thereof in things not otherwise provided for is submitted to the
discretion of the College Faculty."

In the autumn of 1852, the school was organized, and seventeen
students admitted, two to the Senior and fifteen to the Junior class.
James W. Patterson, who was a student in the theological school at New
Haven, was elected tutor, and the new institution placed in his
charge. In July, 1854, Mr. Patterson was elected Chandler Professor of
Mathematics, and during the college years 1852-53, and 1853-54, in
addition to the general management, gave nearly all the instruction in
the Chandler School, at the same time discharged the duties of a tutor
of Latin in the college proper. In 1854, the first class, consisting
of four members, was graduated.

On the death of Professor Stephen Chase, in 1851, John S. Woodman had
succeeded to the chair of Mathematics. In 1855, Professor Woodman
resigned, to enter on the practice of law in Boston, and Mr. Patterson
was elected in his place. During the next year he continued at the
head of the Chandler School, and gave the instruction in Mathematics,
and allied branches, in addition to his duties as professor of
Mathematics in the Academic Department.

In 1856, Professor Woodman was appointed professor of Civil
Engineering, and succeeded Professor Patterson in the care of the
Chandler School, in which from its opening he had given some
instruction. This position he held until 1870, when he was forced to
resign on account of failing health, and was succeeded by Professor
Edward R. Ruggles, who had occupied the chair of Modern Languages and
English Literature since 1866. At the annual meeting of the Board of
Trustees in 1857, it was voted that, "The regular course of study in
the Chandler School of Science and the Arts, from the present time,
shall comprise a term of four years."

In 1862 the name Chandler School of Science and the Art was changed to
Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College.

The character and usefulness of the Scientific Department from its
foundation to the present time, may best be learned by studying the
career of its graduates in successive classes. It will be observed,
that the first class of this school graduated less than twenty-five
years since, and yet in that brief period, its sons have made for it
an honorable record; a record which should bring to it patronage and
impart to its students a spirit of scholarly pride and emulation. It
might not be d