DEATH OF DOCTOR SMITH

Professor William Thayer Smith, med. '79, Dean of the Medical School, died at his home on School Street, Friday, Sept. 17. Funeral services were held from the College Church on the succeeding Sunday afternoon.

Doctor Smith was the son of Rev. Asa D. Smith, a former president of Dartmouth College. After graduation from Dartmouth, he took up the study of medicine in the Dartmouth Medical School, and in the medical department of the University of New York. In 1885 he was made professor of physiology in the Dartmouth Medical School, and in 1907 was made professor emeritus in that department. Since 1907 he has been professor of clinical surgery in the Medical School, and consulting surgeon in the Mary Hitchcock Hospital.

Doctor Smith was widely known as an author of medical text books. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Medicine, and other medical and scientific organizations. He served a term as president of the New Hampshire Medical Society. In politics he was a Republican, and in church affiliations a Congregationalist.

In 1885 he was married to Susan W. Kellogg, of Norwich, Vt., who died in 1902. Two sons survive him, Morris Kellogg Smith 'O7, now in the Medical School, and Thayer Adams Smith '10.