The sun., 1909-06-19
DARTMOUTH TO DR.. NICHOLS
NEW YORK GRADUATES GREET
THE PRESIDENT-ELECT.
Pledge to Him Their Loyal support In
Speeches BY Luther Little, Judge
Heugh and Charles r. Mathewson
Ne Talks Of the New Gymnasium.

HOugh ana Cn9rlcS r. MaNucWbOsA
he Talks Of the New Gymnasium.
A slender man just short OF six feet tall,
with the pleasant habit OF looking you in
the eye when he talks to you, was intro
duced last night at the Hotel Astor to the
New York alumni Of Dartmouth as the
president-elect OF Dartmouth College to
succeed DR. William J. Tucker nr.
Ernest Fox Nichols. who taught in Dart
mouth for six years before he came down
to New York TO become professor in
Columbia. said that ne thought he had n
lot OF courage u undertake TO fill the place
which Or. Tucker Is leaving vacant
From the way that the Dartmouth men
spoke and cheered last night it looks as
though DR.. Nichols was going to be well
liked when he goes up to Hanover. He
himself seemed to enjoy the declarations
4 loyalty that Luther B. Little. the
president Of the New York alumni. made
and the things Of the same sort that
were said by Judge Charles NJ. Hough
OF the United States District Court and
Charles E. Mathewson. who Is on the
Dartmouth board OF directors and was
on the committee which had in hand the
choosing OF new president. DR.. Nichols
except when he heard things which
modesty forbade him to listen to. nodded
his head and winked behind his eye
glasses as though he were having a talk
with them quietly. by himself.
Il take it on the authority OF good
Dartmouth men," said MIR. Little when he
was introducing Mr.. Mathew son, who IN
turn wa going to present DR.. Nichols
to the alumni that DR.. Nichols ID a good
Dartmouth man. President Tucker says
so., and that's enough for me. The re
are a good many good Dartmouth men
who have never won the Dartmouth
A. B., and DR.. Nichols is one OF them
-Of couree we looked first among the
the place that DR.. Tucker has left vacant, >
said Mr.. Mathewson, -But II We could
not get good graduate we were resolved
to olfer the position TO aman who seemed
to be a true Dartmouth man, and our
thoughts early turned toward Dr.
He expressed his confidence in DR..
Nichols's scholarly attributes, not only IN
his own department Of physics. in which
he has measured the force with which
beam OF light comes piumping down to
earth from, the sun and the heat Of star
light, but in the humanities. MIR. Mathew
son said that he thought they weren't
OF Or. Nichols.
That was the signal for Arthur T. Soule
Of the class Of 1908 TO hop on a chair and
clamor for a long Dartmouth cheer for
Dr. Nichols. Dr. Nichols answered with
a word or two about Dartmouth's future.
-When was In Boston to-day said he,
Il looked over the plans for the now gym
I ha n ali
as the mark Of the beginning. OF a
newer Dartmouth. Many expressions Of
the noble in art and science have come
from men owning to weak and crippled
bodies, and many a dyspeptic has told
us OF our moral and mental ills.
-But wholesome exercise makes a,
shapely home for courageous spirits and
soorf We will have ideal men-from feet
10 chin. After while when your purses
have had a chance to fill up again ! will
come to you with plans for making heads
to At the bodies.
Il don't know what changes I'm make
when l 20 to Dartmouth. I think that
in observation. But I want the college
to reach height such that the whole
country will recognize in Dartmouth the
sum OF moral courage, mental vigor and
bodily prowess.'
Then Luther Little read this Telegram
from Pres1dent tucker! we scnd DIR.
Nichols TO you fresh from the enthusiastic
greetings OF faculty and undergrad duates.
I congratulate the New York alumni upon
the opportunity 40 fitly taken 10 introduce
tho presiden t-elect Of ths college TO the
whole body OF loyal alumni"
Judge Hough said that he hoped that
Dartmouth would still stand for the dem
ocra ito ideal. without which. he said, no
college could bs n real college. -Dart-
mouth said no. used 10 attract men
whose s!nsws hsd hardened ara nee win work TX
receive the newer immigration Dart
mouth always aims to make cltzens,"
The oldest alumnus there lRst night TO
meet DIR. Nichols was Wentworth s But
Close second. Others were DR.. Charles
L. Dana, DR.. Charles Z. Quimby, John j.
Hopper. sx-Judge William N. Cohen,
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