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Class of 1872

LEWIS GRIEVE FARMER died October 27, 1932 at McLean Hospital, Waverly, Mass.

He was born in Roxbury, Mass., November 5, 1849, the son of Herman Farmer, a native of Providence, R. I., and Henrietta C. Brown, a native of Albany, N. Y.

He entered Roxbury Latin School in September, 1863, and continued in that school until he was prepared for college in 1868.

In that year he entered Dartmouth, and immediately became prominent by his fine preparation and readiness in the classroom, as well as on account of his wonderful physique and abounding health. During his freshman yea:r he was identified in a torchlight procession in which his class was permitted to join, to celebrate the return of a professor from his wedding trip. His regalia consisted in part of a jack o'lantern, the principal piece of which probably grew in a cornfield, and it threw too much light on his countenance to enable him to pass unnoticed. The consequence was, he became the scapegoat of the class and was disciplined. The terrible penalty visited upon him was that he should be rusticated for a short period, by reciting his lessons to his intimate friend and one of the class wags Billy Evans, instead of to his regular instructors. Whether on account of this little circumstance or for other reasons unknown or not remembered, he matriculated at Michigan University and remained there for a few months, in his sophomore year; after which he returned to Dartmouth. About this time he acquired the nickname of "Rusty"; possibly because it was a brief form of the Latin equivalent of his family name, or possibly because Billy Evans for convenience imposed it upon him. At any rate "Rusty" he became and continued during the rest of his life to all the class of '72.

His nickname, like many others, was an emblem of his great popularity in the class and among his intimates in college.

His particular interests in athletics centered on baseball, then developing in importance, but still crude when compared with the present game. That was an era prior to protection by mitts or masks. His great muscular development and outstanding endurance qualified him as a pitcher in those days of strict limitation by rules which penalized the delivery of a pitched ball from a hand above the waist. His skill was recognized and he became the sole pitcher of the "first nine," then so named as the Dartmouth representative in contests with other colleges. He also became and continued until he graduated, the captain of the College baseball teams. Secretly among his associates it became known that he was able to deliver a "curved" ball, but that it was not entirely and reliably under his control as to direction, although propelled with great force. This secret was carefully guarded for use in close contests where risks seemed necessary. In a few cases the curve appeared to assist in confounding adversaries. Then it seemed mysterious, now its mystery has ceased. Later classes thought it was unknown before their time. It may have been known before Farmer used it, incidentally, but if so the previous use was not known to him or to the other members of his team.

Farmer was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, and on graduation was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa.

In September, 1872, he registered as a student and clerk in the law office of Ambrose A. Ranney, Esq. (Dartmouth 1844), in Boston, Mass. To assist in producing the necessary income he earlier did duty for the Grand Rapids Daily Democrat in Michigan and later for the Boston Times. He also became one of the reporters for the Boston Daily Globe, and continued on its staff until March, 1873. He then took a similar position on the Boston DailyJournal and the Saturday Evening Gazette, and became court reporter for the Traveler and the Boston Transcript. In December, 1873, he applied himself exclusively to the study of law and his clerkship in Mr. Ranney's office, and served besides as tutor for five months and attended Boston Law School for one term. During the fall of 1874 he taught two months in the Boston city schools. On January 10, 1875, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar at the same time as his Dartmouth classmate William P. Fowler. He then became counsel for the Boston Transcript Company, and so remained as long as he practiced his profession. Until March, 1891, he occupied himself in various positions connected with journalism. He became a member of the Boston Press Club and was frank to declare his preference for work in that profession, but chose law on account of the greater emolument. In October, 1875, he formed a partnership with his Dartmouth classmate George Fred Williams under the title Farmer and Williams at 15 Pemberton Square, Boston; their office space now having become a part of the entrance to the new court house. This firm continued until February, 1884.

A classmate writing of him in those years stated in print: "He is the same jovial, bighearted, kindly 'Rusty' as familiarly knownto every one in '72."

For many years he was a devoted whist player and a well known member of the Boston Whist Club and of the Boston Athletic Association. For years he maintained his interest in bowling and other athletic sports, particularly golf.

He was elected to the Common Council in Boston in 1885; to the Board of Aldermen of the city of Boston in 1891; and in 1895 he became a member of the Board of Election Commissioners of the city of Boston. When the United States Bankruptcy Act went into effect in July, 1898, he was appointed by United States District Judge Lowell referee in bankruptcy; and was reappointed in July, 1900, and July, 1902.

Later it was printed of him: "In thisoffice he has made a distinct success, owingto the care and judgment which he hasbrought to the settlement of legal questionswhich he has been called upon to decide,and to the patient and considerate treatment which all persons, whether debtors,officers of the Court, or attorneys haveuniformly received at his hands. * * * Hisservices are much sought by his brotherattorneys of the bar as auditor, referee, andmaster in chancery."

In 1907 his wonderful physical powers had so far succumbed to the hard work he had done that he was compelled to suspend his activities and apply himself to the recuperation of his health.

In January, 1912, he was again able to resume the practice of the law. By judicious use of the record he had already established he was able to maintain himself, and so far gained public recognition that in March, 1917, Hon. Samuel W. McCall, Dartmouth '74, then governor of Massachusetts, appointed him one of the public administrators for Suffolk county in that state. The duties of the office were agreeable; he was able to renew his physical exercises, and life was again worth living. In addition to his other official duties, he was secretary of the Proprietors of Mount Auburn Cemetery with a fine office and liberal salary for over twenty years.

His activities continued for several years until July 26, 1924, when he suffered the sudden loss of his devoted wife and congenial companion by cerebral hemorrhage at Gloucester, Mass.; and in 1926 he was stricken with his last illness, which proved to be incurable; he remained an invalid the major part of the time, helpless and in bed; enduring a great deal of mental and physical suffering, until he became and continued unconscious for the last two weeks of his life. Painless he became at last: "So fades a summer cloud away;So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;So gently shuts the eye of day;So dies a wave along the shore."

May 28, 1879, he married Miss Marian S. Foss of Roxbury, Mass., and all their three children who survive are his sons Allen B. (Dartmouth 1903) of Boston and Malcolm (Yale 1904) of New Haven, Conn., and a daughter Mrs. Marian W. Robinson of Bethlehem, Pa.; there are also seven grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at the chapel in Forest Hills Cemetery, October 29, 1932.

Class of 1873

CHARLES FREDERICK BRADLEY, one of the outstanding and best loved members of the class, is dead. His life was a busy, devoted, and useful life to the very end. He died, as we feel sure he would have chosen to die, brave, active, interested in every good movement to his last breath. No years of sad invalidism, no separation from the busy life of men, no weary living on after the once busy brain was too tired to think and plan, none of that horror was his. He died with the harness on, ready to pull the load uphill and down, up to the evening of the busy day of life. Thank God for such a man.

