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90 seatings, while in the lower story is a recitation room, and apparatus
room.

This Institution is liberally patronized, and each term has from thir-
ty to seventy scholars. At the September term, 1873, there were forty-
nine scholars.

NEW-HAMPSHIRE CONFERENCE SEMINARY AND

FEMALE COLLEGE.

This Institution is located at Tilton. N. H., on the Boston, Concord &
Montreal Railroad, eighteen miles north of Concord, near the outlet of
Winnipiseogee Lake. The site is elevated, and commands a view of
natural scenery that, in extent, variety and beauty, is seldom equal-
led; and in healthfulness it cannot be surpassed.

On the third day of July, 1845, the first meeting of the Trustees of the
“ New-Hampshire Conference Seminary” was held at the Brick Church,
in the town of Northfield. The preliminary meeting, which ordered
this, had been held at Winchester, June second. On the 9tli of Novem-
ber, 1852, initiatory steps were taken to enlarge the charter of the Sem-
inary so as to comprehend, also, a Female College. This arrangement
was consummated December 29, 1852.

On the 7th day of November, 1862, the stately edifice of the Institution
was consumed by fire. Immediately, however, the trustees planned the
erection, of an edifice and a new site was procured on the Sanbornton side
of the river—now Tilton. Three commodious buildings were erected on
the new campus, and by an act of the Legislature, approved June 24,
1863, the change and removal were legalized. By the efforts of friends,
the resources and conveniences have gradually enlarged to date. Grad-
ual prosperity has attended the Institution from its opening day until
now.

Its buildings and grounds are worth forty thousand dollars. It has an
endowment of about twelve thousand. The last year its students num-
bered 256. In the current years of its existence, it has had 8,600 students.
It has graduated 225. The library has 1,183 volumes; the cabinet is
quite large, especially that of Mineralogy. There are four flourishing
Literary Societies. It combines Seminary and College. It has three
iegular courses; a Classical and a Belles Lettres for ladies, and a Col-
lege Preparatory for gentlemen. It has also six special courses, viz.
Music, Book-keeping, Penmanship, Painting and Drawing, Normal De-
partment, Theological Department. Its students from abroad generally