"The Record of Their Fame"

lET us on this occasion, gratefully remember the founder and the benefactors of this college. The tree which yields us fruit was planted by them not without toil, and defended and shielded in its early growth, not without constant care and unremitted exertion.

. . . Let us cherish a fond hope for its increased prosperity. Let us look to see it rise higher and higher in the scale of public institutions."

Daniel Webster spoke these words in 1828, in an informal address before the faculty and students of the College. That was 126 years ago and Dartmouth was in its 58th year. The prosperity Webster hoped for was in the distant future.

No alumnus bequeathed Dartmouth $5,000 or more before 1865. No alumnus by lifetime gift gave Dartmouth $5,000 or more before 1852.

In fact up to 1895, in her first 126 years, only ten alumni by bequest or gift gave Dartmouth $5,000 or more. These ten alumni contributed a total of $373,357Non-alumni friends of the College, seventeen in all, during the same period were contributing over $1,375,000.

The ten alumni making what in the nineteenth century were looked on as major contributions to the College were:

George C. Shattuck, 1803 Gift $ 7,000 John D. Willard, 1819 Bequest $10,000 George H. Bissell, 1845 Gifts $ 24,000 Sylvanus Thayer, 1807 Gifts $77,850 John S. Woodman, 1842 Bequest $21,197 Richard Fletcher, 1806 Bequest $105,424 Joel Parker, 1811 Bequest $80,500 George G. Fogg, 1839 Bequest $ 5,000 Edward A. Rollins, 1851 Gifts $31,784 Jason Downer, 1838 Bequest $ 10,602

The Shattuck, Bissell, and Rollins gifts were for plant—an observatory, a gymnasium and a chapel. All the bequests and the Thayer gifts were for endowment-a total of some $321,824.

Dartmouth after the first twelve decades since her founding remained a poor if not indeed an impoverished college. Daniel Webster's hope for "increased prosperity" did not begin to materialize until the 1890's.

Between 1891 and 1899 Dartmouth received $208,941 from the Daniel B. Fayerweather bequest. Ralph Butterfield of the Class of 1839 left the College $140,847 which was received in 1895. Charles T. Wilder, of what is now Wilder, Vermont, made gifts totalling 1184,652 in 1896 and 1897.

Then on September 8, 1899, Edward Tuck of the Class of 1862 made the first of his many gifts to Dartmouth. It was in the amount of $300,000 and in retrospect it marked the turning point in the financial history of the College. William Jewett Tucker had been president for six years. The contributions of Daniel Fayerweather, Ralph Butterfield, Charles Wilder, and Edward Tuck made the Great Awakening under Dr. Tucker possible.

Webster's wish to see Dartmouth "rise higher and higher in the scale of public institutions" was being realized. Ernest Martin Hopkins was beginning his junior year on Hanover Plain. The inauguration of the Dartmouth College Alumni Fund on the Tucker Foundation was only six years away. In the period from 1894 to 1908 thirteen dormitories were to be opened Sanborn, Crosby, Richardson, two Hubbards, three Fayerweathers, College, Elm, Wheeler, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. The percentage of students from outside New England was to rise from 13.6% in 1893-94 to 25.1% in 1908-09. Dartmouth was finally emerging as a strong national college, far from wealthy, but no longer just around the corner from bankruptcy.

In the ensuing 55 years following Mr. Tuck's initial gift Dartmouth alumni in ever-increasing numbers have provided the financial assistance which has made possible the growth of the present college. Thousands through the Alumni Fund, the Class Memorial Funds, and through special projects like the Gymnasium, Memorial Field, and the Hopkins Center, and hundreds through individual gifts and bequests have provided in part the means for Dartmouth's emergence as a great and independent national institution.

THE phrase "in part" is used advisedly, for in this same period the contributions of non-alumni have kept pace with those of alumni. Wives, fathers and children, and a number of friends without family connection with the College, year after year have joined the alumni benefactors of Dartmouth in supporting the College financially.

Mention has already been made of the fact that in the first century and a quarter major gifts and bequests from alumni totalled some $373,000 while major gifts and bequests from non-alumni totaled over $ 1,375,000. Seventeen men and women accounted for this latter total and the assistance they thus rendered the College was invaluable, if indeed it did not keep the doors of the College open.

As early as 1780 John Phillips, founder of Phillips Exeter Academy, one of the founders of Phillips Academy at Andover, and a Dartmouth Trustee from 1773 to 1793, was giving lands to the College. In 1789 he gave thirty-seven pounds, ten shillings, and two years later 285 bushels of wheat for the purchase of lands.

