The Well-Beloved

(From The Boston Telegraph)

Dartmouth's sons from coast to coast are standing reverently and with awe inmixed with love and pride, at the passing at a ripe old age of their President Emeritus, William Jewett Tucker. No American educator, no person in public life, was more beloved during the lifetime of men now living than was he. It was his achievement that under the wisdom of his guidance Dartmouth resumed original positon among the ancient Colonial institutions of learning; from that regained point of vantage to pass on under Dr. Hopkins to a unique destiny as the National college. And in addition to this and his other achievements, Dr. Tucker was a man made to be loved by all men; the soul of courtesy and of loving kindness, the great gentleman whose fine manners were a mask for nothing, but were, instead, the natural, hourly expression of inward grace and beauty.