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bookkeeping, and also engaged in "useful bodily labor" for three or four hours a day. Students gardened and farmed, built furniture and mended buildings. Students who could not otherwise afford to attend college were able to defray their expenses through their own labor. Unfortunately, the trustees were unable to meet the expenses of the purchase of the land through additional sale of stock, and the institution struggled financially.
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leading the charge. Now fully authorized to conduct marriages, baptize and perform communion, he organized the First
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in the lower story. So far as is known, no collegiate students were matriculated under
Monteith's presidency and thus his duties as president consisted mainly of making plans and helping to raise funds. On April 30, 1821, a new act was passed, changing the name to the
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Monteith left Hamilton in the spring of 1828. The feud had had significant results for Hamilton College, reducing the number of students from 107 in the spring of 1823 to nine in 1829, the year following Monteith's departure.
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including colleges, schools, libraries, and museums. The cornerstone of the first building, commonly called "the
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147:Sarah Sophia
86:Elyria, Ohio
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35:The Reverend
1536:1868 deaths
1531:1788 births
1492:(2014–2022)
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603:Henry Davis
401:Fort Shelby
150:Mary Harris
93:Nationality
1520:Categories
864:References
856:. At the
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305:temperance
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60:1788-08-05
1498:Santa Ono
1224:New title
995:"History"
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103:Education
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387:Arrival
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