1889

.Formal announcement has been made of the marriage of Harry M. Frost and Mrs. Mabel A. Taylor on Wednesday, the twentyfirst of February, in St. Petersburg, Fla. The ceremony took place at the Pasadena Community church, following which a reception was held at the Boca Ciega Inn. Later the guests were entertained there at dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Frost will be At Home after March first at 4701 Twenty-ninth Ave., South, St. Petersburg. The former Mrs. Taylor, whose home was in Franklin, N. H., will be pleasantly remembered as having been present at our Reunion in Hanover last June.

Fred Bradish's smooth face in the "1889 Totem Pole" picture which appeared in the March issue of this MAGAZINE led to the discovery that the photograph from which it was made was not taken by George Sparhawk's father in Randolph, Vt., soon after our graduation, as there stated. It was taken at Langill's photographic studio in Hanover during our senior year before "Brad," not to be outrivaled by Clarence and George with their side-face appendages, started to raise, in time for graduation, the luxurious growth on his upper lip shown in our class group picture taken late that spring in front of Rollins Chapel. "Sully," content with his rosy cheeks, refrained from meddling with his serene countenance, and his face ever since has remained clean shaven.

"Fush" Hazen, who, with Mrs. Hazen, has spent the winter at Downey, Southern California, went to Santa Ana while there and had a good visit with Alec Nelson and his wife. He writes that Alec seems to have fully recovered his health after his long illness of five years and that now he is just the same old Alec —full of life and fun, and strong in mind and body. He has his law office in his home, with a garden back of the house, and here he does just enough work in each to keep him fit. The Hazens were leaving for their home in Montana late in March, and were planning to stop off in Utah for a visit with their son and his family.

With Dartmouth recently observing its one hundred and seventy-fifth birthday, we are re- minded that nearly one-third of that period has passed since our class entered College. Condi- tions at the College then were far different from what they are today. It might interest some of our readers to review conditions existing at that time. .Our freshman year of three terms covered a period from September 3, 1885, until the sum- mer examinations held the following June 15 to 19. Ihere was a winter vacation of four weeks (many students were out teaching school), and a spring vacation of one week. After summer examinations there came in successive days the Baccalaureate Discourse on Sunday morningprize speaking; examinations for admission; anniversary of Agricultural College, and Anniversary or Chandler Scientific Department; Address and Poem before Meeting of Alumni Associationand Commencement—the last Thursday in June! lhen followed a summer vacation of eleven weeks. The Board of Trustees, as now, consisted of twelve members, including the College President and the Governor of New Hampshire. Of this number five were clergymen. Sixteen professors constituted the College Faculty. The class of 86 (seniors) registered fifty-six students; the class of 87, seventy-one; the class of '88, sixty our class, sixty-nine; resident graduates, two' a total registration of two hundred and fifty-eight students In the Chandler Scientific Department established in185l upon an endowment by Abiel Chandler, its name changed to "Chandler School of Science and the Arts" in the College Catalogue for year 1888-89), the first class numbered fifteen students; second class, fifteen; third class, twenty; fourth class, sixteen; a total of sixty-six students. The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, then located in Hanover, N. H., and connected with Dartmouth College in accordance with an Act passed by the New Hampshire Legislature in 1866 (now University of New Hampshire), had a student enrollment of resident graduates, two; senior year, six; junior year, seven; sophomore year,thirteen; freshman year, twenty-two, a total of fifty students. The Medical College (third oldest now in existence of the ten Medical Schools established in North America during the eighteenth century, first lectures begun in 1797) registered thirteen students for the recitation term, and fifty-three students for the lecture term, a total (deducting eight names listed in each term) of fifty-eight students. The Thayer School of Civil Engineering (established in 1870 by gifts and bequests of Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer, Dartmouth 1807, United States Military Academy 1808, known as "Father of the Military Academy" in recognition of his record as its Superintendent from 1817 to 1833) consisted of a first class of five students; a second class of two students; a total of seven students. The foregoing covers all departments of Dartmouth College and Associated Institutions for the year 1885-86, and shows a total registration of four hundred and thirty-nine students.

During our freshman year, Emerson, Ferguson, Frost and "Fush" Hazen roomed in the Rood House then located on present site of Webster Hall Under Mrs. Sweet's care were Kennard, Noves and Sullivan. Redfield was domiciled in St Thomas Chapel—he and Gillette '88 being the only student occupants there. Blair roomed at Miss Sherman's, where he remained the sole resident student throughout his course. In Reed Hall the swank dormitory of our time—Anderson Hyde, Knight and Mason occupied rooms. Dartmouth, Thornton, Wentworth and Conant Halls provided rooms for fifteen additional members of our class; others found shelter under the roofs of many families whose names were well

known at that time. Week-day chapel attendance and church attendance on Sunday were compulsory. Sabbath Day restrictions extended to closing the College Library and Reading Rooms on Sundays. There were no bathtubs or toilet facilities with runnine water. There was no telephone or electric lighting. Reed Hall was the only dormitory with rooms for students lighted by gas. The bell hanging in the belfry or old Dartmouth Hall—the original building—played an important part in College activities. Its final double-stroke in early morning marked closingtime for admittance to chapel; it called students to their recitations; it called them to church on Sundays; it called them to Rhetoricals in the old chapel in Dartmouth Hall on Wednesday afternoons; it called them after midnight, the night of the big fire in Lebanon, to rush there with hand-pumps and other apparatus of the Hanover Fire Department to help put out the lire, buch were some of the conditions at Dartmouth during freshman year of 1885-86.

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