Leonard Wood’s "An address delivered on the opening of the new hall of the Medical School of Maine, February 21, 1862." Brunswick, ME: Telegraph Office, A.G. Tenney, 1862.
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The proposed building was envisioned as both the primary medical school facility and the laboratory for undergraduate science courses. Upon its completion, the building was the only one on campus dedicated exclusively to instruction.
At the July 31 and August 1, 1866 meeting of the Governing Boards members discussed naming the “New College”—as the facility was known—for Seth Adams, a Boston sugar refiner who had received an honorary degree in 1858 and whose contribution had aided the construction. Adams also funded the Adams-Nervine Asylum in Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts, which opened in 1880.
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