THE TRUSTEES' ANNUAL MEETING

Parkhurst Administration BuildingJune 19-20

EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES

The session began at 8 p. m., June 19. There were present the President, the Clerk, the Governor, and Messrs. Streeter, Kimball, Francis Brown, Parkhurst, A. O. Brown, Gile, Moore, Thayer and Hall. President-Elect Hopkins also sat with the Board for a part of the session.

The following resolutions adopted by the Class of 1911 and transmitted to the Trustees were read and ordered to be spread upon the records:

"Whereas, by reason of the unfortunate and regretted resignation of our honored President, Doctor Ernest Fox Nichols, it has become the duty of the Board of Trustees to fill the vacancy in this high office, and

"Whereas, a change of administration is often fraught with danger to the orderly administration of the college business, and

"Whereas, we, the members of the Class of 1911, having at all times the highest interest of the College at heart, desire to express our confidence in the judgment of the Board of Trustees, and to record our loyalty and devotion to the College,

"Therefore, be it resolved, that we, the members of the Class of 1911, assembled in Hanover for our fifth reunion, tender to Ernest Martin Hopkins our sincere and hearty congratulations upon his election to the Presidency of the College, and voice our belief that his administration will be marked by the same wisdom, judgment and foresight that has attended the work of his illustrious predecessors and finally, that we pledge to him our undying friendship and enthusiastic support as members of the great family of Dartmouth alumni. Monday, June 19, 1916."

The President laid before the Board letters of resignation from Reginald H. Colley, Instructor in Biology, and from Hastings Lyon from the Professorship of Corporation Finance and Commercial Law in the Tuck School. Mr. Colley's resignation was accepted, and likewise that of Professor Lyon, with an expression of appreciation of service rendered to the College.

The President then laid before the Board the following letter of resignation from Professor James Fairbanks Colby, Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science:

"Hanover, N. H., June 1, 1916

"To THE HONORABLE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, SIRS:-

"I hereby tender my resignation as Parker Professor of Law and Political Science to take effect, if convenient for the College, on June 30 of the present year.

"In retiring from this office of instruction to which the Trustees honored me with appointment upon its establishment in 1885, I desire to render grateful acknowledgment to your honorable body for the many provisions which during the intervening period you have made to promote the special purposes for which the Parker Professorship was founded, and also for the personal consideration and complete freedom which you always have accorded me in the discharge of its duties. In particular I wish to express my deep appreciation and abiding indebtedness to your honorable body for the estimate which you placed upon my services when, in 1900, a physical disability obliged me to consider immediate resignation of my office, by your expressed desire for my continuance in it and your accompanying offer of what alone made my compliance possible,— the privilege of an annual leave of absence from the College in mid-winter.

"Although earnestly endeavoring throughout the succeeding years to give the College as full and faithful service as such generous privilege of absence has made possible, I now am unable to persuade myself that the increasing demands which the College is entitled to make upon the incumbent of the Parker Professorship can be met fully and properly any longer by a person who must serve as a partial timer.

"Under these circumstances I now return to you the trust which so long it has been my privilege to administer, and with renewed thanks for the opportunity it has given me to serve the College and with genuine regret that my best endeavors in its behalf have fallen far short of my ideals, "I am, Respectfully yours,

Whereupon it was voted:

"That in accepting at his own urgent request the resignation of Doctor James Fairbanks Colby, for thirty-one years Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science, the trustees record their high and grateful appreciation of Professor Colby's long, faithful and distinguished service as a valued teacher and counsellor in the College."

The letter of resignation of Mr. Charles Parker Chase, presented at the April meeting of last year, was taken from the table and the following resolution voted:

"That in accepting the resignation, to be in effect July 1, 1916, of Mr. Charles P. Chase, Treasurer of the College for the last twenty-six years, the Board wishes to record its very grateful appreciation of his long and faithful service. For a quarter of a century his best thought and constant effort have been devoted to the interests of the College, and it is rare in the history of any institution that a single official is permitted to serve for this length of time. In acceding to Mr. Chase's desire to be relieved from further duties we wish for him many years of health and continued usefulness. An additional evidence of Mr. Chase's loyalty to the College was given by his willingness to accede to the urgent request of the Board to serve for another year, after he had made all his plans to retire at the end of twenty-five years of service."

The letter of resignation of President Nichols as a trustee, to be in effect after June 30, was read and accepted. Whereupon President-Elect Hopkins was unanimously chosen a member of the Board after July 1.

