ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHTH COMMENCEMENT OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

SATURDAY, JUNE 22 PRIZE SPEAKING

8.00 P.M. Speaking in Dartmouth Hall for the class of 1866 prizes, and Barge gold medal.

SUNDAY, JUNE 23 BACCALAUREATE

10.30 A.M. Baccalaureate Sermon by the Rev. Gains Glenn Atkins, D.D. '06, of Detroit.

5.30 P.M. Decennial vespers conducted by the Rev. Ambrose White Vernon.

8.oo P.M. Address before the Dartmouth Christian Association, by the Rev. Frederick Harrison Knight,D.D.,'82, of New Orleans.

MONDAY, JUNE 24 CLASS DAY

2.30 P.M. Class Day Exercises.

5.00 P.M. The Dartmouth Club of New York poured tea in College Hall.

8.00 P.M. Operetta, "If I Were Dean."

10.00 P.M. Promenade Concert in College Yard

TUESDAY, JUNE 25 ALUMNI DAY

8.30 AM. Meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

10.30 A.M. Public meeting of the Alumni Association. Address by Hon. Theodore E. Burton, congressman from Ohio.

2.30 P.M. Annual meeting of the Alumni Association.

5.00 P.M. Reunion of the Greek Letter Fraternities.

7.45 P.M. Presentation by the Dramatic Club, "Bachelor Hall."

9.30 to 11 P.M. Senior reception in College Hall.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 COMMENCEMENT

9.00 A.M. Prayers in Rollins Chapel.

9.30 A.M. The procession formed for the Commencement Exercises, in the College Church, including the conferring of degrees in course and honorary degrees.

10.00 A.M. Exercises in the College Church.

12.00 M. Lunch in College Hall.

9.00 P.M. The Commencement Ball.

THE accompanying program includes the events of Commencement Week only, but no account of the Commencement season would be complete without a record of the Sing-Out, the Wet-Down, and the Senior Dinner, which took place in the time honored places Friday, June 14.

The Nineteen Hundred and Seven Sing-Out was held Friday afternoon, June 14, at half-past five in Rollins Chapel. The graduating class, in caps and gowns, and headed by Marshal William Jennings, marched across the Green to the Chapel. Acting President John King Lord presided, and the program was as follows :

Processional, War March of the Priests, from "Athalie," Mendelssohn ; prelude, from the first symphony, Schumann ; anthem, "Sanctus," from the Mass Solemnelle, Gounod, by the choir, with solo by O. C. Davis '07; responsive reading, Psalm 91; "Gloria Patri," Tallis, choir and congregation; scripture lesson, Luke xii, 34-48; Amesbury," Come Let Us Anew Our Journey Pursue," Arnold, by the choir, with solo by C. H. Hathaway '07; prayer; hymn 76, to tune Hamburg; benediction; recessional, War March, Mendelssohn.

This program, which attracted many friends of the class, was in charge of Charles Henry Hathaway '07, class chorister and leader of the glee club, and Professor Charles H. Morse, musical director of the College. The choir was composed of the following men: Tenors, Carpenter '10, Coleman '10, Comstock '10, Davis '07, Hathaway '07, Martin '09, Nay '10, Swenson '09, Walker '09, Crocker '07, Edwards '07, Gallagher '07, Mason '09, Post '07, Rogers '09, Soule '08, Chesley. '08, Steward '10; basses, Gardner '09, Hatton '09, Hull '08, Oliphant '07, Reilly '07, Speare ',08 Fish '07, Meredith '10, Naylor '09, Rainey '10, Ross '08, Sanborn '08, Shay '08.

At the conclusion of these exercises the class marched to the stump of the Old Pine in the College Park, where the public initiation of the members of the Palaeopitus was held. This organization, which for the first three years was secret, abolished five years ago its secret constitution, and made known to the College its organization and purpose, as stated in its constitution, "to bring into close touch and working harmony the various branches of undergraduate activity, to preserve the customs and traditions of Dartmouth, to promote her welfare and protect her good name, and to bestow merited recognition upon such of her sons as have shown exceptional merit in her behalf."

The ex-officio members of the Palaeopitus, for next year, are as follows: John Alexander Clark, Evanston, Ill., captain of the football team; Fred Allen Cooper, Chicago, manager of the baseball team; Clarence Percy Skillin, Oak Park, Ill., captain of the baseball team; Howard Wyman Cowee, Worcester, manager of the track team; Arthur Briggs Shaw, Joliet, Ill., captain of the track team; Richard Brackett Merrill, Littleton, manager of the basketball team; Howard Edward McAllaster, Winnetkaj Ill., editor-in-chief of the Dartmouth, and Raymond Ledden Carns, East Berlin, Conn., president of the Christian association. The captain of the basketball team and the president of the debating union, being juniors next year, will not be ex-offi-cio members.

