1895

Recently I opened a book, which I think we used to call the Aegis. Officially it was called "The Dartmouth Portfolio, Class of 1895." It was published in Boston, and was wholly pictorial. Dr. William Jewett Tucker's picture is the frontispiece. I think Dr. Tucker was one of the most beloved college presidents in the United States at that time. It was my good fortune to have been designated to deliver the address to the President when we graduated, an honor I greatly appreciated. Dr. Tucker's successor was Dr. E. F. Nichols, who resigned after a short time of service. Dr. Nichols was a noted scientist, but was not quite happy as President of Dartmouth. He was not a Dartmouth man. My memory of him is not altogether pleasant. If I had space and time, I could relate a story in which "Tute" Worthen, Dr. Nichols, the President of the United States, a Vermont lawyer, namely, Roland Stevens, and the Attorney General of the United States were intimately concerned. I think the record of all this is on file in the Archives at Hanover.

In this Dartmouth Portfolio of 1895 are pictured all the members of the faculty. This picture show interests me chiefly because of the prosperous looking mixture of whiskers, moustaches, bald and almost bald heads of cultured college professors. They are as follows: President Tucker, good hair and moustache; a handsome man; John K. Lord, a luxuriant beard; Chuck Emerson, heavy moustache; Prexy Bartlett, well bewhiskered and quite bald; Rev. Henry Griswold Jessup, Professor of Botany, whiskers and moustache, semi-bald, with left ear cocked to hear a correct answer; Professor Hitchcock ("Type"), long whiskers; Professor Pollins (bless him), whiskers all around; Professor Ruggles, whiskers; Prof. Gabe Campbell, whiskers front and side; Professor Fletcher, side whiskers; Prof. Arthur Sherburne Hardy, moustache only; Prof. F. A. Sherman, long bushy whiskers and moustache; Prof. C. F. Richardson, side burns only; Prof. M. D. Bisbee, full beard, well clipped; "Tute" Worthen, moustache; Prof. Edwin J. Bartlett, moustache only; Prof. James F. Colby (bless his memory), full beard. I was his law student and also his amanuensis (he was nearly blind); Prof. J. Vose Hazen, full beard; Prof. Charles D. Adams, moustache only; Prof. H. A. Hitchcock, luxuriant whiskers, side burns and moustache; Prof. D. C.Wells, moustache only; Prof. George D. Lord, moustache only; Prof. Patten, moustache only, all Greek at that; Prof. H. D. Foster, well bearded, whiskers and all (I just missed being present at his wedding in Liverpool, England, because of dense fog.); Prof. Edwin B. Frost, side whiskers only (He was Director of Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay; a great astronomer.); Prof. F. G. Moore, moustache only; Prof. F. P. Emory, little moustache; Prof. A. C. Crehore, moustache only; Prof. J. Hiram Gerould, not a spear of hair except on top of his head - he was best man at my wedding; Instructor John C. Roe, moustache only; Elmer H. Carleton, Director of Gymnasium, hair on top of his head only; Hon. J. W. Patterson, Instructor in Public Speaking, had white burnsides only; Prof. Rufus B. Richardson was well bewhiskered, and had a thick and drooping moustache; Prof. E. L. White, our entertaining Latin Instructor, had bounteous and well-combed whiskers covering chin and cheek, and did he not look fierce when he did spy that lusty grasshopper, and ordered "the beast" thrown out the window?

So out of 34 members of the faculty, just half that number were bewhiskered; two had smooth faces, and the rest had moustaches. Here is where I stop.

Secretary, White River Junction, Vt.

Class Agent, 35 Morse Ave., Bloomfield, N. J.