The Library Reading Roam Copy SPECIAL MEMORIAL SERVICES EDITION i \ T n u ffiam p alrire TUESDAY “ A Live College Newspaper5 Vol. 26. Issue No. 56 UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, DURHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE, MAY 25, 1936 PRICE THREE CENTS Prexy’s Career University Closes Shows Successes All Day Tuesday UNIVERSITY MOURNS DEATH In Many Fields Six Members of 1935-1936 Council Will Act OF PRES. EDWARD M. LEWIS Well Known as Athlete as Bearers Statesman and Educator All University activities will be suspended Tuesday while services are held for the late President Edward M. Relapse Interrupts Born in Machynlleth, North Wales, Lewis. The funeral service will be held on December 25, 1872, President Ed­ at the Community Church at 11:00 a.m. Expected Recovery (advanced time) followed immediately ward M. Lewis came to this country bjr interment services at the Durham with his parents in 1881. His career has Community Cemetery. News of Death Comes as been wide and varied, including states Students cannot be permitted to at­ Complete Shock to manship, education, and athletics, and tend the church service because of the in every phase marked with more than small size of the Community Church. All Students Six members of the 1935-36 Student usual success. Council will represent the student body All Durham has been in mourning Athlete as bearers for the President. Graduated from Williams college in They are: past president, David K. since shortly after midnight Sunday 1896, he immediately became prominent Webster; William F. Weir, William V. morning when Dr. Edward Morgan Corcoran, Robert A. Goodman, William as a pitcher for the Boston Nationals Lewis, our Prexy since 1927, died at f. Thompson, and Kenneth R. Norris. his home. from 1896-1900 and with the Boston Others who will attend the funeral All Saturday, while the University Americans from 1900-1901. At the service include relatives, friends and played host to the Mothers of Univer­ same time he coached the Harvard members of the faculty. sity students, close friends of the university baseball team (1897-1901) A University memorial service for President waited anxiously for news and prepared for his master’s degree Closed (continued on page two) that he had been able to rally from which he took at Williams in 1899. a relapse which began about a week Educator ago. That news never came. Leaving organized baseball in 1901 Webster Expresses Students and faculty members found he took a position as instructor in it hard to believe, Sunday morning, elocution at Columbia university, which Students’ Regrets that Prexy had died, for all recent in­ he held until 1903. In that year he re­ dications pointed to a slow but sure turned to his alma mater, Williams He Calls on Students to recovery. college, where he served as instructor EDWARD MORGAN LEWIS Assist at Memorial Last February, the President was and assistant professor of public speak­ Services taken to the Wentworth Hospital in ing until 1911. Again leaving Williams Dover for observation, but later news he went to Massachusetts State A gri­ During my term of office as Presi­ University Development revealed that he had undergone an op­ cultural college, where he remained dent of Student Council my many con­ eration, the exact nature of wich was until 1927. At that institution he served tacts with President Lewis led me to not revealed publicly until his death. first as dean and from 1913-1927 as know him and respect him both as a Phenomenal Under Lewis In April he returned to his home in head of the department of languages friend and as a fellow worker for the welfare of the University. His work fessional improvement of the faculty, Durham, to remain there under the and literature. From 1919-1927 he also for the University is manifested by the Fine Character and Unusual research, and extension staffs. In the care of his physician, Dr. Bernard J. served as head of the division of hu­ growth and advancement in physical Ability Stressed by later years of his life he was mainly Manning of Dover. manities. During this time he also factors which can be seen by all, and concerned with the successful adjust­ Associates When President Lewis appeared for served as acting president of the col­ many things which are shown by the ment of the University to the economic lege for five years and as president dur­ success of New Hampshire men and depression. three innings at the first baseball game ing 1926-1927. From Massachusetts women. President Lewis was eighth in the of the season with Bates, much relief Dean Pettee state he came as President of the Uni­ Whenever there was a chance to im­ line