TRUSTEES AMONG GUESTS

Among the special guests at the dedication ceremony were three trustees of the College: Lewis Parkhurst '78, of Winchester, Mass.; John R. McLane '07, of Manchester, N. H.; and Morton C. Tuttle '97, of Boston. Mrs. James Rowland Angell, wife of the President of Yale, was present as the guest of Mrs. Hopkins.

The floor of 105 Dartmouth Hall, which room seats about 800 persons, was reserved for the senior class and a few other undergraduates, while the faculty and guests assembled in the balcony of the new auditorium. Music was provided at the start and close of the program by a special orchestra under the direction of Professor Longhurst, and the College Glee Club, under Professor Cobleigh, led the audience in the singing of Milton's paraphrase of Psalm CXXXVI and also offered two selections, the Bach chorale Grant Us To Do with Zeal and Dartmouth Undying. A striking program was prepared for the occasion by Ray Nash, typographical designer who is working in Baker Library this year, the cover containing a wood-cut of Dartmouth Hall by Hope Nash.

In his dedication address, President Hopkins traced the history of Dartmouth Hall and declared that he knew of "no single building elsewhere in any other college which has so exclusively absorbed the affection of its alumni and which has so completely filled their minds' eye in retrospect as symbolic of the College as did the old Dartmouth Hall throughout its life." Defining Dartmouth Hall as "an outward manifestation of an inner grace of the College," he expressed the desire of the trustees that the new hall should be as indestructible as possible and should preserve the external appearance of the original building. (The complete text of President Hopkins' address will be found elsewhere in this section.)

In conferring the honorary Doctorate of Laws upon President Angell, President Hopkins characterized the Yale administrator as follows:

In the present occasion, fulfillment ofthe long-time desire of this College to markyou with patent of its highest academic distinction becomes doubly appropriate. Thehappiness of enrolling you personallywithin the fellowship of Dartmouth men asone whom we delight to honor is enhancedby our satisfactio?i in paying deferencethrough you officially to the pervasive andenduring educational influence which constitutes the record of Yale, the collegexuherein were shaped the ideals and purposes of Eleazar Wheelock, the founder andbuilder of Dartmouth

You are of native New England stock, thecharacteristic colorations of which havebeen woven into the educational patternsof the historic foundations respectively ofYale and Dartmouth and the stamina ofwhich has given toughness of fiber to theircultural fabrics through the years sinceeven before our national government wasformed.

Individually your career has been distinctive for the versatility of your talentsand for your demonstrated capacity for accomplishment in any field into which interest or sense of obligation has led you.Outstanding in scholarly attainmentwithin your chosen sphere and stimulatingas a teacher, you nevertheless gravitatedearly and almost inevitably towards university administrative work as one to themanner born. Here clear-sightedness andcourage of mind early demonstrated themselves. Statements of desirable changes hiacademic procedures made by you morethan two decades ago when you were Deanat Chicago outline desirable educationalpolicies of nature such as even now havebecome established in but a few of ourmost progressive institutions of higherlearning.

In more recent times amid, the complexand bewildering problems which beset thepath of the administrator of a great university of the present day, you have bypatient persistence and indefatigable effortovercome difficulties, established orderwhere confusion might easily have developed, and held persistently to objectiveswhich could not have been discerned byone without the clarity of vision whichhas been yours.

In recognition of these and many otherattributes, betokening you not only as asuccessful administrative head of a greateducational institution but as a vital factorin shaping educational thought of yourtime, I confer upon you at behest of theTrustees of Dartmouth College the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.