Besides these ex-officio members, the following eight men have been elected by the class: Gordon Blanchard '08, editor-in-chief of the Dartmouth Magazine; Charles LeMoyne DeAngelis, Utica, N. Y.; William Knight, Rockford, Ill.; George Elliott Shipley, Oak Park, Ill.; Arthur Turner Soule, Brooklyn, leader of the glee club; Malcom Stearns, Springheld, Mass.; Arthur Thompson Stuart,, Lyndonville, Vt.; Lawrence Metcalf Symmes, Winchester, Mass., business manager of the Dartmouth. The initiation ceremony consisted simply of affixing signatures to the constitution, but its very simplicity made it impressive.

The Wet-Down and its accompanying features took place in the early evening. At seven o'clock the classes met on the Green, and marched past the various buildings, which were cheered by each class in turn. The College then marched to the home of Acting President Lord and in their cheers expressed their appreciation of him. Returning to the Senior Fence, the classes, with the exception of a few sophomores and freshmen, drank lemonade, and the Senior Fence was given over to the juniors.

In this simple though significant exercise the senior and junior classes were represented by James Barrett Brown '07, of Everett, Mass., and Joseph Joyce Donahue 'OB, of Medford, Mass. Mr. Brown reminded the men of 1908 of the deep significance of the gift which they were about to receive, and expressed the hope that the feeling of true leadership which it symbolizes would always be preserved. Mr. Donahue, receiving the gift, replied that his class fully realized the responsibility of its position next year, and that it would strongly endeavor to cherish and uphold Dartmouth's tradition in a manner worthy of the old College.

The events of the day were brought to a close with the Senior Class Dinner in College Hall in, the evening. This was the fourth annual dinner given by the President and the Trustees, and ranked with its predecessors as an impressive farewell banquet.

In the absence of President Tucker and of Mr. Frank S. Streeter who up to that morning was expected to be present, Secretary Ernest M. Hopkins presided. Former Governor John McLane was the guest of honor, while Acting President John King Lord Professor H. E. Burton and Professor Craven Laycock represented the faculty.

The order of the post-prandial speaking was as follows: J. M. O'Neill, president of the class; Governor McLane, J. C. Wallace, Professor Eaycock, H. G. Kelley, Professor Burton, John R. McLane, and Professor Eord.

The following letter was sent by President Tucker, from Nantucket, to the class:

"To the Men of 1907—I am writing to you from my resting place—an island full of charm and content, and which is doing me a most gracious service, but which as I think of you in your various class and College meetings, gives me a bit of the sense of exile. lam near enough, however, to send you my greetings. If Mr. Streeter, whom I am delighted to know is expected to preside at your dinner, were here in my place, he might on account of .his recent training be able to give you genuine "absent treatment." But as for tne, unskilled in this art, I must content myself with my greetings and with the assurance of my confidence in your future. As I have been signing your diplomas with the leisure to recall you somewhat individually, I have felt that the College is justified in introducing and in guaranteeing you to the men whom you are to meet in the world at large. I believe that there is not a man among you who will willingly betray the confidence placed in him. More than this, I believe that every one of you will be watchful of his ambitions and- of his opportunities lest they betray him into some kind of professional or personal dishonor. I think that you have all come to see and believe that success without honor, and that of the finest sort, is not worth having. But you will allow me to remind you once more, that it is easy to be successful and that it is hard to be honorable. And yet, I say again, knowing the world and knowing you, I trust you with a great trustfulness, and rejoice in you with a great joy.

"One of the most delightful things which awaits you is the chance knowledge which you will come to have of one another. Some of you will find yourselves unexpectedly in the same business or in the same city with some one or more fellows of the class whom you have not really known in.College —not known at least what good fellows they were. Time and circumstances will give you new friendships among yourselves, as well as establish old ones. And what is more you will quickly find yourselves at home in that very large comradeship which brings college men together from every section of the country and from every type of training. You have yet a good many things to learn about college life even in this country. And I am sure that no one of you is so small and sufficient as to suppose that you have not a vast deal to learn from men who have been schooled in other than college ways of the world. Do not miss any really human person whom you may have the good fortune to know. The greatest and the best amongst us are for the most part those who are more human than*the rest of

"Of course you will love the College more and more as the years go by. You will send your boys here, unless they make you believe that they know of a better place. You will put your love, if your fortune sets that way, into tangible forms of good to the College. And if it be your fortune to give of yourselves most freely to the world with the least possible worldly return, know that in so doing you may be doing the very best thing in your power for the glory and the perpetuity of the old College whom we love to call the "Mother of Men-".

