Ralph Dorn Hetzel Papers, 1917-1927

Collection number: UA 2/1/4
Size: 6 boxes (1.98 cu.ft.)

About Ralph Dorn Hetzel (1882-1947)

Ralph Dorn Hetzel was born Dec. 31, 1882 in Merrill, Wisconsin. He attended the University of Wisconsin earning an A.B. and L.L.D. He then began teaching, organized a political science department, and became a professor of public speaking at Oregon Agricultural College. In 1913, he became the director of the extention service at Oregon. After four years in these administrative positions Hetzel left Oregon to assume the presidency of New Hampshire College. On Aug. 17, 1917, he replaced Dean Pettee, who had been acting prestident since the death of President Fairchild in Jan. 1917.

Hetzel's administration began just after the United States declared war upon Germany. The college's service to the nation increased significantly at this time in the training and providing of skilled manpower for the nation. The school's enrollment increased three and a half times and its state appropriation increased twelve-fold during Hetzel's tenure. This was due both to the College's role in the war effort and Hetzel's staunch committment to increasing the College's enrollment and its importance to the state. It was during the administration of Ralph Dorn Hetzel that New Hampshire College became the University of New Hampshire. The state legislature passed an act to incorporate the University of New Hampshire on May 4, 1923.

Hetzel left the University at the end of 1926 to assume the presidency of Pennsylvania State University. Hetzel sought to duplicate his success at the much larger university, which had problems similar to the ones New Hampshire College faced at the beginning of his administration. He remained at Penn State until his death in 1947.

About the Ralph Dorn Hetzel Papers (1917-1927)

The Ralph D. Hetzel Papers include a look into his work on the Mill Tax Laws, the name change of New Hampshire College to the University of New Hampshire, and Smith-Hughes Work.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

This collection is open.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the University of New Hampshire.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], [Folder], [Box], Ralph Dorn Hetzel Papers, 1917-1927, UA 2/1/4, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH, USA.

Acquisitions Information

These records were transferred to the University Library for storage prior to the establishment of the Universirty Archives in 1992.

