DARTMOUTH MEMORIAL FIELD COMMITTEE REPORT

Hanover, New Hampshire June 19, 1926.

To the Trustees of Dartmouth College:

During the spring and summer of 1919, it was realized that Dartmouth had lost ninety men in the war just ended. The desire to keep alive the memory of their sacrifice and the alumni appreciation of it as a stimulus to the Dartmouth of the future led to the formation of the Memorial Field Committee, having for its objective the transformation of the existing Alumni Oval, by enlargement and the addition of proper facilities for both recreational and intercollegiate sport, into a great student playfield which by its daily use should keep ever present the sacred spirit of the sacrifice thus made.

The late Frank S. Streeter, Esq., '74, as chairman, Judge William N. Cohen '79, Mr. Clarence B. Little 'Bl, then President of the Alumni Council, and Mr. Homer Eaton Keyes 'OO, as secretary, were named by you June 21, 1920, as a committee to collect funds for the purpose and to determine upon their expenditure. In November, 1920, Prof. James P. Richardson '99, who had been deeply interested in forwarding the project from its inception, was added to the committee to represent the Athletic Council. At the same time Mr. George G. Clark '99, became secretary, vice Mr. Keyes who, upon his retirement from the college had resigned as secretary, but who continued his good offices upon the committee. Later Mr. Halsey C. Edgerton 'O6, treasurer of the college was added to the committee. Upon the death of Mr. Streeter on Dec. 11, 1922, Judge Cohen became acting chairman. The Memorial Field having been dedicated and accepted by the President on behalf of the Trustees on Nov. 3, 1923, and the financial undertakings being now fulfilled, the committee desires to make this final report and asks to be discharged.

The committee asked at first for subscriptions to ninety memorial certificates of $4,000.00. Thirteen alumni, several parents and friends of the men lost, generously subscribed for these certificates. Smaller subscriptions also came in. Later, therefore, each class from 1871- 1926 were asked to subscribe to one or more of these memorial certificates, thus broadening the possibilities of participation in the memorial. From the oldest living alumnus, Mr. Leander M. Nute '54, to the members of the classes 1921-1926, not then alumni, the response was generous; the members of the faculty, both Dartmouth graduates and graduates of other colleges, and the Athletic Council contributed liberally; the parents and friends of the boys lost and the friends of the college helped to swell the total. The final amount received was $261,- 817.07.

We are giving you with this report a tabulation by classes and groups of the amounts received, together with a list of donors.

In obtaining the subscriptions, the committee had the loyal co-operation and assistance of the following who acted as sub-lieutenants over groups of classes:

Charles H> Donahue '99, Classes '7l-'7B Harry B. Gilmore 'Ol, Classes '79-85 Eleazar Cate 'BB, Classes 'B6-'9O Albert M. Lyon '94, Classes '9l-'95 Herman Holt, Jr., '97, Classes '96-'OO Edward H. Kenerson 'O3-, Classes 'Ol-'O5 Charles P. Woodworth 'O7, Classes 'O6-'O9 Charles R. Cabot 'l2, Classes 'lO-T3 Granville B. Fuller 'l6, Classes 'l4-'l7 Ames N. Blandin 'lB, Classes 'lB-'2O Natt W. Emerson 'OO, Parents Prof. Malcolm Keir, Faculty

and of the following who acted as agents in their respective classes:

1879 William N. Cohen 1880 Dana M. Dustan 1881 Dr. Edward H. Trowbridge Edgar A. DeWitt 1882 Frederick H. Knight 1883 George F. Blake 1884 Prof. George D. Lord 1885 Edwin A. Bayley 1886 William M. Hatch 1887 Dr. John M. Gile Edward W. Knight 1888 Eleazar Cate 1889 George H. Hitchcock 1890 Frederick D. Woods 1891 Charles G. Dußois John Abbott 1892 Edward Iv. Hall 1893 Guy W. Cox 1894 Albert M. Lyon 1895 Albion B. Wilson 1896 Walter F. Duffy Carl H. Richardson 1897 Hermon Holt, Jr. David J. Maloney 1898 H. Philip Patey 1899 George G. Clark 1900 Frederick E. Atwood Clarence G. McDavitt 1901 Richard Ward 1902 Arthur C. Tozzer William Adriance 1903 Arthur J. Cohen Edward H. Kenerson 1904 Carl F. Woods Penfield Mower Edward K. Robinson 1905 James A. Vaughan 1906 David J. Main Walter Powers 1907 Charles P. Woodworth 1908 Lauris G. Tread way 1909 Robert J. Holmes 1910 James R. Everett 1911 John A. Mullen Nathaniel G. Burleigh 1912 Gardner P. Bullard Edward B. Luitwieler 1913 Emmett Pishon 1914 Clyfton Chandler John R. Burleigh 1915 Allan L. Priddy 1916 H. Clifford Bean 1917 Roger P. Stone 1918 Amos N. Blandin Thomas W. Proctor. Francis J. Clahane 1919 Alden P. Crosby 1920 Paul G. Richter Edwin B. Lindsay 1921 Palaeopitus 1922 Palaeopitus 1923 Palaeopitus

Without their assistance the Memorial Field could not have been accomplished. Both to them and to many others who, here and there, unofficially and generously helped the committee, we would express our gratefulness and bespeak your appreciative esteem.