He came of a Dartmouth-loving family. He was born in Chicago, Ill., March 16,1851, and was the son of David Merrill and Eliza Ann (Emery) Bradley. His father was a printer by trade and later became editor of a paper. Our classmate's early education was obtained in the schools of Chicago, where in the summer of 1869 he and his brother, Frank A., a little older than he, graduated at the High School. The brothers entered Dartmouth College at the beginning of the fall term of 1869, and continued their course without interruption until their graduation in 1873, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Both were fine scholars, and Fred graduated the third in rank of the large class. Yet, fine student though he was, he took enthusiastic part in all the activities of college life, was a popular man with all the class, and entered heartily into the sports of that day. Just then bowling was a popular indoor sport, and Fred could roll up as fine a score as any other man. In baseball, while not pretending to compete for the college nine, he played well at second base for the class nine, and was ever ready in company with a group of friends to start off for a long stroll over the roads around Hanover. He was an excellent singer, and with likeminded friends now and then serenaded some of the young ladies of the faculty homes. Later in the course, when the Dartmouth Choral Society, which included citizens of Hanover as well as students, was organized, he became an enthusiastic member, participating in a popular concert in March, 1872, at which the old White Church was crowded. In fraternity life, he belonged during freshman year to Kappa Sigma Epsilon, and later to Alpha Delta Phi. His scholastic rank gave him a place on what was then a feature of college life, Junior Exhibition, at which those who would correspond to men of Rufus Choate scholarship of today participated. At the first class election in freshman fall he was chosen vice-president. He was secretary and a member of the executive committee of three of the United Fraternity, which and the Social Friends were the two open fraternities of that day, each having its own library, with books of most recent fiction. Later these libraries became part of the College Library, but at that time they were especially resorted to on the part of students. He was also recording secretary of the Theological and Missionary Society, which later was merged with the college Y. M. C. A. Members of the senior class of that time were editors and publishers of The Dartmouth, then a monthly magazine, and of the editorial staff of ten, Bradley was one. In these and other ways it will be seen what a leading part he took in the college life. On the graduation program, ranking the third scholar of the class, he was assigned a philosophical oration on "The Law of Growth and Decay in the Material Universe."

Desiring to enter the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, he became a student at Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, Ill., and during the first year took a prize of $100 for an essay on prophecy. For two years, 1874-6, he was tutor of Greek in Dartmouth, but adhering to his original plan he resigned that place and in 1876 entered the middle class of Andover Theological Seminary. A year later he returned to Garrett, where he graduated in 1878 with Commencement honors. October 14, 1877, he was ordained deacon by Bishop Merrill at the regular session of the Rock River (Ill.) Conference, and during his senior year in the seminary he supplied regularly the Methodist church at River Forest, Ill. In September, 1878, he joined the Minnesota Conference, and was assigned the charge of a church in Duluth. Other positions had been opened to him. He had the opportunity of going to Calcutta, India, as instructor in a school of theology connected with Dr. Thoburn's work. His labors in Duluth were crowned with marked success, the church making rapid growth. From Duluth he went to Fargo, N. D., and in the fall of 1880 assumed the chair of Greek in Hamline University, St. Paul, Minn. In June, 1882, he accepted a call to Garrett Biblical Institute as adjunct professor of New Testament exegesis. Before assuming the duties of that position he and his wife spent a year of travel and study in Europe, staying longest at the theological seminaries in Heidelberg and Berlin, in the latter pursuing special studies in New Testament exegesis. A month in Russia was an interesting feature of their travels. Returning to Garrett, he labored indefatigably, contributing also many articles to various publications. He published in 1889 a most serviceable book for clergymen, "New Testament Word Lists," referring to the Greek language, a book which passed through several editions. In "The Life and Writings of Francis Dana Hemenway" he wrote 133 pages of the book, comprising the biography. In 1887 he received from Lawrence University the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. In his busy life he was called upon to deliver lectures on Egypt, Russia, and other lands where he had traveled. But a severe and increasing pain over the eyes had become a constant agony, and the trustees of Garrett insisted that he take a year's leave of absence. This was spent in travel abroad, in 1900-1, his wife accompanying him. No improvement in health being manifested, he resigned his position at Evanston, and the winter of 1901-2 was spent in New York city, undergoing a special course of treatment, but with little benefit. In 1904, due to a change of religious views, he withdrew from the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, and thereafter until his death was especially devoted to the study of sociology and the many sociological problems. With earnestness he entered intothat work, especially in Massachusetts. With his winter home at 90 Mt. Vernon St., Boston, and his summer home at Annisquam, on the seashore of Gloucester, he became increasingly active in all good causes. He was treasurer of the Massachusetts Child Labor Committee, chairman of the legislative committee of the Consumers League of Massachusetts, vice-president of District No. 6 of the Associated Charities of Boston, chairman of the committee on labor conditions of the Twentieth Century Club, and a member of the Boston Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He was appealed to by the residents and summer visitors in Annisquam many times for assistance in forwarding plans for improvements in the community surroundings, and in his home there he died.

For a long time he had suffered from heart trouble, but he had been better. The graduation of his daughter Betty with Phi Beta Kappa honor at Vassar and his attendance there at Commencement was a source of great joy to him, as was also her marriage to Dr. Charles A. Janeway, Yale 1930. Bradley's life ended, as he would have had it end, useful to the very last. Alert, friendly, helpful, with gladness in the loved family circle around him, earthly life was suddenly merged in the heavenly life. On the final day of his life, July 26, 1932, he began the morning as usual, but a heart attack of unusual severity seized him, and in an instant he was gone.

On the death of Alfred S. Hall, who for years had with rare success acted as class agent for the Dartmouth Alumni Fund, Bradley became his successor, entering into this, as into everything he did, with devotion, and collecting substantial contributions.

The Secretary cannot let this record close without a personal tribute. His rare friendship with the Bradley brothers has been a joy and inspiration, starting with the first day of that choice period of life, the four golden years of college.

Professor Bradley married first, September 3, 1879, Miss Susan Harriet Chase, whose father, Charles C. Chase, Dartmouth 1839, was for many years an instructor in the Lowell public schools. She died September 16, 1905. On November 9, 1907, in New York city, he married Miss Mary Stark Emery, who survives him. Of the surviving children, Elizabeth, as before noted, is the wife of Dr. Charles A. Janeway, and Mary is unmarried. At our last class reunion in Hanover in 1928, Bradley with his wife and daughter Betty gave a special reception to the '73 men and their ladies in their rooms at the Inn, a gracious attention which was one of the crowning features of the reunion.

The last service of respect for Dr. Bradley was held at the Bradley home in Annisquam. Friends and neighbors were present from the village where he had been loved and respected, and from the summer colony, where he had always held a place of honor. The Episcopal service was read by Rev. C. Leslie Glenn, rector of Christ church, Cambridge. Appropriate selections of tunes were played on the piano preceding the service. Simplicity, dignity, and love marked the last service, appropriate to the man whose lifework was done. The interment was in Lowell.

Class of 1878

LEWIS ALLEN DRAKE died in Portsmouth, N. H., January a, 1902. He was born in Portsmouth, February 16, 1857, son of Franklin Munroe and Olivia S. (Philbrook) Drake. His parents separated in his early childhood, and he and his mother lived with his grandparents until he came to college, when his mother came with him, took a house, and rented rooms to students.

He entered what was then known as the Chandler Scientific Department of the college. By some oversight the College failed to record in his case any of the personal data usually noted of entering students. His residence was set down as Hanover, and that is the only fact of record. He was a member of Sigma Delta Pi and of Christian Fraternity, but seems not to have made intimate acquaintances. A few recall him as a modest, gentlemanly fellow.

He left college sometime in the second year of the course, and from that time until quite recently neither the College nor the class had any tidings of him. Nothing on file at the College afforded any clues to follow in making inquiry, and such memories of him as classmates contributed were so vague as to mislead. The statement regarding him in the fifty-year class history was erroneous in stating that he was a married man when he came to college. So far as is now known he never married, and seems to have had no settled occupation or habitation. His mother survived him until 1907.

Class of 1881

GEORGE HENRY ROBERTS died in the Boston City Hospital on November 5, 1932. He had been in poor health for a number of years, spending most of the time as a boarder in a home in South Boston. A few weeks ago he suffered a shock, and his condition became so serious that he was moved to the hospital, where he died on the ninth day. Interment was at his old home in Dover, N. H.

Roberts was born in Boston, Mass., June 2, 1858. He was the son of Winthrop and Mary Esther (Waterhouse) Roberts. As his father's name suggests, the family is connected with the Governor Winthrop family. He once told the class secretary that his mother's grandfather, John Tuttle, was the model of "Brother Jonathan." In his veins ran a trace of Indian blood.

