The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17

Because OF its isolation in the WILL
derness Dartmouth was not seriously
affected by the Revolutionary War. In
1885 it sheltered 100 students; four
years later the number had increased
to 100. In the decade l7SO-l790 Dart
mouth graduated 1863 men to Harva rd
1874. Ya!e's 295. Prncetons 24O. Yet
as late as 1897. when Webster entered
as a freshman. the whole instructing
body consisted Z tire president. two
professors and one tutor. He who was
afterward to be called the Godike
Daniel" came to college directly from
his fathers tavern and bayfield,. al
though he had been partially fitted for
Dartmouth at the Philips Exeter
Academy. Like many another student
who has wrested the foundations Of
success In life from those same granite
hills OF New Hampshire Webster was
a raw specimen of youth when he ar
rived in the village and put up" ut
what Is now known az Leeds House
at that time a kind of tavern. In
this same house Webster's friend and
compeer, Rufus Choate by the way,
was married. As freshman Webster
was awkward. thin and SO Gark that one
Of the villagers mistook him FOR a new
Indian student, much TO his disgust.
But he had personality, he possessed
supreme self-confidence ami he spoke
in public at every possible opportunity.
In his junior year Webster delivered
a Fourth OF July address before the
people Of Hanover In which he re-
ferred 10 Napoleon as "the gascOnad-
ing pilgrim OF Egypt" and further de-
clared that France, mot yet content
with the contortions OF expiring re-
publics, spouted her fury across the
Atlantic!" A far cry this youthful
effort. from the Reply to Hayne, as
Mr.. Quint remarks, yet it must be re-
membered that the Fourth OF July ad-
dress was composed and delivered by a
boy of IS.
The college life Of BLACK Dan" we
are told was not particularly eventful.
and none OF his classmates predicted
! unusual success for him II seems that
he behaved somewhat Better than the
times demanded. firted little with the
I college widows" drank moderately
studied honestly and easily. and that
he was not popular with his fellows
because he was so independent and
! oNli Even luus early IN MS
career Webster read the newspa pers
and kept thoroughly posted on political
affairs When distinguished men Wis
tied Hanover he would somehow man
age TO fall in with them and bring
himself to their attention, and in due
time he was graduated. or course
Webster's name will always be asso-
ciated with his alma mater because
/ Of aoNn ha %
mouth College case, which apparently
had its remote origin I'm a squabble
over a trivial matter OF religious opin-
ion, far back in 1898. From these root.
sprang serious differences, quarrels and
| finally open warfare, which nothing
short Of the United States Supreme
| Court could end. Henry Cabot Lodge
is quoted as saying that the decision
rendered in 1918. was "ln its effects
more far reaching and OF more genera
interest than perhaps any other ever
made in this country" At the time
the decision was announced in Wash
! ington Judge Hopkinson wrote TO Pres
ident Brown OF Dartmouth suggesting
an inscription to be placed over the
door of the college building. POUNDED
by Eleazer Wheelock. Retounded by
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that nearly a century afterward thes,
words, in enduring bronze. were placed
al the portals of Webster Hall, n dig.
nifed and handsome memorial built by
the alumni ut the northwest corner oil
the campus,
When the Rev. Bennett Tyler was
lnaugurated president of Dartmouth
in 1892, the faculty still consisted
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in addition. of course, to the college
head; but now two additional professor;
were engaged, one OF them, Charles II
Haddock. a nephew OF Websters, was q
particularly strong and brilliant man
and the first professor OF rhetoric ir
America, Mr.. Quint AYERS. Like his
famous uncle, Professor Haddock ap'
parently possessed the ability 10 get IL
debt with the utmost ease ana to stay
there indefinitely. But this fact did no