TWO IMPORTANT RESIGNATIONS

Two important resignations from the Dartmouth community have recently been announced. Mr. Edgar H. Hunter resigns his position as Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, to take effect December 1. Dr. Robert L. Taylor's resignation as assistant professor of French has already taken effect.

Mr. Hunter graduated from Dartmouth in 1901 and from the Thayer School the following year. He entered upon his present duties in 1904. During his connection with the College he has undertaken and carried through a number of highly important and difficult building enterprises. The entire construction of the new Medical Building, North and South Fayerweather, New Hubbard, and Massachusetts and New Hampshire Halls, the Gymnasium, reconstructed Bissell Hall, and the first Chapel enlargement was in his charge. He superintended the erection of Webster, Wheeler, and Tuck, and had a large part in the rebuilding of Old Dartmouth. The lighting plant, designed and built on plans prepared and carried out by Mr. Hunter and collaborators of his choosing, is in some ways his most important contribution to the efficiency of the college equipment. The Delta Kappa Epsilon house, President Tucker's residence,' and numerous other buildings public and private are proof of his skill and knowledge as a constructor. His resignation will enable him to give wider scope to his large abilities. For nearly a year to come he will be busied in Hanover with the addition to the Hitchcock Hospital, which has been entrusted to him. His plans beyond that are as yet uncertain. Mr. Hunter's going will necessitate some reorganizing of the department of Buildings and Grounds, whose responsibilities have hitherto been divided between maintenance and construction. No successor to the present superintendent has yet been named.

Professor Taylor has left Dartmouth to accept headship of the Department of Romance Languages at Williams College. Graduating from Hamilton College in 1882, he had experience as teacher, first at Kansas State University, then for four years at Roberts College, Constantinople. Upon his return to America in 1887, he spent several years at the Hill School, thence going to Yale, where he carried the work of instructor and pursued advanced studies for the Doctor's degree. He came to. Dartmouth in 1900, and has steadily won his way in the esteem of the student body and of his fellow members of the faculty. His usefulness as an administrator was attested in his work as chairman of the faculty Committee on Admission, as member of the Committee on Administration, and as the Dartmouth representative on the College Entrance Certificate Board. A member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, he took a deep interest in the affairs of the local chapter of that fraternity, whose house is largely a monument to Professor Taylor's unflagging and loyal interest, as well as to his taste and judgment. His place in the community will be difficult to fill. The college to which he transfers his service is to be congratulated upon securing a man of his character and attainments.