New-York tribune., 1907-05-13
DIR. TUCKER TO RETIRE.
GiUeS Up Dartmouth Presidency
Because of III Health.

Hanover, N H May 12--The announcement OF
the resignation of Dr. William Jewett Tucker as
president of the college was made to the student
body of Dartmouth College vespers this evening.
Acting President John X. Lord said that letter
concerning DR.. fuckers resignation had been
mailed TO the trustees last night. DR.. Tucker Is
convinced that, because of i'll health. he will be
unable to continue president. He viii leave
Hanover at once on leave OF absence, but will re-
turn next fall and continue his duties until sue
cessor has been appointed After that Dr. Tucker
plans to remain in Hanover. assuming a lecture
ship on the general subject of The Formation and
Expression of Public Opinion in Democracy" lie
will doubtless remain also a member of the board
of trustees.
Ernest NJ. Hopkins, secretary of the college. gave
a statement tonight saying that "for more than
TWO years it has been exceedingly exhausting
thing at times for DR.. Tucker to meet engagements
which involved public speaking, and more recently.
at increasingly frequent intervals. unusual effort
OF any kind has brought reaction. from which re-
The causes have not been plain until within
htte time, and Dr. Tucker had thought that he
could go on in full vigor to the time for which he
had set for Withdrawing from the work-in two or
February, however. from an extended Western trip
in vbicb
engagements he was seized with an attack of un-
common severity Later. the last Of March he
again subjected to a Ike attack from which he has
tf aot Eet recovered and weakness OF the heart
Dr. William Jewett Tucker has been president Of
yarmouth college since 1888 Under his admins
traton the institution has prospered and has de-
velo9ed in many directions. The courses of nstruc-
ton have been greatly diversified by the increase
of electives and the addition OF new departments.
BY the closer afiliation OF the Chandler Scientific
school with the college by the foundation OF the
Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance,
and in other ways. tho corps of instructors has
been much enlarged. while the student attendance
has grown in even greater proportion.
Dr. Tucker born in Grswold. Conn. nearly
sXty-eight years ago, but early removed to New
Hampshire. and graduated from Dartmouth
in the class of 81. After teaching for a while in
Columbus Ohio he studied for the ministry at
Andoyer Theological Seminary, and graduated
IN 1900. From 1861 to 1875 he pastor of the
FRANKLIN Street Congregational Church in Man
chester, \. H. and WAS then called to the Madison
square Presbyterian Church in this city. being
Ceeded by the Rev. Dr. Charles II. Parkhurst, in
ISop- IN that year Dr. Tucker accepted appoint
lnent to the Bartlett DrOfeSsOrship
AndoEer, and held the chair for thirteen years He
was first elected president of Dartmouth in 1892
but declined. reConsdering his decision, however,
When the post was again urged upon him the fol-
lowing
In addition TO his high repute as an educator Dr.
tucker Is widely known for the scholarly addresses
ne mas delivered on many noteworthy occasions.
lie was PM Beta Kappa orator at Harvard in 1883
uIu 1872, lecturer at Lowell Institute. Boston. in
1924 lecturer on the Winkley foundation, Andover
IN 1897, and lecturer the Lyman BeeCher founda-
ton. Yale, In 1898. He OF the founders and
editors Of the "Andover Review with which he
was associated from 1885 1898, he
founder OF Andover House, In Boston, a social
settlement. now known South End House
Or. Tucker received the degree of Doctor O. Di-
Vlnity from Dartmouth in 1915 and that Of Doctor
Of Laws from Williams in 1894, and from Yale in