Doctor Gile's resignation as a trustee, to be in effect after the annual meeting in 1917, was presented and accepted, to take effect upon the election of his successor.

Upon the recommendation of the Committee on Education the following new appointments were made:

Frederick W. McReynolds was elected Assistant Professor of Corporation Finance and Commercial Law in the Tuck School.

Allan L. Priddy '15 was appointed Instructor in Accounting and Statistics in the Tuck School.

Carl C. Forsaith '13 was appointed Instructor in Biology.

John Hornicek was appointed Instruc- tor in French, and Allen S. Norton '15 was appointed Instructor in German for the first semester of the ensuing year.

Upon like recommendation the Board voted the following promotions:

Charles N. Haskins, from Assistant Professor to Professor of Mathematics on the Chandler Foundation.

Raymond W. Jones, from Instructor to Assistant Professor of German.

Clifford P. Clark, from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Classical Languages.

Norman E. Gilbert, from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics.

Arthur B. Meservey '06, from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Physics.

Shirley G. Patterson, from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Romance Languages.

The following re-elections and re-appointments were also voted:

Charles H. Hawes, Assistant Professor of Anthropology.

Arthur H. Chivers '02, Assistant Professor of Biology.

Chester A. Phillips, Assistant Professor of Economics in the College and Assistant Professor of Banking in the Tuck School.

Francis L. Childs '06, Assistant Professor of English.

George B. Zug, Assistant Professor of Modern Art.

Foster E. Guyer '06, Assistant Professor of French.

Elden B. Hartshorn '12 and David I. Hitchcock '15, Instructors in Chemistry.

Frederick S. Page '13, Instructor in Biology.

Courtney Bruerton and Jules Claude Roule, Instructors in French.

Frederick H. Adler, Instructor in German.

Peter S. Dow '11, Instructor in Graphics and Engineering.

Henry W. Lawrence, Jr., Instructor in History.

Louis C. Mathewson and Charles R. Dines, Instructors in Mathematics.

Herbert H. Palmer, Instructor in Physics.

Sydney L. Ruggles, Instructor in Civil Engineering.

Harold G. Rugg '06 and Clifford B. Clapp, Executive Assistants to the Librarian.

Winslow H. Loveland '14 and Pulaski K. Cook '15, Instructors in English.

Harry L. Hillman and Patrick J. Kaney, Instructors in Physical Education.

Colin C. Stewart, Secretary of the Medical School.

Wilson Compton, Instructor in Economics.

Upon the same recommendation John King Lord was elected Daniel Webster Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, Emeritus, and James Fairbanks Colby was elected Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science, Emeritus. Harry Edwin Burton was elected Daniel Webster Professor of the Latin Language and Literature.

It was further voted:

"That to fill temporarily the vacancy in the Department of Political Science caused by Professor Colby's resignation the appointment of an instructor in that department be authorized, his selection to be made by the President and Secretary of the Committee on Education in consultation with the department."

"That due to an urgent situation caused by the unexpectedly large number of students electing Economics next year, the appointment of an additional instructor in that department be authorized, selection to be made by the President and Secretary of the Committee on Education in consultation with the department."

"That Charles H. Morse be granted leave of absence for the whole year of 1916-17 and for the first semester of the year 1917-18."

"That the Chairman and Secretary of the Committee on Education be authorized to make an appropriation from the Trustees' Special Fund to apply on this year's instruction salaries account to a total amount not exceeding $5000."

"That the Chairman and Secretary of the Committee on Education, in consultation with the departments concerned, be authorized to fill any vacancies occurring in the staff of instruction between June 19 and October 1."

"That the trustees ask the faculty, in the interest of economy and possibly greater teaching efficiency, to consider the advisability of authorizing its committee on instruction to make a careful study of the content and purpose of the curriculum with a view:

"(a) To the discontinuance of courses which in the committee's judgment are too highly specialized or in very slight demand;

"(b) To a closer correlation of courses between cognate departments, and to consider whether this purpose may not be better accomplished in some instance by combining two or more closely related departments into a single department of instruction."