"I give you the toast which each man of the class may drink to every other man—

"The class of 1907, may every man in it find his right place, and do his right , work in 'the world—to the honor of Dartmouth."

The exercises of Commencement week itself were formally opened with the prize speaking for the class of 1866 prizes and the Barge gold medal. The exercises took place in Dartmouth Hall, which was crowded with alumni and friends. Instructor Ernest B. Watson presided.

There were four contestants for the class of 1866 prizes, which are open to Juniors and Sophomores. The first prize was given to Ralph Lauris Theller '09, of Cambridge, Mass., whose subject was "A Justification of War," and the second prize went to Joseph Washburn Worthen '09, of Hanover, whose topic was "Intercollegiate Athletics." The Barge medal was won by James Barrett Brown '07 of Everett, Mass., who spoke upon "The Revival of an Ancient Custom."

The board of judges was composed of Judge Robert M. Wallace '67, of Milford, who last June was elected a trustee of Dartmouth; the Reverend Benjamin T. Marshall '97, pastor of the First Presbyterian church at New Rochelle, N. Y., and Robert L-Scales '01, student at the Harvard Daw School. Judge Wallace made the awarding speech.

All the orations of the evening were original, and in both matter and manner were above the average. To win the Barge medal is considered the greatest honor possible in Dartmouth undergraduate oratory. The winners, besides Mr. Watson and Mr. Brown, have been: S. A. Murphy '03, Herbert McKennis '04, R. C. Falconer '05, and M. S. O'Brien '06.

The Baccalaureate sermon was preached in the College Church Sunday morning by the Reverend Gains Glenn Atkins, D.D. '06, of the First Congregational church in Detroit. The auditorium was crowded with alumni and friends. To the music of the war march of the priests, from Mendelssohn's "Athalie," the graduating class, in cap and gown, marched into the church and took seats in the middle front. A choir of thirty stu- dents, under the direction of Professor Charles Henry Morse, gave a superior rendition of West's "Te Deum" in B flat. Selections of scripture were read by the Reverend Ambrose White Vernon, pastor, and prayer was offered by the Reverend Samuel Penniman Leeds, D.D., pastor emeritus.

Doctor Atkins' sermon was a masterful discourse on "The Price of the Best." The text was in Matthew xiii, 45-46; "Again, the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a merchantman seeking goodly pearls, who when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it." The full text of the sermon is published on other pages.

The class of 1897 inaugurated the custom Sunday afternoon of holding a class vesper service in Rollins Chapel. The service was held at the same hour as the' usual Sunday vesper service, and was like that service in all essential characteristics. In the absence of President Tucker, the service was in charge of the Reverend Ambrose White Vernon, pastor of the College Church. The College choir rendered Buck's "Sing Allelujah Forth," and M. W. Bullock '04 gave a characteristic rendition of "The Lost Chord." A full attendance of the class, including some wives and children, was present. Mr. Vernon spoke briefly to the class, taking as his subject "Ideals and Experience."

The Commencement address before the Dartmouth Christian Association was given in the College Church Sunday evening'by the Reverend Doctor Frederic Harrison Knight '82, president of New Orleans University. Secretary Azro Karl Skinner '03 presided and read scripture, and the Reverend Benjamin Tinker Marshall '97, of New Rochelle, N. Y., offered prayer.

Doctor Knight spoke on "The Umpire in the Game of Life."

The Class Day exercises of the class of 1907 were held Monday afternoon. Forgetful of the partings and the uncertainties to come, the members of the class and their friends made merry amid the pleasures of the present. Nothing was lacking to make the day memorable.

The exercises took place in the time-honored places—the address of welcome, the address to President Tucker, the address to the Old Chapel, the poem and the oration in the College Yard; the history and the prophecy at the Bema in the College Park, and the address to the Old Pine and the ode on the crest of the hill near the stump of the sacred tree.

