PROFESSOR JOHN KING LORD '68

The news of the resignation of John King Lord as Daniel Webster Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, announced in the report of the Trustees' meeting, will be read with regret by every alumnus and friend ofthe the College. For forty-seven years Professor Lord has been m active service in the institution, and he is known personally with respect and affection by practically all the living graduates of the College. His whole life has been so intimately connected with the affairs of the College and is consequently so well known to Dartmouth men, that it is unnecessary to give here more than a mere outline of his varied activities.

Professor Lord, the grandson of President Nathan Lord, received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the College in 1868 and of Master of Arts in 1871. In 1893 the college conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and in 1908 that of Doctor of Laws; the latter degree was also granted him by the University of Maine in the same year. Immediately upon graduation he spent one year as a teacher in Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, New Hampshire. In the fall of 1869 he took up his long career of teaching at Dartmouth. He was a tutor m Latin 1869-72; Associate Professor of Latin and Rhetoric 1872-80; Evans Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres 1880-82; Associate Professor of the Latin Language and Literature 1882-92, and Daniel Webster Professor of the Latin Language and Literature from 1892 to the present time. He has always been of valuable service in connection with the executive work of the College, and served as its acting president 1892-93, and as acting president of the faculty 1893-1909. In his chosen field he is known both as an editor and a writer, bringing out editions of Cicero's Laclius in 1882 and 1897; of Livy, Books XXI and XXII in 1890, and Book I in 1896. He published in 1902 a translation of Hertzberg's "Geschichte der Rômer im Alterthum" (in "History of All Nations"). In 1904 he brought out his "Atlas of the Geography and History of the Ancient World." He has also served as a contributor to the Encyclopedia Brittanica, Johnson's Cyclopedia, and to various magazines and periodicals. The literary work, however, to which he gave his greatest energies and most loving care is that for which he will be longest remembered by Dartmouth men—"The History of Dartmouth College." He served as editor of the first volume, which had been written by Frederick Chase, publishing it in 1891. The second volume, which appeared in 1913, is Professor Lord's own work, and stands as a wonderful memorial of his lifelong devotion to the College which he served.