AMERICANIZATION

Great works have been wrought in the hills of New Hampshire since the day when Elzear Wheelock made his way up the Connecticut river to found Dartmouth College. He was enthusiastic in his desire to start a school for the education of the Indians in the ways of God and the white man's civilization, little dreaming that in 150 years the modest institution would change into a college of national reputation.

The progress of the college has been marked by the irregularity of its development. Struggling through the early years of the last century it seemed for a time destined to be a little backwoods academy, without distinction of any kind, confining its scope to the education of the solid yeomanry of New Hampshire. About the size of Amherst and Williams, but without their academic prestige, Dartmouth was well on the way to obscurity.

One of the ablest of college heads, President Tuck removed the bushel that had obscured the light which now radiates from Hanover. He revitalized the once somnolent institution, and President Hopkins has carried on the tradition. The green-jerseyed players and the thousands of supporters of the Indians' fortune who will be in the Stadium this afternoon represent a new Dartmouth, born less than fifty years ago.