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passed into the hands of the Building Committee, and they 

 were urging it on with all possible speed to have the build- 

 ing ready for pupils at the appointed time ; and to meet 

 the expense involved, in going on with the work, five of the 

 Trustees subscribed $500 from their own pockets, which 

 enabled them to draw a corresponding amount from the 

 State, and they further authorized the President of the 

 Board, to secure by loan an amount sufficient to finish and 

 furnish the part to be prepared for the pupils. 



OPENING SCHOOL. 



At the appointed time, February 16th, 1859, the school 

 was opened under the control of the following Faculty and 

 Professors. 



Wm. G. "Waring, who had been superintending the farm, 

 garden, and nursery for some* time previous was now ap- 

 pointed General Superintendent of the College, and Pro- 

 fessor of Horticulture; S. Baird, Professor of Mathematics; 

 E. C. Allison, Professor of English Literature ; J. S. Whit- 

 man, A. M., Prof, of Natural Science. Prof. Baird resigned 

 May 18th, 1859, and the Board at that time assembled, 

 appointed Prof. David Wilson in his stead. Over 100 pupils 

 had engaged places, and sixty-nine were present on the 

 first day of opening; during the session 119 students were 

 entered, though there were never more than about 100 

 present at any one time, owing to the dismission and ex- 

 pulsion of some and the withdrawal of others. The school 

 was opened under innumerable difficulties and disadvan- 

 tages. The buildings were only partially finished, and in 

 the absence of the intended dining-room and kitchen a 

 board shantee, which could neither be kept warm in cold 

 nor dry in wet and stormy weather, was used to cook and 

 eat in. Proper apartments for museums, laboratories, and 

 recitation rooms were wanting. The farm was yet rough, 

 and the lumber and materials for mason and brick work 

 for the completion of the building, were piled round in 

 shapeless masses on all sides of the latter, rendering it 

 almost impossible to get about it, and presenting a most 

 forlorn aspect to the students, who first entered the college, 

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