Young 276

CHAPTER XXV.

Prof. Stephen Chase.--Prof. David Peabody.--Prof. William
Cogswell 298

CHAPTER XXVI.

Prof. John Newton Putnam.--Prof. John S. Woodman.--Prof.
Clement Long.--Other Teachers 316

CHAPTER XXVII.

Medical Department.--Professors Nathan Smith, Reuben D.
Mussey, Dixi Crosby, Edmund R. Peaslee, Albert Smith, and
Alpheus B. Crosby--Other Teachers 339

CHAPTER XXVIII.

The Chandler Scientific Department.--The Agricultural
Department.--The Thayer Department of Civil Engineering 367

CHAPTER XXIX.

Benefactors.--Trustees 380

CHAPTER XXX.

Labors of Dartmouth Alumni.--Conclusion 395

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION.

The most valuable part of a nation's history portrays its institutions
of learning and religion.

The alumni of a college which has moulded the intellectual and moral
character of not a few of the illustrious living, or the more
illustrious dead,--the oldest college in the valley of the
Connecticut, and the only college in an ancient and honored
State,--would neglect a most fitting and beautiful service, should
they suffer the cycles of a century to pass, without gathering in some
modest urn the ashes of its revered founders, or writing on some
modest tablet the names of its most distinguished sons.

The germ of Dartmouth College was a deep-seated and long-cherished
desire, of the foremost of its founders, to elevate the Indian race in
America.

The Christian fathers of New England were not unmindful of the claims
of the Aborigines. The well-directed, patient, and successful labors
of the Eliots, Cotton, and the Mayhews, and the scarcely less valuable
labors of Treat and others, fill a bright page in the religious
history of the seventeenth century. To numerous congregations of red
men the gospel was preached; many were converted; churches were
gathered, and the whole Bible--the first printed in America--was given
them in their own language.

This interest in the Indian was not confined to our own country, in
the earlier periods of our history. In Great Britain, sovereigns,
ecclesiastics, and philosophers recognized the obligations
providentially imposed upon them, to aid in giving a Christian