THE TRUSTEES' MEETING

The following abstract of the official proceedings of the Trustees 'meeting has been given to the MAGAZINE by President Nichols:

The regular quarterly meeting of the Board of Trustees of the College together with meetings of the Trustee Committees on Education, Business Administration and Degrees were held at Hanover March 10, 11, and 12. There were present the President, the Governor of the State, Messrs. Chase, Streeter, Hilton, Francis Brown, Powers, Parkhurst, A. O. Brown, and Gide. Messrs. Mathewson and Kimball were prevented from being present by illness.

Upon a recommendation of the Committee on Education Doctor Philip Greeley Clapp was elected Director of Music. Mr. Charles H. Morse's title was changed from Director to Professor of Music and he was voted leave of absence from the College for the two years following July 1, 1916. Doctor Walter L. Mendenhall was elected Assistant Professor of Pharmacology in the Medical School. The resignation of Doctor George R. Lyman, Assistant Professor of Botany was accepted and Frederick S. Page '13 was appointed Instructor in Botany for the second semester of the present year. Mr. Charles H. Hawes was re-elected Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Professor H. E. Burton and Assistant Professor L. S. Hastings were granted leave of absence from the College for the second semester of next year, and Assistant Professor R. W. Husband leave of absence for the first semester. Mr. Edward C. Mabie 'ls was appointed Instructor in Public Speaking for the second semester of next year, to assist the Department during Professor Hastings'absence. Mr. Courtney Bruerton was appointed Instructor in French. David I. Hitchcock and Beardsley Ruml were granted graduate scholarships for the second semester of the present year.

The trustees voted that teachers from the New Hampshire public high schools be granted free tuition in the Summer Session of the College.

A long list of acts and deeds of the Committee on Business Administration, taken since the last quarterly session of the Board, was adopted and ratified.

The following men having fulfilled all the requirements for their respective degrees at the end of the first semester of the present year, the degrees were voted by the Trustees as with the class of 1914: Bachelor of Arts to W. A. Green, Jr., H. A. Pease and E. C. Swain; Bachelor of Science to C. D. Buckley, J. F. Conners, J. D. Gregg, R. V. McAllaster, J. M. Piane, C. W. Pierce, H. H. Potter, H. H. Smith, and J. C. Taft.

The trustees passed the following votes of thanks and acceptance:

That the trustees gratefully accept the bequest of $5000 contained in the will of the late Theodore W. Woodman of Dover, N. H., the net income thereof to be used in accordance with the testator's will for the support and maintenance of New Hampshire boys of high character and scholarship who otherwise might be unable to receive the advantages of a liberal education.

That the thanks and grateful appreciation of the trustees be extended to Everett P. Wheeler, honorary Master of Arts in Dartmouth College, for the generous gift of a portrait in oil by Vinton, of the donor's uncle, the Reverend Doctor John Wheeler of the class of 1817, Trustee of the College 1826-33 and President of the University of Vermont 1833-49.

That the thanks and grateful appreciation of the trustees be expressed to Mrs. Charles Francis Richardson for the generous gift of a beautiful copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer specially bound for Professor Richardson by CobdenSanderson, and also a complete set, so far as published, of the Oxford English Dictionary, together with other books and a silver badge of the United Fraternity which belonged to M. C. Richardson of the class of 1841.

That the thanks of the trustees be extended to Doctor William Patten for his generous gift of many articles of ethnological interest collected by him on his recent travels in the South Sea Islands.

That the thanks of the trustees be extended to the Reverend John Edgar Johnson for his recent generous gift of $200, used in the construction of a skijump and toboggan slide on the golf links.

That the thanks of the trustees be extended to Miss Sarah Smith, for her generous gift of class albums of the classes 1866, 1867, 1869, 1873, containing photographs of the members of each class, faculty photographs and scenes in the village. These albums were presented to President Smith', the donor's father, by the several classes at graduation.

A special committee consisting of the Fresident, Doctor Gile, Messrs. Hilton and Parkhurst, empowered at the last meeting of the Board to choose a Professor of Education, reported that they had chosen James Lukens McConaughy, Professor of Education and English at Bowdoin College, to be Professor of Education at Dartmouth.

A committee consisting of the President and the Dean of the Medical School, empowered by the trustees at the last meeting to make arrangements for a Department of Pharmacology in the Medical School, reported that arrangements had been made for a pharmacological laboratory in the Nathan Smith building, its provisional equipment provided for, and that they had secured the services of Doctor Walter L. Mendenhall to give instruction in Pharmacology during the months of April and May of the present year.

A petition to the trustees from the Dartmouth Christian Association asking that the Association may move from Bartlett Hall to College Hall, was received and read. The petition has the support of the Executive Committee of the College Club and Palaeopitus. Definite action on the petition was postponed until the next meeting.