Guest book for the New Hampshire's official state war memorial, located on the third floor of the Memorial Union Building at UNH.
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One of the first things the college administrators needed to address when the college moved to Durham in 1893 was to secure an adequate supply of water for the college. A dam was built on Pettee Brook creating a reservoir that was used for boilers, irrigation and fire fighting. Drinking water was carried from springs until artesian wells were drilled in 1910. There was a typhoid fever outbreak in the winter of 1911…
The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was founded in Hanover, NH in 1866. The College moved to Durham, NH in 1893 and became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. This manuscript, written by the Alumni Association Committee, argues for changing the name and status of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts to the University of New Hampshire. The arguments draw…
William Fuller Fisk (1876-after 1941) was an entomologist who worked for the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts during the 1890s, later going on to work for the Georgia State Entomologist and USDA and heading the Gypsy Moth Laboratory in Melrose MA. His travels took him throughout the United States, western Europe, and into Uganda studying sleeping sickness during the early part of the 20th…
The Sports Information Office is responsible for the gathering and dissemination of all UNH sports information through-out the nation. This includes preparation of press releases related to athletics, recreational sports and/or individual athletes for the media, preparing informational materials such as brochures and programs, compiling statistics and arranging photographic coverage of sporting events. This…
The Yankee Conference was a collegiate sports conference in the eastern United States. It was formed in 1938 as the New England Conference and became the Yankee Conference in 1947. It once sponsored competition in many sports, but it dropped support of all sports except football in 1975. It existed until 1997, when NCAA legislation limiting the influence of single-sport conferences over policy became effective, and…