Ticknor Club Marks Its 50th Anniversary

OBSERVING its 50th anniversary, the Ticknor Club, one of the oldest intellectual associations at Dartmouth, celebrated its 432 nd meeting in Sanborn House on March 21. Ernest Bradlee Watson '02, Professor of English Emeritus, senior member of the Club, read a paper entitled, "Recollections of Bernard Shaw." Hewette E. Joyce, Professor of English, who presided at the meeting gave a brief history of the Club.

Founded on December 8, 1900, for the purpose of furthering the study of modern languages and literatures at Dartmouth and for affording its members the opportunity of presenting the results of special studies and readings, the Ticknor Club has maintained a valued place in the college setting, surviving changes in literary fashions, war and stressful peace. Ernest R. Greene, Professor of the Romance Languages Emeritus, was the second oldest member present at the anniversary meeting. Prof. Ernest F. Langley, who formerly taught the Romance Languages at Dartmouth and now resides in Cambridge, is the only one of the six original Ticknor Club members living.

Officers for this year are: Prof. Hewette E. Joyce, president: Prof. Vernon Hall, vice-president; Prof. Francisco Ugarte, secretary.

George Ticknor, for whom the Club was named, graduated from Dartmouth in 1807, and later became the first Professor of Modern Languages at Harvard. He was known for the originality of his ideas in education and for his achievements as a historian of Spanish literature. He exerted a powerful influence on the social and intellectual life of Boston.