The one hundred

The one hundred and thirty-eighth year of Dartmouth College opened Thursday morning, September twenty-Sixth, with the chapel service and address by the President in Webster Hall. The enrollment of students for the year is:

Graduate Students 26 Seniors 192 Juniors 229 Sophomores 325 Freshmen 357 Total 1129

The Medical School has an enrollment of 58, the Thayer School of 52, and the Tuck School of 44. Allowing for names duplicated the total enrollment of the College and the associated schools is 1217.

There are 2 more Seniors than last year, 31 more Juniors, 39 more Sophomores and 2 more Freshmen in the academic department.

The geographical distribution of the entering class is:

Massachusetts 154 Connecticut 4 New Hampshire 56 California 2 New York 38 Michigan 2 Illinois 29 Maryland 2 Vermont 21 Florida 1 Maine 11 Indiana 1 Ohio 9 Kentucky 1 lowa 6 Nebraska 1 New Jersey 6 Pennsylvania 1 Minnesota 5 Washington 1 District Columbia 5 W. Virginia 1 Total 357

Changes in the faculty of the College for 1907-1908 are as follows: Professor E. J. Bartlett has been granted leave of absence by the trustees for the first semester, on account of sickness. Doctor Bartlett has not been well for a long time and early in the fall an operation became necessary, from which recovery must be slow. It is hoped that when he returns from England at the close of the semester, the change and the rest shall have restored to him health in measure far beyond that which has been his during recent years.

The following professors return to the College after a year on sabbatical leave of absence: Professor Richardson to the head of the English department, Professor Home to the department of Philosophy, and Professor Husband to his work in Greek and Classical Philology. Mr. Gould, after a year's absence, during which he completed his work and gained a doctorate of Philosophy, returns to his place in the German department.

Professor Dixon, head of the department of Economics, is away on sabbatical year leave, doing expert work with the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Doctor Jesse S. Reeves comes to the College in the department of Law and Political Science as assistant professor. Doctor Reeves is a graduate of Amherst in the class of 1891. He received his doctorate of Philosophy from Johns Hopkins in 1894. After a year's teaching he took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1897. His work in this profession has been markedly successful. Last year he delivered the Albert Shaw Lectures upon Diplomatic History at Johns Hopkins. The lectures are now being published. He is the author of several monographs, and has been a frequent contributor of articles and reviews in the American HistoricalReview and elsewhere. He leaves his home in Richmond, Indiana, to the regret of the community and the press. He is characterized by the Richmond Evening Item as one "of that class of true we hear eulogized from every pulpit and platform but too rarely find in real life." He comes to Dartmouth to take up the work, more congenial to him than the active practice of his profession, of a teacher and a scholar.

Doctor Frank A. Updyke comes also into the same department, as an assistant professor. Doctor Updyke graduated at Brown University in 1893, and took a Master's degree on examination in 1896. He was engaged in active teaching from 1893 to 1904. The next two years he spent in graduate study at the University of Chicago and Brown University. The collegiate year of 1906-1907 was spent by him in research and general study in Europe. He received the doctorate of Philosophy from Brown at the last Commencement.

Mr. Charles A. Proctor, Dartmouth 1900, takes up work as assistant professor of Mathematics. Mr. Proctor was as an undergraduate active in the College life. He was fullback on the-football team for two years, and a pointwinner on the track team. After graduation he remained as an assistant in the Physics department for a year. He was then awarded the Parker Fellowship by the College and went to Chicago University for continued graduate work. Here he was "awarded, on the basis of excellence of work, one of the Chicago University Fellowships in Physics. While here he took up also advanced work in Mathematics. From Chicago he went to the University of Missouri, where he has been most successful in his work as a teacher. He has been teaching at Chicago University during the last quarter, and taking special work in advanced Mathematics. Mr. Proctor is of a family, on his mother's side, identified from early days with the instruction corps of Dartmouth. His great grandfather, Ebenezer Adams 1771, was professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth, as was his grandfather, Ira Young 1828. Professor Charles A, Young 1853, formerly a professor of Astronomy at Dartmouth, and later at Princeton, is his uncle. His father, John C. Proctor 1864, was professor of Greek 1870-79, until his death.

