Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-07

Students representing twenty-ene states and
| countries. The following is not only an in
teresting comparison, but shows the growth
| of the college:
1856. 1867.
massachusetts, ..lol goo students.
| New Hampshire ......143 233 students.
| New York ......... II 76 students.
| LIMOS .-............... lS o. students
ohio .-..'............. IL stuueltS.
| Iowa ................... students.
And other in proportion. Were it not
| for the enforced retirement of President
| Tucker the conditions would be perfectly
| satisfactory. In no year in the history of
| the college has Its material prosperity been
! so marked. The freshman class last year
| was the largest ever admitted. and from
| indications the incoming class next Septem-
Ter will be still larger. Cons derable difficulty
| has been found in securing accommodations
| for so many students. Three new dormi-
| tories, however will be ready next fall
| Dartmouth Hall, the new, rather the DID,
! recitation building has been completed and
| furnished and was in use during most Of
| the late college year. During this year
| Webster Hail. a new auditorium, will be
| finished and will be formally opened in Oc-
| tober.
The architecture at Dartmouth Is not so
attractive that of several other colleges.
1t is of the mongrel variety, and lacks har-
mOny. both in design and arrangement, and,
as at Williams the old buildings are much
more admirable from architectural
standpoint than the new ones. The original
building was a log house. The first per-
manent building was of wood 1t was
called Dartmouth Hall. was built in 1884
from the proceeds of a lottery, and was
used for hundred years until In Feb
ruary, 1904, II was burned by a fire original
ing in students room-nobody knows how
and entirely destroyed except two WIN
dow frames and the stone steps. The old
building, so much loved and admired, was
Immediately reproduced in brick by con-
tributions of the alumni the two windows
and the steps rescued from the fire being
q part of 1t, and they have been marked by
appropriate tablets. 1t Is of the same
model as Old Nassau Hall at Princeton-a
simple design. 1t Is now used for recitation
rooms and a lecture hail. although before
the fire 1t dormitory and Daniel
Webster roOmed there while he was in col
lege. Rufus Choate lived in a little two
story frame cottage, diagonally across the
campus, next to the college church. which
is now used as parsonage for the college
pastor. Rufus Choate was married there.
The Old College Church.
The old college church, which is second In
architectural beauty, was built in 1895 and
restored In 1889 by the late Stanford White
at the expense of Hiram Hitchcock, pro-
prletor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New
York, who was never student but Is q
trustee of Dartmouth and Is a native Of
Hanover. He began his career hotel
here through all his life. The church is
one of the purest examples of the old CO.
lonial school | have seen. Charles +. Nc
Kim, the famous architect and head of
the firm OF Mckim, Mead & White, who
visited Hanover several years ago, was
very much impressed with its beauty. When
he returned to New York he told Mr.. White
that he had seen one of the best specimens
of colonial architecture in America.
Where was that!" said White.
1T is the college church at Dartmouth
been restored in an almost perfect man
ner. l wonder who did it,
I'VE did, said White.
The old church is used for Sunday serv-
ices and for college functions, but daily
prayers are held in a lovely, little chapel
standing In group of trees, which was
built by Edward Ashton Rollins Of the
class of '5l, who lived in Philadelphia, and
was commissioner of internal revenue dur
Ing the administration of President Grant.
1t seats only $50, and Is therefore too small
TO accommodate the 100 students now on
the rolls and the more that are to come:
But about 200 students work for their board
by waiting on table and doing chores In the
hotels, boarding houses and private fam
lies Of the town. and they are excused
from chapel.
There Is fine organ in the Rollins
Chapel. and musical ceremony Familiarity
known to the students as 1.-The Sing-Out"
is held there annually on the second Friday
preceding commencement at O'Clock In
the afternoon. The entire undergraduate
q
the campus, and march to the chapel with
the seniors in the lead, wearing their caps
and gowns for the first time. The regular
chapel exercises are held, which consist or
the reading of the Scriptures and prayer
by the president. Then the president OF
the senior class takes charge OF the exer-
cises and under the direction of the senior
chorster the graduating class sings an
anthem which they have been rehearslns all
winter.
At tn close of this anthem the entire stu
ini,o in no xeA
Kindly Light" This is a very old and hon
Ored custom.
Course In Commerce.
Edward Tuck of the class of '62, an
American banker living in Paris, has re-
Gently erected an imposing building as a
memorial to his father, the late Amos Tuck
of the class Of 3d. and has founded de-
partment of economies, commerce, political
science and history, which began work in
1902 and has already been eminently sue
cessful. 1t Is new departure In college
studies and exemplifes the practical ideas
| of its founder. There are schools OF politi'
| cal science and chairs Of political economy
| In the faculties of all the prominent Amer
| lean institutions, and in several chairs OF
| commerce have been established during
| late years. But in the Tuck School the idea
| has been developed on broader lines and
in a more practical manner than anywhere
! else. Students are taught the practical side
| as well as the theories of commerce. They
are trained In a knowledge Of the manu-
| facture and the methods of sale Of Ameri-
can produce and are given an opportunity
| to learn the management of the impor,
| trade. The text books and lectures are IL.
| Illustrated by the contents of museum
| similar to that in Philadelphia, containing
| articles OF commerce. the chief exports and
| imports of the United States with a cata.
| logue explaining what they are, how the,
are produced, what they cost where they
are sold and the ruling prices 1t is the
only commercial museum connected witt
any educational institution, although the
| Philadelphia museums are found yery use
| full by the students of Drexel Institute and
the University of Pennsylvania Mr. Blain,
desired and intended to have a similar mn
scum in connection with the bureau a
American republics at Washington ant
Congress once made an appropriation o
$1VO.UOO for that purpose. but ii was rnys
teriously dropped while the sundry civil bill
was in conference. The late Mr.. Holman @
Indiana, who -retoiced in the pseudonym O
watch dog OF the Treasury" ran his pen
ell through the item when nobody was look
ing as he frequently did when ne could no
prevent the appropriation Of money for OBJ
jects of which he did not approve.
A Surprising Windfan.
y The Butterfield Museum Of Natural Hfs