THE OCTOBER MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES

EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES After attending the celebration of Dartmouth Night, October 8, the Board convened in regular business session on Saturday morning, October 9, at 8 a. m. There were present at the meeting the President, the Clerk, Messrs. Streeter, Parkhurst, Gile, Moore, Thayer and A. O. Brown.

The Secretary of the Alumni Association reported to the Board that the result of the alumni ballot for the nomination to the Board of an alumni representative to serve for the unexpired term of Lewis Parkhurst '78, chosen a life trustee at the annual meeting, showed that Edward K. Hall, of the class of 1892, had received the highest number of votes; whereupon the Board proceeded to ballot and Mr. Hall received an unanimous election as an alumni trustee. Mr. Hall then entered the meeting and took his seat.

The records of the previous meeting were read and approved. The Committee on Education, authorized at the annual meeting to fill the vacant assistant professorship in the Department of Philosophy reported for record the appointment of Doctor Herbert E. Cushman as Lecturer in Philosophy for the year 1915-16. The President and Secretary of the Committee on Education, authorized to fill vacancies occurring in the teaching staff during the summer vacation, reported for record the following appointments: Mr. Kenneth N. Atkins, to be Instructor in Bacteriology for the year 1915-16; Doctor Shirley G. Patterson, to be Instructor in Romance Languages for the year 1915-16, in place of Rivers Keith Hicks, resigned; the promotion of Edwin DeWitt Dickinson from Instructor in Political Science to Assistant Professor of Political Science for the term of three years.

The Committee on Education having no quorum at the present meeting, the President and Secretary of the committee recommended, and the Board voted: (1) that Professor James L. McConaughy be appointed Director of the Summer Session in place of W. V. Bingham, resigned; (2) that the trustees invite Professor H. E. Burton, of the Latin Department, during his leave of absence in the second semester, to make a tour of investigation among a number of American colleges and universities and to report his findings to the trustees, and that the trustees appropriate the sum of $350, or such part thereof as may be necessary, to meet Professor Burton's expenditures for railway travel; (3) that the sum of $400 be appropriated for the purchase of necessary accessories for microscopes in the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology; (4) that Woodward Dennis Hulbert, a great-great-grandson of Eleazar Wheelock, in need of financial aid to assist him in completing his college education, be granted free tuition during the remainder of his college course.

The President and the Secretary of the Committee on Education called the attention of the trustees to the present over-crowded conditions in the chemical laboratory and recommend that this situation be relieved at the earliest possible moment; they also pointed out that present conditions in the biological laboratory are for similar reasons but little less unfavorable than those in the Department of Chemistry; whereupon it was resolved that the trustees believe the Department of Chemistry stands in vital and immediate need of new housing and that it should be the first department of instruction to receive such attention; resolved further that this matter be referred to the Committee on Business Administration with earnest recommendation for prompt consideration.

The President laid before the trustees the resignation of Doctor John King Lord, Daniel Webster Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, the same to take effect February 1 next. The trustees understand that the chief reason for Professor Lord's resignation at this time is that Mrs. Lord's health is such that her physicians deem it inadvisable for her to spend the whole of the approaching winter in Hanover. The trustees gratefully recognize Professor Lord's exceptional power as a teacher and his value as a counsellor on college policies, and deem his continuance in active service of wide importance to the College; they voted that the resignation be laid on the table and that the trustees ask Professor Lord to accept leave of absence from the College for such portion of the college year as he may desire and determine, an arrangement which they earnestly hope may meet Professor and Mrs. Lord's necessities in such measure that Professor Lord will not feel obliged to press his resignation at this time.

The President laid before the Board a letter from Doctor John W. Bowler requesting, in view of the increased work in the Department of Physical Education and Hygiene, that he be relieved from carrying further any putside or irregular work; more especially he asked release from all duties in connection with the football squads and teams other than those of a regular physician in attendance. On the same subject the following communication and recommendation was received from the Athletic Council: "In view of the relief from certain duties connected with the football squad which Doctor Bowler has asked of the trustees, and which in the opinion of the Athletic Council he has earned through the long and faithful performance of the same in the past, the Athletic Council recommends to your honorable Board that Doctor Bowler shall hereafter examine all candidates for all athletic teams and shall pass on their physical fitness; he shall have supervision of the care of all injuries; he shall pass on the physical fitness of all men to continue to participate in practice or games; and in general shall perform all the duties of a physician in charge with final authority. On the other hand, he shall no longer be responsible as a trainer for the physical efficiency of any team or the individual members thereof, except in so far as his duties as above outlined may have influence." This recommendation the Board adopted and placed upon its records.

