Dartmouth College. Office of the President. William Jewett Tucker (1893-1909)
Dates
- Usage: 1893 - 1909
Biography
William Jewett Tucker, Dartmouth Class of 1861, was born in Griswold, Connecticut on July 13, 1839. He studied at Andover Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1867.
Tucker served as a pastor in both Manchester New Hampshire and New York City before returning to Andover as a member of the faculty in 1879. During his time at Andover, Tucker became an editor of the "Andover Review." He was also the founder of The South End House, one of the earliest settlement houses in Boston. Tucker was one of several faculty members supporting President E. C. Smyth who was removed from his post due a dispute known as the Andover Controversy. The dispute was a clash between the old New England Calvinism of the founders of the seminary and the liberal theology of Smyth and several faculty members, Tucker among them. Charges were eventually filed against five professors who were calling for a liberalization of Congregational views. In 1890, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts found the proceedings be faulty and Tucker and the others were acquitted.
Tucker became Dartmouth College's 9th president in 1893 and served until 1909. Tucker instituted what became known as the "New Dartmouth" which brought the institution from the from a small regional College to that of a national educational institution. Tucker transformed the intuition through a combination of increasing the student body, increasing the regional diversity of the students, building up the faculty and developing the physical plant.
Tucker died in Hanover, NH on September 29, 1926.
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Dartmouth College. Office of the President (1893-1909: William Jewett Tucker) records
The records of the Dartmouth College presidential administration of William Jewett Tucker contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, and speeches documenting major policy issues and the daily administration of the College under the Tucker administration.