The officers of the class, besides the class day speakers, were: President, James Milton O'Neill, Canandaigua, N. Y.; vice president, Morris Kellogg Smith, Hanover; treasurer, Samuel Lawrence Barnes, Danvers, Mass.; marshal, William Jennings, Somerville, Mass.; assistant marshal, Reuben Parker Prichard, Somerville, Mass.; chairman of executive committee, Harry Richmond Wellman, Lowell, Vt.; other members of executive committee, Henry Richardson Lane, Chicago; George Warren Grebenstein, Cambridge, Mass.; Samuel Lawrence Barnes, William Joseph Ahern, Concord; Harold Louville Niles, Wellesley Farms, Mass.; Dennie Leo Black, Nashua.

The exercises of the afternoon were opened with a brief but vigorous address of welcome by the class president. Mr. O'Neill has made an exceptional undergraduate record as debater and orator, 'and his effort was eminently worthy of him.

Harry George Kelley of Omaha, Neb., gave the address to President Tucker.

The address to the Old Chapel was delivered by William Joseph Minsch of Worcester, Mass.

The class poem was read by Harry Randolph Blythe of Aurora, Ill., scholar, athlete, prize speaker, editor of the College magazine, and withal one of the most versatile men in the class.

The exercises in the College Yard were concluded with the oration by James Barrett Brown of Everett, Mass. A debater and prize speaker of unusual ability, Mr. Brown gave a forceful and convincing oration about "The Men of Tomorrow."

At the Bema, James Agard Bartlett of Rockford, Ill., president of the Dartmouth Press Club and a leading journalistic and literary representative of the College, read a decidedly original and entertaining class history; and Chauncey Wayland Smith of Norridgewock, Me., also prominent in the literary life, occasioned the usual merriment by prophesying the destinies of his classmates.

The exercises at the stump of the Old Pine consisted of the address to the historic tree by Clifford Eaton Norris of Plympton, Mass., and the singing of the ode written by Joseph Marshall Coburn of Roxbury, Mass.

In accordance with the pleasant custom established in 1905 the Dartmouthy Club of New York poured tea for the trustees, faculty, alumni, and friends of the College, Monday afternoon from five until six o'clock, in the parlors of College Hall.

"If I Were Dean," a musical comedy by Messrs. Adler, Wyman, Blanchard, and Clark of the junior class, was presented to a large audience in Bissell Hall Monday evening. From beginning to ending the production was an unqualified success, and the writers are to be congratulated upon a piece of work that would have done credit to any stage.

The scene of action was in Hanover in the spring of 1957. The audience was early made aware of the time-setting by the entrance of Mr. Gardner down the anchor rope of a most realistic air-ship. Then followed a laughable burlesque on reformed football, showing the rapid deterioration of the sport to be expected in the near future. Evening falls, and we see a lawn fete in progress before the steps of College Hall, where the plot rapidly develops.

The second act depicts the complications from a freshman's assumption of the dean's office.

In the third act comes the happy denouement, after a most exciting airship race in which Dartmouth is victorious over Yale. The scene is much more realistic than the usual college contest on the professional stage.

Lawrence Adler '08 composed all the music of the comedy. The selections were all of a higher class than is usually heard in a college' opera, and at the same time were extremely light and catchy. The lyrics, most of which were written by Arthur Merriatn Wyman '08, of Lynn, were excellently suited to the music. The book, by Gordon Blanchard '08, of Brookline, Mass., arid John Alexander Clark '08, of Evanston, Ill., was original, and without a single dull moment. The artistic scenery was painted by John William Thompson '08, of Cleveland.

The annual Promenade Concert was held in the College Yard Monday evening, after the musical comedy, Nevers' Second Regiment band furnishing music. In addition to the usual illumination of College Hall and the Yard, by strings of electric lights and Japanese lanterns, the buildings of the Old Row, Went worth, Dartmouth, and Thornton, were outlined on the Campus side by hundreds of small incandescent lights. Dartmouth Hall was especially effective, with its walls and belfry even to the tip,aglow in the soft light. The program was as follows: March, "The Sheridan Sabers," St. Clair; overture, "William Tell," Rossini; Romanza, "Departed Days," by request; "Popular Noodles," Wenrich; medley of popular, songs of the day, Helf; "Characteristic Waltz", Hagar; march, Colonel Stuart," Weldon.

The annual meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa society was held in Dartmouth Hall Tuesday morning at 8:30 o'clock. In the absence of the president, Professor Amos N. Currier '56, Professor John M. Poor '97 presided. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, John M. Comstock '77, Chelsea, Vt.; vice President, G. D. Lord '84, Hanover; secretary, John M. Poor '97, Hanover; C. A. Holden '95, Hanover; committee on honorary members, E. L. Gulick '83 chairman, C. W. Scott 74, Wm. P. Ladd '91. The executive committee was authorized to borrow expend the sum of $150 in issuing a complete catalogue of membership in the Dartmouth chapter of the society. Professor G. D. Lord and C. H. Perkins '90 of New York were chosen delegates to the triennial meeting of the United States chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa.

