nse of
their duty to exhibit in their godly lives and conversation the
beneficent effects of the religion they profess, and thus increase the
efficiency of Christianity in Christian countries, and recommend its
acceptance to the heathen portions of the world.'"

Few of Dartmouth's alumni have manifested a more affectionate,
steadfast devotion to their Alma Mater, than Mr. Fletcher.

Tappan Wentworth was the son of Isaac Wentworth, of Dover, N. H., and
was born there February 24, 1802, and died in Lowell, June 12, 1875.
His father was a poor man, a boatman running a freight-boat between
Dover and Portsmouth.

He was sent first to common schools till he reached the classical
school where he studied Latin in a class with the late John K. Young,
D.D., Dr. George W. Kittredge, and Hon. John H. White, but was taken
from school after having read two books of Virgil. Judge White says:
"Tappan was a good scholar, energetic and self-reliant. I was in the
Latin class with him, and was told by the father that he was too poor
to keep him in school." He then spent about three years in Portsmouth,
in a North End grocery store.

From Portsmouth he went to South Berwick, Me., into the stores of the
late Benjamin Nason and Alphonso Gerrish, successively, as clerk. He
there attracted the attention of Hon. William Burleigh, a then member
of Congress from York district, by a spirited article he had written
in favor of Mr. Burleigh's re-election. Mr. Burleigh now offered to
take him as a law student, and the young clerk entered upon the study
of law, and was admitted to the bar in York County in 1826. After
seven years' successful practice in his profession in South Berwick
and Great Falls, he came to Lowell, bringing some seven thousand
dollars with him.

He now seemed to form his life plan of work, professionally and
financially,--diligence in his profession and all possible investments
in real estate. At his death his $7,000 had swollen into nearly
$300,000, during his forty-five years of Lowell life.

During these years he became a leading member of his profession, was
often in offices of trust in city affairs, at different times in both
houses of the Legislature, and a member of Congress from 1853 to 1855.

After assigning "pride of ancestry and name" as one reason for Mr.
Wentworth's munificence to Dartmouth, Judge Crosby says:

"Another reason for the gift to the college is found in his
appreciation of the value, the power,