E. W. Knight, '87 Nominated
At the meeting of the Alumni Council held in New York on November 1 the name of Edward W. Knight '87 was placed in nomination as alumni trustee to succeed himself at the expiration of his term of office in June, 1930.
Mr. Knight was born in Newport, New Hampshire, on April 30, 1866, and received the degree of A.B. from Dartmouth College with Phi Beta Kappa rank. Since that time he has been active as a lawyer and banker in West Virginia. He is a member of the American, West Virginia, and Charleston Bar Associations, the West Virginia Coal Mining Institute, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the National Economic League. He is also a director of the Virginian Railway Company, the Kanawha Valley Bank, the Central Trust Company of Charleston, the Norfolk National Bank of Commerce and Trusts, the Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Company, and the New River Coal Company. From 1891 to 1894 he was a member of the City Council of Charleston. From 1916 to 1922 he served on the Dartmouth Alumni Council, holding the office of president from 1920 to 1922. He has been a trustee of Dartmouth College since 1925.
According to the constitutional provisions of the Alumni Association the responsibility of nominating alumni trustees rests with the Alumni Council. Provision is made, however, for further nominations by the alumni at large. The section of the constitution dealing with this feature is quoted herewith:
"Said secretary shall also give notice, not less than four months before Commencement, and by publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, that the Council will nominate alumni trustee or trustees to take office on the first Monday after Commencement.
"Within two months after such publication in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE any one hundred alumni qualified to vote for the Council of Alumni may file with the said secretary a petition over their own signatures for the nomination of a qualified alumnus for the office of alumni trustee. Said secretary shall, as soon as practicable after expiry of the period for nomination by petition, send to each alumnus qualified to vote an official ballot containing the name of the alumnus nominated by the Council for the office of trustee and the name or names of candidates nominated by petition, as aforesaid. No voting by proxy shall be allowed in voting for alumni trustees, and the polls shall close on June 10 before commencement.
"If no candidates are nominated by petition as above set forth, no voting for trustees shall take place, and the alumnus nominated by the Council shall be the candidate of the alumni for the office of trustee."
According to this constitutional provision further nominations by petition may be made until March, 1930. All papers should be sent to Eugene F. Clark, Secretary of the Alumni Association, Hanover, New Hampshire.
