Excerpt from The Inauguration of Ernest Martin Hopkins, Litt. D., LL. D., Eleventh President of Dartmouth College, October 6, 1916: A Record of the Proceedings Friends of Dartmouth College. Honorable Delegates and Guests. Alumni. Students. Ladies and Gentlemen: All the hopes we had when we asked you to come here (or an inauguration seven years ago have been more than ful filled in the sagacious and brilliant presidency of Doctor Nichols - except one. We hoped it would be longer. We did not do lull justice to the grip of a great science upon a master of it. Last autumn he tendered his resignation. To become a physicist once more. In view of his own firm decision. The trustees felt constrained. Most reluctantly constrained. To accept it. And did so at their meeting of November 19. 1915. So the first decade of Dartmouth presidents came to an end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.