The President notified the trustees that he had invited the Young Men's Christian Association of New Hampshire to hold a boys' conference at the College, December 3-5, 1915, and upon his request the trustees voted that the College offer the guests of the conference a dinner on the evening of Friday, December 3.

The President further announced that he had invited the New Hampshire Sunday School Association to hold the annual session of its School of Religion at the College in the summer of 1916.

Mr. Parkhurst made a report on behalf of the Committee on Business Administration by reading the minutes of the meetings of the committee held since the last meeting of the trustees. Upon motion of Mr. Thayer it was voted to accept and adopt the report of the Committee on Business Administration, as read by the chairman, and to adopt, ratify and confirm the acts and deeds therein reported as the true acts and deeds of this board.

It was also voted (1) that the revised budget for the current year, presented by President Nichols, be adopted; (2) that the Committee on Business Administration be authorized to build in the year 1916 necessary shops and storehouses for the uses of the College and to expend a sum not exceeding forty thousand dollars for such purposes; (3) to request Mr. C. P. Chase, Treasurer of the College, to consent to delay action upon his resignation until the next annual meeting. Mr. Parkhurst, in behalf of the Committee on Business Administration, presented the annual report of the Treasurer of the College.

Upon the recommendation of the academic faculty the following degrees were granted by the trustees: Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1915, Ralph Nelson Clark, Hugh Coy Courtright, Sumner Frank Dennett, Charles Dabney Horton, Malcolm Gregory Howland, Alan Campbell Livingston, Ernest Maxwell Ruder; Bachelor of Science with the class of 1915, Philip Knox Alexander, August Stein Atwood, William Chaplin Bemis, Harry Salmon Bickford, James Herbert Brackett, Earle Nichols Downing, Otis Wadsworth Hovey, Arthur Holmes Leonard, Jr., Philip King Murdock, Allen Scott Norton, Frederick LeBoy Parchert, Harold Thompson Rich, James Henry Sisk, Jr.; Bachelor of Arts as with the class of 1914, Alexander John Marshall Tuck; Bachelor of Science as with the class of 1902, Robert Cushman. Upon the recommendation of the faculty of the Tuck School the degree of Master of Commercial Science as with the class of 1909 was granted to Robert Augustus Klahr.

A recommendation was received from the academic faculty that in all buildings used for student lodgings the regulations for college dormitories relating to sanitary conditions and inspection, fire protection, alcoholic liquors and all rules governing conduct shall be in force. Upon motion of Mr. Streeter it was voted that the recommendation be referred to a special committee consisting of the President, Messrs. Parkhurst and Gile.

The following members were elected to the standing committees of the trustees upon nomination of the President: to the Committee on Education; Messrs. Moore, Thayer and Hall; to the Committee on Degrees, Mr. Moore. At the request of Doctor Francis Brown, Chairman of the Committee on Degrees, he was relieved from the duties of the chairmanship of that committee, which chose Mr. Streeter as chairman in his stead.

The President and Mr. Parkhurst, a committee on plans for a new library building, reported that the committee had chosen an advisory council on plans for a new library, consisting of the following college officers : Messrs. Goodrich, Keyes, C. D. Adams, E. J. Bartlett, Emery, Foster, Poor, Updyke and Young,—and presented to the Board a preliminary report prepared by the advisory council. Whereupon it was voted that a sum not to exceed two thousand dollars be put at the disposal of the Committee on Business Administration to secure competent architectural studies of several proposed new buildings and the services of a draftsman to work upon the same, and that the sums expended be made advance charges against the cost of the various buildings proposed.

The President announced to the Board that since their formal gift to the College in June, 1911, of the Parkhurst Administration Building, fur- nished and equipped, the College is further indebted to Mr. and Mrs. Parkhurst for subsequent donations to said building to date amounting to $2919.74, expended as follows: for further furnishings, $2569.33; for betterments $75.03 and for repairs $275.38. Upon motion of Mr. Streeter it was voted that the trustees record their further appreciation and gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Parkhurst for their additional gifts in connection with the Parkhurst Administration Building.

