Professor Worthen

Close upon the resignation of Professors Richardson and Sherman, and the untimely . taking of Professor Wells, comes another loss to Dartmouth in the retirement of Professor T. W. D. Worthen, who, for . the past thirty-seven years, has helped preside over the destinies of the department of Mathematics in the college. Professor Worthen retires from his present duties to accept appointment on the Public Service Commission of the State of New Hampshire, created at the recent session of the legislature. The appointment was made by Governor Bass.

The New Hampshire Public Service Commission consists of three members, of which Professor Worthen constitutes the Democratic minority. Its duties are to regulate railroads, telephone, telegraph and public service corporations within the state. The work entailed will occupy Professor Worthen's time for the next year or two, and possibly longer.

Professor Worthen was born in Thetford, Vermont, October 3, 1845, and graduated from Dartmouth with the class of 1872. Two years later he returned to the college as tutor and since then has been one of the most valued members of the faculty. Generations of former students who abhored their mathematics cherish a warm regard for the man who administered its application to their lethargic minds; for Professor Worthen has achieved the miracle of being an unusually popular teacher of a too often unpopular subject.

In addition to his regular teaching, Professor Worthen has been an active man in many affairs. He has been director of the Dartmouth Summer School since its foundation; trustee of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, of the Howe Library, and of Thetford Academy. A Democrat in a Republican community,. he has nevertheless been sent as representative to the state legislature. For the past fourteen years he has tempered justice with mercy as judge of the Hanover police court.

During his term of service on the Public Service Commission, Professor Worthen's headquarters will probably be at Concord, his Hanover residence having been rented for the coming year.