Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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Podi-wGA, cHcUIeftae ERNEST MARTIN HOPKINS World War I President Ernest M. Hopkins, facing a rapidly growing enroll- ment in the post-war days of World Yar I, set an expansion goal of two thousand undergraduates and in the fall of 1921 inaugurated the selective process of atlniissions. His abilities were recognized and utilized in Wdrld War H, when the former Dartmouth president was nominated to head a com- mission designed to study and make recommendations for the inauguration of civil governments in strategic islands in the Pacific.

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vecalli liue ea lR p.e Uo-dli In spite of the ( ' ()lU ' f;i- s Indian lio lugcs, ilcplcU ' tl war-time at- teiulaiiee was a drain on Dartnionth ' s funds; and in ITH ' -i, .lolin Wheelock, Eleazar ' s son and sneeessor, also journeyed to Euroi)e to knock on the doors of l)arlnio itli ' s financial hackers. His i)oundinK ' was rewarded wilh an a i pump. or M-y, standing teleseoiie willi achronieter. glasses, an elegant set of llic meelianical powers, and an electrical apparatus. rndamited by his failure as a (raveling salesman abroad, .lolm turned lo his fellow New Knglanders for t-2,()()() worth of aid for constructing Dartmouth Hall, lie ac(iuired a little money, mer- chantable beef, pork, grain, boards, gla.sses, and nails. The buildmg was .started in 1874 and conii)leted .seven years later. John Vheelock .saw the College through Ihe War of ISl ' i. and Nathan Lord was at the helm during and atUr llie Mexican War. A struggle between loyalty to Dartmouth or obedicTice to the Bible, which he interpreted as condoning slavery, forced President Lord lo resign from office when storm clouds of civil war a])peared. The College, however, under the guidance of .Vsa Dodge Smith, bounded back from the Civil War with the erection of Hissell Hall with bowling alleys on the ground lloor. Four years later i)rogress- niindeil Smith replaced Ihe ihirly-year-old chai)el organ with one having thirteen stops. Veterans ' privileges first ai)pearetl ilnring Ihe Si)anish-American War, when President William .lewelt Tucker announceil that all Dartmouth undergraduates going to war would be reailmitted to the College. These were the days when, insU ' ad of doul)ling and tripling the number of men in each loom to acconunodate in- erea.sed post-war attendance, new dormitories were provided. The home of a i)rofes.sor on the site of Parklun-st Hall was con- verted into a (h)rmitory. and Fayerwealher Hall made its appear- ance on the campus. W1I,L1. M .JKWETT TKKKK Sp,ini.sli-, meri(aM V:ir ' J? EI,E. Z. H jWllEEI.OCK Hiviiliiliuniirv War JOHN WIIKEEOCK War of 181-2 . SA DOUdE SMITH Civil War HSi H S. ' m- K i..