Political Science Portraits

The department of Political Science, with the aid of a small appropriation recently voted by the trustees, has been enabled to place upon the walls of its lecture room in the Tuck Building large photographs of some of the eminent lawyers and judges who have been graduated from Dartmouth College. Those portrayed are: Webster, Chief Justice Chase and Associate Justice Levi Woodbury of the Supreme Court of the United States, Rufus Choate, Joel Parker, Chief Justice of New Hampshire, sometime professor in the Harvard Law School and founder of the chair of Political Science in Dartmouth College, and Roswell Shurtleff, its first professor of Political Economy and Moral Philosophy, which then included Political Science.

The most unique of these pictures is that which represents within a single frame Chief Justice Marshall, and the counsel for the College in its famous case before the Supreme Court of the United States. In the center is the magisterial face of the great Chief Justice. Upon his right are the striking faces of Webster and Jeremiah Smith, and upon his left those of Jeremiah Mason and Joseph Hopkinton.

It has required long search by the department of Political Science to secure photographs of these distinguished men suitable for such combination, and the College is now. to be congratulated upon possessing what is believed to be the first successful attempt to portray them together. This picture will attract the attention of all visitors to the lecture room where it hangs, and it will have special interest for the alumni and all others who know the significance of our cause celebre in the history of the College and its importance to the country.

Hitchcock Hospital Enlargement and Other Buildings in Hanover

Work has begun on a new wing for the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital which will nearly double the capacity of that institution. Details of the proposed structure are given in the article on the Medical School. The construction is being carried out by Superintendent E. H. Hunter in conjunction with Mr. Whitcher. The estimated cost is in the neighborhood of $50,000. The wing will be ready for use in about one year.

Construction is likewise progressing on the new building for the Hanover High School, for which the precinct recently voted $30,000. This building will give the village adequate facilities for secondary education and will free for the primary departments the venerable edifice now in use as a high school.

Meanwhile a number of private houses are in course of erection. On Rope Ferry Road Professors Laycock and Cox are building homes for themselves, and Professor Dow is supervising the building of a home his mother, who will shortly take up her residence in Hanover. On Park Street, Coach Hillman has a house under way, which bodes well for the permanency of his stay in Hanover. Mrs. D. C. Wells, having sold her Occom Ridge home to Professor Page, will shortly move into a charming cottage opposite the President's house., The place has been completely remodelled and much enlarged by the owner, Doctor Tucker, who has made use of a considerable amount of the interior finish taken from the Proctor House at the time of its demolition.