Exercises and Addresses: Attending the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the New Dartmouth Hall and the Visit of the Earl of Dartmouth to the Colle

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Excerpt from Exercises and Addresses: Attending the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the New Dartmouth Hall and the Visit of the Earl of Dartmouth to the College, October 25 and 26, 1904 At the time of its burning - Thursday morning, February 18, 1904 - Dartmouth Hall was probably the- -most interesting and characteristic college building in the United States. Others were older or costlier, but none so intimately connected with all the history and life of an institution of learning. From 1786 to 1828 it housed nearly all the work of the College, and in the succeeding years, rising above the broad campus, in the middle of the "old row, " its graceful proportions and unsurpassed belfry stood constantly, in the mind of every Dartmouth man, as the innermost shrine of his academic love. Externally, the hall, in its earliest and latest years, was recognized as one of the best examples of college architecture of the colonial period, somewhat similar (and the only two remaining) buildings being Nassau Hall at Princeton, which has been twice burned, and University Hall at Brown. Though Eleazar Wheelock's original plan for a stone or brick building was relinquished, his attendant plan of using Nassau Hall as a general model was carried out in detail. The proportions of Old Dartmouth, however, notwithstanding its less expensive material, have been declared by architectural experts to be more artistic and impressive than those of its model. The building as originally constructed, says Mr. Chase, "was reputed the largest of its kind in New England." Its interior was several times modified and improved, but its exterior remained practically the same from the beginning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.