Construction work was started in the summer of 1920 with filling the trenches used during the war period and construction of a hockey rink east of the gymnasium. In 1921 the whole field south of the gymnasium, extending from Crosby Street on the west to Park Street on the east, was graded and drained. A series of low ridges and valleys with catch basins in the valleys connected with underdrains, having an outlet towards Mink Brook, was worked out to circumvent the heavy clay soil underlying the area. This has proved very satisfactory. A varsity gridiron, <• diamond and running track, three recreational gridirons and three super-imposed recreational, diamonds, fif- teen tennis courts, eleven of the latter east of the gymnasium, were made at this time. In 1922, a fence of brick piers capped with cast stone trim with iron grill between was erected. In 1923, enabled thereto by an arrangement between the Trustees, who lent the credit of the college, and the Athletic Council, who agreed to underwrite any deficit in the subscriptions, a grandstand of brick, steel and concrete of Georgian design, having a seating capacity of seven thousand and containing a memorial vestibule and tablets, was built. At the same time a portion of the Chase Farm, formerly the Agricultural College Farm, purchased by the college, was graded and seeded to provide more gridirons and diamonds in order to carry out the design of the committee to increase as much as possible the facilities for recreational athletics. In 1924 a cement walk was put along the front of the stand and in the memorial vestibule.

In the planning and construction of the whole undertaking the committee was especially fortunate in having the services of Messrs. Larson & Wells of Hanover as architects and engineers. Their intimate knowledge of local conditions and requirements, coupled with their ability to design structures which would harmonize with the rest of the college plant, have produced a memorial of which Dartmouth men may well be proud. To Mr. Allen Hazen of New York, drainage engineer, who generously advised upon the drainage problem, the committee is also deeply indebted for the fine results accomplished.

The amount of the expenses of printing, postage, stenographic and clerical work of the committee and class agents necessary to such an undertaking has amounted to $4,363.81, This amount will be increased by the publication of this report. Generosity on the part of all those assisting in the project has kept the figure so low. The balance of the amount raised, aside from $222.50 on hand, to wit, $257,230.76, which includes the underwriting by the Athletic Council, represents the total cost of the construction as outlined.

All moneys received have been turned over to the college treasurer, who has given a formal receipt for the same to the donors. All contracts and expenditures have in like manner been handled by the treasurer, the accounts having been carried as a part of the regular accounts of the college.

During the progress of the project further information brought forth the names of men, other than the original ninety, who were entitled to be, placed upon the Dartmouth Honor Roll. A careful checking up of all the names by Prof. Eugene F. Clark, secretary to the college, with the co-operation of the secretaries of all classes, eventually established a list of one, hundred and twelve names, which was accepted and adopted as final. To engrave their names, class by class in serried rank, upon a great sheet of New Hampshire granite, captioned by a single festoon of bronze laurel and by the incised words, "The laurelled sons of Dartmouth," taken from the Dartmouth Song "Men of Dartmouth," by Richard Hovey 'B5, followed by the last six lines of the second verse:

"The Mother keeps them in her heart, And guards their altar-flame; The still North remembers them, The hill-winds know their name, And the granite of New Hampshire Keeps the record of their fame,"

seemed the most befitting format for keeping alive their record and was accordingly chosen.

The central entrance archway of the grandstand was designed to open into a memorial vestibule. On the side of the archway has been placed a bronze tablet with the. wording:

DARTMOUTH MEMORIAL FIELD

BUILT 1921-1923 BY THE MEN

OF DARTMOUTH IN MEMORY OF THEIR ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE BROTHERS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES

IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-18. AROUND THE WORLD THEY KEPT FOR HER THE OLD CHIVALRIC FAITH

On the right side of the vestibule between brick pilasters rises the tall granite page of the Honor Roll. Balancing it upon the other side against another page of granite stands forth the marble and bronze bas-relief of Hichard Neville Hall 'l5, the first American to fall in France, the gift of Mr. Edward Tuck '62, of Paris. In the center between the tall brick piers is placed the French "75", presented by France to Dartmouth. To the great pilaster beside the Richard N. Hall bas-relief is attached a Georgian bronze tablet,

A TRIBUTE FROM

THE FORTY-SEVEN SURVIVING DARTMOUTH VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR 1861-1865

TO TI-IE

THIRTY FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVEN MEN OF DARTMOUTH WHO ENTERED THEIR COUNTRY'S SERVICE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918

NOVEMBER ; 1923.

the gift of Mr. William Hood '67, of San Francisco, with the approval of the other Civil War Veterans.

The object of the committee has been to establish a great playfield and a Dartmouth shrine set both apart and amid the playfield, where oncoming youth might catch and carry on the high spirit of past youth, thereby fulfilling the purpose, for which the committee was by you created.

Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM N. COHEN, Chairman CLARENCE B. LITTLE HOMER EATON KEYES JAMES P. RICHARDSON HALSEY C. EDGERTON GEORGE G. CLARK, SecretaryMEMORIAL FIELD COMMITTEE