THE STEWART GIFT

The College is once more the recipient of a generous gift. Mr. David D. Stewart, a lawyer of St. Albans, Maine, has given to Dartmouth College the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars in memory of his brother, the late Levi M. Stewart '53, of Minneapolis, Minn. By provision of the donor, the money is given "in trust, for the benefit of Dartmouth College, to be called the Levi M. Stewart Fund and to be kept as a permanent fund, the principal to be safely invested, and the yearly interest to be used for the benefit of the students of the College in such manner as the Trustees of the College shall determine."

Levi Merrick Stewart was born in Corinna, Me., December 10, 1827, and entered Dartmouth College as a sophomore in the fall of 1850. His junior year he spent at Waterville (now Colby) College, but returned to Dartmouth for his senior year and was graduated in 1853. His father and grandfather were both Baptist ministers, and young Stewart was urged by his parents to enter the same profession. Finding law more to his taste, however, he pursued legal studies in the. office of his older brother — our present benefactor — in St. Albans, and at Harvard Law School. In 1856 he opened an office in Minneapolis, where he soon built up a large and prosperous practice. He became an expert in the law of real estate, and saw the wisdom of making large investments in landed property in the young, but rapidly growing city. These investments later yielded him very large returns, so that his fortune at the time of his death was numbered in the millions. A bachelor, he bequeathed the greater part of his property to his brother, requesting him to distribute such portion of it as he saw fit for charitable purposes.

The thanks of the College and of the alumni are due Mr. Stewart for this noble remembrance of his brother's almamater.