THE TRUSTEES' APRIL MEETING

A majority of the trustees arrived in Hanover the afternoon of Thursday, April 20. Thursday evening at 6.30 the trustees and a large group of faculty members dined together at the Hanover Inn, and later in the evening the Committee of the Trustees on Military Education appointed at the February meeting conferred in session with a similar Committee of the Faculty. Friday morning and early afternoon were devoted to a meeting of a committee of the whole and meetings on Education, Business Administration and Degrees.

Following the committee meetings the Board went into regular session, and there were present the President, Messrs. Chase, Streeter, Kimball, F. Brown, Parkhurst, A. O. Brown, Gile, Moore and Hall.

Upon recommendation of the Committee on Education the following elections and appointments to the faculty were voted:—William K. Wright, Assistant Professor of Philosophy; Lindley Richard Dean '09, Assistant Professor of Latin; Myron J. Files '14 and Kenneth A. Robinson, Instructors in English; Howard F. Dunham '11, Instructor in French ; Paul L. Applin '14, Instructor in Mineralogy; Warren E. Montsie '15, Instructor in German; Walter M. May '05, part time Instructor in Education; L. D. Stillwell, Instructor in History; F. J. McMackin, Instructor in Mathematics; Harry T. J. French '13, Instructor in Anatomy.

The following leaves of absence in the next academic year were voted:— To Norman E. Gilbert for the first semester; to Leon B. Rchardson for the second semester; and to John Wesley Merritt for the year.

The Committee recommended and the Trustees voted the appointment of an Instructor for one year in the Department of Biblical History and Literature and that the selection of the same be left to the President and Secretary of the Committee on Education.

The report of the Committee on Business Administration was presented by Mr. Parkhurst and the acts of the Committee ratified and approved.

Mr. Streeter presented the report of the Committee on Degrees. Upon the recommendation of the faculty the Board granted the degree of Bachelor of Arts as with the class of 1915 to Roy Stuart Frothingham, and the degree of Master of Arts to Edward Charles Mabie, A.B. 1915.

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

Timothy Edwin Anderson, B. S. Robert Gilkes Clarke, B. S. Harry Waldo Cole, A. B. Alpheus Telesphore English, B. S. John Clifton Kimball William Alfred Lang Herbert Dillistin Lanterman, B. S. Justin Howard McCarthy, B. S. Arthur Clough Nichols, B. S. Russell Jackson Rice, B. S. Paul Robinson Rothery, A. B. Roger William Spaulding, B. S. Charles Franklin Woodcock, B. S. Wendell Howard Woolworth, B. S.

Upon recommendation of the Faculty of the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance the degree of Master of Commercial Science was voted to the following candidates:

Bushrod Hill Campbell, A. B. Joseph Lawrence Day, A. B. Ben Willard Grills, A. B. Merrill Haskell, B. S. Joel Graves Harris, B. S. Deane Stanley Hazen, A. B. John Joseph Healy, A. B. Donald Kenneth Howe, B. S. Albert Emanuel Johnson, A. B. Philip Arthur Leary, A. B. Joseph Ralph Libby, B.S. Frederick Burdette Morey, A. B. Roy Marchant Norwood, B. S. Frederick Leon Pearce, B. S. Allan Leach Priddy, A. B. Harold Locke Smith, B. S. Francis Wayland Stone, Jr., B. S. Alfred Bernard Sullivan, A. B. Adam Andrew Sutcliffe, B. S. Dan Frank Waugh, A. B.

Following an adjournment of the Board, to meet at 8 a. m., Saturday, the trustees went into session as a committee of the whole; and the members of the Board later attended the conferring of degrees on the. graduates of the Thayer and Tuck Schools at 7 p. m., in the Faculty Room of the Parkhurst Administration Building, and were present at the graduation banquet of the Associated Schools held in the Commons immediately following the conferring of degrees.

An adjourned meeting of the Board was held Saturday morning, at which the President presented the report of the Special Faculty Committee on the subject of Carnegie Pensions, together with the recommendations of the faculty on the same subject. The Board referred this report to the special consideration of the Committee on Business Administration, requesting a report at a time not later than the October meeting.

Messrs. Gile, Streeter and Parkhurst, a Special Committee of the Trustees elected at the February meeting to confer with the Special Committee of the Faculty on Military Education, through Doctor Gile as chairman laid before the trustees the report to the faculty on April 19 of the Faculty Committee on Military Education, together with the faculty action upon the same which was as follows:

I. Voted that it is inexpedient at the present time and under the conditions now existing to introduce into the College a course in Military Education with drill for which credit is to be given in hours toward a degree.

