DEATH OF FORMER INSTRUCTOR C. M. STEARNS

Charles Miner Stearns, instructor of English at Dartmouth from 1914 to 1918, died of pneumonia following an attack of influenza at the Naval Hospital, New London, Connecticut. on September 27. Since his resignation at Dartmouth last spring, Mr. Stearns had been engaged in work for the Y. M. C. A., serving as a reader at entertainments at the military and naval stations of New England. He was taken ill while in Newport, R. I., but continued in his work, going to New London, where his illness took a sudden turn for the worse, terminating fatally in. four days. The funeral and interment took place at Hartford, Conn., October 1.

Mr. Stearns was born August 26, 1876, in Asia Minor, where his father, the Reverend Charles C. Stearns, now a professor in Pomona College, was then a missionary teacher. He came to America in early childhood and received all his education here. He graduated at Johns Hopkins University in 1898, taking the degree of B.A., and after further Study at Harvard, received the same degree from that institution. He served as an assistant in English at Harvard 1901-4, as instructor in English 1904-10, and also acted as regent of the University 1905-10. He then taught for two years in Tome Institute, and followed that by a year of graduate study at Princeton, receiving his master's degree there in 1914. He then came to Dartmouth as instructor in English, a position which he held for four years. He will be longest remembered by the Dartmouth men who were undergraduates in his time for his excellent readings on Sunday evenings in College Hall and on Thursday evenings in Upper Wentworth.