FRANCE HIGHLY HONORS DARTMOUTH'S BENEFACTOR

Announcement has been received here of the decree of the Council of Ministers of the French Government advancing Edward Tuck, Dartmouth's greatest benefactor and a graduate of the class of 1862- from the rank of Commander to that of 'Grand Officer in the Legion of Honor. M. Edouard Herriot, Minister of Public Instruction and of Fine Arts, will decorate Mr. Tuck with the insignia of office.

For their many gifts to France Mr. and Mrs. Tuck have often received expressions of gratitude from the French government. This promotion, one of the highest honors given by France, follows their gift to the Republic of the domain of the Bois-Preau, to be joined to the Museum of Malmaison under the jurisdiction of the National Museums.

Marshal .joffre expresses the deep regard of the French people for Mr. Tuck in a letter congratulating him upon his , advancement.

FRENCH REPUBLIC Marshal Joffre Paris, February 22, 1927.

Dear Sir: It has given me great pleasure to learn of your recent promotion to the rank of Grand Officer of the legion of Honor. I am very happy to take the opportunity thus offered me to express to you my keen pleasure and to tell you how greatly I appreciate the very generous and thoughtful gesture that you made in giving the domain of the Bois-Preau to the National Museums, to be joined to the Museum of Malmaison.

All who are interested in. the great tradition of our past cannot but be deeply grateful to you for it. So it is particularly pleasant for me to send you my warm congratulations.

Please give Mrs. Tuck my respectful greetings and accept, Sir, my sincere regards. (Signed) J. JOFFRE.

The "Ganlois Artistique" commenting on this latest of Mr. and Mrs. Tuck, says : "Everyone knows of their valued gifts to the Museum of the Legion of Honor, to the Museum of the Louvre to the Museum of the City of Paris, to the city of Rueil and most recently their magnificent gift of the domain Bois-Preau, which joined to that of Malmaison, restores to Malmaison its original form at the time when the Empress Josephine lived there in isolation, a gift which has just been officially accepted by Gaston Doumergue, president of the republic.

"M. Herriot has decreed that the names of Mr', and Mrs. Edward Tuck be engraved on the plaques of Grand Donatgurs at the Louvre, where the names of great benefactors are already inscribed."

Following his graduation from Dartmouth in 1862, Mr. Tuck served as United States viceconsul to France from 1864 to 1866. He later became a member of the financial firm, Munroe and company, of New York and Paris and made his permanent residence in Paris. In 1900 he founded and endowed the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration and Finance at Dartmouth, in memory of his father, Amos Tuck of the class of 1835. Since that time Mr. Tuck has made to Dartmouth gifts both generous in substance and understanding'in fulfilling imminent needs of the College. He was a close friend of the late President William Jewett Tucker.

Mr. Tuck was given the honorary LL.D. by Dartmouth in 1903. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.