II. Voted that a copy of this report as now presented, with a memorandum of the faculty action upon it, be transmitted to the Committee of the Trustees on Military Education.

III. Voted that the Committee on Military Education be continued to take up and consider the matter of military education in the College when in its judgment new conditions justify such further consideration of the matter and report its findings and recommendations to the faculty.

IV. Voted that the report of the Committee on Military Education be accepted and placed on file.

Whereupon the trustees voted hearty approval of the votes, numbered I and III, of the faculty.

Continuing, Doctor Gile reported for the Committee as follows:

"Your Committee, after as full an examination as it was practicable to make, reached the conclusion that the discipline and instruction given at the Plattsburg Camp (so-called) would be so valuable to our undergraduate students mentally as well as physically, that in the opinion of your Committee proper encouragement should be given to join said Camp, or some other like camp under control of the War Department, during the coming summer, and that students voluntarily taking such mental as well as physical discipline may properly be given credit for a reasonable number of hours toward a degree.

"In a joint conference with the Committee appointed by the Faculty to consider the same question it was found that they also approve of the principle of giving such credits, and after a full discussion the Faculty Committee has adopted a report and recommendations which will be made to the faculty at a meeting on Monday next. The following is a copy of said report:

The Committee on Military Education makes the following recommendations to the Faculty of the College:—

Voted that the faculty recommend to the trustees of the College that a credit of three hours towards a degree be granted for attendance at the Plattsburg Summer Camp or any other similar summer camp under the authority of the War Department during the summer of 1916.

The conditions of such credit shall be:—

1. That the student is enrolled in the College at the close of the present College year, and is eligible to return at the opening of the next College year.

2. That he shall file with the Dean on or before July Ist a duplicate copy of his enrollment blank.

3. That he shall attend the full five weeks period at the camp.

4. That he shall secure from the authorities of the camp the certificate of competency and shall present the same to the Dean on or before October 1, 1916.

"Your Committee fully adopts the foregoing reports and recommendations and submits the same as its report and recommendations to the trustees, and it asks that appropriate action be taken to carry out the said recommendations."

Whereupon it was voted that the report of the Committee be accepted and its recommendations be approved and adopted; also that the President be added to said Committee, and that the Committee be continued with full power to act for and on behalf of and in the name of the trustees; to receive the report of the action of the faculty-after their meeting on Monday next; and to take such action as may be necessary or convenient to carry out the recommendations hereby approved.

The President exhibited to the Board two framed prints, presented to the College by President Francis Brown. Whereupon it was voted that the Board gratefully accept the gift by their fellow member, Reverend Francis Brown, of an engraving of his grandfather, Reverend Francis Brown, the third President of the College, 1815-1820; also an engraving of the Reverend Bennett Tyler, the fifth President, 1822-28; that the thanks of the Board be extended to the donor for these interesting and historically valuable gifts.

Voted that said engravings be hung in the President's Room in the Park-hurst Administration Building.

A petition from Fletcher R. Andrews, of the class of 1916, to be allowed to complete his final semester's work for the bachelor's degree at Columbia University, because it involved the waiving of a trustee rule, was referred by the Faculty Committee on Administration to the trustees. Whereupon the trustees voted to waive their rule in this instance, provided the Faculty Committee on Administration approves.

The Clerk of the Board read a petition from the Dartmouth Battalion asking that the trustees go bond to the War Department for the issue of arms and ammunition for the use of the Battalion. Whereupon Doctor Gile moved, and the trustees voted, that the trustees of Dartmouth College, now assembled in their regular quarterly meeting, April 22, 1916, hereby authorize Charles P. Chase, Treasurer of the College, to sign such bond as is required by the War Department in a bulletin issued under date of July 2, 1914, to secure issue of arms and ammunition to the students of Dartmouth College now engaged in military drill.

A petition to the trustees from Francis Stirling Wilson 1916, in complaint of the action of the Director of the Tuck School and the Faculty Committee on Administration concerning their rulings on the matter of his prolonged absence from the College while a member of the Ford Peace Expedition, was referred to the Committee on Education with power, and by that Committee was referred with power to its Chairman and Secretary.

Whereupon the meeting adjourned.

During the period of the foregoing meetings the trustees met twice as a Committee of the whole on the Presidency, with Mr. Parkhurst in the chair. While no definite action was taken by the committee, it was the sense of the members present that an informal meeting be held with the members of the Alumni Council for an exchange of views.