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place in the institution, the mechanic arts are also embraced." In mechanic arts the instruction had to be limited to theory, or turned into the lines of architecture and civil engineering. Almost from the first the need of a workshop was felt, and it was hoped that some friend of the institution would supply the deficiency. The beginning of the mechanical engineering course came, however, in 1886, when Thomas W. Kinkaid, assistant engineer, United States Navy, was detailed to act as instructor. He commenced the work under great disadvanThe lower classes, then in coltages, and with few facilities.

lege, were given workshop instruction, and it has been given At first, use was made of to all classes entering since 1886. part of the carpenter's shop of Dartmouth College, but in 1887, a frame building, 30x30, was constructed near Conant Hall. In the following year the building was lengthened to fifty feet; and a boiler, engine, and considerable machinery were provided. Other machinery has been added, but the building itself has remained unchanged. Although Professor Kinkaid was connected with the college for two years only, he made the mechanical engineering course a prominent feature of the college. A course in electrical engineering was added in 1891.

In 1869, Professor Dimond stated at the annual meeting of the trustees, that all the possessions of the college were contained in seven boxes which he had brought from Europe. Whatever may have been the contents of these boxes there was then no place ready to receive them.

To provide a suitable building for recitation rooms, and for other purposes, Dartmouth College offered to furnish $25,000 from the Culver fund, on condition that the State The State appropriate for the same purpose $15,000 more. accepted the condition, and preparations for the new building were begun in the fall of 1869. The corner-stone was laid in the spring of 1870, and Culver Hall was dedicated in in the presence of the Legislature, June 23, 1871. The college purchased a field of about twenty-five acres opposite Culver Hall about the time its erection was begun, and later added

another field adjoining, upon which Conant Hall was afterwards built.

The whole tract was connected with the farm purchased by Hon. John Conant of Jaffrey at a cost of $7,000, and given to the college. Mr. Conant suggested the provision of a suitable building of sufficient capacity to furnish rooms and board for students. Soon afterwards he proposed to give $5,000 for this purpose on condition that the State would provide the balance of the cost. The State made the necessary appropriation, the building was completed and opened for use in 1874, and appropriately named Conant Hall. Its probable cost was about $23,000.

These sums were but the beginning of the gifts of Mr. Conant. Later he provided the money to purchase additions to the farm, which increased the size of it to 360 acres. He also provided a scholarship for each town in Cheshire county, giving to the college in all more than $70,000.

The following circular was issued by President Smith in 1874:

[A Report respecting this Institution has recently been made to the committee of the United States House of Representatives on Education and Labor, in answer to inquiries proposed by them. It embraces many particulars in relation to the faculty, students, and graduates; the course of instruction; the financial condition of the college; its experimental farm of 360 "Culver Hall," with its chemical museums, and recitation rooms, and mitories and its boarding establishment. the following General Remarks."]

acres; its new buildings laboratory, lecture rooms, Conant Hall," with its dorAnd it concludes with

1. I would ask the special attention of the committee to the fact, brought out in answer to their questions, that not only has the national grant been kept unimpaired, not a penny of it having been lost, but by the donations it has called forth, and the various economies for which it has given occasion, it has trebled itself. The value of the property of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts is now three times that of the original grant. The $80,000 has become $240,000.

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