SPRING MEETING OF TRUSTEES

The trustees of the College met in Parkhurst Hall on May 3 and 4. The business transacted consisted chiefly of promotions and new appointments, though several gifts to the College were received and accepted. The following faculty changes were acted upon:

PROMOTIONS

Dr. George Clarke Cox, lecturer in philosophy to become assistant professor in Philosophy; Eugene Howard babbitt, substitute in French, to become assistant professor in French; Dr. Theodore Harding Boggs; instructor in Economics, to become assistant professor in Economics.

APPOINTMENTS

Benjamin Marshall, professor on the Phillips Foundation. Mr. Marshall graduated in 1897 from Dartmouth where he was prominent in many lines of undergraduate activity. Pie took the degrees of Bachelor of Divinity from Union Theological. Seminary and served pastorates at Scarborough-on-the-Hud-son and New Rochelle, New York. Occupying the chair of the will Foundation, Professor Marshall will give courses- on Religion and the Bible.

Earle Gordon Bill, assistant professor in Mathematics. Dr. Bill received the degree of A.B. from Acadia College in 1902 and the degree of Ph.D. from Yale. He has likewise studied in Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in Bonn University, Germany. Ernest Roy Greene, assistant professor in French. Professor Greene was formerly assistant professor of French in Dartmouth and is returning now after two years of graduate, study at Harvard. Walter Alfred Phelps, mstrustor in Physics. Mr. Phelps, who is a Dartmouth graduate of the class of 1910, has already held the position of assistant in Physics and is now returning from graduate study in Princeton where he held the Parker Fellowship of the College. Frederick Henry Lahee, instructor in Geology. Mr. Lahee received the degree of A.B. from Harvard in 1907 and has since received the decree of Ph.D. also from Harvard, where he has held the position of instructor. Andrew Thomas Weaver, instructor in Oratory. Mr. Weaver is a graduate of Carroll College, Wisconsin, of the class of 1910. After doing graduate work in the University of Wisconsin, where he received the degree of A.M. he has served during the past year on the faculty of the Tome Institute Reginald Hunter Colley, instructor in Biology. Mr. Colley graduated from Dartmouth in 1909 and was for one year assistant in, Biology. For the last two years he has been studying at the graduate school of Harvard, where he held an Austin Teaching Fellowship. John "Eugene Rowe, instructor in Mathematics. Mr. Rowe graduated from Pennsylvania College in 1904, taking the degree of Ph.D. subsequently from Johns Hopkins. Last year he was substitute professor of Mathematics at Haverfoid. Edwin Carleton McDowell, instructor in Biology. After graduating from Swarthmore in 1909, Mr, McDowell studied in the Harvard graduate school, receiving the degree of M.S. While at Harvard he was Emerson scholar in Zoology. Fred Donald Carpentei, instructor in German. Mr. Carpenter graduated from Trinity College in 1910 since which time he has been Russell Fellow -of Trinity College, studying in Leipzig, Germany. James Melbourne Shortliffe, instructor in Economics. Mr. Shortliffe received the degree of AB from Acadia College in 1909, and . again from Yale in 1910, receiving the degree of M.A. from Yale one year later.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE

Leave of absence was granted for the academic year 1912-1913 to Professors William Henry Sheldon, William Kilborne Stewart, George Richard Lyman, James Milton O'Neill, Eugene Francis Clark, and Dr. Leland Griggs; for the second semester to Professors Edwin Julius Bartlett, and Fred Parker Emery.

GIFTS RECEIVED

The gift of a portrait in oil of Daniel Webster, bequeathed to the College in the will of the late Emily Howe Hitchcock, was acknowledged. The painting, which was presented to Mr. Hiram Hitchcock by Mr. A. B. Darling, was the work of the artist, Albert G. Hoit, in the winter of 1849-1850. In a letter regarding this portrait the son of the painter writes: "The pictures of Daniel Webster were painted that winter (1849-'50) and there were three of them.. One half-leneth for which he gave sittings, and two full-length. One of the full-length was painted for Paran Stevens of the Revere House, and the other I suppose is in the State House at Concord, N. H. It was purchased by the State." The third picture, halflength, is: the one which the College has just received. A valuable document comes into the

possession of the College as the gift of Miss Julia Morgan Harding of Pittsburgh. The manuscript, dated September 19, 1776, is in the hand of Col. George Morgan; great-grandfather of the donor, and is a copy of resolutions of the First Continental Congress relating to Indian affairs. The document is authenticated by the signature of John Hancock, President. The section relating to Dartmouth is as follows: "As it may be the means of conciliating the friendship O'f Canadian Indians, -or at least of preventing hostilities from them., in some measure to assist the President of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire in maintaining their youth who are now under his tuition, and whom the revenues of the College are not at this time sufficient to support, that for this purpose five hundred dollars be paid to the Rev. Doctor Eleazer Wheelock, President of the said college." Further light is thrown on this manuscript by a letter quoted in Chase's History of Dartmouth College. President Wheelock had applied to Congress for aid through Generals Gates and Schuyler, and the latter under date of September 12, 1776, wrote to Congress as follows: "I have observed that all the youths of the Six Nations who have been at Mr. Wheelock's School, except one or two under the immediate influence of the Johnson family, are much attached to us in this contest, and I believe that an attention to those new there will be followed by like salutary" consequences. In this sentiment it is my duty to recommend to Congress some. allowance for those boys."

A gift of $1,000 was received from Harold Curtis Bullard '84 to be expended in enlarging the chapel organ. The sum of $150 was also received from Mr. Edwards Tuck to defray the cost of two lectures in the French language which have been delivered before the College under the auspices of the Cercle Français.