Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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5 The Aegis, Vol. XXXVIll H MM--A has done for our college. In my opinion his largest, most important, and most enduring achievement has been his ethical impact upon hisassociates in the faculty, and still more the effect of his personality and his teachings upon the younger and more immediately im- pressionable minds composing the undergraduate body. This influence. has been made manifest in all his official and unofficial doings, and most of all in his Sunday evening talks at Rollins Chapel. These have been virtually unique. When a man of the clearest spiritual perceptions is also a master of compact and telling English: and when he unc0n- sciously adds to his verbal message the authority and influence of the president's office, the result is one that cannot be measured or counted. - Every Dartmouth alumnus of the past sixteen years will agree with me that whatever he has got from the class-room, socie- ties, friendships, or the athletic field, nothing quite takes the place, in his tenderest mem- ories of college days, of Dr. Tucker's vesper talks, Sunday after Sunday. To mention their most superficial value, I really believe that they have contributed, more than any one cause, to the numerical increase of the institution. Undergraduates have said to their school friends: He has influenced me. toward good and high thingsg you ought to come and share the influence. D , A nationis greatness lies in men, not acres, sang John Boyle O'Reilly in a preg- nant line. So, looking backward on an administration that we reluctantly mention as belonging to the past, we find with gratitude that its best service still remains, a quicken- ing force, in hundreds of lives that are transmitting its influence to the world. CHARLES F. RICHARDSON. ,. .. ,,..,, , . L6f': fx -S? fiffiffle .- ff. Zzffaffk 5 ' 1-1 - -- -,- J-fh X K t ww .ms 4 Qu- S , 'gg ' -7- ,, -l.,? --- --+ ' -s., 1-,4 - HW,-1.1 14 4.4:-,lf ag . ri, Qi' it : 'N-A Ay iw! I , v'1 ,ff 'I fnjl 31 ' L' .fxf - ,TERM ' .-f 23-' -,..,.. ,N f - 1 IMIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIHllllllll lllllllllllllli-f7'F'Lr14.95'256'2 'S f 1'?4!. Sf f 'f g.,ly,t?R.5fj.!,5 '1.,'f' ,- .,,.'-3,,.5ga:--:rl-u:.:1::.m:w'.a::.1.:1: ' HS N5-i'f!1'., 51 2,5-3.99,-25f'9 5' ,, ,gf emlewwfH11'U1f1ff'fi 55533 gi- ,, Q? Z-f ' :f li'1'5'i7FiJ:, : VW ' ' -f .T.T- f E- ' ' ' --.:-L. ,V igfixg 52 jf' f f '25, Ak..-15, . 7, -e ai- -. - . fgfyf .ap A ' .vs -'P i +1 T fi as ,fa-? f fi 4 ' ff-2.225140 'f Q., g , 'ov f ff f1 - 'S 'f?f - L- -1-:,:., ' Jaffa--f v-gf' 'W -7 1 --- - - V , c 1 5-euitfvm P i 7:-F: N 9757- L.-.1lA'k,EL,,---1-gg. ,,yu.4.. .Vi fn, . 191 ............-...........-..--..? Sept. Sept. Sept. Oct. Nov. vlan. Feb. Mar. Mar. May I une J une June J une June June June Sept, gem. CPL Dec.

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Dartmouth, 1911 5 William Jewett Tucker 2:5 - HE Golden Age of Dartmouth-this phrase occurs to the mind as one ll' x , lfrrfyas 1 f Q1 ,- -u 16 gg dwells on the noble record of the sixteen years of President Tucker's administration. D - But, with characteristic modesty, he has always insisted that what- ever he has accomplished could not have been possible without the firm foundations left him by his predecessors in the presidency, nor has he ever yielded to the idea that an executive oflicer should not share his honors with his faith- ful associates of the college faculty. Again, Dr. Tucker has earnestly expressed his be- lief that his work for the college of his love will be continued and extended by his suc- cessors in the presidential office. Thus the work of any administration of a long-lived institution must be estimated as related to what has gone before and what is to come. Measured by this standard, what a record lies full in'view of the undergraduates and alumni of Dartmouth College! We like to dwell on the familiar story. As one walks around the college campus and immediately adjacent streets, and remembers things as they were when Dr. Tucker came to us in 1893, the..external change is sufficiently manifest: College Hall, the enlarged Sanborn House, Tuck Hall, Massachusetts Hall, the reorganized Hubbard House and New Hubbard, the beautiful change in Crosby House, the Butterfield Museum, the stately Webster Hall, the enlarged chapel, Wheeler Hall, the Smith Laboratory, Wilder Hall, Richardson Hall, the three Fayerweather dormitories, New Hampshire Hall, the heating and electrical plant, the athletic field, with the rising walls of the huge new gym- nasium, and, invisible but essential to all, the water-system. These, of course, are but the housings, the real college is to be found in the teachers and their curricula. Here we note the creation of some departments, such as Sociology, and the great expansion of others, like Economics and Political Science. In my own de- partment, for instance, I taught single-handed from l882 until 1904, now there are eight instructors, in addition to two others who give a part of their time to the English class rooms. In brief, the current College Directory gives the names of one hundred and eigh- teen oflicers of administration and instruction, caring for some twelve hundred students faside from the Summer Schooll , of whom about eleven hundred are in the college proper. No other American college, no other institution of any kind in the eastern states, can boast of such growth within the last decade and a half. I have rehearsed these delightfully familiar figures in order to say, with all sincer- ity, that I do not think that they represent all, or the greatest thing, that PresidenthTucker

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