Collection Contents

Box 1
Box 1, Folder 1	1917-1918	Contract for sewage disposal plant
Box 1, Folder 2	1917-1918	Mill Tax Laws
Box 1, Folder 3	1917-1918	Smith-Hughes, from Massachusetts
Box 1, Folder 4	1917-1920	Y.M.C.A.
Box 1, Folder 5	1918-1919	Agricultural Division, Report of
Box 1, Folder 6	1918-1920	Eaton, S.G. Commander Student Army Training Corps
Box 1, Folder 7	1918-1919	Smith-Hughes from Massachusetts
Box 1, Folder 8	1918-1919	Smith-Hughes Work
Box 1, Folder 9	1919-1924	Annual Report to Bureau of Education
Box 1, Folder 10	1919-1929	Mill Tax Laws
Box 1, Folder 11	1919-1920	Miscellaneous Financial Statements
Box 1, Folder 12	1919-1929	Rules and Regulations
Box 1, Folder 13	1919-1920	Smith-Hughes Work
Box 1, Folder 14	1919-1921	Salaries
Box 1, Folder 15	1920-1921	Contracts, Agreements, etc.
Box 1, Folder 16	1920-1921	Reports
Box 1, Folder 17	1920-1921	Trustees, Executive Committee
Box 1, Folder 18	1921-1922	Boston and Maine Railway
Box 1, Folder 19	1921-1922	Extracts on Scholarships, April 23, 1921 to January 14, 1922
Box 1, Folder 20	1921-1922	American Council on education(C.E. Hewitt)
Box 1, Folder 21	1921-1922	Reports
Box 1, Folder 22	1921-1922	Rules and Regulations
Box 1, Folder 23	1921-1922	Salaries
Box 1, Folder 24	1921-1922	Sewerage Disposal
Box 1, Folder 25	1921-1922	Smith-Hughes, from Massachusetts
Box 1, Folder 26	1921-1922	Smith-Hughes Work
Box 1, Folder 27	1921-1922	Special Committee-Land purchase
Box 1, Folder 28	1921-1922	Statistics
Box 1, Folder 29	1921-1922	Summer School
Box 1, Folder 30	1922-1923	Association of NE Colleges for Conference on Athletics
Box 1, Folder 31	1922-1924	Bills, Resolutions, Laws
Box 1, Folder 32	1922-1924	Change of Name
Box 1, Folder 33	1922-1923	Committee, Alumni Memorial Scholarship
Box 2
Box 2, Folder 1	1922-1927	Correspondence
Box 2, Folder 2	1922-1923	New England State College Athletic Conference
Box 2, Folder 3	1922-1923	Normal Schools
Box 2, Folder 4	1922-1923	Post Office Correspondence
Box 2, Folder 5	1922-1923	Reports
Box 2, Folder 6	1922-1924	Reports of Committees
Box 2, Folder 7	1922-1923	Rules and Regulations
Box 2, Folder 8	1922-1923	Smith-Hughes Work
Box 2, Folder 9	1922-1923	Statistics
Box 2, Folder 10	1922-1923	Summer School
Box 2, Folder 11	1922-1923	Surveys of State Universities
Box 2, Folder 12	1922-1925	Pamphlets dealing with Accreditation
Box 2, Folder 13	1923-1924	Finance Committee
Box 2, Folder 14	1923-1924	July 2, 1923
Box 2, Folder 15	1923-1924	Real Estate, March 18
Box 2, Folder 16	1923-1924	American Association of University Women
Box 2, Folder 17	1923-1924	American Council on Education (C.E. Hewitt)
Box 2, Folder 18	1923-1924	Austin Cate Academy
Box 2, Folder 19	1923-1924	Botony - Zoology Controversy
Box 2, Folder 20	1923-1925	Building Statistics
Box 2, Folder 21	1923-1924	College Finances - Financial Support
Box 2, Folder 22	1923-1926	Committees
Box 2, Folder 23	1923-1924	Committee on Insurance
Box 2, Folder 24	1923-1924	Contracts, Agreements, etc.
Box 2, Folder 25	1923-1925	Electricity applied to Agriculture
Box 2, Folder 26	1923-1924	Engineering Education, Society for the Promotion of
Box 3
Box 3, Folder 1	1923-1924	Employee Damage Compensation
Box 3, Folder 2	1923-1924	Magrath, R.C.-Treasurer and Business Secretary
Box 3, Folder 3	1923-1924	Pond, Bremer Whidden. Landscape Architect
Box 3, Folder 4	1923-1924	Correspondence to the Durham Postmaster
Box 3, Folder 5	1923-1924	Reports
Box 3, Folder 6	1923-1924	Requests, Board of New York, recognition of UNH degrees
Box 3, Folder 7	1923-1924	Rules and Regulations
Box 3, Folder 8	1923-1924	Smith-Hughes Work
Box 3, Folder 9	1923-1924	Statistics
Box 3, Folder 10	1923-1924	Water Supply
Box 3, Folder 11	1923-1924	Women's Building- State Federation of Women's Clubs
Box 3, Folder 12	1924-1926	Buildings - Costs
Box 3, Folder 13	1924-1924	Trustee By-Laws, June 4, 1924, Sept. 29, 1924
Box 3, Folder 14	1924-1925	Contracts, Agreements, etc.
Box 3, Folder 15	1924-1925	Enrollment statistics
Box 3, Folder 16	1924-1925	Fire Department
Box 3, Folder 17	1924-1925	Hoitt, George P., Property
Box 3, Folder 18	1924-1925	Huddleston-Huggins. Right of Way
Box 3, Folder 19	1924-1925	Insurance Report Plan for Annuity
Box 3, Folder 20	1924-1925	Legislation Campaign, January 1925.
Box 3, Folder 21	1924-1925	Legislation Campaign, February to April 1925
Box 3, Folder 22	1924-1925	Legislative Briefs
Box 3, Folder 23	1924-1925	Legislative Material
Box 3, Folder 24	1924-1925	Mill Tax Laws
Box 3, Folder 25	1924-1925	Miscellaneous-Office of the President
Box 3, Folder 26	1924-1925	Normal Schools
Box 3, Folder 27	1924-1925	Records of N.E. Association of National state Colleges and Universities from J.L. Hills, Vermont 1920-1925
Box 4
Box 4, Folder 1	1924-1925	Out of State Students, Fees of Tuition
Box 4, Folder 2	1924-1925	Pond, Bremer Whidden- Landscape Architect
