THE FEBRUARY MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES

(Extracts from Minutes)

After meetings held by the Committees on Education, Business Administration, and Degrees on the previous afternoon, the Board assembled at eight o'clock Saturday morning, February 12. Present, the President, Clerk, the Governor of the State, and Messrs. Streeter, Kimball, Parkhurst, A. O. Brown, Gile, Moore, Thayer and Hall.

Voted, that the acts of the meeting held in Boston, Massachusetts, November 19, 1915, be and hereby are ratified and confirmed.

The President laid before the Trustees a letter dated January 3, 1916, from John King Lord expressing grateful appreciation of the action of the Trustees at the October meeting, and urging the acceptance of his resignation as Daniel Webster Professor of the Latin Language and Literature previviously tendered, to take effect at the close of the present College year; whereupon it was voted "that in accepting Professor Lord's resignation at his own urgent request, to take effect June 30, 1916, the Trustees express to Professor Lord their deep and grateful appreciation of his distinguished service to the College, a service as exceptional in quality as in length. He has been a member of the faculty since 1869, a period of forty-seven years; Vice President 1893-1909, and Acting President of the College 1892-3, 1894-5; a brilliant teacher, a wise and valuable counsellor to Faculty, administrative officers, and Trustees in all the affairs of the College."

The resignation of Sydney S. Schochet as instructor in Anatomy was presented; whereupon it was voted that the resignation be accepted to be in effect after the close of the first semester of the present academic year. It was also voted that Harry Tapley Johnson French '13 be appointed instructor in Anatomy for the remainder of the present academic year, and that the sum of $300 be appropriated for the purchase of histological material for the department of Anatomy. Further voted that Shipp Gillespie Sanders be apointed instructor in Latin for the second semester of the present academic year.

Upon recommendation of the Faculty Committee on Instruction and Administration of the Summer Session, it was voted that free tuition in the Summer Session be granted to New Hampshire School superintendents and principals, teachers in public high school and academies, and such graded school teachers in the State as obtain from their superintendents a statement that they are qualified to profit by the courses offered in the Summer Session.

Appropriations were made for the following purposes :— For the purchase of material for the Department of Education, for printing and postage, etc., for the Teachers' Registration Bureau, for collecting, compiling and printing a special list of Dartmouth graduates engaged in educational work, and an appropriation to cover traveling expenses in visiting secondary schools by the Executive Secretary of the Committee on Admission and other Faculty members.

It was also voted that the President, Business Director and the Executive Secretary of the Committee on Admission be empowered to carry out a plan for designing and purchasing some form of shield to be presented to the fitting school sending men of the best average scholarship into each year's freshman class.

Leave of absence was granted to Arthur H. Basye for the academic year 1916-17, and to Charles R. Lingley for the second semester of the same year.

After brief consideration of the question of Military Training in the College and the reading of a resolution from the Alumni Association of Chicago, it was voted that a committee be created consisting of Dr. Gile as Chairman and two others appointed by the President to consider the question of providing instruction for the students of Dartmouth College in Military Science and Training, to confer with a like committee already appointed from the Faculty, and to make a full report on the whole subject at the April meeting. The President appointed Messrs. Streeter and Parkhurst to the foregoing committee.

Mr. Parkhurst, Chairman of the Committee on Business Administration, presented the report for that Committee; whereupon it was voted to accept the report and that the acts and votes of the Committee as reported be adopted, ratified and confirmed.

The following preamble and resolution was, upon 'recommendation of the Committee on Business Administration, adopted: Whereas, members of the Classes of 1914-15, at the time of their graduations, caused their lives to be insured in favor of the Trustees of the College; and whereas, some of the members thus insured have deceased; and whereas, it was the understanding of the members of the Class that any money received "by the Trustees upon the payment of policies of any deceased members should be held in trust subject to the call of the Class at its option on or before its twenty-fifth reunion; therefore be it resolved that any money so received by the Trustees shall be held by them in trust subject to the eventual disposition of the Class to which the holders of the maturing policies belonged.

The Trustees voted the following baccalaureate degrees; Bachelor of Arts to Edgar Allen MacLennan with the class of 1904, and to Woodbury Hough and Arthur Augustus Tower with the class of 1915. Bachelor of "Science with the class of 1915 was voted to Channing Ellis Harwood, Albert Stanley Llewellyn, Franklin H. Rohrs and Elmer Forrest Thyng.

Gifts of two class albums of the class of 1858 were received, one from the children of Gustavus Brown Williams '58, and the other from the Reverend Samuel Collins Bean, D.D., '58; also the gift from Asa W. Waters '71 of an album containing photographs of the officers of the College, members of 1871 and contemporary village scenes.

The gift to the College of a table formerly belonging to Daniel Webster was received by the Trustees with acknowledgment to the donor.

The President notified the Trustees that the Treasurer of the College had received securities to the value of $10,000 from the Reverend John Edgar Johnson '66 as an endowment for the Winter Carnival of the Outing Club.

The following resolutions of the Alumni Council was laid before the Board: "Voted that the sum of $2500 from the collections of the Dartmouth College Alumni Fund on the Tucker Foundation for the year 1914-15 be set apart for endowment, and that the balance in the hands of the Treasurer be turned over to the Trustees of the College to be expended by them at their discretion." By virtue of this resolution $20 will accrue to the income of the College for the present year. Whereupon, it was voted that the Trustees express their grateful appreciation to the Alumni Council and the Alumni contributors to the Dartmouth College Alumni Fund on the Tucker Foundation for this additional gift of $200 to the College from last year's collections.

The President read a letter from Mr. Wallace F. Robinson of Boston dated January 5, in which he notified the President that he had purchased a Steinway parlor grand piano which he wished to present to the College and have it considered a portion of the permanent furnishings of Robinson Hall, and not moved or used elsewhere ; whereupon, it was voted that the Trustees express to Mr. Robinson their thanks and appreciation of this generous addition to the donor's already large gifts to the College.

The President laid before the Trustees the following resolution of the Thayer Society of Engineers of Dartmouth College: Resolved that the sum of $1,000 be and hereby is appropriated from the funds of the Thayer Society and the Treasurer be instructed to forward such amount to the Treasurer of Dartmouth College to be invested by the Trustees of the College, the income from this fund to be used for the general purpose of the Thayer School of Civil Engineering as may be determined by its Board of Overseers. This dona- tion is the first instalment of the fund to be known as "The Endowment Fund of the Thayer Society of Engineers." The President added that the funds had been received by the Treasurer of the College and $500 in addition from the same source to be applied to the Thayer School current expense account; whereupon, it was voted that the Trustees assure the Thayer Society of Engineers that they have watched with sincere pleasure and gratification the acts of devotion and loyalty shown by the Alumni of the Thayer School for many years in providing annually very considerable sums to meet the deficit of the School. Now the Trustees wish not only to express gratitude to the Society for the starting of an endowment fund, but also to show their appreciation of this year's gift of $500 with the many and" larger ones which have preceded it for Thayer School current expenses.

In the matter of the presidency the Trustees voted that a committee of the whole, of which Mr. Parkhurst shall act as chairman, be created to consider all matters pertaining to the presidency.

(Adjourned)