The initiates from the senior class were as follows: Nathaniel Francis Davis, Davisville; Charles Weeks Fields, Bristol; Clarence George Filiau, Hanover; John William Everett Glatfeld, Quincy, Ill.; Dwight Willard Hiestand, Chicago; George Henry Howard, Craftsbury, Vt.; George Harold Jamison, Oelwin, la .; Ernest Everett Just, Charleston, S.C.; Henry Richardson Dane, Chicago; Robert Isaac Lyon, Washington, D. C.; John Roy McLane, Milford; Earl Thomas Richards, Holyoke, Mass.; Homer Taft Sibley, North Newport' Morris Kellogg Smith, Hanover; Ray Allison Spencer, Aver, Mass.; Ernest Hodgdon Trickey, Rochester; Ben-jamin Martin Washburn, Bethel, Vt

The leading feature of alumni day was the address before the Alumni Association by Congressman Theodore E. Burton of Ohio. Congressman Burton is a graduate of Oberlin, but his father, William P., graduated from Dartmouth in 1852, and he had kindred in the classes of 1815 and 1777 Chairman of the rivers and harbors committee of the house, and recently appointed chairman of the inward waterways commission, Mr. Burton is generally considered one of the ablest men in national politics.

Congressman Burton's subject was "Some Controlling Forces in Our Political Development," and his speech is printed in full elsewhere.

The annual meeting of the Alumni Association was held in Dartmouth Hall at 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, Judge C. M. Hough '79 of New York presided. After the usual routine business and the acceptance of the secretary's and treasurer's reports, the Reverend Doctor W. B. Wright of Buffalo addressed the meeting in behalf of the class of '57. He was followed by E. M. Hopkins, Secretary of the College, who reported that the scholarship fund, contributed by, five hundred or more alumni, had now reached a total of $4,588.37 and it was voted that this fund should be administered separately and be known as the "Tucker Alumni Scholarship Fund."

The meeting then passed the following resolution and authorized its immediate communication to President Tucker:

"Resolved that the Dartmouth Alumni Association in annual meeting assembled send to President Tucker their affectionate greeting with the expression of sincere hope that he may speedily be restored to health and have before him many years of comfort, happiness and valuable service,"

The Reverend J. L. Sewall '77 introduced a motion inquiring into the advisability of instituting an advisory council to be composed of the alumni of the various colleges with which Dartmouth has athletic relations, for the purpose of advising and arbitrating in matters of dispute. After a few remarks by Mr. E. K. Hall '92 on the recent rupture of athletic relations, the motion was passed, being finally amended so that the entire matter was referred to the Athletic Council.

The following officers and committees were elected: President, G.H. Adams '73; vice presidents, Charles D. Tenney '78, Frank E. Gove '88; secretary, Frank A. Sherman '70; statistical secretary, John M. Comstock '77; treasurer, Perley R. Bugbee '90; executive committee, George H. M. Rowe '64, chairman, Isaac F. Paul '78, Thos. W. D. Worthen '72, Edward F. Jones '80, Harvey G. Pender '97, F. B. Bemis '98, Lucius E. Varney '99; athletic council, alumni members, E. K. Hall '92, C. G. McDavitt '00, Irving J. French '01; faculty, Edwin J. Bartlett '72, Craven Laycock '96, C. E. Bolser '97; undergraduates, managers of baseball, football, and track teams.

At four o'clock Tuesday afternoon occurred the annual game of baseball between the College team and a team composed of alumni. Hazleton '09" pitched for the College team, and former captain Rollins 'O4 for the alumni, the College team winning 3 to 1.

The various Greek letter fraternities and other secret organizations held reunions Tuesday afternoon at five o'clock.

The Dartmouth Dramatic Club scored a great success Tuesday evening in its Commencement presentation of "Bachelor Hall." The Bissell Gymnasium was crowded with seniors, alumni and friends of the College, and their frequent and repeated applause proved that they fully appreciated the clever work of the club.

The Senior reception took place in College Hall, Tuesday evening at ten o'clock. Professor and Mrs. Lord received, assisted by members of the Board of Trustees.