The following resolutions and vote of the faculty on May 27 was presented:

"Whereas, The American Association of University Professors at its annual meeting, held in Washington, D. C., on January 1, 1916, accepted and approved the report of its Committee on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure, and

"Whereas, This Committee in its report suggested certain measures which it believed were necessary for our universities and colleges to adopt in order to realize all the objects set forth in their report—measures concerning faculty participation in re-appointments, tenure of office, and dismissal, and

"Whereas, The adoption by the Association of this report carried with it a recommendation that the proposals contained "therein be submitted to the consideration of faculties, administrative officers, and governing boards of American Universities and Colleges,

"Voted: That the Faculty of Dartmouth College request the Trustees to consider the advisability of appointing a committee of its membership to join with a committee of the faculty for the discussion of the proposals contained in the Report of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure of the American Association of University Professors."

Whereupon it was voted that a committee consisting of the President and two other trustees of his choosing be a committee to confer with a similar committee of the faculty upon the above matter.

The report of the Committee on Business Administration was presented by Mr. Parkhurst, Chairman of the Committee; whereupon it was voted that the report of the Committee on Business Administration be accepted and adopted and the acts and votes reported therein approved, ratified and confirmed.

Upon recommendation of the same committee Mr. Halsey Charles Edgerton was elected Treasurer of the College.

The budget of the College for the year 1916-17, prepared by the President, Business Director and Auditor, was presented, and upon recommendation of the Committee on Business Administration was adopted by the Board.

A petition from the Athletic Council was read, asking that the trustees release for athletic purposes all the land belonging to the College bounded by Crosby, Wheelock and Park Streets and the private property lying to the south not already devoted to such use. This petition was referred with power to a committee consisting of the President, Mr. E. K. Hall and the Business Director.

Upon recommendation of the faculty the Board voted the following degrees in course: Master of Arts to Warren Choate Shaw, A.B., 1910; Charles Wesley Sargent, A.B., 1915; Allen Scott Norton, B.S., 1915.

The degree of Bachelor of Science as of the class of 1915 was granted to Leo Whiting Burt.

Of the class of 1916 one hundred and thirteen were voted the degree of Bachelor of Arts and one hundred and seventeen the degree of Bachelor, of Science.

The President presented a proposal of the Dartmouth Outing Club involving an agreement between the Club and the trustees concerning the organization and management of the Club. This proposal was approved and adopted by the trustees in the following vote:

"Voted, that the trustees approve an arrangement with the Dartmouth Outing Club according to the terms set forth in a letter duly signed by the President of said club, approved by its Council, and certified by its Secretary under date of June 5, 1916;

"That the said letter and its accompanying documents be filed among other contracts and agreements with the College Treasurer; and "That the various College officers concerned be herewith authorized to see that the terms of the agreement are fulfilled."

The President laid before the Board the following letter from the Reverend John E. Johnson:

"Skyline Farm, Mann's Hill, Littleton, New Hampshire, June 12, 1916

"To THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE,

"GENTLEMEN:

"Having made various gifts at various times to your corporation for the use and benefit of the Dartmouth Outing Club, and having attached certain .'specific conditions to these gifts, it is ,now my desire to combine all these funds and the separate conditions attached thereto into one foundation with uniform conditions, to be known as the Harrison Memorial Fund, in honor of Alfred C. Harrison and his wife, Kate de Forest Harrison.

"Of the gifts which I thus wish to combine the following is a list:

"Skyline Farm (farm and buildings at Littleton, N. H.).

"A lot of land and a cabin on Cube Mountain.

"A cabin on Mount Moosilauke on land belonging to the State of New Hampshire, permission to build having been granted by the Governor of the State and the Board of Managers of the State Sanitarium.

"A lot of land and a cabin at the Agassiz Basin, North Woodstock, N. H.

"A lot of land and a cabin at Armington Pond.

"Deeds to three parcels of real estate in or near Tacoma, Washington.

"An endowment fund for the Winter Carnival (mortgages) amounting to $10,000.

1. "These properties, real and personal, consisting of sundry lands, buildings and improvements, and certain mortgage investments, to be consolidated into one foundation to be known as "The Harrison Memorial Fund," in honor of Alfred C. Harrison and his wife, Kate de Forest Harrison.

2. "The control over this foundation to be maintained by the Trustees of Dartmouth College, who are to have the complete management of it and to pay over annually on the first day of January any net income derived from it to the Dartmouth Outing Club, so long as the purposes and activities of that Club are in the opinion of the trustees continued substantially as at present ; provided, however, that none of this income is to be expended for the support of any officer of the Outing Club or of any other organization whatever.

3. "If in any year or series of years the income from this fund should prove to be larger than the expenditures by the Outing- Club, I wish this surplus income to be added to the principal and the whole fund kept separate from all others; except that for purposes of investment only the trustees may administer these properties under the classification of Associated Trusts.

