New-York tribune., 1886-01-30
MEMOIRS OF HANOVER.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE MEN AT DINNER.

CHEERING LEVI p. MoRTON-HIs GIFTS TO THE IN
sTITUroN.
The New-York Alumni of Dartmouth Col
lege gave their annual dinner last night at DemonicOs
without attempting TO settle or unsettle the policy
of the college 10 "bOom" the new
learning or the old, they gathered to have
a good time and they had 1t. The dinner was long
apdelaborae Music furnished by orchestra spec
tally organized theoccaslOn Colege okes repol
isbed; college songs sung without number and
that ntermnable Dartmouth cheer, which forms the ad
niraton and envy OF the other coleetans, WHO have
heard it on the ball fields of Princeton, Cambridge and
New-IIaven. given with increasing vgOr and fire.
ouency as the evening wore About seventy-fye
,nembers of the club were haud. Ex-Judge Horace
Russell presided. On his left were Levi F. Norton Sur
rocate Rollins Professor Hubbard, of Dartmouth;
and Charles Miller On his right sat Judge Nesey of
Vermont, Professor James f. Colby, Of the Yale Law
School, Professor Ordronaux of Dartmouth and Ballard
Smith Among the Others present were John Franklin
Emerson, Of the class of '25 Justice Henry Wilder
Allen General Charles A. Carleton, General Samuel A.
Duncan Dr. Paul Munde, Professor Francis Brown, of
the Union Theological seminary Dr. Oh rles l. Dana
and Professor o. p. Hubbard Letters OF regret were
read from f. C. Sedman Professor John n Lord, Judge
Clement Professor Charles f. richardson and others.
About o'clock the chairman raped
for order and said that ths meet
,ng would be rather informal than serious. 1t
would have the character OF sewing circle, not y-
ceum fLauchterl It was one OF tho most hopeful
,sns Of dartmouth thst after the boarding. clubs of
Hanover the average graduate eonu come Py earedr'
TO at least once at Delmoncos But seriously H
hind 1t a name OF which every one present might 6e
proud He ended by calling on MIR Miller. the newly
elected president of the club to respond 10 our Aim"
Mr Milersroke In substance follows yale Col ege,
KNOW Isju.t now gong through storm Oh cri.csIn
from the New York alumni And Dartmonth ought per
hsps, scarcely he expected TO escape the same ilei
trustees are not III Inc leaSt rampant TaCas ono Is
not forging the head of the England colleges on
criticism has had its say We still obliged admit
1hat alma mater has won great name ana IN, ~
fInnes to keep college that can set along a. 1t
does. without our aid and advice must certainly nave
great resources TSs srens Of Darmouh %s Webster
saw was her environment, drawing the sturdy youth
OF Northern NswEngland to her doors training them
ithont sending them ont confidently to
omen the worlds oyster. And Dartmouth men came out
well in the struggle for existence Most of them 10y YER
tIy of resources perhaps. # by moral character
have succeeded keeping out of jail winch IN ITSELF lie
very pleasing record Laugnter with her oid,ashloned
cnrrcuIum Dartmouth st teaches the lessons OF
courage fidelity and endurance and they are Inc true
ouautes, after all, of genuine college eouCAtloh
JUICE Nesry was called on Ia answer lor Inc
Ioard Of Trustees lie said 1hs1 Dartmout
poverty to comparative independence Durlng the a't
half year half million dollars had been given TO the
c"IeSe Five new professorships had been established
and two buildiugs erected ana LOT much OF tns
Lew p. Morton CONTINUED applause As a fanny
secret above amount would he doubled before iss =.
IL was Dartmoutu's chief honor that she had always
been college al which student could De AusoIu'ey ana
Independently poor Vermont had sen: more sons 70
iarlinGnth tan to her colleges com9iued and
HewYork with three times the population OF Vermont
ought to do no less
Professor Colby spoke for Tho Faculty"
He said the COLLEGE not only moro prosperous but
more efficient than before IL had the quiet tcOno-
ira atmosuhere which scholarship loves to live Irt
n was not provincial, with students from twenty-one
States and also from Canada The tendency now "ay
was to rate colleges according to their wealth ana mum
bers Rn the only true test tie character OF the
men the tone uf sehOOIship and or its results ln
these two Ines Dartmouth might ever he proud
levi +. Morton then ar SO amid great applause ana
snake mudestly OF his benffactOns 10 the col
lfCe IA scarcely worth mentioning. lie was an
old resident Of Hanover and has always re-
,nemlercd with respect and affection the
professors aud spirit OF the ancient coiege osea ID
perkns described The Dartmouth Schuoimdstef VIII
We1strrian eloaueDce. while Philip Carpenter Of q
1ook a more humorous of Ills case. "ieaching lie
said was q necessary part OF the dartmouth II
cnTr,cnlunL The man who knows most 10 the beet
feacher 40 the fathers OF Sew-Iampshlre generally
selecrd an under from Dartmouth ana by con
6uns sopuOmOrc knowledge TO district school-hOhse
thry saved the country large from an untold amount
OF damage I4aughter.l Webster was the great DHrs'
mouth rchOol-mast,r. ana with hlm' IN lhlri
"a ia every other particular. Dartmouth my hHss
sp-eches were also marc Oy
iarn smith and Charles +. Mattbswson and after re
peated "wab, wee, wanghs, the meeting iormA'S