PORTRAIT OF PRESIDENT NICHOLS

Through the generosity of members of the Board of Trustees the College has become the fortunate possessor of an unusually fine portrait of ex-President Ernest Fox Nichols. The work was done by Joseph R. De Camp of Boston, who is, perhaps, America's foremost portrait painter, certainly in the delineation of men; for he combines vigorous, often brilliant, technique with unusual powers of characterization that compensate for occasional defects in draftsmanship and composition.

Doctor Nichols sat for his portrait during the past summer and early winter. He is represented at half length, nearly life size, clad in academic robe and seated in characteristic pose, with hands folded in his lap but with monitory forefinger free; for he is bent slightly forward in his chair, as if quite intent upon matters of immediate discussion, his interest in which is manifest not only in the pose of body and hands, but in the keenly rendered expression of the face.

At present the picture hangs in the President's reception room in Parkhurst Hall, where it constitutes the finest piece of portraiture in possession of the College, a fact due to the generosity of the trustees under the discerning leadership of the Honorable Benjamin A. Kimball.