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Ticker, William Jewett

ninth president of Dartmouth college, was born in 1839 in Griswold, Conn. In 1880-92 he filled the chair of homiletics at Andover, and attained a world-wide reputation as a theologian. In 1892 he was inaugurated president of Dartmouth college, which position he still fills. As editor of the Andover Review, as a pulpit orator of wonderful ability, and as the originator of the famous Andover House in Boston, he has become a recognized leader of the ethical forces of the day.