4. "In case the Dartmouth Outing Club should change its purpose and activities, or should wholly cease to exist, the trustees" shall have the right to devote the income to uses as similar as possible to those for which the foundation was originally established.

5. "It is my desire, if the above plan and conditions are acceptable to the Trustees of Dartmouth College, that their action in adopting the same shall supersede all earlier conditions and restrictions placed upon the separate gifts which are here combined.

"Respectfully submitted,

Whereupon it was voted that Mr. Johnson's foregoing letter be spread upon the Records, and the proposals therein be accepted and approved.

The following gifts were announced to the Board by the President:

Mrs. Woodhull Adams presented to the College a framed painting by Mr. Adams representing the interior of the College Church. Whereupon it was voted: "That the trustees accept with thanks, and agree to hang in a fitting and appropriate place, Mr. Woodhull Adams's painting of the interior of the College Church, the generous gift of Mrs. Woodhull Adams."

The President read to the Board the following letter from J. W. Newton 86:

"June 16, 1916

"To THE PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES,

Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., "GENTLEMEN :-

"It seems to me appropriate and fitting that the College should have a stand of colors, consisting of our National Flag and a College Flag, these to be used at all functions in which the College body participates, particularly in the Commencement Day procession, representing as it does the past, the present and the future.

"It is well to cultivate the love of country and of our College by the display of our colors which stand for so much.

"I would suggest that two students be chosen as Color Bearers on account of their proficiency in some department of study.

"Therefore, if this suggestion is agreeable to you, it would give me great pleasure to present to the College at this time the National Flag, to be followed by the College Flag as soon as a suitable design can be decided upon and submitted to you for approval.

"Respectfully yours,

(Signed)

"Dartmouth '86"

Whereupon it was voted:

"That Mr. Newton's letter be spread upon the records of the Board of Trustees, and that, in behalf of the College, we gratefully accept his most generous proposition contained therein; and, further, in behalf of the alumni whom we represent, we assure him of the most hearty appreciation of this gift, particularly appropriate at a time in the history of our country and in the history of the College when it is the paramount duty of every son of Dartmouth to recognize the fact that the flag of our country and the flag of our College each demand the unswerving loyalty of every alumnus of the College."

Two anonymous gifts: one of $1000 from the mother of an undergraduate; another of $2000 from an officer of the College.

Gifts by several donors of $865 to Professor Zug for the Department of Fine Arts.

From Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Parkhurst gifts during the year amounting to $1000 in connection with furniture, repairs pairs and betterments in the Parkhurst Administration Building.

From Mr. Alexander Steinert, of Boston, the sum of $12OO during the present year to the Department of Music.

Whereupon the following votes were taken:

"That the trustees express their grateful appreciation to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Parkhurst for their generous gift of over $1000 in connection with the Parkhurst Administration Building."

"That the trustees express to Mr. Alexander Steinert their appreciation of his generous gift of $12OO to the Music Department, coupled with his expressed intention to contribute an equal amount to the same department in each of the next two years."

The President read the following letter from Mr. H. E. Keyes, Secretary of the Alumni Council:

"Hanover, New Hampshire, June 19, 1916

"PRESIDENT ERNEST Fox NICHOLS,

"MY DEAR PRESIDENT NICHOLS:

"Will you kindly transmit to the Board of Trustees statement of the following action taken by the Council of the Alumni of Dartmouth College at its meeting held this morning, June 19,

"Voted: That of the proceeds of the Dartmouth College Alumni Fund on the Tucker Foundation for the year closing June 30, 1916, $5,000 be tendered to the Trustees of Dartmouth College to be applied to liquidating the College de- ficit for the year closing June 30, 1916.

"In addition to handing you the above formal vote, I feel sure that the Trustees will be interested to know that to date contributions to the Alumni Fund (which last year totaled slightly over $6,500) are more than $7,600 for the present year. It is anticipated that before the first of July considerable additions will be made to this amount.

"It was further voted by the Council to apply $500 to re-establish the Tucker Alumni Scholarship, said scholarship to be divided equally between John B. Stearns '16 and Charles W. Sargent '16.

Very truly yours,

Whereupon it was voted:

"That there be conveyed to the Council an expression of the trustees' gratification at the increasing interest of the alumni in this form of assistance to their Alma Mater and their appreciation of the efforts and the co-operation of the Council."