He fitted for college at the high school in Dover, and entered Dartmouth in the class of 'BO, with which class he remained two and one-half years. Losing one year on account of ill health, he took the last year and a half of his course with the class of '81. After graduation he taught in various schools around New York, among them Alexander Institute at White Plains, Trinity School at Tivoli, and Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn. He then settled down to his specialty as teacher of voice and singing, having studios now in Boston and now in New York, but regarding Boston as really his home. He had many famous pupils and did really notable work. And not only did he train the voices of others, but his own voice had an extraordinarily wide range.

Roberts was never married. He was a member, in Dartmouth, of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

Class of 1884

COLONEL ROBERT HENRY ROLFE, U. S. A., retired, died at his home in San Antonio, Texas, on October 28, 1932, of pneumonia. Details of his last illness are not available at this writing.

Col. Rolfe was born in Concord, N. H., October 16, 1863. His father, Henry Pearson Rolfe, was a graduate of Dartmouth, class of 1848. He attended the public schools of Concord, graduating from the High School in June, 1880. The following fall he entered Dartmouth with the class of 1884, taking the classical course. He was a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. At once Rolfe took an interest in athletic activities. In the fall athletic meet of freshman year he won second prize in the half-mile run and first prize in the potato race. Sophomore year he won the halfmile race. Junior year he was first in the half-mile, the mile, and two-mile runs, and played left tackle on the football team. Senior year he won the half-mile and mile races and retained his tackle position on the football team. Rolfe enjoyed the distinction of being the custodian of the Class Pipe during his college course.

For one year after graduation he studied law in Concord. From 1885 to 1889 he was employed in a railroad office in that city. Soon after graduation he joined the New Hampshire state militia, and from 1884 to 1898 he held successively the offices of commissary sergeant, sergeant, sergeant major, first lieutenant, captain, major, and colonel of the Third Regiment, N. H. National Guard. In 1898 he was colonel of the First N. H. Volunteers, Spanish-American war. From 1899 to 1902 he was major, then inspector general of U. S. Volunteers, stationed at Havana, Cuba, serving on the staffs of Generals Brooke and Wood. In 1901 he was commissioned captain in the Quartermaster's Department of U. S. regular army by President McKinley.

Colonel Rolfe's own account of his life in the U. S. A. gives as satisfactory a review of his activities as can be made and is appended in full.

"My life has been that of the army officer. I have served in Cuba; San Diego,Cal.; Japan; Philippines; San Francisco,Cal.; Boston, Mass.; Camp Devens, Mass.;Ft. Sam Houston, Texas; Philadelphia, Pa.;New York city; Baltimore, Md.; Charleston, S. C.; Gievres, France; London, Eng.;Washi?igton, D. C.; and Ft. Huachuca, Ariz.

"I have friends wherever I have servedand delight in revisiting them wheneverpossible. Much of my duty has been of anindependent nature and most of it very enjoyable. Were I to live it over, there is littlethat I would change. I have been thrownin contact with many of the political leaders, and with prominent military officersduring the period, having been a staff officer under Generals Brooke, Wood, Chaffee, and Scott, and served under GeneralsPershing, Hines, Summerall, McCain, andRogers. Nearly all the prominent figuresin the World War were personal acquaintances, and many of them personal friends.

"During my stay in London, I met manyof the prominent people, including PrimeMinister Stanley Baldwin, with whom Ihad more than a passing acquaintance.

"My aim on graduation was to follow inmy father's footsteps—the law—but povertycaused me to change. I soon became enamored with the military, and enlisted inthe New Hampshire National Guard immediately after graduation.

"In 1898 I was selected by the Governorof New Hampshire as colonel of the FirstNew Hampshire Volunteer Infantry in thewar with Spain, and upon the muster-outof that regiment, followed on in the military service.

"The three years of duty in Cuba underGeneral Wood were full of interest, as Iwas used in work connected with the civilgovernment to a large extent.

"My commission in the regular army wasgiven to me by President McKinley inperson in 1901, accompanied by an expression of gratitude for my services in theSpanish-American War.

"My three years in San Diego, Calif.,were years of pleasure both in climate andin friendship. While there I saw much ofEd Nutt [a classmate] until his death.

"My two years in Japan were full ofinterest. I traveled all over Japan, Korea,and North China, missing by a few hoursseeing Homer Hulbert [another classmate]in Korea. In 1907 made a journey up theYang-tse river from Shanghai to Hankow,stopping at all the points recently broughtto publicity by the present Chinese war—Nankin, Wuhu, Kin-kiang—thence by railto Pekin and Tientsin, and then back toNagasaki, Japan.

"In the summer of 1907 I took a transport, the U. S. A. T. 'Crook,' from SanFrancisco to Alaska, visited Skagway, FortSeward, Valdez, St. Michaels, and Nome,stopping on the home voyage at Seattleand Tacoma, Wash.—a most enjoyable andinstructive trip.

"I spent a month in the city of Mexico in1912, and have visited all Mexican borderpoints from Brownsville to Yuma. I haveplayed golf from the Philippines to Italy,and hope sometime to finish the circuit ofthe world. In the World War I served inthis country, going to France in 1919 andthence to London, England. During myeighteen months there, in closing accounts,I handled 5196,000,000, for which I hold acomplete clearance from the ComptrollerGeneral.

"During my life I have passed throughthe following epidemics without sickness:smallpox in 1885, typhoid fever in 1898,yellow fever in 1900, cholera in 1906,bubonic plague in 1908, spinal meningitisin 1912, influenza in 1918.

"At the conclusion of my work in London, England, I passed a most pleasantmonth on the French Riviera at Mentone,visiting Cannes, Nice, and Monte Carlo,and then served a month at Coblentz, Germany, visiting Wiesbaden, Cologne, Dusseldorf, etc.

"During my life I have met PresidentsGrant, Hayes, Harrison, McKinley, Taft,Harding, Codlidge, and Hoover. With Taftand Coolidge I was on terms of personalfriendship, and also had personal acquaintance with President Madero of Mexico.John W. Davis, Democratic candidate forpresident in 1924, was ambassador to St.James' while I was stationed in London,and our relations were extremely pleasant.While in London I also had the pleasure ofmeeting socially Lord Allenby, the conqueror of Palestine.

"In November, 1927, accompanied byMrs. Rolfe, I sailed from New York viaPanama Canal to San Francisco, thence toHonolulu. We spent three delightfulmonths at Schofield Barracks as guests ofour son and his family. On our return in1928 we visited at Seattle, Wash., thence byboat to San Diego, where we were guests ofold friends. In June, 1928, we left forWashington, D. C., where we have boughta home and will reside."

When Rolfe was at Fort Sam Houston, on request for details of his work he sent the following: "As the supply and financialofficer of one of the largest posts in thearmy, with disbursements of over a milliondollars yearly, I am some busy man, weekdays, Sundays, and some nights. I supplyfood, fuel, pay, clothing, quarters, andtransportation for 2,500 soldiers and 1,800animals; repairs for over 300 buildings, 15miles of roads and 10 miles of sidewalk, 30miles of fences; have directly under myorders 130 soldiers and 100 civilian employees; run a laundry and an ice factory;pump a million gallons of water daily; andride a horse ten miles every morning in inspecting the outfit."

Rolfe received the Cross of Valor from the Polish Republic.

Some years ago a captain in one of the regiments stationed in the Philippines at the time Rolfe was there told of the excellence of his work and the high regard in which he was held by officers and men.

Rolfe left Washington after a short stay there and went to San Antonio, Texas, where he has since lived. He is survived by his widow, a son, two daughters, and four grandchildren. The son, Captain Onslow S. Rolfe, was graduated from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point in He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for gallantry in the second battle of the Marne in 1918.

