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Died. Dr. William Jewett Tucker, 87, President Emeritus of Dartmouth College; at Hanover, N. H., of heart disease. He received his sobriquet of "the great president" by bringing Dartmouth from the little "eleemosynary institution"- of John Marshall's day to the great college that it had become when Dr. Tucker resigned in 1909. Died. Thor, 2, able retriever of golfer's dub-shots; at Briarcliff Lodge golf course, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. Dog Thor was struck by an automobile when retrieving a ball-nevertheless brought it back to the golfer, wagged his tail, died...
Coming to a small New England School, fettered with all the traditional inhabitions of the early American classical college, William Jewett Tucker strove valiantly and in no fin de siecle manner to give his college the breadth and enrichment which he knew it lacked. So the Dartmouth undergraduate of today owes to Dr. Tucker the benefits which are to him Dartmouth...
...member of another college can understand quite adequately those benefits. Yet one may comprehend in some fashion just what such men as Dr. Tucker did for the educational institutions of the country as a whole. Realizing the need of an elective system, for the teaching of natural science, history, philosophy, an understanding, above all, of the maral value of liberty, these pioneeers in American education strove to create educational institutions equipped to fit the American youth for his life as an American citizen. Nor can all the petty, often diverse disquisitions of later day men upon the futility of such...
...Beverly Tucker Thompson '28 of Chicago, Illinois, was named as Second Assistant Manager; Arthur Anrews Holbrook '28 of Mlwaukee, Wisconsin as Second Assistant Manager of Cross Country; Frederick Robert-son Griffin '28 of Philadelphia as Second Assistant Manager in charge of Interscholastics; and Brian Bancroft Long '28 of Greenwich, Connecticut, as Second Assistant Manager in charge of Inter-class track...