Evening star., 1907-08-06

York and are treated just the same as
whites. although they have no social recog-
milton and are not admitted to the frater-
mites At one time there were four colored
boys on one Of the ball teams. A full
booded negro voted by his classmates
1.-The whttest man" in the class of 1904. He
has recently graduated at Harvard Law
School and has gone to Okla homa to prac-
tice In the class of 1906 J. w. Cromwell,
a young colored man of Washington. d. c.,
took the highest honors IN mathematics.
He given the degree of master of arts
at the recent commencement for attain
menta in astronomy and intends to become
a professional astronomer. There We're
three colored men among the graduates last
June. They were average scholars, with
nothing unusual about them.
Dartmouths Early Success.
The first commencement at Dartmouth
was held in the summer of I'LL, when four
men took their degrees in the presence of
Colonial Governor Went tworth who, with
retinue of sixty men, rode through the
wilderness from Portsmouth to attend the
ceremonies He provided a barbecue on
the campus to celebrate the occasion; a
steer was roasted whole. barrel of rum
was consumed. and the governor presented
DR.. Wheelock with memorial of the occa-
sion in the form of q large silver lunch
bowl. which is still preserved but is not
used for anything stronger than lemonade.
The early success of Dartmouth was eX-
traordinary. Notwithstanding its remote
location and isolation it was the fore most
educational institution on the continel = and
within four years after the establishment
it had more than a hundred students Dur
ing the first ten years of its history it had
nfnety-nines , graduates, while Harvard,
under much more Favorable conditions. had
only fifty-tiVe, and Yale but thirty-siX.
TINS is the more extraordinary considering
the fact that the first decade in Dart
mouths history embraced the revolutionary
period But the doors were never closed,
and the studies We're never suspended. al
though the number OF students was some
what diminished.
on the opening of the tenth year there
were 1C0 students on the rolls, more than
third the number of names in the cata-
logue of 1895. Among the early graduates
were several eminent men-George Ticknor'
Sylvanus Thayer, Rufus Chcate, George
Bancroft Daniel Webster, Thaddeus Stev-
ems. Salmon 2. Chase George +. Marsh,
and the list of great men among the alumni
IS long.
1t has often been remarked that Dart
mouth is a family college and it Is unodubted-
ly true that it's alumni always send their
sons and nephews there. Certain names
appear with great frequency in the cata-.
Iogue. In looking over the list / find that
the following families have furnished the
number of graduates set opposite the
names: Smith, 141; Chase, II; Brown, 81;
clark, 76; Johnson. 54; Adams, 49, Bartlett,
4G Parksr: 80; paws III a. I5 EoItsr; a.
L
As; Merrill. ~; Richardson, IL
Among the other tribes that have sent
many sons are those of Little Lord, Marsh
Marshall, Moody. Morse, Niles Noyes.
Perkins Patterson, Porter, Putnam, Stev-
ems Sargent, Sawyer, Sanborn, Wheeler,
Walker, Wentworth and White.
An Unfortunate Controversy.
Eleazar Wheelock was spared for ten
years and before he died, January 81, 1779
at the age of sixty-eight, by his consum-
mate energy and ability he had placed the
institution upon a sure foundation, and
gave it the impulse and character it has al
ways retained. The charter permits the
president to name his own successor, and
he placed his mantle upon the shoulders of
his SON John Wheelock, then twenty-five
years of age, who graduated with the first
class in III, and had been tutor from
that time This was an unfortunate choice
for several reasons. Although john w nee
lock remained at the head of the institution
for thirty-six years and. judged by literary
and scholastic results. this was tie NOS
| tlustrious period in the history OF the COZ
| lege, continuous controversy caused py
| jealousy and criticism nearly wrecked the
| institution.
What began as one man5 creation was
| continued as a one-man INSTITUTION. tor
nearly half q century the Wheetock family
| controlled everything. The father made
| the college, and the Son claimed II as an In
| heritance. The trustees were near!y al
| relatives. Those who were not, lived at
such a distance that they did not know