Trustee Meeting

The regular Commencement meeting of the trustees was held in the morning of June 24. While the business transacted was largely of a routine nature, several matters of general interest were considered.

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

The majority of faculty appointments having been made at previous meetings, as already reported in THE MAGAZINE, but one regular appointment was ratified : that of John Wesley Merritt, A. M., as instructor in Geology. To the list of honorary appointments was added that of Marvin Davis Bisbee, professor-emeritus of Bibliography.

TUITION RAISED

It was further voted that beginning with the academic year 1913-1914 the tuition in the College should be raised from $125 to $140 per annum. The amount of increase per individual, while comparatively slight, will make a considerable difference in financing the affairs of the College in an era of constantly rising prices.

CALENDAR OF MEETINGS AND COMMITTEE DIVISIONS

The regular meetings of the trustees for the coming year were set as follows: October 5, the morning after Dartmouth Night, which is set for October 4; Friday, March 7, at 8 p. m. The spring meeting will be held so as to coincide with the graduations of the Associated Schools; the Commencement, meeting, as usual, on Commencement Monday.

Committees for the year were appointed as follows: Education, The President, Messrs. Mathewson, Hilton, Francis Brown, Powers; Business Administration, Messrs. Parkhurst, Chase, Streeter, A. O. Brown, The President; Degrees, Messrs. Mathewson, Francis Brown, Hilton, The President; LegalMatters, Messrs. Chase, Streeter, Parkhurst.

PRESIDENT'S SECRETARY APPOINTED

Following the resignation of Mr. A. Karl Skinner, who has acted in the capacity of President's Secretary since the position of Secretary to the College went out with Mr. Hopkins, the trustees appointed Mr. Waldo Gray Knapp to nil the vacancy. Mr. Knapp is a graduate of Dartmouth in the class of 1912. He has been prominent in various undergraduate activities, and, during his senior year, was football manager. He is a member of Psi Upsilon, Turtle, Casque and Gauntlet, Round Robin, and Palæsopitus, a fact which speaks well for his understanding of undergraduate affairs.

RESIGNATION OF DOCTOR EASTMAN

The resignation of John Robie Eastman, Ph.D., who has served on the Board of Trustees since 1900 was accepted with expressions of regret at his severance of connection with a body upon which he had ably served for twelve years. Doctor Eastman, born July 29, 1836, graduated from Dartmouth with the degree of B.S. in 1862. He received the degree of Ph.D. in 1877. From 1861 to 1865 he was assistant in the United States naval observatory, and was professor of mathematics in the navy from 1865. First president of the Washington Academy of Sciences, he has conducted a large amount of astronomical investigation in this country and abroad, and has published the result of nearly 80,000 observations made in the naval observatory. In 1898 he retired from active duty with the title of rear-admiral in the United States navy. Doctor Eastman, during his term of service as trustee, has won a place of affectionate esteem among all Dartmouth men, and particularly among the members of the College faculty.