The graduating exercises of the class of 1907 took place Wednesday morning in the College Church. The class was the largest in the history of the College, numbering 220 men -twenty-three more than last year's class, which was itself a record-breaker. Of the 220, 184 graduated in the academic department, six received the degree of master of arts, seven the degree of master of commercial science, twelve the degree of civil engineer, and eleven the degree of doctor of medicine. Of the graduates in the academic department 114 received the degree of bachelor of arts, and seventy the degree of bachelor of science.

The distribution of the graduates by states was as follows: Massachusetts, 84; New Hampshire, 62; Vermont, 16; Illinois, 15; Maine, II; New York, 9; Missouri, 3; Connecticut, the District of Columbia, lowa, Mexico, Nebraska, and Ohio, two each; and Colorado, Montana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Turkey, and Wisconsin, one each.

The exercises of the day opened at 9 o'clock, when the seniors attended their last service in Rollins Chapel. Acting President John King Lord conducted the service. .

At 9:30 o'clock the graduating class met at the Senior Fence and, led by the.band, formed an escort to the procession. The trustees and invited guests formed at Rollins Chapel, the faculty at Wentworth Hall, and the alumni in the College Yard.

The arrangement of the procession was as follows: The senior trustee, Judge William M. Chase '5B and the acting president of the faculty,the trustees and guests of the College, the faculty, and the classes in order of graduation. Headed by the escort the procession passed to the College Church, entering between the split ranks of the graduating class. Professor Craven Laycock '96 was marshal, and William Jennings class marshal. The church exercises were in charge of Judge Chase. The program was as follows:

Anthem, "Gloria in Excelsis," from Gounod's Orpheonist mass; prayer, the Rev. Dr. William B. Wright '57, Buffalo; singing of Milton's paraphrase of Psalm 136, tune Nuremburg; address, "America's Master of Imaginative Prose," John Roy McLane, Milford; "Germany's industrial Progress," Benjamin Martin Washburn (with salutatory rank), Bethel, Vt.; 'music, "Greek Ideals in Recent American Architecture," Ray Allison Spencer, Ayer, Mass.; "The Commercial Regeneration of the South," Robert Isaac Lyon (with valedictory rank), Washington, D. C. (excused from speaking); "Corporation Directors and the Public," George Henry Howard, Craftsbury, Vt.; music.

After the degrees were conferred, the graduating class again formed the head of the procession which marched to the College Hall for the alumni dinner. The order of .the procession was the same as above. In entering College Hall the procession again passed between the split ranks of the class. Between six and seven hundred sat down to the dinner.

Frank S. Streeter '74 of the Board of Trustees was presented by Judge Chase and presided over the after dinner speaking. Announcement was made of the re-election of Professor John R. Eastman as trustee. As has been the case for many commencements, the venerable Judge David Cross '41 of Manchester, was the oldest speaker present. Honorable Sylvester Dana '39, the oldest living alumnus, sat at the table, but did not speak.

The other speakers were Judge James B. Richardson of Boston, John W. Willis '77 of St. Paul, Charles R. Webster '82 of Chicago, Edward W. Knight '87 of Charlestown, W, Va., Professor Craven Laycock '96, the Reverened Benjamin T. Marshall '97 of New Rochelle, N.Y., President James M. O'Neill '07 of Canadaigua, N. Y., Congressman Theodore E. Burton of Ohio and former Governor John McLane of Milford.

The secretary of the College read a letter from President Tucker, which closed in the following sentiment:.

"May the voice which was first heard as a cry in the wilderness be lifted up in like spirit and power—the power will depart if the spirit does not abide—may it be lifted up in like spirit and power in the streets of our cities, in our halls of legislation, and among all needy people out of whose necessities the College was born."

The presiding officer offered the following toast, which was adopted by a standing vote with the show of much feeling: "President Tucker, the eminent scholar and preacher, the ideal college president, the patriotic citizen, the Christian gentleman; Dartmouth and her sons are grateful for his filial and unselfish devotion to the College, the inestimable value of the service he has rendered her, and for the inspiration to high, faithful endeavor that his character and daily life have caused. They send him their heartiest sympathy on account of his disability, and their earnest prayer for the recovery of his health."

The Commencement Ball in College Hall Wednesday evening concluded the exercises of the week. The hall was tastefully decorated with ferns, flowers and palms. Nevers' orchestra furnished music. The patronesses were Mrs. Perley R. Bugbee, Mrs. Elmer H. Carleton, Mrs. Frank H. Dixon, Mrs. Frank P. Emery, Mrs. John McLane and Mrs. Frank G. Moore. W. U. Wyman '07 was floor director.