able authority on any historical point, states
that there was a printing-press at Dresden, (which included the
"College District," in Hanover, and a part of Lebanon), as early as
1777. Mr. Abel Curtis' Grammar was printed there by J. P. and A.
Spooner, in 1779. Other works, still extant, were printed by them at
about the same period.[35]

[35] "The Dartmouth" having been revived in 1867, is now issued
as a Weekly Magazine.

In tracing the progress of the college during President Lord's
administration, we cannot more fitly conclude, than by adopting the
language of Mr. William H. Duncan, who in a valuable tribute to his
worth and his memory, says:

"It was the proud boast of Augustus, that he found Rome of brick and
left it of marble. Might not President Lord, at the time of his
resignation, have said without a shadow of boasting, I found the
college, what its great counsel called it in that most touching and
pathetic close of his great argument in the College Case before the
Supreme Court at Washington: I found it truly 'a small college'; it
was in an humble condition; its classes were small; its finances
embarrassed; its buildings in a dilapidated and ruinous condition. I
left it one of the leading institutions of the land!"

Fuller details on these points will be gathered from subsequent
chapters.

CHAPTER XVII.

CHARACTER OF PRESIDENT LORD.

The period of President Tyler's resignation was a most critical one in
the history of the college.

Its eminent founder passed away in the midst of the Revolutionary
struggle, leaving the frail bark, in which were centered fond and
long-cherished hopes, tossing upon uncertain and dangerous waters. A
fearful storm was raging when his immediate successor put off the
robes of office, and a little later went "to give account of his
stewardship." Thirteen years had scarcely been sufficient fully to
restore to a healthy condition the discipline of the college, which
had been materially weakened by the lack of harmony between the second
president and his associates in office.

Material aid was needed also to provide better accommodations for the
students.

In common with other colleges, Dartmouth needed most of all, in those
trying times, a president "rooted and grounded" in the truth.

The multiplication of colleges rendered it especially desirable, at
this period, that this college should have a man at its head well
fitted and furnished for his