Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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8 ' Re AEGIS.sa..1907 Va!.XXXIV Melvin Ohio Adams BY PROF. CHARLES F. RICHARDSON O NO graduate of the college does the expression a 5414 C215 typical Dartmouth man belong more truly than 4 X W IN F - A , .-2 to Melvin Ohio Adams of the class of 1871. Self- reliant, resourceful, and helpful, he has shown during Qgffjffw all his life that 'ldirective capacity which wiiiiam T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education, once declared to be, in his opinion, the distinctive QA? mark of the Men of Dartmouth. One of the busiest men in Boston, with his ofhce in the heart of the old city, Mr. Adams has always found time to lend a hearty hand to the interests of the college, and he is one of the men to whom is due the strong hold of the institution upon the public, educational, and social life of Massachusetts. Melvin Ohio Adams was born in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, Novem- ber 7, 18 50. In that old hill-town both his father and his mother were born and lived and are buried, and there, or in neighboring villages, like so many New England boys of the 'sixties and 'seventies, he worked on the farm, stood behind the counter of the country store, and taught district school in winter. Another way of money-earning in his early days-work- ing in a tannery-was less common, though tanning hides used to be called one of the duties of the country pedagogue, He fitted for college at the neighboring Appleton Academy, in New Ipswich, New Hampshire-a famous old prep school in its day, which has sent not a few strong men to Dartmouth 3 and in August, 1867, he entered the Freshman class in the college. During his four undergraduate years he was undoubtedly the most popular man in the class, his cheery ways, abounding vitality, and spirit of good fellowship making him both a leader and a favorite. At graduation his rank, as shown by the assignment to him of a philosophical eration, was third, fourth, or fifth in a class of seventy men. The theme