Letter, 1889 September 16, Amherst [Mass.], to Isaac W. Smith [n.p.].

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Letter, 1889 September 16, Amherst [Mass.], to Isaac W. Smith [n.p.].

Sends copy of Trustees vote continuing Edwin B. Frost as Chandler School instructor. Extra salary for Frost and Prof. Emerson came from the Appleton fund.

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Dartmouth College. Chandler Scientific Dept.

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In 1851 Abiel Chandler, a Harvard graduate and businessman of Walpole, N.H., bequeathed $50,000 to the Trustees of Dartmouth College for the establishment and support of a school or department "in the practical or useful arts of life", such as civil engineering, architecture and drawing, and modern languages, and stipulated that a board of visitors be entrusted with the interpretation of the provisions of his will. John James Dixwell and Francis Brown Hayes were appointed to the Board of Visitor...

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