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Early Hanover College grows on Manual Labor system
The piece details Hanover College in 1832 33 under Col George Briggs and Rev Dr James Blythe as leaders. It notes expansion plans a brick college building a boarding house dormitories and shops and the surge of enrollments from multiple states. It covers curricular shifts toward a college course and preparatory department and reports on labor programs printing and binding as a potential remedy to financial strain caused by insufficient farm and workshop yields.
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George Briggs
New England
Mark A. H. Niles
Princeton Theological Seminary
Amherst College
Crowe
Academy
James Blythe
Lexington
Kentucky
General Assembly
Presbyterian Church
Transylvania
Lexington Medical School
Blythe
M. A. H. Niles
John H. Harney
Indiana College
Bloomington
Hanover
W. W. Gilleland
Harney
Niles
Thompson
College Point
Judge Dunn
Bsut