Bartlett, Ralph W
lawyer, educator, was born June 13, 1865, in North Brookfield, Mass. He is a graduate from Amherst college and the Boston university law school; and is a member of the bar. Since 1894 he has been instructor of real property at the Boston university school of law.
BARTLETT, SAMUEL COLCORD, eighth president of Dartmouth college, was born Nov. 25, 1817, in Salisbury, N.
H. In 1836 he graduated from Dartmouth college; then began educational work.
In 1843 he became pastor of the congregational church in Monson, Mass.; and three years later assumed the duties of the professorship of intellectual philosophy and rhetoric in the Western Reserve college. In 1852 he returned to the ministry; filled pastorates in Manchester, N. H., and Chicago, Ill.; and became one of the editors of the Congregational Herald. In 1858 he was chosen professor of biblical literature in the Chicago Theological seminary; was elected president of Vermont university in 1866; and in 1877 became president of Dartmouth college.
After fifteen years of service he resigned in 1892. He is the author of Life and Death Eternal; from Egypt to Palestine; and other works.