Samuel Appleton of Boston, between 1843 and 1854, by Sift and bequest provided the College with $ 2 5,000 endowment for instruction. Abiel Chandler of Walpole, New Hampshire, bequeathed $50,000 to found the Chandler School in 1852. Aaron Lawrence of Amherst, New Hampshire, by gift and through the executors of his estate between 1866 and 1873 gave $17,000 for the endowment of a chair and a scholarship fund. A $ 1,000 gift in 1867 and a $10,000 legacy in 1874 from Jeremiah Kingman of Barrington, New Hampshire, was for the endowment of a scholarship fund. Mrs. Betsey Whitehouse of Pembroke, New Hampshire, gave the College $1,000 in 1870 and $10,0000 in 1875 for scholarships. The latter gift was in memory of her brother, John S. Jenness.

In 1875 Tappan Wentworth of Lowell, Massachusetts, died and left his estate to Dartmouth with the provision that the Wentworth Fund should accumulate until it amounted to $500,000. This was by far the largest gift or bequest that Dartmouth had received but it did not directly benefit the College until 1896. Although the Lowell real estate was appraised at $501,432 in 1892 the Fund as such did not reach $500,000 until 1941.

Henry Winkley of Philadelphia made gifts totalling $60,000 in 1878 and 1880 and left the College an additional $20,000 by bequest in 1889. In 1880 Benjamin P. Cheney of Boston gave the College $50,000 for a chair in Mathematics, for the Daniel Webster Memorial, and for the Presidential Fund. 1880 also brought a gift of $35,000 for the Daniel P. Stone Memorial Professorship from Mrs. Valeria G. Stone of Maiden, Massachusetts. The bequest of George F. Wilson of East Providence, Rhode Island, brought $45,810 between 1884 and 1886. This was applied to the erection of Wilson Hall, covering approximately two-thirds of its cost.

In 1885 the legacy of Julius Hallgarten of New York City brought $50,000 of unrestricted funds, and two years later the bequest of Richard Bond of Roxbury, Massachusetts, added $23,419 to the General Purpose Funds of the College. Mrs. Anna M. Woodman of Cambridge, Massachusetts, widow of John S. Woodman of the Class of 1842, bequeathed $20,000 to the Chandler Scientific School. This was received in 1886.

Three important non-alumni benefactors of Dartmouth are found in the 1890's.

Daniel B. Fayerweather of New York City left $2,100,000 to twenty colleges and universities. Between 1891 and 1899 Dartmouth received $208,941. Most of this was applied to reconstruction and President Tucker wrote:. "The name of Mr. Fayerweather is perpetuated in the Fayerweather row of dormitories, but the effect of his bequest cannot be localized. It made possible the growth of the College since 1893. No fund of many times its value, if it had been restricted in its uses, could have served an equal purpose in the development of the College."

Charles T. Wilder of what is now Wilder, Vermont, in 1896 and 1897 made gifts totalling $184,652. Wilder Hall was built at a cost of $80,090 with $25,451 set up as endowment. The remainder was later applied to plant and reconstruction accounts.

Mrs. Martha W. Brown of Manchester, New Hampshire, widow of William W. Brown of the Class of 1835, Medical School, by bequest established a Memorial Professorship in Human Physiology. Payments were received in 1897, 1898, 1901, and 1905, and the fund ultimately amounted to $40,434.

The above factual statements may appear rather dry reading unless we realize that substantial buildings were erected in the nineteenth century for $25,000 to $75,000 and that $35,000 was considered ample for the endowment of a professorship.

Throughout the entire history of the College the never-ending generosity of non-alumni has been as vital a factor as that of the alumni in building Dartmouth great and in keeping her strong.

In 1899 the investment funds were less than $2,000,000 and the total assets of the College were approximately $3,000,000. As of June go, 1954 endowment funds amounted to more than $34,000,000 and total assets more than $44,000,000.

A RECORD of Gifts and Bequests of $5,000 and More, excluding Alumni Fund giving, has been compiled as a living recognition of the vital and potent significance of these donors in the development of the present Dartmouth. Her endowment and her plant are by and.large the result of their contributions, and their gifts and grants for current use have in many cases permitted the establishment or maintenance of certain of the activities which make her great.

The Record will be on permanent display in the Baker Library and will be brought up to date annually.

The following facts and figures emerge from that Record: 218 alumni, 200 nonalumni, and 40 foundations, corporations, trusts, government agencies and the like have given to Dartmouth in amounts of $5,000 and more as follows:

218 Alumni $16,521,722 200 Non Alumni 11,635,305 40 Foundations, etc. 3,115,015 458 $31,272,042

Of the 218 alumni nearly 100 are still living and six of these living alumni have given over $100,000 to the College. About one-third of these living alumni are giving on a more or less annual basis to various funds or projects. Of the 200 non-alumni more than half are women. Dartmouth is a college for men only but women have played a vital part in strengthening her financial position. More than thirty of the non-graduate contributors are still living. Gifts and bequests as memorials to relatives and friends account for over onethird of the total entries.