Another Dartmouth man, of an old-time Dartmouth family, is Julius A. Brown 1902, who comes as assistant professor of Physics. Mr. Brown, while in College, was actively identified with undergraduate life. He was president of the Christian Association, was an intercollegiate debater, and was guard on the football team. After graduation he remained as assistant for a year in the department of Physics. He was then awarded the conspicuous honor of a unanimous election as the first Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, from New Hampshire. At Oxford Mr. Brown has met the full expectations of those who knew him, doing work of highest grade and winning the honor of appointment as demonstrator in Physics at Oxford. Mr. Brown is a great-grandson of the President of the College, Francis Brown 1805, who gave his life- to her in her hour of greatest need, in the controversy of the Dartmouth College Case. His grandfather, Samuel G. Brown 1831, was a professor here, and his father, Francis Brown 1870, is a trustee of the College, and one of her foremost scholars.

It is doubtful if any college in the country has an analogous coincidence, — the appointment on their own worths and achievements of two young men, representing the fourth generations of their respective families closely identified with the College, to permanent positions.

Mr. Edmund E. Day, Dartmouth 1905, returns to the department of Economics, as an instructor, during Professor Dixon's absence. Mr. Day, as an undergraduate, was active in the management of athletics, and as an intercollegiate debater. After graduation he was in the department-for a year as an assistant, and took the Master's degree. At Harvard, as Toppan scholar, he has continued his work in Economics, and has made an excellent record.

Mr. Charles R. Lingley has been appointed instructor in History. He graduated from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1900, where he did special work in History, presenting for graduation a thesis on ' 'The Executive Department under the First American State Constitution." After two years' teaching in the Barre, Mass., High School, he was recalled to his AlmaMater, where he was instructor in English and German for two years. In 1904 he won the George Bancroft Fellowship in History, and in 1905 the Schiff Fellowship in Political Science, spending two "years at Columbia University in graduate work in History and Political Science, his special field being American History. During 1906-07 he was Master in History in the Jacob Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Maryland.

Mr. Ernest R. Greene comes to the department of Romance Languages as an assistant instructor. Mr. Greene is a graduate of Harvard College in the class of 1901. He taught a year at Simmons College, and has since been doing graduate work at Harvard, looking toward an advanced degree.

Mr. Ralph D. Beetle, of the class of 1906, comes to the department of Mathematics as assistant instructor. Mr. Beetle was a scholar of high rank in College, and completed his course in three years. He specialized in Mathematics and was the winner, his Sophomore year, of the Second Thayer Prize. Since graduation he has been teaching.

Mr. John W. E. Glattfeld, of the class of 1907, remains connected with the College as assistant instructor in Chemistry.

By the action of the Athletic Council Dartmouth is minus a baseball team. Good material was never so plenty as before the Council meeting. It was never so scarce as now. The situation is not quite as bad as it seemed to the man who asked how it could be that ten men were disqualified from a baseball "nine." Our "nine'' consisted of thirteen; of these there are eligible three: a pitcher, a first-baseman, and a substitute third-baseman. To the ever reliable John Glaze has been assigned the task of finding and captaining a team to represent Dartmouth. Interest was never greater in the game of baseball, and the confidence and good wishes of all Dartmouth men, eligible and ineligible, will be with the new team.

To debar these ten men was a disagreeable task for the Council. They were and are good Dartmouth men and good fellows, no less than good baseball players. But they were the victims of a false perspective, and because they saw the pleasures of a summer or the applause of a baseball public or the ease of a sinecure position large, they put themselves into a position where their amateurism was not plain.

