Came to Realize

It was not until Dr. William Jewett Tuckei had been dead for several days that this generation of Dartmouth men came fully to realize the true significance of "Dartmouth's Great President." The College mourned the late president but mourns more every day as the Tucker tradition spreads throughout the College. As The Dartmouth commented editorially: "We wish that we might know more about his strong personality, his influence for good among undergraduates, and his struggles to build the College from a small institution of a few buildings and three hundred students to the influential educational center which it is now. But we cannot fully appreciate his greatness because we cannot with proper and adequate feeling absorb the past. To appreciate the esteem in which he was held, not only by Dartmouth men of his time but by the educational world in general. and to comprehend the love and honor which his students held for him, it is necessary to be a graduate of the College within the sixteen years during which he was building."

However, after the funeral a sense of the greatness of the man spread and knots of undergraduates filtered into and around the college burying ground where Dr. Tucker rests with the other Fathers of the College until late afternoon when twilight obscured the inscriptions there.