Thirty-one alumni and twenty-six nonalumni have given $100,000 or more by bequest and/or gifts.

Five persons have given Dartmouth over $1,000,000. The gifts of Edward Tuck, Class of 1862, total 3,435,215. The gifts of George F. Baker to build and partially endow the Baker Library total $2,132,477. By bequest of Edwin W. Sanborn, Class of 1878, the College has received $1,759,791. The unrestricted bequest of William N. Cohen, Class of 1879, has brought $1,353,417. Gifts from an anonymous donor also total over $1,000,000. The gifts and bequests of these five have added approximately $10,000,000 to the assets of the College, more than one-fifth of the total assets.

The Classes with the largest representation of names in the Record are:

10 Men - Class of 1900 7 Men - Class of 1903 6 Men - Class of 1925 5 Men - Classes of 1906, 1911,1926 4 Men - Classes of 1865, 1877, 1879, 1894, 1899, 1901, 1907, 1914, 1915, 1919, 1923.

In the field of alumni bequests as distinguished from gifts the record of various decades made up of the graduating classes of those decades is as follows:

1800-1809 1 Bequest $ 105,424 1810-1819 3 Bequests $ 101,751 1820-1829 No Bequests 1830-1839 4 Bequests $ 161,449 1840-1849 1 Bequest $ 21,197 1850-1859 6 Bequests $ 950,694* 1860-1869 5 Bequests $ 138,408 1870-1879 17 Bequests $5,038,442 1880-1889 17 Bequests $ 856,053* 1890-1899 11 Bequests $ 417,569* 1900-1909 7 Bequests .$ 160,221 1910-1919 3 Bequests $ 627,504 1920-1929 No Bequests 1930-1939 2 Bequests § 36,817 1940-1949 No Bequests

* Includes receipts from trusts in the handsof others.

There have been up to this date only 77 alumni bequests of $5,000 or more since the founding of the College. When we consider that under the Bequest and Estate Planning Program there are now over 500 known expectancies, the great future promise of this infant project is clearly evident. Many expectancies are and will continue to be below $5,000 but a large number are also known to be in much greater amounts.

The question of including Alumni Fund giving was thoroughly investigated before the decision was reached that such giving could not be included in the Record at this time. The matter of suitable recognition of major contributions via the Alumni Fund is now being studied.

The Alumni Fund has been and will continue to be one of the chief sources of Dartmouth's ability to carry on year in and year out. It will also continue to be the chief vehicle through which the large majority of the alumni will render their financial support to the College.

The last decade has shown a remarkable surge in the number of men making annual contributions of $100, $500, $1,000 and more. In 1953 over 1300 men gave $100 and up, and this year the figure was over 1440. In the next decade the number of men who will have given a total of $5,000 and more through the Alumni Fund alone will rapidly increase. However, at the moment relatively few fall in this category. As a matter of record, as of June 30, 1954 the major living contributors to the Fund are divided as follows:

LIFETIME TVTAL Over $20,000 11 $10,000-$ 19,999 26 $ 5,000-$ 9,999 56

These 93 men have contributed about $1,000,000 through the Alumni Fund. Added to the 418 people in the Record of Giving over and above the Fund, deducting for duplication but adding the 40 foundations, corporations and the like, approximately 500 donors have given Dartmouth in amounts of $5,000 and more a total of better than $32,500,000.

The Alumni Fund will continue to be the great pillar of strength in the maintenance of the present College. But the growth of the future Dartmouth in plant and endowment can be achieved only through the continued and expanded generosity of a large number of benefactors, alumni and non-alumni alike. The fact that this is recognized is found in the more than ninety living alumni who have already made substantial gifts over and above their Alumni Fund contributions. It is found in the inspiring and remarkable growth of the Class Memorial Fund Program. It is also found in the many nonalumni gifts and bequests of the last several decades. Finally, it is found in the still infant Bequest and Estate Planning Program in which forty classes are now participating.

The still North remembers them,The hill winds know their name,And the granite of New HampshireKeeps the record of their fame.

Ford H. Whelden '25, author of this article, and Mrs. Whelden shown with PresidentEmeritus Hopkins at the Hanover Inn party they gave in honor of Mr. Hopkins' 77thbirthday last month.

Mr. Whelden for four years has been preparing a Record of Gifts (other than to the Alumni Fund) and Bequests to Dartmouth in amounts of $5,000 and more. The Alumni Council in 1952 voted that the Record when completed should be placed on permanent display in the Baker Library and that it should be brought up to date annually. The Development: Council has authorized a limited printed edition of the Record. Mr. Whelden's article is an explanation and analysis of the Record. Copies of the printed Record may be secured on request.