Rolfe was a Knight Templar, a 32d Degree Mason, and a member of the Mystic Shrine, a Sojourner, and a Hero of '76.

In college Rolfe enjoyed his associates to the full, and it is certain that few if any members of his class had more friends. Everybody liked the rollicking, good-natured, happy young fellow. He was inherently a likable fellow. When after the Spanish-American war, he entered the regular army his classmates watched his upward course with increasing interest and admiration. It is to those who remain a matter of gratification that "Bob" really enjoyed his life in the army and achieved a marked success. He was present at the five-year, the ten-year, and forty-year reunions of his class. On the last occasion every one remarked on his magnificent physique and soldierly bearing. He was still much the same sort of man as in undergraduate days, and drew all to him by his enthusiasm and genial personality. The promise of his youth had been fulfilled. He had come into his own and we were proud of him. He was a good soldier, an efficient officer, a generous comrade, a loyal class and Dartmouth man. He served well his time and station. The class of '84 is proud of him and his attainments in his chosen work. He loved his college and his classmates and received from them in like measure.

Class of 1892

EDWARD KIMBALL HALL died at his home in Hanover of a heart attack early Thursday morning, November 10, 1932. He had not been feeling well for some time but it was not until this fall that, because he appeared to be suffering from complete exhaustion, he decided, on the advice of his physicians, to remain in his room for a complete rest. He seemed to be making favorable progress toward recovery until the night of November 5 when he was seized with two heart attacks but rallied from these sufficiently to lend encouragement to the hope that the enforced rest might restore his health to the extent of enabling him to engage again in those activities that did not require too strenuous effort. It was a distinct shock, therefore, when after passing a comfortable day and resting easily during the early part of the night of November 9, he succumbed to recurring heart attacks about four o'clock the next morning, November 10. So little was the critical nature of his illness suspected by his friends and associates in Hanover and in all walks of life clear across the country, many of whom did not know that he had been ill at all, that the news of his sudden death came with startling force.

The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon, November 12. Rev. Luke M. White, the family's former pastor, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal church, Montclair, N. J., officiated. After prayers at the home, the services were continued at Rollins Chapel by Mr. White assisted by the college choir. In the pulpit with Mr. White were Rev. John U. Harris of St. John's Episcopal church, Hanover, and President Hopkins who read a passage from the scriptures. The rites were concluded in old Dartmouth cemetery, hallowed with memories and traditions of the College—a fitting resting place for one who loved the college so much and had served it in so many ways.

The pallbearers were Dean William R. Gray of the Tuck School; Dr. John P. Bowler, dean of the Medical School; Halsey C. Edgerton, College treasurer; Professor Charles R. Lingley who had been associated with Mr. Hall in war work; Edgar H. Hunter '01, of Hanover, and William F. Geiger '92. The front of the chapel was completely banked with floral offerings before which rested the casket covered with a beautiful mantle of lilies-of-the-valley and violets.

At the services were gathered members of the faculty and students, townspeople, classmates, people from far and near and from all levels of business and industry and fields of endeavor, football officials and members of the football rules committee, lawyers, college officials, former associates and present heads of the telephone companies, business executives from cities in a territory extending from Montreal to Chicago. Ninety-Two was represented by ten of the thirty-nine living members of the class; namely, Belknap, Bliss, Cook, Doty, Emerson, Geiger, Noyes, Rogers, Salinger, and Strong. Walter Thompson, also, was present on Friday but could not stay over for the funeral. All recalled the joyful reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hall in June when they little realized that it would be Ed and Mel Shurtleff who could not now answer to the call of the roll at the next reunion.

Mr. Hall is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sally Drew Hall: one daughter, Dorothy, wife of Laurence G. Leavitt 1925, of Tabor Academy, Marion, Mass.; a son, Edward K. (Bud) Hall Jr., a junior at Dartmouth: two grandchildren, Sally and Dick Leavitt; a sister, Mrs. Albert Field of Shelburne Falls, Mass.; and a brother, Howard Hall of Cobleskill, N. Y. An older son, Richard Drew Hall of the class of 1927, died suddenly in Hanover from meningitis at the beginning of his sophomore year. In memory of him Mr. and Mrs. Hall erected, equipped, and presented to the college Dick's House an infirmary for students and members of the faculty, with accommodations for parents who may wish to be near their sons at times of critical illness. It contains a large library filled with books contributed by friends of Dick and of his parents and family. Each volume contains an inscription written by the donor and an appropriate acknowledgment by Mr. Hall. Such loving thought and care on the part of Mr. and Mrs. Hall have gone into every detail for the comfort and welfare of sick and convalescing students, such friendliness and service characterize its efficient management, and so well is the manly, buoyant spirit of Dick reflected throughout the entire building, that Dick's House is pervaded by happy, spiritual atmosphere which is felt by everyone who crosses its threshold and knows and appreciates its history.

Ed was born July 9, 1870 in Granville, Illinois. His parents were Charles Prentiss Hall and Lucia Kimball Hall. During his early boyhood he lived in Hinsdale, N. H. He prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy, St. Johnsburg, Vermont, and in 1888 entered Oberlin College where he remained one year. In September, 1889, he came to Dartmouth and graduated in 1892 with the degree of A.B. He was a member of D.K.E., Casque and Gauntlet, and Phi Beta Kappa. In 1916 he received the degree of A.M. from Dartmouth. Last June Springfield College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Physical Education in recognition of his distinguished services in the field of athletics.

In college he played end on the football team of which he was captain in 1891. He also made his letter in baseball and track. He partly earned his way through college by working in hotels summers and teaching a winter term of school.

After graduation he served for two years as the first director of athletics at the University of Illinois where he did not confine his activities to college athletics alone but organized the first Illinois State High School Athletic Association. Entering Harvard in 1894, he received his degree from the Law School in 1896. He was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania for a short time, he came to Boston and entered the law firm of Samuel L. Powers '74 where he was soon joined by Matt Jones '94 and the firm name became Powers, Hall and Jones. He served as vicepresident of the Boston Chamber of Com- merce, became attorney for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. and vice-president of that company. During the World War he was business director of the Student Army Training Corps. In 1919 he became vice-president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. and lived in Montclair, N. J. He retired from his position with the telephone company in 1930, built a beautiful home on Rope Ferry Road, near Dick's House in Hanover, and joined the faculty of the Tuck School as lecturer on industrial relations and management. He retained an active interest in numerous business and industrial organizations and continued to be an indefatigable worker in the cause of football. He was a director of the Electric Bond & Share Co., the New England Telephone & Telegraph Co., the Atlas Utilities Co., the Lehigh Power Securities Co., the Chatham & Phoenix Investment Co., and the United Eruit Co. He was a member of the National Industrial Conference Board and of the New England Society. His clubs included the University, New York Dartmouth, Campfire Club of America, Congressional, St. Bernard Fish and Game, Hooper's Island Gun, Green Brook Country, Lake Mitchell Trout, and Hanover Country. He was a Republican and an Episcopalian.

During all the years since his graduation from college, no matter how heavy the demands of his business affairs were, he never lost interest in football. As a football official and as a member of the rules committee of which he had been chairman since 1911, he did more for football than any other man in the history of the game. George Daley, sports writer for the NewYork Herald Tribune, quotes him as follows: "Football is a wonderful sport. Weneed it and must keep it, but not at a costtoo heavy. We need its physical contacts,its good-natured roughness, its clash ofbody, and its test, of temper. The youth ofour land need this game and the lessons itteaches. It does them good to play it, andit does them good to watch it." The principle of fair play and clean sportsmanship guided him in all his relationships whether of football or business and is reflected in the rules of the game which he had so large a part in shaping.

