LOSSES TO THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY

Charles Ira Young, son of the late Professor Charles A. Young '53, the astronomer, died unexpectedly from pneumonia at Pittsburg on January 6, 1912. Though of a family for three generations graduates of Dartmouth, C. I. Young was himself a Princeton man of the class of '83. In spite of partial paralysis due to a severe electric shock twenty-three years ago, Mr. Young had remained active in the service of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company until a few weeks before his death. A funeral was held in Pittsburg and his body was brought to Hanover for burial.

On January 15, Mrs. Babbitt, wife of Professor E. H. Babbitt, died in New York of asphyxiation, owing to the accidental extinguishing of a gas stove during her sleep. Mrs. Babbitt was a graduate of Vassar and had been active for some time as a lecturer. Professor Babbitt has taught in several of the large eastern universities and has been at Dartmouth since 1908, teaching in both the German and French departments.

On January 16, Mrs. Emily Howe Hitchcock died at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial- Hospital after an illness of about three weeks. Mrs. Hitchcock .was a native of Hanover, her father having a bookbinding and bookselling business in the town. Mrs. Hitchcock was born in one of the first houses erected in Hanover, that built by Eleazar Wheelock for his own residence, and later she presented this building to the town of Hanover as the Howe Library. In 1900 she was married to Mr. Hiram Hitchcock, who received an honorary degree of A.M. from the College in 1872, and was one of its trustees from 1878 to 1892. Since Mr. Hitchcock's death in the year of his marriage, his widow has made her residence in the Hitchcock homestead in Hanover. Mrs. Hitchcock's interest in the town and College, shown constantly during her lifetime, is revealed also in her death. All her public bequests had to do with the town and college community. The homestead with all the adjacent land, is given to the College. This property runs from Main St. to the Connecticut River and comprises ' about forty-five acres. The College will also receive the di Cesnola collection of Cyprian antiquities, many of which are duplicates of those contained in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. This collection belonged to Mr. Hitchcock and had been presented to him by the archaeologist, Mr. di Cesnola.

The Howe Library is left $50,000 and is also made residuary legatee. To the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital $20,000 is given for the endowment of four beds, as memorials of Mrs'. Hitchcock's father, mother, brother and herself. Finally, the holdings of the Pine Park Association which comprise the beautiful tract of pine woods on the slope of the river north of the town, are rounded out by the bequest of the woodland belonging to the Hitchcock estate bordering the Vale of Tempe and adjacent to the land of the Pine Park Association.