and the Book” for the study of literature, the Chemistry Club, and the Economics Club. A College Group. PUBLICATIONS. New Hampshire students have two publications, the annual known as “The Granite,” and the w^eekly college newspaper, The New Hampshire. The latter has a wide circulation in college and among the alumni. Students are 15 appointed to the New Hampshire staff by the editor-in- chief, himself a student, who selects the new men from among the best volunteer workers. HONORS AND LETTERS. Athletes fulfilling conditions laid down by the athletic council are awarded each year the “N. H.” in the different activities. A special watch-fob is awarded the man or woman who is appointed on The New Hampshire staff. A Picnic Group. STUDENT-LIFE. College exercises are from eight until twelve o’clock, and from one-thirty until four each weekday except Saturday. On Saturday there are no afternoon classes. Saturday night in winter is usually the time for basketball games and there are concerts, plays, informals, and house parties in the winter and spring. There is a lecture course under the auspices of the college each winter, and many men and women of distinction speak at the weekly students’ convo¬ cations. 16 THE REAL COLLEGE. Life at Durham is not all basketball and informal and fraternity meetings. This book has set these forth at some length because the reader must know about them to understand what life at New Hampshire College means to the boys and girls who come here every fall. This book is dedicated to the incidentals of college life. The college catalog tells of the fundamentals. New Hampshire College is, impressively to the casual visitor and more impressively to the resident of years, a serious place. The students who come here come largely for definite purposes. They are seeking a higher education which is to help them all their lives, and no matter what else they may do, they rarely fail to give first heed to this pri¬ mary purpose. HOW TO GET INFORMATION. For those who desire specific knowledge in regard to expenses and entrance requirements, a letter to Professor C. H. Pettee, Dean of the College, will meet with a prompt reply. 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