He was always one of Dartmouth's most loyal sons. He served for ten years on the Board of Trustees. His name was at one time mentioned for president of the College. He was responsible for the establishment of the Dartmouth College Athletic Council and, at the time of his death, was entering upon a three-year term on the Council as one of the three alumni representatives. Ed was one of the organizers of Paleopitus, the student governing board. The gymnasium was built through his efforts. He was so intimately identified with the College and life in Hanover and had so strong a hold upon the affections of people that one of his friends said, "I can never think of Ed as away. I shall always think of him as right here."

The following is a quotation from an editorial in the Boston Transcript headed "Hall of Dartmouth."

When the word came today from Hanover, N. H., reporting his death, scoresof men who had once been his associatesand subordinates in a great corporationhere were swept by a sense of loss as keenas though he were still leading them whenhe died. This is an unusual condition. Itcannot be explained merely by the factthat Edward K. Hall was a lawyer andexecutive of remarkable mental ability,exceptionally thorough in his grasp ofdetails and at the same time gifted withbroad powers of foresight. The vital memory retained by all who knew him restsupon still other qualities. He had stronghuman magnetism, that drew other mentoward him, and made them feel that theirlives were a part of his life and that he wasready to accept a share in whatever concerned them.

President Hopkins made public a tribute to E. K. Hall immediately upon receipt of the news of his death November 10. His statement follows:

In the personal shock of news of EdHall's death I cannot go into details ofmy sense of loss. For over three decades Ihave treasured our mutual friendship. Insports, in business, in college affairs,formally and informally, and always socially and personally, we have played andworked together. I have never known himto do a questionable thing or to countenance a mean one. No words can expressmy sense of loss.

Walter R. Okeson, commissioner of football officials in the East and a prominent contemporary of Ed Hall's in the football world, writes the MAGAZINE:

There will be many tributes paid to thememory of Ed Hall. The outstanding feature of them all will be the fact that everyone will carry a depth of sincerity seldomto be found in such statements. To knowEd was to love him and in the hearts ofhis multitude of friends there is griefinconsolable.

His contribution to football is onlymatched by that of his co-worker WalterCamp. On Camp's death Ed carried on andbecause of inspiring leadership, his infinitetact and his rare diplomacy he was able tokeep the ship of football on an even keel.No politics or bickering entered into theconclaves of the rules committee and eachaction taken was always by a unanimousvote. It is doubtful if another man will everbe found who will combine his wisdom andtact with his unselfish devotion to the gamehe loved.

During the twenty-seven years he servedon the rules committee (the last twenty-twoas chairman) he had many associates whomade, as individuals and as a group, greatcontributions to the advancement of thegame and the clarification of the rules. Butthese men would be the first to testify tothe fact that their work was made possibleby the leadership of their chairman.

This year as his final contribution headded as a cap-stone to his work thechanges which were made for the protection of the players from unnecessary injury. We, who loved Ed, will always liketo remember that his last service to thegame of football was actuated by his sympathetic affection for the boys who playthe game.

The great modern game of intercollegiatefootball will stand as a monument to theuntiring service of that fine gentleman andgreat sportsman—E. K. Hall.

MERRILL SHURTLEFF died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage at his office in Lancaster, N. H., on October 19, 1932. The funeral on October 21 brought to Lancaster a gathering of the most prominent men in business and political life in New Hampshire. It was held in the Congregational church in order to accommodate the many who came to pay him tribute, and was conducted by Bishop Dallas and Rev. Richard P. McClintock of St. Paul's Episcopal church.

Shurtleff was born in Colebrook, N. H., March 10, 1870. He fitted for college at the Knowles Preparatory School in Winter Park, Fla., and at the Holderness School (of which he later became a trustee). Entering Dartmouth with the class of '92, he immediately displayed those qualities of leadership which marked his whole life. He was a fine scholar, prominent in college activities, and active in athletics, playing on the baseball team, and acting as captain in his senior year. He was a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity and the Sphinx society.

After graduation Shurtleff went to Lancaster and read law in the offices of Drew, Jordan, and Buckley. This was the leading law firm of Northern New Hampshire, and its members were widely known and highly regarded not only in the courts but in political circles. Shurtleff was admitted to the bar in 1896, continued to practice law with this firm, and later became a partner. At the time of his death, the firm was Shurtleff and Hinckley. For years he went to Concord as the authorized legislative agent for many large corporations such as the Brown Company, International Paper Company, the Maine Central Railroad. He came to know the leaders of both parties and a large number of the legislators.

Shurtlefi: early became interested in politics, and rapidly became a leader not only in the North Country but throughout the state. He believed sincerely in the Republican doctrines and worked ardently for what he believed. He never sought elective office for himself. He was, however, at various times judge of the local municipal court, United States commissioner, and from 1902 to 1908, fish and game commissioner. He was an enthusiastic hunter and fisherman, and as commissioner did much effective work in promoting these sports.

Shurtleff was untiring in his service of his home town, supporting every worthy project not only with generous gifts of money, but with sound advice and personal endeavor. He was president of the Siwooganock Savings Bank, a director of the Lancaster National Bank, trustee of the Lancaster Hospital, senior warden of St. Paul's church, and a member of North Star Commandery, North Star Chapter, and North Star Lodge, A. F. and A. M.

One June 14, 1897, Shurtleff married Emilie Porter, and they have had two sons. The elder, Porter, was killed by an accident just as he was to enter Dartmouth. The younger, Merrill Jr., is now with Filene's in Boston.

Shurtleff was positive and outspoken in his opinion, ready to make his position known on any question, and to defend this position. He was a hard fighter but a clean fighter, sincere in his desire to accomplish what he believed to be the best for his client, his state, or his country. He hated sham and hypocrisy, but to the deserving he was open-hearted and generous. Shurty was an ideal classmate, always ready to do more than his share, interested in all his classmates, and always ready to lend a hand. His inimitable ability as a story teller, his ready wit, his cordial and friendly manner, made him a choice companion. He will be deeply missed by a wide circle of friends .who had learned to depend on his wise advice and his faithful support.

Class of 1896

GEORGE GORDON NORRIS passed away at his summer house in Camden, Me., Sunday, September 4, 1932, from heart trouble.

He was born May 30, 1874, at Melrose, Mass., being the son of John Oscar and Kate (Gordon) Norris. His father was a teacher and his son's college preparation was had at Melrose High School. He remained with the class for two years, at the end of which time he received a flattering offer to associate himself with the Boston Library Bureau. Norris made rapid strides with this company and in a year or so was in charge of a new branch at Philadelphia, where he remained as manager for some years, during which time he became the third vice-president, and also vice-president of the Derby Desk Co. His business and executive ability became so well known that he was elected manager of the Conway Paper Co. of Conway, N. H., in 1907. Later on he was engaged in the automobile business in New York, and finally spent the last years of his life in the investment business in New York city, being especially interested in "Standard Oil Trust Shares."

Norris was athletically inclined, playing on the class football team, as well as baseball team; he was also the freshman baseball director. He belonged to Alpha Delta Phi and was a charter member of Theta Nu Epsilon, a sophomore society.

Norris attended but one reunion, and that was at our Fifteenth, in June, 1911. However, he was always vitally interested in the class and each member of it; always prompt in replies to the Secretary with class letters and most liberal in his contributions to class functions. Your Secretarv often had the pleasure of his company at luncheon on his many trips to Boston, and he was willing to give ample time to talk over class matters as well as of the individuals.

He will be remembered by all as gracious in his manner to every one and with a lovable character and disposition.

