October 15, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



505 



If I have dwelt upon only a small part 

 of the problems of the university ; if I have 

 said nothing of the professional and gradu- 

 ate schools, of the library, the observatory, 

 the laboratories, the museums, the gardens, 

 and the various forms of extension work, it 

 is not because they are of less importance, 

 but because the time is too short to take up 

 more than two or three pressing questions 

 of general interest. The university touches 

 the community at many points, and as time 

 goes on it ought to serve the public through 

 ever increasing channels. But all its ac- 

 tivities are more or less connected with, and 

 most of them are based upon, the college. 

 It is there that the character ought to 

 be shaped, that aspirations ought to be 

 formed, that citizens ought to be trained, 

 and scholarly tastes implanted. If the 

 mass of undergraduates could be brought 

 to respect, nay, to admire, intellectual 

 achievement on the part of their comrades, 

 in at all the measure that they do athletic 

 victory; if those among them of natural 

 ability could be led to put forth their 

 strength on the objects which the college is 

 supposed to represent; the professional 

 schools would find their tasks lightened, 

 and their success enhanced. A greater 

 solidarity in college, more earnestness of 

 purpose and intellectual enthusiasm, would 

 mean much for our nation. It is said that 

 if the temperature of the ocean were raised 

 the water would expand until the floods 

 covered the dry land; and if we can in- 

 crease the intellectual ambition of college 

 students the whole face of our country will 

 be changed. When the young men shall 

 see visions the dreams of old men vdll come 

 true. 



INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDEyT 

 OF DARTMOUTH COLLEOE' 



The past sixteen years have been and 



ever will be notable years in the history 



■ Given by Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols on October 14. 



of Dartmouth College. In that time the 

 number of students has all but quadru- 

 pled ; and the material equipment of the 

 college has expanded in proportion. The 

 college has added to its libraries, built lab- 

 oratories for its scientific departments 

 and modern dormitories for its students. 

 Its teaching staff has grown in size and 

 advanced in quality. In every direction 

 its growth has been rapid and great, but 

 at the same time normal and balanced. 

 The student body has changed in more 

 ways than mere numbers, for if we be- 

 lieve with William Wyckham, "that man- 

 ners maketh man" and to a very consider- 

 able extent they undoubtedly do, Dart- 

 mouth is not only graduating more, but a 

 better average of men than in earlier 

 times. Dartmouth's development in these 

 years has been due in an extraordinary 

 degree to the work of a single leader, 

 and that leader is Doctor Tucker. His 

 winning, alert and earnest personality, 

 his wisdom, foresight and daring, his 

 moral and physical energy, have cai-ried 

 the college forward over many obstacles 

 which to others, at the time, seemed in- 

 superable, and so they would have been 

 under other leadership. The college has 

 been truly blest with an intrepid and far- 

 sighted pilot, who has brought her safely 

 over rough seas and through some narrow 

 and dangerous channels. The college, the 

 state and the nation have just reason to 

 take pride in Doctor Tucker's great 

 achievement. 



That grave problems still face the col- 

 lege is but evidence that Dartmouth is 

 thoroughly alive, for in death only are 

 all problems solved. It is not, however, 

 of Dartmouth's individual problems that 

 I wish to speak to-day— I am not yet 

 sure I know them all. I want rather to 

 speak of some of the problems common 

 to all our American colleges, and ask per- 



