Professor Emeritus

AT THE "OCTOBER meeting of the Board of Trustees the rank of Professor Emeritus of Biography was voted to Dr. Ambrose W. Vernon, who resigned in 1932 after coming to Dartmouth in 1924 from Carleton College, where he had established the first distinct department of Biography in this country. Professor Vernon had previously been Professor of Biblical Literature at Dartmouth from 1904 to 1907, and during the same period was pastor of the Church of Christ. In 1907 Dartmouth conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. The emeritus election was made retroactive from the date of Dr. Vernon's resignation.

In electing Professor Vernon to emeritus rank the Board of Trustees passed the following vote: "VOTED that Ambrose W. Vernon, because of long association with the Hanover community and valuable contribution to the College during his incumbency of the Professorship of Biography, be made Professor Emeritus of Biography, this appointment being retroactive from the date of his resignation in 1932."

Dr. Vernon's election brings to 13 the number of emeritus officers of the College. The others are Craven Lay cock, Dean Emeritus; Warren Austin Adams, John William Bowler, Harry Edwin Burton, James Fairbanks Colby, Louis Henry Dow, Oilman Du Bois Frost, John Hiram Gerould, Charles Arthur Hol'den, George Dana Lord, and Prescott Orde Skinner, all emeritus professors; and Miss Etta M. Newell, assistant librarian, retired.