The last report from Norris concerning his family was that his daughter Katharyn, a graduate of Sweet Briar College, Va., had resigned the secretaryship of the alumnae of New York city and was on a trip through Europe. Katharyn was married June 20, 1931, to Stillman F. Kelley II of Lexington, Mass., and they now reside at Wellesley Hills, Mass. His son, George E. Norris, who graduated from the Colorado College of Mines, was for some time a mining engineer in Ironwood, Mich., and at present is assistant manager of the Gardner Denver Co., 147 Varick St., New York city. His son Howard E. was then and now is a member of the New York Produce Exchange. Norris leaves four grandchildren: Howard Edson Norris Jr., Mary Grace Norris, Jane Ann Norris and Priscilla Kelley.

Norris' Dartmouth connections were his father, John O. Norris, class of 1866; brothers Alfred E. Norris, class 1894, and John O. Norris Jr., class 1911. His brotherin-law Malcolm D. Barrows was class of 1891.

Class of 1899

ARTHUR HENRY WHITELEY NORTON died at his San Antonio, Texas, home on September 21, 1932, following a brief illness of dengue fever. Never of robust health, a lowered vitality during recent years did not give him the necessary fighting strength to successfully meet the fever attack when it came. He was ill less than a week.

"Doc," as his classmates called him, left college at the end of his junior year and was never privileged to return. Plans were progressed as each recent reunion period approached, but always something interfered to keep him at home, though his interest in class affairs and his classmates individually was ever keen. There was always prompt response to every class letter, and many of us were remembered with cards at holiday seasons.

None of our class, probably, has had less contact with classmates since leaving college than Norton. When leaving Hanover he went directly to his ranch home near San Antonio. He has continued our only resident in Texas. Few of us have occasion to be in Texas. The three or four who have been privileged to go to San Antonio have been richly rewarded by the pleasure they have themselves had through these meetings with "Doc," but far more by the knowledge of the joy they brought to this friendly fellow, who has for thirty-four years been somewhat isolated from the Dartmouth clan.

Norton's business career was somewhat varied, and entirely through force of circumstances. He found he could attend to his home responsibilities and take courses in law at University of Texas. 11l health forced him to give up the university work after a short time, and he studied in San Antonio, being admitted to the bar in 1900. Finding office work too confining, he joined a surveying party pioneering a railroad project across southern Texas. Determining engineering to be best suited to his temperament and his health, he followed in this course for the next several years in Texas and across the border in Old Mexico.

Subsequently he took up banking, which at that period offered unusual opportunities. He found this was also too confining, and the out-door career of surveying was resumed. He seems to have been torn between two perplexities—one a desire to pursue banking, and the necessity, for health's sake, to continue with his surveying, for we find him following both lines of endeavor through the years. In fact it is thought he contracted the attack of fever which caused his death while on a recent surveying trip. With his other interests he found time to assist in the direction of affairs on his ranch home, maintained on the outskirts of San Antonio.

Norton was twice married, his first wife dying in 1910, leaving him with three young children. He married again in 1912, and four daughters were born, of this union. A recent letter from Elizabeth Norton, now in her junior year at University of Texas, in speaking of her father, states, "I am sosorry that he never did get up North forhis reunions. I was planning on getting himto take me to the one in 1934, which willbe held within a week after I graduatefrom college. He would have enjoyed it somuch."

In reviewing the letters "Doc" has written for class reports one is impressed by the never failing spirit of comradeship and his undying interesting affairs of the College, and his classmates whom he knew only through the fellowships of undergraduate days. The intimacies of those friendships have remained fresh in his mind throughout the years, all of which seems remarkable considering the distances by which he was separated from these earlier associations. It is indeed a high tribute to the real depth of what we like to refer to as the Dartmouth spirit. We shall miss "Doc" Norton. We are grateful for his life and for what he has taught us.

Class of 1900

WALTER BLAIR died at his home in Norwood, Mass., on Monday, October 24, 1932, after an illness of only a few months' duration. He had begun to lose weight and went to the hospital for a thorough checkup. The X-rays showed an incurable condition and indicated that the time would be very short. Such proved to be the case. The funeral was held at the First Congregational church in Norwood, and was largely attended by townspeople and members of the class.

Walter Blair was born on August la, 1878, in Montpelier, Vt., the son of Arthur Walter and Ellen E. (Chamberlin) Blair. His father, a physician, was graduated from the College in the class of 1872. Walter prepared for Dartmouth at the Boston Latin School, his home at that time being in Dorchester, Mass. He was graduated in 1900, taking an additional year in the Amos Tuck School, being a member of its first graduating class. He then took a position with the Boston and Maine Railroad, later with the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, then went with the Pacific Mills in Lawrence and the Bay State Belting Company of Boston. He then made a connection with Winslow Bros, and Smith, leather tanners in Norwood, and was connected with them for twenty-two years of his life.

Walter is survived by his wife and two children, Elizabeth, who is a senior at Wellesley, and William, who is still in preparatory school, also by his mother and a brother, Hugh Blair '04 of New Orleans.

Our memory of Walter Blair is most vivid. He was one of the group who lived at Crosby House during freshman year. Ham, Rankin, and Blair all came from the Boston Latin School, where they received an unusually fine preparation, and maintained splendid scholastic standing throughout their course. They were inseparable companions from freshman year until graduation. Every one liked Gobbo Blair because of his kindness of heart, his lack of any personal assumption of superiority, and, above all, his real and genuine interest in his fellow classmates. For that reason he was justly given outstanding social recognition. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity and the Casque and Gauntlet senior society. He was not an outstanding leader because he did not seek class offices and was not active in athletics, although keenly interested in them. He was just one of those chaps always interested in the normal and rational side of college life. You always found him on the right side of any question which affected the welfare of the class or of the College. As a result he had a host of friends, who came to rely upon him and always knew where to find him. His charm was infectious.

After graduation Walter settled down to a very lovely home life. While his means were never extensive, he took care of his family even to the extent of denying himself many of the things which a man less thoughtful would have considered his own rightful privilege. His family was always uppermost in his mind, with the result that his home life was a very wonderful thing. While he could not be so active in class and college affairs as some others, his interest was intense and was transmitted to his whole family.

Walter took an active interest in the civic life of Norwood, and was very prominent in the Masonic Lodge, occupying the position of secretary for many years. He was a trustee of the Morrill Memorial Library of Norwood for ten years, and for many years secretary of the board. He certainly was a dependable and worthwhile citizen.

So we pay tribute to a man who was a credit to the College, as a member of the second generation, and a most loyal member of the class. The amount that he regularly gave to our fund represented more to him than ten or twenty times that amount given by many other men. It was a gift of love and sacrifice. Men like Walter Blair make a class. They form that dependable, steady background which gives a class poise, devotion without end, and permanence. There are no temperamental lapses, no breaks in contact and no lack of faith in the institution or in the class.

So we say "good-bye" to Walter, feeling joyful that his time of suffering was short, and that his memory will always be closely wrapped in those ideals which make the College great and bind a class together in close, unchanging fellowship.

Class of 1910

Howard West died very suddenly on October 12 from cerebrospinal meningitis. Stricken Saturday, October 8, he was removed immediately to the Contagious Hospital in Haverhill, Mass., and his life gradually ebbed away from the dread disease.

HOWARD ERNEST WEST was born in Haverhill, Mass., April 20, 1888, the son of Horace G. and Mary (Folsom) West. He attended the local public schools and graduated from the Haverhill High School in 1906. Entering Dartmouth with the class of 1910, he remained in Hanover three years, when he transferred to the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated with an A.B. degree in 1912, receiving also an M.S. degree in forestry.

Immediately afterward Howard held positions as a forest ranger in Montana and California. Returning East in 1916 after the death of his father, he entered the shoe business at Haverhill, forming the H. E. West Shoe Co., Inc., manufacturers of children's and misses' shoes. He continued in the shoe business for some time, having been connected also with the F. H. Heath Shoe Co.

