DEATH OF DR. NICHOLS SADDENS ALL HANOVER

Elsewhere in the Alumni Magazine will be found an obituary article concerning Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols, president of Dartmouth from 1909 to 1915, who died while addressing a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D. C., April 29. The telegram announcing the death of t>r. Nichols and the lowering of the college flag to half staff upon receipt of the announcement saddened the entire community which held for the former president deep esteem and reverence.

Dr. Nichols died, as he would have wished to, in active service. The session of the Academy for the presentation of papers was in progress in the splendid newbuilding dedicated just the day before. Dr. Nichols had spoken for ten or fifteen minutes on his paper, "Joining the Infra-Red and Electric Wave Spectra," which he had delivered in a firm voice and the appearance of quite good health, when he suddenly said, "I will have to—and seated himself on a bench on the platform, falling to a recumbent position. He did not speak again. Several distinguished physicians, mambers of the Academy, at once went to the platform, as did Mrs. Nichols, who had heart stimulants with her for an emergency. A few moments later the President announced that death had ensued and the session was suspended. This was at about eleven o'clock in the morning. The afternoon session was given up as was also the dinner on Wednesday evening, for the tragedy cast a pall over the entire program.

Funeral services for Dr. Nichols were held at St. John's Episcopal Church, in Washington, and were attended by Dartmouth graduates including. United States Senator George H. Moses '9O, George Morris 'll and Edmund R. Freeman 'l3.