Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-28
DARTMOUTH ALUMNI I
ANNUAL MEETING AND BANQUET
AT RALEIGH HOTEL.
President Of the College the Guest Of
Honor-Oficers Chosen for
Ensuing Year.

With the president Of their alma mater
as the guest of honor the members Of the
Dartmouth Alumni Association met about
the banquet board at the Raleigh Hotel
last night and revived memories Of the good
old days when they were all students. The
graduates in attendance represented more
than half a century of college life, and their
"reminiscences included stories of the ac-
ton of the student body in some Of the most
important moments Of the nations life.
Before the banquet was served business
meeting of the association was held in one
of the hotel parlors and officers were elect
ed for the ensuing year. The death Of Mr..
}. Richards Dodge, one of the members Of
the association, was announced, and resolu-
tons of regret and sympathy were adopted.
The officers elected included: Charles A.
Prouty, TO- president; Horace s. Cum
mfngs, go, and Daniel F. Merrill, SO, vice
presidents; Henry P. Blair. so. secretary
and treasurer; A. A. Fisher, 'SS, DR.. E. G.
kimball. 81, and William ]. Wallis '94,
members of the executive committee; James
w. Cheney. 10 chorister, and Charles S.
Clark, 80, historian.
The members and guests marched into the
banquet hall shortly after I o'clock and an
excellent dinner was served. When the ia
bles had been cleared President Prouty:
who acted as POSTMASTER, introduced as the
speaker of the evening Mr.. William j.
Tucker, president of Dartmouth College
Mr.. Tucker spoke of the great strides that
have been made in the system of education
during the past twenty-five years, and ex-
pressed the opinion that the day of special
lists had arrived and that special fitness for
some particular profession was a necessary
element of success. 1t is much harder for
the college man of today to meet the condi-
tons of everyday life than it forty
years ago. he said. Education Mr. Tucker
continued. summed up means to teach a
man to know himself, and when that is
done about all man can learn in college
is given him.
Increase Of Opportunities.
The great possibility of education Is to
increase the opportunities for the man who
would know himself. Men are not apt to
take up the study of man when the study
Of force presents much easier and more
simply a solution Of the same problems.
Therefore man has come to depend on force,
Mr.. Tucker concluded, when he ought to
learn to master men.
Brief addresses were made by Mr.. Chas.
H. Darling. assistant secretary of the navy;
Representatives Tirrell and Powers of
Massachusetts, and Representative Foster
of Vermont. Their addresses dealt with the
system of education and it's fruits.
Among those present were: William ].
Tucker, Charles H. Darling, B. H: War
son. 1850; Samuel R. Bond. 1855; Henry NJ.
Baker, 1863; Charles @. Tirrell, 1866; James
w. Cheney, 1870; Capt. Otto A. Nesmith,
1874; Samuel L. Powers, 1874; Charles A.
Prouty, 1875; Edwin H. Fowler &C. 81.
1878: Winfield s. Montgomery, 1878; David
]. Foster, 1880; Philip Walker &C. S., 1880;
DR.. E. G. Kimball, 1881; John T. Freeman
&C. 81. 1883; Arthur p Greedy, 1888;
Stephen N. Ryder, 1888; George p Wood,
1886; David M. Hildreth &C. s., 1887;
RAM, 1885, Henry P. Blair, 1889; j. G.
GreavesThompson, 1889; w. H. Merrill,
1894; Maurice S. Sherman, 1894; William
j. Wallis, 1894; H. M Snow, 1901