RESIGNATION OF PROFESSOR BARTLETT

The bare announcement of Doctor Bartlett's withdrawal from the faculty next year appears in the record of the Trustees' meeting. President Hopkins expresses their more intimate feelings in the following communication :

To the Editor of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE :

Although the resignation of Doctor Bartlett does not become effective for something over a year, I cannot let the announcement go without comment at this time.

It is impossible, of course, for records of a formal meeting of the Trustees to carry very much of the sentiment or the emotion which may lie behind a given action. The data in this case are incomplete, however, without a statement that each member of the Board felt the loss that must result to the College when one should retire who had been so great a contributor for the last four decades to every phase of Dartmouth's activities which had been designed to work for its advantage.

It was not felt that the present was a time for encomiums or resolutions; but the material for such was in the mind of each member of the Board, and was simply withheld awaiting the appropriate time for expression.

I cannot too strongly express meanwhile, my own personal sense of loss as I think of the prospective retirement of Professor Bartlett. The respect which I had for him when I was an undergraduate in College has been constantly enhanced; and in later years I have come to understand even more completely what it means to the atmosphere and genuine worth of the College to have a man of his type, permeated with the traditions and enduring ideals of the College, always seeking its best interest and always holding to the best in the old while ever seeking the best in the new.

I recognize the extent to which one earns freedom after forty years of such devoted service as Professor Bartlett has given; but, even so, his separation from immediate interest with the administration of the College adds greatly to the regret with which I have accepted the necessity that the older group of men, whom we all have so highly respected, should no longer be available for joint administrative responsibility in the conduct of the College.

I am

Yours very sincerely,