BOSTON HERALD COMMENTS ON DEGREE TO WILLIAM HOOD
As of interest to all Dartmouth alumni the following editorial from the Boston Herald of June 28, is reprinted here:
"Dartmouth College at the recent commencement conferred the degree of Doctor of Science upon 'William Hood, railroad builder, San Francisco.'
"Why not ? Here is the record: awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science by the Chandler scientific school of Dartmouth in 1867 at the age of twenty-one; all his life an engineer; from 1868 to 1921 connected in various capacities with the Central Pacific and the Southern Pacific; chief engineer of the Central Pacific from 1883 to 1885 chief engineer of the Southern Pacific from 1885 until his retirement two years ago.
"His story belongs in the great epic of the transportation conquest of the continent. He helped to open to industrial and agricultural development vast areas now the physical foundation of some of the most important, enterprising and prosperous of the commonwealths that make the Union. His was a life of service. Dartmouth properly recognized his usefulness to the nation. The eminence of the engineer is one of the tokens of the type of civilization in which we live."
