he school is now hardly in full operation, as some features about
the course are still experimental. It has its history yet to make."

CHAPTER XXIX.

BENEFACTORS.--TRUSTEES.

From various authentic sources we have the following sketches of
Dartmouth's leading benefactors, always excepting the last Royal
Governor of New Hampshire, John Wentworth, whose care for all the
interests of the Province is a matter of enduring record. Of the
distinguished person in honor of whom the College was named, the
following account, published in 1779, is from "Collins' Peerage":

"William, _the present and Second Earl of Dartmouth_, for his more
polite education, traveled through France, Italy, and Germany; and, on
his return to England, took the oaths, and his seat in the House of
Peers, on May 31, 1754. His Lordship was sworn of His Majesty's Privy
Council on July 26, 1765; in August following he was appointed first
Commissioner of Trade and Plantations, which he resigned in 1766; in
August, 1772, he was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies;
and on November 10, 1775, Keeper of the Privy Seal.

"His Lordship married, on January 11, 1755, Frances Catharine, only
daughter and heir of Sir Charles Gunter Nicholl, Knight of the Bath;
and by her had issue eight sons and one daughter.

"His Lordship is also President of the London Dispensary;
Vice-President of the Foundling and Lock Hospitals; Recorder of
Litchfield; LL. D., and F. R. S."

The armorial inscription is:

"GAUDET TENTAMINE VIRTUS."

Forbes' Life of Dr. Beattie gives the following interesting paragraph:

"His Majesty (George III.) asked what I thought of my new
acquaintance, Lord Dartmouth. I said, there was something in his air
and manner which seemed to me not only agreeable, but very enchanting,
and that he seemed to me to be one of the best of men; a sentiment in
which both their majesties heartily joined. 'They say that Lord
Dartmouth is an enthusiast,' said the king, 'but surely he says
nothing on the subject of religion but what every one may and ought to
say on the subject of religion.'"

Of John Thornton, the devout Episcopalian, the kinsman of Wilberforce,
and the most munificent of Dartmouth's early benefactors, almost the
sole supporter of the founder for several years, Rev. Thomas Scott, in
a memorial "Discourse" says:

"It is worthy of observation, that this friend of mankind, in the
exercise of his beneficence, not only contributed his