HISTORY OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE NOW IN PRESS

The second volume of Chase's History of Dartmouth College has gone to press and will be published in the early fall. It covers the period from 1815 to 1910 and represents some twenty years of accumulation and sifting of material by its author, Professor John King Lord.

It was Professor Lord's duty in 1891 to prepare for the press the first volume, which its author, Frederick Chase, had left not quite complete at the time of his death. That work of editing successfully accomplished, Professor Lord was marked as the one man qualified to write the second volume.

The period covered is one of great interest. It includes the Dartmouth College Case, the Civil War, the era of recent growth and expansion. Volume one treated the administrations of but two presidents of Dartmouth, Eleazar Wheelock, 1769-1779, and John Wheelock, 1779-1815. Volume two treats the administrations of seven successors: Francis Brown, 1815-1820; Daniel Dana, 1820-1821; Bennett Tyler, 1821-1828; Nathan Lord, 1828-1863; Asa Dodge" Smith, 1863-1877; Samuel C. Bartlett, 1877-1892; William J. Tucker, 1893-1909. To compress the material at hand to the limit of 700 pages has in itself been no small problem. It has been made possible only by the sensible realization that perspective is lacking for a really satisfactory analysis of the events of the past quarter century. The book will.be uniform in size with the first volume, will be carefully indexed, and will contain numerous illustrations, including portrait's.