Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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The Posltoty fllfuifnni flssfoelatioho , J I I ffig,-Xigljfrhrsx -fluff ,pri A YERYONE knows that Boston has a great many Dartmouth men in the foremost ranks of business and professional life. They are leaders in all the best interests ofthe city. It is also an undisputed fact that these go-ahead Dartmouth Alumni have not forgotten their Alma Mater. To them is largely due the credit for the New Dartmouth which is fast making the College one of the first in the country. They took an active interest in the management of aiifairs, besides standing by it in a financial way. The Dartmouth Alumni Association was iinally established in 1865, and has been growing stronger and larger ever since. No hall is large enough, it is said, to hold the hundreds who meet at its large meetings. When the question of admitting ladies came up in '83, the executive committee, to which the matter was left to decide, refused to act upon it, thus squelching the idea. Caleb Blodgett, President of the Boston Dartmouth Alumni Association, was born in Dorchester, N. H., june 3, 1832. Entered College as a member of the class of '56, he taught school winters while in college in Fitchburg, Mass., till May, 1858, when he began the study of law with W. W. Stickney, '23, at Exeter. He studied with other law irms until 1860, when he was admitted to the bar at Worcester. Soon after he commenced practice in Hopkinton, Mass. Removed to Boston in 1860 and continued practice till 1882. He was then commissioned by Governor Long an associate justice of the superior court of Massachusetts. He is a man who has made an honorable record by the impartiality and accuracy of his decisions. ' ' The Dartmouth Lunch Club, which is hardly second to the Association itseli was organized about nine years ago, by Messrs. Williams, ,72, Paul, '78, Proctor, ,79, and Tucker, '86, From this small but enthusiastic beginning has grown up a club of hundreds of members. There were seventy present at the iirst lunch, these lunches occurred once a month on Saturday afternoon during the winter. JUDGE clues stooserr. 13

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filarnni flgmeiaftlon. HE membership includes all graduates of the College, the Thayer School of Civil Engineering, a11d the Chandler School of Science and the Arts. Others who receive from the College an Honorary Degree, or are elected at an Annual Meeting, shall be honorary members, but without the right of voting. The Annual meeting is held in the old chapel in Dartmouth Hall on Tuesday afternoon of Commencement week. The Alumni Dinner occurs on Wednesday, Com- mencement Day. ' By an arrangement with the Trustees of the College, five of their number are elected to their office upon the nomination by ballot of all Alumni of the College of ive years' standing, one vacancy occuring in the Board at each Commencement. Ballot forms, containing the names of ive candidates who have been selected by the Nominating Committee for the vacancy, are sent t0 all Alumni two moiiths before Commencement, and the voting closes at 6 11.111, on Tuesday evening of Commence- ment week. In 1895 these oliicers were elected: President, judge XValbridge A. Field, '55, Vice-Presidents, Hon. Horace Russell, '65, of New York, Hon. WV. E. Barrett, '80, of Bostong Secretary, Prof. F. A. Sherman of Hanover, Statistical Secretary, John M. Comstock, '77, of Chelsea, Vt., Treasurer, Arthur L. Spring, '80, of Boston. Walbridge A. Field, the President of the General Association of Alumni, was a member of the class of 1855. After graduation, he was a tutor in the College for two years, and then began the study of law in Boston and at the Harvard Law School. He taught in College during the Spring and Summer terms of 1859. Became a member of the Boston Bar in I86O. Since that time Mr. Field practiced law, until his appointment to the bench. From 1865 to 1869 he held the office of Assistant Limited State District Attorney for Massachu- setts. He was also Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 1869 to 1870, and member of Con- gress from 1879 to 1881, when he was appointed to the bench of the Supreme Iudical Court. In 1890 Mr. Field was made Chief justice. JUDGE VVALBRIDGE A. FlELD. I2

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New Yorlg fissociationf, N the Fall of 1863, the Rev. Daniel Lancaster, '21, conceivedthe idea of forming an Association of Dartmouth men resident in New York, with the view of dining together once a year, and assisting the College in such work and in such ways as might be deemed most advantageous. According to tradition, this idea materialized in the shape of an informal gathering held in the Astor House soon after, but the records give no account of the meeting. The first dinner was given in honor of the Rev. Asa Dodge Smith, D.D., President of the College, and was held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in 1866. The committee in charge consisted of Benjamin NV. Bonney, '24, Chairman, W'arren D. Goodin, '30, Robert Colby, '45Q Edwin T. Rice, ,44, Horatio N. Twombly, '54, and Walter Gibson, '58. The first President of the Association was Absalom Peters, '16, then a promi- nent clergyman. The first Secretary was 'William M. Chamberlin, M.D. The present President is Charles F. Mathewson, of the class of '82. The primary object of the Association was to dine once a year and help the College in such ways as it might deem advantageous. The New York Alumni were prompt in their aid. Hiram Hitchcock erected the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hon. Williani W1 Niles, Horatio N. Twombly, George S. Edgin and others, established scholarships, Harry C. Bullard, '84, gave the organ in Rollins Chapel. The New York Association takes in part of Pennsylvania, New jersey, and Connecticut, and its list con! tains the names of over seven hundred men, many prominent in their professions. Among the prominent members are Charles L. Dana, '72, ex-President of the Association, and a well known specialist in nervous diseasesg Dr. R. Osgood Mason, '54, Dr. A. L. Ranney, '68g Iohn Ordronaux, '5o, M.D., LL.D. Others, active in newspaper work are Luther B. Little, '82, Ballard Smith, '7o, I. B. Reynolds, '90, Among those prominent in the legal profession are Daniel G. Rollins, '60, Hon. Horace Russell, '65, Hon. Nathaniel H. Clement, '63, The roll also includes many men well known in business circles. Said Samuel C. Bartlett, ex-President of the College, at one of the dinners, I have come to pay my respects to the Alumni of Dartmouth College, forl remember that the Col- lege only has its centre in Hanover, but its circumference in New York, Boston, Chicago and all over the world, and the College is wherever., men of clear heads and honest men and workers for the general good are found. CHARLES F. MATH EWSON, I4 I