The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-11-28
Reunion of Dartmouth Alumni.

The alumni Of Dartmouth College in ver-
mont held their second alum ii meeting
and dinner at the Pavilion Hotel, Friday
evening" November %, 1894. The follow
ing gentlemen were present; William J.
Tucker, '6l, president Of the college; Ed
yard Cpnant, SO; G. j. Gleason, &c. j.
r. Pember, 80; William l.. Burnap, SO;
Hiram A. iuse, Co. George w. Wing, sc;
William A. Lord, $50; e. Ii. Jones, '73;
Victor I. Spear, "a; F. A. Patt, "a; o. R.
son, rs; A. H. Campbell, "; c. G. Davis,
10; d. j. Foster, 80; A. E. Watson, 'S3;
+. l.. Laird, '84; j. A. DeBoer, '84; r. S.
Currier, '85; f. A. Rowland, 'S7; G. E.
Doane, '89; G. E. Houlton, 'S9; j. A.
Wellm an, 89; o. d. Matthewson, 80
The business meeting of the association
was called to order at 6: 80 P. M. by Pres-
dent Burnap. The officers, elected to serve
for the year ensuing, were as follows:
President, William l.. Burnap, '63; first
vice president Jonathan Ross, 81; second
vice president, Redtield Proctor, 81; secre-
tary, Fred A. Rowland, 'S9; treasurer, Fred
l.. Laird, 'S4; executive committee, j. A.
DeBoer, 'S4; A. II. Campbell, II, G. E.
Putney, 70, o. d. Mithewson, 80, j. ID.
Eos jer, 80, Victor 1. Spear IA. At the close
ton was given to President Tucker by the
alumni present. after which they proceeded
to dinner, which was served in the small
dining room. The after dinner exercises
were directed by the president of the asso-
citation, Villa l.. Burnap of Burlington.
who feiicitously introduced as tour guest,
brother alumnus and president of the col
lege, William j. Tucker Of the class of '61."
ABSTRACT OF PRESIDENT fuckers
ADDRESS
President Tucker said in effect: 1 feel
very much at home among the Vermont
alumni When Wheelock suggested Han
over, or its ground, as a suitable place for
the college, he urged that it was the natural
center OF two hundred and thirty-six towns,
incorporated or to he Incorporated. This
embraced part of Vermont, which has al
ways manifested, as it did very early in its
history, a warm attachment for Dartmouth
College. For learning, like trade, knows
no lines. The college lives on its idea and
draws according to its merit. 1t lives &C
cording to the law. of give and take. 1t
must throw out towards the sources whence
1t will subsequently draw its supply. Last
year the states of Massachusetts and New
Hampshire sent to Dartmouth about the
same proportion of new students, but this
year the proportion from the former is in
excess. State lines are down. Locality does
not carry, as before, the same idea Every
college depends for its growth and progress
upon three things-its history, its interested
alum nj, and its working force
Speaking recently with a gentleman
about endowments, he referred to the great
value of the millions of dollars that had
fallen 10 the Leland Stanford University,
! said to him that the history of Dartmouth
College was worth it all. The work done
with and for past generations of students is
bearing fruit to-day, has become, in fact, a
most valuable source OF supply, not alone
materially, but intellectually and morally,
in shaping tendency and growth. The new
Memorial Hall, which it is proposed TO erect
at cost of not less than S75 600 or 500, 900,
will symbolic this history and become a re-
pository OF 10. 1t is true, as a rule, that en-
dowments of large amount come usually
from the few; but the many less prosperous
| alumni of "A college by their loyalty, aff1c
zion and disinterested SO vices in its behalf,
exert the greatest influence both in know.
ing where thes fortunes exist and what
influences will best obtain their application
To the requirements of the college They
not intr-q tently are the indirect means of
obtaining what otherwise coul nor be-
reached. De yoted work in this direction
has been and is still being done by several
OF our most earnest supporters. The teach
ers sent forth by the college, const tute
another source of supply One of the most
important OF recent actions, taken by the
col * s. is, OF course, the admission to its
management of alumni representation.
This is a return TO the medleval idea, the
idea which has shaped Oxford and Cam
bridge, that a college should be managed by
its graduates The close cotpo adm idea
G lme ia with the period OF contracts. The
admission of alumni dire tOrship entails re-
sponsibility, which thus far has been read
| lily assumed aud WORTH disc larged.
ln ar administrative work ws aim 10
&c iuomiZe force and TO reduce waste,partic-
u arly intellectual waste, 10 a minimu n.
AS far az possible the things common, in
d gree, TO the several schools have been
unified so as to produce greater harmony of
result, The Agricultural College has bee 4
separated from the institution; the status Of
the Chandler Sch Dol has been changed 80 as
| to practically make It part of the old Col
! leg; tn work of the Thayer School of Civil