The President laid before the Board the deed of a camp site for the Dartmouth Outing Club on Armington Pond; whereupon it was voted to accept with gratitude and appreciation the gift of the Reverend John Edgar Johnson '66 of a warranty deed from Arabelle G. Learned and husband to the trustees of Dartmouth College, covering a tract of land on the east .bank of Armington Pond, in the town of Piermont, N. H., and that the trustees agree to hold the land for the use and purposes oft ithe Dartmouth Outing Club.

The President laid before the Board a letter dated October 3, received by him from the Reverend John Edgar Johnson '66, containing an offer by Mr. Johnson to present to the trustees securities valued at the sum of ten thousand dollars as an endowment of the Winter Carnival of the Dartmouth Outing Club upon specific conditions set forth in his letter governing the expenditure of the income; whereupon it was voted that the trustees will gratefully accept this endowment of ten thousand dollars offered by Mr. Johnson for the Winter Carnival of the Outing Club, and will agree to administer the same in faithful accordance with the conditions imposed by the donor. The President also laid before the trustees a night letter from the Reverend Mr. Johnson, dated at Philadelphia October 7, in which Mr. Johnson offered the College the sum of five thousand dollars for a swimming pool at the Alumni Gymnasium; whereupon it was voted that the trustees will gladly and gratefully accept this gift from Mr. Johnson of five thousand dollars toward the cost of a swimming pool, and that the trustees express the hope that such other needed contributions for the same purpose may be forthcoming as to enable the College in the near future to begin the construction of this much needed adjunct to its equipment in the department of Physical Education.

In recognition of a gift by the class of 1885 it was voted that the trustees express to the class of 1885 their appreciation of the recently received gift of $6,800, which brings the total benefaction of the class to the generous sum of ten thousand dollars, and that the trustees record their further appreciation of the wise and liberal spirit Iwhich has animated the members of the class of 1885 in so expressing.their generosity as to further what may at any time be the best interests of the College.

The President announced to the Board the receipt from a friend of the College of a gift of five thousand dollars for the Trustees' Special Fund.

The President notified the trustees that Mr. Benjamin A. Kimball, of Concord, had presented the Library with a framed lithograph portrait of Daniel Webster, by Sharpe; whereupon it was voted that the trustees express to Mr. Kimball their grateful appreciation of this gift.

Judge William M. Chase announced to the Board that in accordance with the will of the Board of Trustees of Moor's Charity School and in accordance with law, the corporation known as the President of Moor's Charity School had been dissolved, and a deed from the President of Moor's Charity School to the Trustees of Dartmouth College of all the real and personal estate of every kind belonging to the corporation known as the President of Moor's Charity School, and dated April 3, 1915, had been delivered to the Treasurer of Dartmouth College. Whereupon it was resolved that the real and personal estate recently received by the Trustees of Dartmouth College from the President of Moor's Charity School be set aside and preserved as a permanent fund, to be known as the Moor's Charity School Fund, the income of which shall be appropriated to the general uses of the College.

The Clerk read a communication addressed to the trustees by Ernest M. Hopkins, Luther B. Little and James P. Richardson, a special committee of the Alumni Council to present to the trustees a request for such information as the trustees may consider it wise to give as to their policies in the following matters: (1) the financial and educational relationship between Dartmouth College and the state of New Hampshire: (2) the extent to which it is advisable that scholarships shall be granted in excess of income from funds specially given for that purpose; (3) the expression of a definite educational intention on the part of the college authorities. In the discussion of the communication by the trustees, gratification as expressed on the part of all in the content and spirit of the communication because it represents just the type of co-operation on the part of the Council and trustees that the Board believes will be most helpful to the College. It was the unanimous feeling of the trustees that a conference between the committtee of the Council and a committee of the trustees would be most helpful in furthering this spirit of co-operation and in formulating answers to the important questions suggested. The Board therefore voted that a conference committee of the trustees, consisting of Messrs. Streeter, Gile and Hall, be appointed to meet with the special committee of the Alumni Council to confer upon the matters contained in the communication.

The President presented to the Board the statistics of the present year's enrollment throughout the College and the associated schools and tabulated data showing the geographical distribution of the members of the present freshman class, and stated that a careful canvass of further possible accommodations for lodging students in the College dormitories and the village, together with a conservative estimate of the number of upper classmen likely to return next year, showed that the College, if necessary, could receive and accommodate an entering class of four hundred and eighty men in September, 1916. The opinion of the President, based on these statistics,, was that it would not be necessary for the College to begin at once the erection of further dormitories.

Whereupon the meeting was adjourned.