About four years ago he became a salesman for the F. A. Bartlett Tree Surgery Co., remaining with them until early this year, when he and Francis Fuller organized Fuller and West, foresters.

Howard West's long connection with the woods developed in him a love for gunning and fishing, and made him known as a real sportsman. He belonged to the Haverhill Sportsmen's Club, also to the Merrimack Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and to the Unity Fraternity of Haverhill High School.

He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary L. West and a brother, Harry E. West, both of Haverhill.

While Howard West did not complete his college career with us, he formed close friends who will be shocked to learn of his tragic passing.

Class of 1914

The notice of the death of George E. Briggs Jr. in the October MAGAZINE contained an error which should be corrected. The following, taken from the New Bedford Mercury, explains the situation:

"According to official correspondencefrom the American consul at Mazatlan thedeath of Mr. Briggs was due to naturalcauses, and not to accident as originallystated. The consul enclosed report of anautopsy performed at the instance of theCompostela authorities. Stricken with aheart attack during an afternoon horsebackride, Mr. Briggs fell lifeless from his mount,the body being discovered next morningat the foot of a hill on the road to Costade Chila. He had planned to leave Mexicofor California on the day following."

Class of 1920

JAMES EBEN ALLEN JR., "Jimmie" as we knew him, died suddenly at New Bedford, Mass., on October 15, 1932. He was born at Dartmouth, Mass., May 31, 1898, son of James E. and Lula (Brightman) Allen. He prepared for Dartmouth at the New Bedford High School.

Throughout our four years his quiet, pleasant ways made many friends. He was one of the organizers of the Dartmouth Zeta Psi chapter and an active worker for the fraternity. After graduation he returned to receive his M.C.S. from Tuck School in 1921.

Jimmie joined the F. S. Brightman Company in New Bedford immediately after leaving Hanover and was a partner at the time of his death, which occurred during a card game as a result of a sudden heart attack. Jim never married, and was living at the time of his death with an aunt.

Class of 1922

GEORGE SAMUEL EISEMAN, who was a member of the class for the first two years of the course, died suddenly on September 25, 1932.

He was born in Far Rockaway, L. I., on October 16, 1901, and was thus just short of thirty-one at the time of his death. His parents were Samuel and Stella (Stettheimer) Eiseman. He prepared for Dartmouth at the Ethical Culture School in New York city. Being too young for the army, he was one of those who belonged to Company E during our first autumn in Hanover. At the end of his sophomore year George left college and entered the silk business of Samuel Eiseman and Co., for many years the largest silk house in the United States, and he remained with that concern until it wound up its affairs in 1928. He then became stylist for the Belvedere Silk Co., a New York concern. In his business career George made many trips abroad. He was unmarried.

Several times during the past few years "Eisey" wrote to your Secretary, and he was one of the most thoughtful members of the class in that respect. His last communication was a startling combination of telegram and advertisement that he had devised as an advertising method.

The sympathy of the class has been expressed to his relatives.

The deceased was a brother of Alfred S. Eiseman '12.

Faculty

Tributes to Dr. William Patten PROFESSOR WILLIAM PATTEN, long-timemember of the Dartmouth faculty andinternational authority in Zoology, diedsuddenly at Hanover, October 27. President Hopkins wrote of his friend and associate:

In the shock of news of Dr. Patten's sudden death my first thought is in regard to the loss of a delightful neighbor and the break in intimacy of a long-time friendship. There is much more to be said, however, than that. The faith of no man was ever greater in undergraduates than was Doctor Patten's and he interpreted his college relationship as primarily that of a teacher, despite his repute and ability as a research man. None outside of academic life and perhaps not all familiar with it could realize the devotion to the College and the consequence which he attained to teaching when he deliberately accepted the curtailment of his time for experimental research in order that he might organize and develop the orientation course in Evolution. When asked to accept the responsibility in this course, he stated that he was willing to accept the self-sacrifice involved for two or three years on assurance of the Administration that he should not be asked to continue longer than that. Before the period was up, he asked to have this agreement destroyed because he said he knew of no commensurate satisfaction in working in the advanced courses comparable to the satisfactions of teaching freshmen and undertaking to arouse their interest in scientific thinking and scholarly endeavor early in their course. There was, nevertheless, a self-sacrifice involved in this greater than any but a few of his friends could understand.

I have never forgotten the impression made upon me by him in the courses I took under him as an undergraduate. I have never known any man more single-minded in his devotion to all of the best interests of the College than was he. His death is an incalculable loss.

ERNEST MARTIN HOPKINS.

FUNERAL SERVICES were held in RollinsChapel, October 29. Burial was in thefamily lot in the Dartmouth cemetery. Aclose friend of the Patten family and a fellow member of the faculty as well as aformer pastor, the Rev. Ambrose W. Vernon, conducted the services and paid thefollowing tribute to his friend:

Last year a friend of ours, an artist of wide repute, died. Among his papers were found verses strangely applicable to our grief today. The translation is something like this: I wish to die in the fullness of giving In the riches of my thought, When I have still much to say to men When I still could give them much out of an overflowing heart As token of my gratitude to life.

Everything ugly and evil That was packed into my rucksack on my pilgrimage I have thrown aside at the custom house There remain therein the good things of life The cherished experiences on the long wandering Goods that are free of duty and are entirely mine.

These I shall take with me As my provisions in a boundless land. Take them with me as a precious treasure Such as our forbears laid in the hewn graves of their kings Such as the vikings took when they embarked on their last voyage.

Then I should not come with empty hands Nor as a stranger. I should come as a welcome guest, with my gift for a credential Which should open me the portals to the blest.

What does our brother take with him, that even our eyes can see, as he enters through those portals?

Not much of scorn, of tolerance, rather, for all the amusing and refreshing foibles of mankind.

He takes with him many an hour, free of all tasks, when he sped along the frozen river, when he girded himself for a favorite sport, when he sat at table with his friends —at the dining table, at the card table, at the chess table, always counting the refreshment of friendship more than victory, turning quietly away from tournaments, lest refreshment be vitiated by rivalry.

He takes with him many an hour around a fraternity fireplace, hours of counsel for promising and inquiring minds, hours of merry anecdote and quizzical laughter.

He takes with him many a glad hour of teaching, patient hours when confidence in the allurement of wisdom overcame hesitations before lethargy or slovenliness or frivolity of mind.

He takes with him the rare moments of enfranchisement and jubilation in the pursuit of truth when what he believed was confirmed by what he saw and handled, moments more frequent with him than with most of us, moments when the rocks of earth, hidden for thousands of years, scattered over the earth's surface gave forth their century-old Amen to the keen insight of his mind.

He takes with him also what in this hour of frustration seem even noble hours, hours of courageous adventure, of defiance of danger, of disdain of discomfort, of hope springing anew out of disappointment, of faith held in discouragement, of unflagging zeal in the pursuit of the high task which sanctified his life, of silent reconsecration to his goal.

He takes with him, out of our sight, hours of high comradeship with his peers and his colaborers the world over, hours of satisfaction when fellow-seekers after truth sent to him their findings for his approval or paid him glad recognition of his own notable discoveries, hours too of paternal delight on finding his own son inheriting his high interests, sharing his mental joys, making for similar goals.

He takes with him also a comradeship that is not marked or measured or interrupted by hours, a loving comradeship which antedated his scientific fame, which girded him for his task but that lifted him above his task, a love too constant to be always conscious, too sacred to be much spoken of, a love which made his home a refuge, which swept his heart clean from envy and chagrin, which banished the spectre of loneliness, which kept alive in the inmost recesses of his spirit a sense of a mystery too blessed to fathom and a gratitude which deepened to the core of his being.

