MEETING OF TRUSTEES

At the regular quarterly meeting of the trustees, held in the Parkhurst Administration Building, April 23, the following members were present: the President, the Clerk, Messrs. Streeter, Hilton, Francis Brown, Parkhurst, Albert O. Brown, and Doctor Gile.

The President called the attention of the Board to the loss suffered by it through the death of Mr. Mathewson, whereupon the following minute was unanimously adopted for record and it was ordered that a copy be sent to Mrs. Mathewson:

"The Trustees record their deep sense of loss in the death of their colleague, Charles Frederick Mathewson, M.A., LL.D., which took place in his home in New York City after an illness of many weeks, on Wednesday, March 24, 1915.

"Mr. Mathewson was born at Barton, Vermont, May 30, 1860; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1882 as valedictorian of his class; studied law at Columbia University and received the degree of LL.B. in 1885 and immediately began the practice of law in New York City, where he thenceforth lived. He married December 8, 1886, Miss Jeanie Campbell Anderson of Portland, Maine, who, with one son, Samuel Anderson, Dartmouth 1910, survives him. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by Dartmouth College in 1907, and that of LL.D. by Middlebury College in 1912.

"Mr. Mathewson became a member of the Board on nomination of the alumni in 1894 and was re-elected on similar nomination for four successive terms of five years each after the first. His hold upon the alumni evinced by these repeated nominations and elections has been abundantly justified by his services as a Trustee. His keen mind, his intense interest in all college affairs, his competence in dealing with educational, legal and business questions, his high ideals, his sympathy with students and alumni, his intimate acquaintance with all that relates to physical development, and his ability to deal vigorously with new problems arising from time to time in college administration, have rendered him invaluable in the councils of the college. His readiness as a public speaker and his dignity of presence have made him a fitting representative of the college on many occasions. Association with him in the service of this institution has been a delight to all the Trustees.

"It is with great sorrow that the Trustees face the necessity of continuing the work of the college without further aid from him. .With this expression of their feeling, official and personal, they desire to convey to Mrs. Mathewson and her son their heartfelt sympathy in the irreparable loss which has befallen them and to commend them to the comfort and support of our Heavenly Father, who deals in infinite wisdom and compassion with all His children."

Mr. Parkhurst, chairman of the Committee on Business Administration, made a report in behalf of the committee by reading the minutes of the meetings of the committee held since the last meeting of the trustees. The report was accepted and the acts and deeds of the committee as reported were ratified and confirmed as the acts and deeds of the Board.

Upon the recommendation of the Committee on Education the following resignations were accepted: Arthur D. Pitcher's resignation of an assistant professorship in Mathematics and Walter V. Bingham's resignation as Assistant Professor of Psychology and Director of the Summer Session; these resignations to be in effect at the close of the present academic year and the present season's Summer Session. Doctor Henry T. Moore was elected Assistant Professor of Psychology and Mr. Francis Joseph Neef was promoted from an instructorship to an assistant professorship of German. Mr. Wilson Compton was appointed Instructor in Economics for the next academic year. Mr. John Timothy Reardon '14 was appointed Parker fellow and Mr. Ralph Alanson Sawyer '15, Chamberlain fellow, for the academic year 1915-16. The trustees likewise voted to divide the present Department of Philosophy into a Department of Philosophy and a Department of Psychology and Education. Upon motion of Mr. Hilton it was voted that the title of Associate Professor, without a fixed term of service, be re-estab-lished in the College.

Upon a recommendation of the Overseers and Faculty of the Thayer School of Civil Engineering the following candidates were voted the degree of Civil Engineer:

Herman Davidson, B.S.; Edgar Harold Elkins, B.S.; Dean Abbott Emerson, B.S.; Raymond Haskell Foss, B.S.; Henry Bradley Frost, B.S.; William Charles Hands, Jr., B.S.; James Joseph Kerley, B.S.; George Brewer McClary, A.B.; Arthur Daniel Maddalena, B.S.; James Parker Margeson, Jr., B.S.; Albert Ernst Munkelt, B.S.; Carl Oscar Olson, B.S.; Herbert Marsh Perkins, B.S.; Clarence Warren Pierce, Howard Huntington Potter, John J. Remsen, B.S.; Allen Pierce Richmond, B.S.; Thorndike Saville, B.S.; Harold Andrew Stiles, B.S.; Stanley Carter Stratton, B.S.; Harold Griffith Van Riper, B.S.; Frederick Harrison Weed, B.S.

Upon the recommendation of the Faculty of the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance the degree of Master of Commercial Science was conferred on the following candidates.

William Warren Barnes, A.B.; Geoffrey Houghton Beals, A.B.; Clyfton Chandler, B.S.; Dudley Ray Colby, B.S.; Frank Herbert Donovan, B.S.; Guy Edson Fuller, B.S.; William Allen Harris, Jr., Ph.B.; John Norman Hazen, A.B.; Francis Freeman Jones, 2nd, A.B.; Charles Edward Leech, B.S.; Paul Witmer Loudon, B.S.; Walter Lawrence Lyons, B.S.; Charles William Francis O'Connor, B. S.; John Philip Palmer, B.S.; Arthur Ball Portmann, A.B.; Leland Porter Spore, A.B., George Young, Jr., B.S.

Upon motion of Doctor Francis Brown the resolutions relating to the removal of the Dartmouth Christian Association from Bartlett Hall to College Hall, laid upon the table at the last meeting, were taken from the table, considered and adopted.

Mr. Streeter offered the following vote and moved its adoption, which motion was seconded by Dr. Gile:

"Voted that an official blank be prepared, which shall be used in the notification of any and all persons of their election by the Trustees to the Faculty, and that on said blank notification shall be printed the following extract or the substance thereof, from the charter of the College, viz:

" 'And also we do will give and grant to the said Trustees convened as afore-said that they elect nominate and appoint so many Tutors and Professors to assist the President in the Education and government of the Students belonging thereto as they the said . Trustees shall from time to time and at any time think needful and serviceable to the interests of said Dartmouth College And also that the said Trustees or their successors or the major part of any seven or more of them convened for that purpose as above directed shall at any time displace and discharge from the service of said Dartmouth College any or all such officers and elect others in their room and stead as before directed'."

Upon motion of Doctor Francis Brown Mr. Streeter's motion was laid upon the table.

The President laid before the Trustees a communication from Mr. Charles P. Chase tendering his resignation of the office of Treasurer of the College, to take effect at the close of the present fiscal year. Upon motion of Mr. Streeter the communication was laid upon the table and it was voted that the matter of the succession to the office of Treasurer and the duties pertaining thereto be referred to the Committee on Business Administration for consideration and report at the next meeting.