ANNUAL SPRING TRUSTEE MEETING

At the regular spring meeting of the trustees held in Concord, June 3 and 4, announcement was made of the gift to the College of $50,000 for an administration building, by Mr. and Mrs. I.ewis Parkhurst of Winchester, Mass. Mr. Parkhurst is a graduate of the College in the class of 1878, and is one of the trustees elected by the alumni. This gift to the College is made in memory of his son, Wilder L. Parkhurst of the class of 1907, who died at the beginning of his sophomore year. The building will be erected on the present site of the Hubbard House and will be according to plans already in hand. It will contain offices for all the administrative officers of the College and a large faculty room for formal meetings of the faculty. It is planned to have in the basement large safe deposit vaults for the offices, and also a set of small safe deposit boxes which shall be rented to members of the faculty for private use at a nominal rental. In the letter of presentation Mr. and Mrs. Parkhurst say:

“We make this gift through a desire to show our love and affection for Dartmouth College and our appreciation of what it has done in the past and what we believe it will continue to do in the future to stimulate young men to a life of serv-ice to God and man, and especially in memory of our son, whose controlling ambition as a youth was to become a stu- dent at his father’s college, and whose single year there was so great a joy to himself and such a satisfaction to his parents.”

The President reported to the Board that in his judgment the present interest and future welfare of the College de- manded that measures be taken for the securing of additional endowment to pro- vide for the early increase of salaries of full professors. He announced that the Honorable Horace Russell of the class of 1865 had made a conditional offer to give $lO,OOO for a contribution for such a fund provided that enough additional could be raised to- make the amount $lOO,OOO. Judge Russell’s gift was ac- cepted and it was voted to express hearty appreciation and to assert the intention of the Board to comply at the earliest possible date with the conditions im- posed in making the gift. Judge Russell is president of the Alumni Association of the College and has always been solici- tous for the best interests of the College scholastically.

Announcement was made to the Board by the President of the gift of $30,000 from the late Mrs. Jane Eastman, in memory of her husband, the late Ira Allen Eastman, LL.D., of the class of 1829, twenty-two years trustee of the College, and justice of the Supreme Ju- dicial Court of New Hampshire. In ac- cepting this bequest the College agreed to appropriate funds amounting to an additional $30,000 as rapidly as possible and to apply this combined sum, $60,000, to the establishment of the Ira Allen Pro- fessorship of Political Science.

The retirement upon the Carnegie Foundation of Professor Campbell was announced. Professor Campbell has been an officer of the College since 1883, and during that time has been closely identi- fied with its interests. Professor Camp- bell retires under a vote of the trustees offering retirement at the age of seventy or thereafter.

Retirement upon the Carnegie Founda- tion also was granted to Professor M. D. Bisbee, at his own request. Professor Bisbee has been connected with the Col- lege since 1886, at which time he was elected librarian. He has also held at various times the professorship of divin- ity and the professorship of bibliography.

Professor Sheldon was transferred to the Stone Professorship of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, made vacant by the retirement of Professor Campbell. Election was made to an assistant pro- fessorship of psychology upon an ad- vanced grade, of Dr. Walter Van Dyke Bingham, now teaching at Columbia Uni- versity. Doctor Bingham is a specialist in the line of experimental psychology. Doctor Bingham is a graduate of Beloit in the class of 1901. He later studied at the universities of Chicago, Berlin, and Harvard, and in 1908 completed his work for the Doctor’s degree at Chicago. Since that time he has been teaching with marked success at Columbia.

Election to a full professorship was voted to Professor Laycock, whose title will be Professor of Oratory on the Evans Foundation.

Dr. Alexander Ouackenboss was elected professor of opthalmology in the Medical School.

Re-elections as assistant professors, for; five year terms, were made as fol- lows: Doctor Taylor in French, Mr. Keyes in modern art, Doctor Poor in as- tronomy.

Advances in grade from instructorships to assistant professorships were voted to Mr. C. H. Hawes in anthropologjg Dr. C. R. Lingley in history, and Mr. L. B Richardson in chemistry, as well as to Dr. G. S. Graham in pathology in the Medical School. Doctor Graham also was elected secretary of the Medical School.

Appointments as instructors for three year terms were voted to Mr. A. H. Basye in history, Mr. H. M. Wells in French, Mr. J. M. O’Neill in English, and Mr. A. L. Neef in German.

New appointments to instructorships for one year were made as follows; Mr. Herbert H. Vaughan and Mr. Francis A. Waterhouse in French, Mr. Henry M. Paine in chemistry, and Mr'. H. H. Bur- bank in economics.

Re-appointments of instructors for one year were made: Dr. A. S. Field in econ- omics, Mr. L. S. Hastings in English, Dr. Albert Davis in English, Mr. F. L. Childs in English, Mr. R. D. Beetle in mathematics, and. Dr. Leland Griggs in biology.

Withdrawals from the instruction corps to take effect next year will be : Dr L. C. Barret, who goes to Trinity Col- lege as professor of Latin ; Dr. E. E. Day, who goes to Harvard to an instructorship in economics.

Other withdrawals will be: Dr. G. B. L. Arner in sociology, Mr. E. H. Babbitt in German, Mr. C. J. Wilcomb in Ger- man, Mr. R. E. L. Kittredge in French, Mr. J. W. E. Glattfeld in chemistry, Mr. R. H. Colley in biology, and Mr. E. A, Shaw in graphics.

Resignations were accepted: from Prof. J. S. Reeves of the department of Political Science and Law, who gees to the headship of the department at the University of Michigan; from Prof. E. B. Watson, who goes to the headship of the English department at Robert Col- lege; and from Mr. E. M. Hopkins, as Secretary of the College, who leaves the secretaryship to accept a business position with the Western Electric Cos.

Sabbatical leave of absence for the next academic year was voted to Prof. J. K. Lord and to Prof. L. H. Dow Leave of absence for the first semester was voted to Prof. S. B. Fay and to Prof. J. H. Gerould; and for the second semes- ter to Prof. C. D. Adams and Prof. Cra- ven Laycock.