The President laid before the Board the following letter from the Reverend John E. Johnson '66:

"Hanover, New Hampshire, June 20, 1916 "PRESIDENT ERNEST FOX NICHOLS,

"MY DEAR MR. PRESIDENT:

"I am the sole survivor of the original 66 officers of the New Hampshire Regiment of Artillery to which I belonged during the Civil War. lam also one' of the only eighteen survivors of the class of "66" in Dartmouth College.

"I wish to express my gratitude to Almighty God for having so signally prolonged my life and that of my surviving classmates; and it has occurred to me to do this on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of our graduation by adding five thousand dollars to the endowment fund of the Dartmouth Outing Club. And I have selected this time for so doing in the hope that it may suggest similar "Thank Offerings" on the part of other graduates of the college on the fiftieth anniversary of their graduation day.

"It is my deliberate opinion, founded on wide observation for half a century, that Dartmouth College does more good work, for the amount of money expended, than any other college in the United States; and that in its facilities for the well-balanced development of 'sane minds in sane bodies' it is unique among them all; and towers as much above them all as the mountains by which it is surrounded.

"Yours very sincerely,

Whereupon it was voted:

"That the trustees express their grateful appreciation to the Reverend John Edgar Johnson '66 for his additional gift of $5000 to the Harrison Memorial Fund, and that they express sincere appreciation of his continued devotion and support to the permanent interests of so important and commendable an undergraduate organization as the Dartmouth Outing Club."

The President read the following letter from Mr. Wallace F. Robinson, and presented to the Board twelve hundred and ninety-four shares of stock in the United Shoe Machinery Company which Mr. Robinson placed in his hands on May 7:

"ERNEST FOX NICHOLS, LL.D., President Board of Trustees, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire,

"MY DEAR PRESIDENT NICHOLS:

"In the period which has elapsed since I had the honor to give Robinson Hall to the College—l have been greatly impressed by the place it has appeared to take in the activities of undergraduate life. It quite fulfills the hopes I expressed at the time of making my original proposal.

"As it seems to me no longer to be an experiment I wish to provide for its permanent care and maintenance; so I am handing you herewith a certificate in the name of the Trustees of Dartmouth College for twelve hundred and ninety-four (1294) shares of stock in the United Shoe Machinery Company which has a sound market value today of at least seventy-five thousand (75,000) dollars.

"It is my desire that this should constitute a principal fund to be held by the Trustees distinct and separate from all other trust funds or associated trusts —the net income of which should be applied from time to time to the care, repair, renewal and maintenance of Robinson Hall, its grounds, furnishings and other contents, including such extensions and additions thereto of any or all of the foregoing which may in the future be required by the demands or growth of the College.

"The Trustees are, of course, to have full discretion to invest and re-invest, from time to time, the whole, or any part, of this principal fund, in such other securities or investments as may to them seem wise and proper. "It is not my intention that they should apply in any one year all of the income received—but as the building and its furnishings are now new it is quite likely that for some years it might not require the expenditure of the whole income; in such case, I should wish the income to accumulate, so that it might be held in reserve for some extraordinary yearly expense.

"This I think will make clear that I do not expect the principal to be enlarged, and do not put upon the Trustees the obligation to appropriate income as and when received.

"With my cordial good wishes, and my continued admiration for the noble institution over which you preside—I am—

"Very truly yours,

Whereupon it was voted:

"That the trustees gratefully accept this gift from Mr. Wallace F. Robinson and agree to administer the fund in accordance with the conditions laid down in the donor's letter of May 7, 1916; and that the trustees express to Mr. Robinson their deep gratitude for and appreciation of his most generous gift for the endowment of Robinson Hall, in the building and endowment of which he has made possible the cultivation and training of the literary and aesthetic taste and appreciation of the undergraduates of the College through the stimulation of their own efforts."

Mr. Streeter made an oral report in behalf of the committee on the inauguration of President Hopkins.

It was voted that a sum be appropriated sufficient to pay the expense of distributing the next number of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE to all non-subscribing alumni; and that the treasurer-be authorized to pay the sum on bill presented by the managing editor, approved by the President.

The Secretary of the Alumni Association announced to the Board that Mr. A. O. Brown '7B had been nominated by the alumni to succeed himself upon the Board. Whereupon the Board by ballot re-elected Mr. A. O. Brown a trustee.

Doctor Francis Brown was designated by the Board to confer the degree of Doctor of Laws upon the retiring President of the College.

Adjourned.