Messer Book Fund

As a memorial tribute to the late L Professor William Stuart Messer, Daniel Webster Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, a substantial endowment fund is being presented to the College by Edwin Flanders '28 of Manchester, N. H., the income to be used for purchasing library books in the field of the Classics.

Mr. Flanders' gift specifies that Baker Library's acquisitions should be "books dealing with the Latin language and literature and the influence of Latin in subsequent literature, or such other books in the general area of the Classics in which Professor Messer's interests were centered."

The donor, who has always remembered the warm personal interest and encouragement that Professor Messer gave him in his student days, has described the book fund as "in a sense a tribute to all my teachers." He added, "I can think of no more appropriate medium than books for doing this."

Professor Messer taught at Dartmouth for 33 years, from 1919 until his retirement in 1952. He died on December 21, 1960.