Evening star., 1926-09-30
DR.. W.I.TUCKER,
EDUCATOR, D|ES|
President Emeritus, Credited
With making" Dartmouth,
Retired in 1909.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HANOVER. N. H, September 80
DR.. William Jewett Tucker, president
emeritus of Dartmouth College, dled
last evening at his home here. He
had been i'll for long time, but the
end came suddenly. Mrs. Tucker was
the only relative with him at the
time
Although the college community
had been warned several days ago
that Dr. Tucker was critically Ill. ana
his daughter, Mrs. F. w. CushWa,
had hurried here to be with him. II
was later said he had gained sllShtIy'
Mrs Cushwa returned to Exeter
where her husband is an instructor at
Phillips Exeter Academy.
The news that death had occurred
at about o'clock came as 4 shock TO
this college town, which had known
the educator intimately since Io93'
when he became president OF Dart
mouth and for four earlier years
while he was a student here.
known as "Great President"
DR.. William Jewett Tucker, presl-
dent emeritus of Dartmouth College,
was known in New England as the
great president" who brought Dart
mouth from the position OF small
New Hampshire college to that OF a
great national educational lnstltutloh'
DR.. Tucker came to the presidency
of Dartmouth in 1898 as the sue
cessor to Dr. Samuel COlcord Bart
lett, At the time of his Inauguration
the college was in debt; its enroll
ment numbered but slightly more
than 300 men, and the educat1onal
plant consisted of b. Is inadequate
buildings At his retirement, in 1909,
Dartmouth had reached an enroll-
ment of more than 1,100 students;
more than 20 college buildings had
been added to the plant; the amount
Of the colleges invested capital had
been increased by more than Sl,5O0,-
600, and the institution had been
strengthened and improved at every
point. Much of the prosperity or
Dartmouth at the end of President
fuckers term was due TO the gen
erous gifts of Edward Tuck, now re-
siding in Paris, who was his college
chum.
DR.. Tucker was born in. Griswold,
Conn, July 13, 1899, the son of Henry
and Sarah (Lester) Tucker. He pre-
pared for college at Meridian and
entered Dartmouth with the class of
1861. Following his graduation he
taught school at Laconia, n. H., and
Columbus, Ohio, and in 1863 entered
Andover Theological Seminary to
study for the ministry. In 1857. after
his graduation from Andover and his
ordination in the Congregational
ministry, DR.. Tucker became pastor
of the Franklin Street Church of
Manchester, N. II.
In 1876 he was called to the Madison
Square Presbyterian Church of New
when he accepted the chair of homi-
letics in Andover Seminary. DR..
Tucker was a founder and editor Of
the Andover Reviews. and the An
dover House movement in Boston was
largely due to his personal enortS.
Served as Trustee.
Before assuming the presidency of
Dartmouth, in 1893, DIR. Tucker mad
served for IA years as member OF
the Dartmouth board of trustees, ana
had twice previously been elected TO
the presidency, each time declining
the election because his conception OF
duty led him to value more highly
the work which he was doing in the
ministry. In 1893 the inability of the
college to secure a president ana the
long delay in filing the office so ap-
pealed to the loyalty of DR.. Tucker
that he yielded to the urgent solicita-
tions and consented to accept the
election.
Recognition in the form of honorary
degrees and appointments to notapie
lectureships was accorded 10 IT
Tucker on numerous OCCASIONS. ne s
was given the honorary degree or
doctor Of divinity in 1875 by Dart
mouth and in 1904 by the University
of Vermont. and received the degree OF
doctor of law from Williams in 1898,
from Yale in 1895, from Wesleyan in
1903 and from Columbus in 1906. In
1894 DR.. Tucker delivered the lee
lures Of the Lowell Institute, in Bos-
ton. and from 1899 to 1901 was a
university preacher of Harvard lie
was also q lecturer of Union Theolog-
ical Seminary in 1897 and Lyman
Beecher lecturer of the Yale DIVINITY
School in 1897 and 1898.
DR.. Tucker was q member of the
Phi Beta Kappa Society, a fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and a. member of the New
Hampshire Historical Society and the
Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
He was the author of many books;
Liberty to Unity" in 1892; The
Making and Unmaking of the Preach
er," in 1899; public Mindedness" and
Personal Power" in 1910; "The
Function of tho Church in Modern
Society,"" in 1911; THE New Reserva-
ton of Time" in 1916, and MY Gen
GRAFTON" and autobiography, in 1919.
DIR. Tucker is survived by his
widow and three daughters, Mrs. F.
H. Dixon of Princeton. N. j.; Mrs.
Nelson P. Brown of Everett, Mass,
and Mrs. Frank Cushwa of Exeter,
N. H.