Letters of tribute to Clarence W. Scott : University of New Hampshire 1876-1927, 1927 June.

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Letters of tribute to Clarence W. Scott : University of New Hampshire 1876-1927, 1927 June.

This book is a compilation of letters written to Clarence W. Scott on the occasion of his fifty-first year at the University of New Hampshire. A letter was sent to faculty, alumni and firends of UNH asking for letters to Prof. Scott in commemoration of his long service. The letters were then bound together into a book. Also included are letters from his daughter Alice to Phil Wilcox, then UNH museum curator, concerning the transfer of the book to UNH in 1974.

[322] leaves, bound : ill. ; 29 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7382418

UNH Durham, Dimond Library

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Scott, Clarence Watkins, 1849-1930.

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New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts

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The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was established as a Land-Grant College in 1866 in Hanover, NH. The school moved to Durham, NH in 1893 and changed its name to the University of New Hampshire in 1923. The federal government required each Land-Grant institution to send an annual report of its activities and finances. From the description of Annual Reports, 1893-1958. (Manchester City Library). WorldCat record id: 29015821 To met military need for...

University of New Hampshire

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In 1861, the United States federal government approved the Morrill Act which set aside land in each state for the founding of public higher education. In 1862, the New Hampshire state legislature accepted the grant of 80,000 acres of public lands on which to set up a university. It was not until 1866 however, that the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was incorporated by the state legislature. They started the process of creating the By-laws and the Charter in 1862 and t...