Box 4, Folder 3	1924-1925	Purnell Act, Research and Extension Work
Box 4, Folder 4	1924-1925	Related Subject Matter Groups
Box 4, Folder 5	1924-1925	Remick, Mrs. Jas W. Chairman
Box 4, Folder 6	1924-1925	Reports 1924
Box 4, Folder 7	1924-1925	Reports, 1925
Box 4, Folder 8	1924-1925	Rules and Regulations
Box 4, Folder 9	1924-1926	Rules and Regulations
Box 4, Folder 10	1924-1925	Sabbatical Leaves for Professional Improvement
Box 4, Folder 11	1924-1925	Sewerage Disposal
Box 4, Folder 12	1924-1925	Smith-Hughes Work
Box 4, Folder 13	1924-1925	Smythe, Mrs. Frederick-Manchester
Box 4, Folder 14	1924-1925	Summer School
Box 4, Folder 15	1924-1925	Taxation
Box 4, Folder 16	1924-1925	Trustee minutes, January 16-17, 1925, and New Hampshire Women's Club Resolutions
Box 4, Folder 17	1924-1925	Water Supply
Box 4, Folder 18	1924-1925	Trustee Minutes May 6, 1925
Box 4, Folder 19	1925-1926	American Association of University Women
Box 4, Folder 20	1925-1926	The American Council on education (C. E. Hewitt)
Box 4, Folder 21	1925-1926	Association of American Colleges
Box 4, Folder 22	1925-1926	Bills, Resolutions, Laws
Box 4, Folder 23	1925-1926	Business Administration Course and Commerce, Committee on
Box 4, Folder 24	1925-1926	Committee on Discipline
Box 4, Folder 25	1925-1926	Commons Dining Hall
Box 4, Folder 26	1925-1926	Undated, beginning approximately 1925
Box 4, Folder 27	1925-1926	College of Business Administration
Box 4, Folder 28	1925-1926	Committee on Teaching Methods
Box 4, Folder 29	1925-1926	Contracts, Agreements, etc.
Box 4, Folder 30	1925-1926	Lucy Hastings Memorial Hospital, Dr. O. S. Foster
Box 5
Box 5, Folder 1	1925-1926	Legislation Campaign
Box 5, Folder 2	1925-1927	Legislature - 1927
Box 5, Folder 3	1925-1926	Magrath, R.C. - Appointments
Box 5, Folder 4	1925	Manual of the General Court - Prof. Ralph D. Hetzel
Box 5, Folder 5	1925	Mill Tax
Box 5, Folder 6	1925-1926	Normal school
Box 5, Folder 7	1925-1926	Pond, Bremer Whidden- Landscape Architect
Box 5, Folder 8	1925-1926	Reports, part 1
Box 5, Folder 9	1925-1926	Reports, part 2
Box 5, Folder 10	1925-1926	Rhodes Scholarships
Box 5, Folder 11	1925-1926	ROTC
Box 5, Folder 12	1925-1926	Rules and Regulations
Box 5, Folder 13	1925-1926	"S"
Box 5, Folder 14	1925-1926	Schedule Summary
Box 5, Folder 15	1925-1926	Scholarships
Box 5, Folder 16	1925-1926	Sewerage Disposal
Box 5, Folder 17	1925-1926	Smythe, Mrs Frederick- Manchester
Box 5, Folder 18	1925-1926	Social Committee
Box 5, Folder 19	1925-1926	Statistics
Box 5, Folder 20	1925-1926	Student and Faculty Rule Book
Box 5, Folder 21	1925-1926	Summer School
Box 5, Folder 22	1925-1926	Taxation
Box 5, Folder 23	1925-1926	Term Hour, Time Unit Systems
Box 5, Folder 24	1925-1926	Benjamin Thompson Furniture
Box 5, Folder 25	1925-1926	Water Supply
Box 5, Folder 26	1925-1926	Minutes, September 20, 1926
Box 6
Box 6, Folder 1	1926-1927	Real Estate October 11, 1926
Box 6, Folder 2	1926-1927	Trustee Minutes October 30, 1926
Box 6, Folder 3	1926-1927	Notices 1926
Box 6, Folder 4	1926-1927	Sophomore Year in Civil Engineering, 1926
Box 6, Folder 5	1926-1927	Personnel, January 1927 to June 1927
Box 6, Folder 6	1926-1927	American Council on Education (C. E. Hewitt)
Box 6, Folder 7	1926-1927	Alumni Association
Box 6, Folder 8	1926-1827	Appointments and Resignations
Box 6, Folder 9	1926-1927	Association of Land Grant Colleges
Box 6, Folder 10	1926-1927	Association of New England Colleges for Conference on Athletics
Box 6, Folder 11	Undated	Automobiles, Question of
Box 6, Folder 12	1926-1927	Blewett, E. Y. - Alumni
Box 6, Folder 13	1926-1927	Cattle
Box 6, Folder 14	1926-1927	College of Business Administration
Box 6, Folder 15	1926-1927	Dad's and Mother's Day
Box 6, Folder 16	1926-1927	Fairchild Hall
Box 6, Folder 17	1926-1927	Fire Department
Box 6, Folder 18	1926-1927	Lewis Bill
Box 6, Folder 19	1926-1927	Magrath, R.C. - Appointments
Box 6, Folder 20	1926-1927	Millage Law
Box 6, Folder 21	1926-1927	Miscellaneous Correspondence
Box 6, Folder 22	1926-1927	Miscellaneous
Box 6, Folder 23	1926-1927	Miscellaneous
Box 6, Folder 24	1926-1927	Normal Schools
Box 6, Folder 25	1926-1927	Planning Board
Box 6, Folder 26	1926-1927	Pond, Bremer Whidden - Landscape Architect
Box 6, Folder 27	1926-1927	Rules and Regulations
Box 6, Folder 28	1926-1927	Schedule Summary
Box 6, Folder 29	1926-1927	Smith, Forrest S. and Sarah A. Estate
Box 6, Folder 30	1926-1927	Smith-Hughes Work
Box 6, Folder 31	1926-1927	Statistics
Box 6, Folder 32	1926-1927	Summer School
Box 6, Folder 33	1927	Trustee By-Laws, June 22, 1927
Box 6, Folder 34	1926-1927	Trustee Letters, Honorary Degrees
Box 6, Folder 35	1926-1927	Trustees letters, open bids
Box 6, Folder 36	1926-1927	Traveling Expenses
Box 6, Folder 37	1926-1927	Tufts, Dr. J.A.
Box 6, Folder 38	1926-1927	Water Supply
Box 6, Folder 39	1926-1927	Y.M.C.A. Christian Work