Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-08

ing houses and by doing chores among
private families, and they can earn suf-
ficient money to pay the rest of their ex-
penses by acting agents for merchants
in Boston. Springfield, New York and other
cities, by working in the local stores, by
acting as newspaper correspondents and
doing other literary work, by looking after
the college halls, by serving as monitors
and by tutoring underclassmen.
Wage-Earners in Vacation Time.
Nearly one-third of our undergraduates
obtain salaried positions for the summer in
the hotels at the seashore and mountain
resorts. in Boston and in other cities. A
large number are employed upon suburban
street car lines, which run extra cars dur
ing the season to accommodate the tourist
travel and require extra men. Mr.. NJ o.
AC inns Of the class of II is manager OF
system of trolley roads in New England
and he gives employment to large num-
Der of undergraduates every summer as
ticket agents, conductors, motormen and IN
the car shops and barns. He pays good
wages and 1t is a great thing for the boys.
Other young men find employment In fac
tories and shops, in dairies and other
places where extra help is needed in sum-
mer. 1t used to be the rule for our men
to teach school a portion of the year. but
that is no longer practicable. 1t Is not
we'll for them to drop out for any part of
the college year.
President fuckers personal influence has
drawn many students to Dartmouth, and the
reputation of our students for good work fs
another attraction. Dartmouth stands for
high principles, morality. temperance and
honest work, and the Christian influence
has always been very strong here. Presi-
dent Tucker has been especially happy In
his relations with the trustees, the faculty
and the students He has welded them into
unit and has secured the highest degree
of discipline without destroying the college
spirit or interfering with the sports and the
pleasures Of the boys. There was serious
case of discipline in 1894 shortly after he
came here. An unpopular member Of the
faculty was serenaded and grossly insulted
by some Of the members Of one Of his
classes, who attacked his house. broke his
windows and were guilty OF other violence.
President Tucker handled the case with
such tact and candor that he won the re-
spect and confidence and the affection of
the students and has kept 1t ever since.
He never had the slightest trouble after
that. There have been a few cases Of sus-
pension for bad behavior, and the usual
number of students have been separated
from the college because they couldn't pass
their examinations. but only one man has
been expelled during the fourteen years
that President Tucker has been at the head
of Dartmouth. l am confident, too. that
II you were to go about among the under
graduates and ask their opinion they would
cordially confirm everything that I have
said"
President Tucker. when he is at home,
occupies the former residence Of Arthur
Sherburne Hardy, the r-diplomatist.
who was professor Of mathematics here
for nearly a quarter Of a century and re-
signed some years ago to accept the Per-
sian mission. He has since been minister
to Greece and to SPAIN and is now living at
Woodstock, Conn, where he is engaged IN
literary work. Mrs. Hardy was a daugh-
ter Of the late Henry c. Bowen Of the New
York Independent. Rufus Byam Richard
son. the eminent archeologist, who used to
be professor Of Greek here. and for many
not0 st fho Av,,n cob
of classical studies at Athens, married an
other daughter. Mr.. Hardy built the resi-
dence. which is one of the most attractive
homes in Hanover, and wrote several Of his
novels there.
The Center Of College Life.
Sharing with the observatory a high
eminence back Of the chapel is tall
tower built Of cobble stones picked up
around its foundations, from which may be
obtained a remarkable view of the Con-
necticut valley on the one side and of the
White mountains on the other. This tower
is the center Of college life. and was erect
ed by the students to take the place of an
old and lofty pine tree, under which class
day ceremonies had taken place from the
beginning OF the college, as around the old
revolutionary cannon at Princeton. The
tree was struck by lightning several years
ago and was afterward blown down in
storm. The student exercises are now
conducted around the stump, and the bema,
or rostrum, is big fiat stone upon which
the speakers stand. Glass day exercises
are held there annually. After the GRAFTON
and poem the members of the graduating
class have a final smoke and then throw
their clay pipes at the stump, which is
surrounded by the fragments of many
ceremonies.
The tower was begun by the class of
1885, which laid the foundations. The next
class laid several tiers Of stone, under the
direction a professional
successive class for fifteen years continued
the work. until the tower is now eighty-dve
feet high and furnishes an artificial point
of observation unequaled in this part of