of presidents who have headed the was felt by the student body who felt Dean Charles H. Pettee, the “grand versity of New Hampshire, which post prove the University he was not satis­ this to be a sign of nearly complete University since its establishment at old man” of the University faculty, he has ably filled until his death Sunday fied until the project had been com ­ recovery. The sight of Edward Y. Hanover in 1866; although he took who has been closely connected with morning. pleted. But there is also the human, Blewett, executive secretary of the charge of the University at a time all eight presidents, under Asa Smith He has also been an instructor in friendly side of the man that nol^ all his University, and Miss Doris Beane, per­ when great advances, in its progress as a student at Hanover, and under all the Yale Divinity school, 1904-1914, students had opportunity to observe. I sonal secretary to the President, en­ were already being made he went on the rest as a teacher and dean, had and in the Harvard university summer recall particularly now he loved to sit tering Prey’s home on business sever­ to make even greater improvements this to say about President Lewis to­ school, 1903-1906. in the military office watching his stu­ al times a week, pointed to the fact than ever have been witnessed in the day: dents going to Convocation and the that Dr. Lewis was still at the helm Statesman history of the institution. “All of the eight New Hampshire kindly speculations he made concerning and that confinement to his home was President Lewis was a democratic Each executive of the University has presidents have been strong men, and them. merely a protective measure to assure candidate for congress from the first served roughly ten years and his ad­ the University has prospered and ad­ W henever I saw him he always had a complete recovery. Massachusetts district in 1910, and a ministration has been marked by vanced under each of them. Each has a kindly word to say of someone, a candidate from the second district in changes peculiar to the time and place Only two weeks ago, Roy D. Hun­ question to ask concerning those of the been the man of the hour, so to speak. 1914. He served as chairman of the of tenure. Asa Dodge Smith, the first President Lewis has carried forward ter, president of the Board of Trustees, students whom he knew, or a request Massachusetts democratic state con­ president, served from 1866-77; Sam­ the institution to still higher levels, told the students at convocation that for comment on the improvement of his vention in 1913. He was a member of uel Colcord Bartlett from 1877-91; and has won the love, admiration, and Prexy had improved sufficiently to go beloved University. the American Academy of Political and Lyman Dewey Stevens, 1891-93 Charles esteem of faculty, student body and the on short rides, and was on the road to As a mark of the sincere respect Social Sciences, the American Geo­ Sumner Murkland, 1893-1903; Wrilliam state at large. The post left vacant recovery. which we all hold for him every stu­ graphic Society, the Foreign Policy As­ David Gibbs, 1903-12; Edgar Thom p­ by his death will be an extremely dif­ Born December 25, 1872 in Machyn­ dent should make a special effort to at­ sociation, the National Grange, Phi son Fairchild, 1912-17; Ralph Dorn ficult one to fill.” lleth, North Wales, Edward Morgan tend the memorial service which will Kappa Phi, Phi Gamma Delta, and a Hetzel, 1917-27; and Edward Morgan Lewis died in Durham, N. H., Sunday, be held for him at 2:30 tomorrow after­ Roy D. Hunter member of the National Eisteddfodd Lewis, 1927-36. May 24, 1936 of cancer of the liver. noon in the gymnasium. Roy D. Hunter of Claremont, presi­ Association. He was a member of the Advancements He is survived by his wife, Mrs. I feel sure that all will join with me dent of the board of trustees, issued the executive committee of the New Eng­ During President Lewis’ administra­ Margaret William Lewis, two sons, Ed­ in keeping his memory sacred as the following statement in behalf of the land Association of Colleges and Sec­ tion the development of the University, ward W., of Washington, D. C., and benefactor of our University and as a trustees: ondary schools, the board of directors man among men. academically and physically, might John B., of Portland, Maine, a daugh­ of the Northern New England School “ The trustees feel deeply the loss of Signed, well be called phenomenal. The admis­ ter, Mrs. Daniel W . Hoitt of Durham, of Religious Education, the advisory President Edward Morgan Lewis, the David K. Webster sion policies were made stricter, a sys­ two grandsons, and a granddaughter.