The editorial of the Dartmouth, reflecting the undergraduate sentiment, was a credit to the sanity of judgment of the student body. It said: ' Dartmouth's baseball team has been eliminated. The Athletic Council by its vote Friday evening in debarring ten players has put the College squarely on the platform of honesty in the interpretation of its own rules.' It was drastic procedure, and we cannot be unmindful that by it Dartmouth loses the material for the best team in recent years. The action was for the good of the College, however. In spite of the fact that the Council's ruling hits some friend, probably, of every man in College, the undergraduates approve it with surprising unanimity.

"Participation in college athletics is a privilege, not a right, of college membership. This privilege belongs, as President Tucker so clearly pointed out in his address Thursday morning, only to those men who find their reward in college honor; it does not belong to those who seek to make reputations in college sport for ulterior motives, whether these be professional connection, a summer's outing, or the heroworship of some provincial fandom. It is regrettable that the realization of this should not have been strong enough to protect the College from the recent action."

The alumnus of a time of different standards, perhaps out of touch with the trend of athletic policy, cannot fail to see the significance of words like those of President Tucker's in his opening address, spoken without knowledge of the proposed action of the Council, and the action of the Council planned without knowledge of the President's address, both heartily and unanimously approved by the resident College. Altogether we are prouder of this than we should be of a baseball team undefeated throughout a season's schedule.

The general funds of Dartmouth College are called upon to do more than they can do, and immediate relief is needed that our scholarship aid, already too little, shall not be still less, and that our instruction corps, hardly sufficient, may be increased. To this end the Tucker Alumni Scholarship and instruction Fund exists. It has completed its first year with contributions from the alumni amounting to more than five thousand dollars. A report will soon be sent to every Dartmouth man, and it should receive careful consideration from all interested in the College. Meanwhile it is of interest that the Yale Alumni Fund, started in 1890, with a beginning not greater than that of our fund, yielded for the year just closed, from alumni gifts, $72,283.

There has recently been put on sale at the Secretary's office, at a dollar a copy, the "Dartmouth Roll of Honor,"— a military record of the sans of Dartmouth in the Union army and navy, 1861-1865. This book, compiled by Major E. D. Redington '61, and revised and edited by the late Major W. H. Hodgkins, honorary '97, has been published by authority of the Trustees of the College, under the supervision of Professor Eastman of the Board. We quote from the "Foreword:"

"To the present generation the War of the Rebellion is a matter of history. To those who were active at that period it recalls the magnificent response made from all classes when the life of the nation was threatened. No class of people acted more promptly, cheerfully, or intelligently than did the college men. Many gave up their life work, surrendered bright prospects,and sacrificed all for their country. At school, college, and academy, studies were abandoned and students entered the army and navy in all grades, — in some cases whole classes enlisted.

"From the College and the Medical School Dartmouth contributed 652 of her alumni and undergraduates — a larger percentage than any other college in the North. To place on record the heroic work of these sons of Dartmouth, whose names should be imperishably immortalized, is an honorable distinction to have been achieved by the President and Trustees of the College."

The 81-MONTHLY takes pleasure in announcing the increase of its editorial board to four members. Mr. Ashley Kingsley Hardy '94, and Mr. Homer Eaton Keyes 'OO, will begin their work as associate editors with the December number. Both of these men have especial qualifications for the positions, and their participation in the work for which an alumni magazine stands will make for its increased value and betterment. Moreover, to give greater worth to the alumni department it has been put into the hands of Mr. John Moore Comstock '77, of Chelsea, Vermont. All alumni notes, hereafter, should be addressed to him. Mr. Comstock is peculiarly fitted for this position through his wide knowledge of the activities of the alumni. .

Webster Hall, first used in the opening of the College in September and formally dedicated on Dartmouth Night, is a fit monument to Dartmouth's son. As an auditorium it is beautiful even beyond expectation, and as a part of the College plant it is already invaluable. The next number of the 81-MONTHLY will have a full description of this building.