He takes with him a reverence for life which he imparts anew to us this day, a reverence which rose in his childhood home, which abode with him through the confusing days of college and university and in all the thickets of research, a reverence which kept him from weak compliant, from the blasphemies of the wayward, the petulent, the self-centered, a reverence equidistant from arrogance and despair, a reverence which—to use his own wordshailed "Nature's inexhaustible secrecy that defies all prophecy and rewards all trials as the source of man's undying hope and faith and his abiding impulse to endeavor," a reverence that in his teaching and his study and in his daily walk brought him into the presence—the recognized presence—of the living God, in whom as he believed he lived and moved and had his being. AMBROSE WHITE VERNON.

OBITUARY

DR. PATTEN was born in Watertown, Mass., on March 15, 1861, the son of Thomas and Mary Bradley Patten. After his graduation from the local high school he entered Harvard College. In 1883 he received the degree of Bachelor of Science from the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard, and at the same time he became a Parker Fellow, an honor which enabled him to study at many of the foremost European universities. For the next three years he pursued his work at the Naples Zoological Station, at Trieste, and the University of Leipzig. It is significant to note that even at this comparatively early period, his habits of hard and tireless work were already beginning to show results, for within one year after his graduation from college, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon him by the University of Leipzig, an accomplishment which is rarely if ever duplicated.

On his return from abroad Professor Patten was called to assist at the Lake Laboratory of Zoology at Milwaukee, Wis., where he served from 1886 until 1889. He then was elected to the professorship of Biology at the University of North Dakota where he taught until 1893 when he came to Dartmouth where he have been active until June, 1930, when he retired and was made Professor Emeritus of Zoology. During his work here he has made many journeys to distant lands for the study of fossils and has made many important discoveries. At the time of his death he was mainly interested in the Horseshoe Crab and the important role played by this and related fossil species in the great change from spineless to backboned animals. Last summer he spent on the Island of Oesel in the Baltic Sea and returned early in the fall with many cases of fossils which added new evidence to the already great amount of data amassed in support of his theory as to the origin of vertebrates.

Professor Patten was very fond of sports. As a boy he played baseball on his Watertown team and at that time Watertown had a championship team. He played football also and was at one time the champion tennis player of the faculty of the College. Always fond of skating he taught the younger generation of Hanover the art of figure skating and for many years was one of the judges at all Carnival skating contests. Fond of bridge he was usually one of the group to be found at the Graduate Club afternoons during the winter months.

On June 28, 1883 he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Elizabeth Merrill of Bradford, Mass., who survives him. Mr. and Mrs. Patten had two children, one of whom died in infancy, the other, Bradley Merrill Patten is Professor of Embryology at the Western Reserve Medical School at Cleveland, Ohio.

RUSSELL DONALD KILBORNE, professor of banking and finance at the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance, died of endocarditis at Dick's House, Hanover, November 12, following an illness of nearly six months.

Professor Kilborne was born on August 8, 1892, in Ralston, Pa., where he spent his boyhood and prepared for the University of Michigan. Graduating from that institution in 1915, he continued as a graduate student in economics and instructor in sociology and received the degree of master of arts in 1916. He was awarded the degree of doctor of philosophy at Michigan in 1924.

Following an instructorship in economics at Dartmouth in 1916-17, he entered military service in the Second Officers' Training School, but was honorably discharged on account of an impairment of the heart before the completion of his training period. He returned to the University of Michigan as a member of the department of economics. In 1920 he became a member of the faculty of the University of Nebraska. He has been at Dartmouth since 1921.

Professor Kilborne's work as an economist and teacher of finance and banking gave brilliant promise. His book on money and banking ranks as a standard work that is widely used in colleges and schools of business. He was also a frequent contributor to economic periodicals, his most recent publication being an article on the Bank for International Settlements in the Harvard Business Review. Until interrupted by his last illness, he was completing for publication an exhaustive study of investment trusts, based on investigations in this country and abroad.

He was married on November 24, 1923, to Jane K. Stephans, who survives him. Other living relatives are his mother, Mrs. Laura Kilborne of Ralston, Pa., his brothers, Paul of Detroit and Fred of Spokane, and his sisters, Mrs. Helen Truex of Ralston, Pa., Mrs. Mildred Sexauer of Williamsport, Pa. and Mrs. Schaefer of Wilkesboro, N. C.

Professor Kilborne was a member of the American Economic Association, the Royal Economic Society of Great Britain, the Quadrangle of the University of Michigan, Phi Beta Kappa, and the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.

The funeral service was held in Ralston, Pa.

Medical School

Class of 1901

DR. LAURENCE BROWN HATCH died September 13, 1932, at the Veterans' Hospital at Sawtelle (Los Angeles), Calif. He had been in failing health for several months, and left his home in Jaffrey, N. H., in July, hoping for recovery on the Pacific Coast.

The son of Antipas Morton and Mary R. (Piatt) Hatch, he was born in Northumberland, N. H., April 28, 1878. His academic training was obtained at St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy, and his entire medical course was taken at Dartmouth. His ancestors on all sides were of old New England stock.

After graduation and a brief hospital experience in New York city, he served for some time as surgeon for a mining company in Colorado. In 1902 he opened private practice in Rindge, N. H., whence he removed in 1913 to East Jaffrey, his home for the rest of his life.

In October, 1917, Dr. Hatch volunteered for military service, and after training served with the Medical Corps overseas, being at St. Mihiel and the Argonne, and after the armistice in the Rhine area of Germany. He was mustered out in August, 1919, with the rank of captain.

Dr. Hatch was twice married: first, in 1902, to Marion M. Champagne of Littleton, N. H.; second, May 30, 1927, to Edith R. Hunt of East Jaffrey, who survives him. There are two sons of the first marriage, Laurence Rexford and Damon Blake, the latter of Dartmouth '29. His mother also survives, and a brother, Jared P. Hatch '04.

Dr. Hatch was a skillful physician and surgeon, a helpful citizen in various civic activities, and a dependable supporter of the worthwhile endeavors of public and group organizations. He was a member of the Odd Fellows and the American Legion.

Honorary

WILLIAM ALDEN SMITH, who received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from the College in 1901, died of heart disease at his home in Grand Rapids, Mich., October 11, 1932.

Born in Dowagiac, Mich., May 12, 1859, he received a common school education, studied law, and began practice in Grand Rapids in 1883. He soon became active in politics, served as a Republican in the lower house of Congress from 1895 to 1907, and in the Senate from 1907 to 1919, being a prominent member of both houses. In addition to his law practice he was actively engaged in journalism, having become owner and publisher of the Grand Rapids Herald in 1906. He was also chairman of the board of directors of a transit company operating a line of steamboats from Chicago to various Lake Michigan ports, and was president of one of the largest banks in Grand Rapids.

STEPHEN SHANNON JEWETT, a recipient of the degree of Master of Arts in 1913, died of pneumonia at his home in Laconia, N. H., October 24, 1932.

The son of John Glines and Caroline E. (Shannon) Jewett, he was born in Gilford, N. H., September 18, 1858, and was educated at Gilford Academy, Laconia. He studied law, and had been in practice in Laconia since 1880. He was active in politics as a Republican for many years. In 1891-3 he was clerk of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, was a member of the House in 1895 and 1897 (its speaker in 1895), of the Senate in 1899, and of the Executive Council in 1907, also of the Constitutional Convention in 1902. He was city solicitor of Laconia from 1893 to 1900 and from 1903 to 1913. In 1922 he was appointed naval officer of customs for New Hampshire. He was prominently connected with the banks of Laconia, and was a Mason of the 33d degree.

June 30, 1880, he was married to Annie L. Bray of Laconia, who survives him.

E. K. Hall

William Patten