Edward Tuck Honored

The ninth Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor to be bestowed on an American since the inception of the order is to be presented to Edward Tuck, the eighty-eight-year-old philanthropist, resident for many years in Paris. The honor was awarded to Mr. Tuck on the motion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs because of "his enduring friendship for France, for French art and for all humanity."

Mr. Tuck is in Monte Carlo and the presentation will be made probably in March on his return to Paris. His wife, who was Miss Julia Stell, died last November. She did notable war relief work and later bestowed many gifts upon the French nation.

In 1921 Mr. Tuck gave a large art collection to the Petit Palais in Paris and announced he was bequeathing the remainder of his collection to the Petit Palais by will, effective at his death or not later than 1931. Also he gave the chateau of Bois Preau and its library founded by the Empress Josephine to the state so that it might be joined with the Malmaison grounds, from which it was separated after the death of Napoleon. Only last week Mr. Tuck presented to the government Gerard's painting entitled "The Empress Josephine at Malmaison in 1807."

The Stell Hospital and School of Social Economy founded by Mr. and Mrs. Tuck near Paris twenty-seven years ago bears Mrs. Tuck's maiden name. Mrs. Tuck was an officer of the Legion of Honor.

The only other Americans who received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor are Adm iral W. S. Benson, Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, General Tasker H. Bliss, General John T. Pershing, General Horace Porter, former Ambassador William Graves Sharp, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, and former Ambassador Hugh Campbell Wallace.

Edward Tuck graduated from Dartmouth in 1862 and is the College's most generous benefactor. Throughout the administrations of three Dartmouth presidents, Tucker, Nichols, and Hopkins, his gifts have in very large measure accounted for the growth and expansion of the College since 1898.