Ernest Martin Hopkins and Related Topics

Hopkins Center for the Arts

Located at 4 East Wheelock Street in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Béla Fleck and Chick Corea, March 1, 2008, Spaulding Auditorium

Its genesis was the promise for a new theater made in the late 1920s by then Dartmouth president Ernest Martin Hopkins to Warner Bentley, a newly recruited English faculty member with responsibility for the non-department theatre program.

Dartmouth College

Private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.

Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth College founder

The Charter of Dartmouth College on display in Baker Memorial Library. The charter was signed on December 13, 1769, on behalf of George III.

The earliest known image of Dartmouth appeared in the February 1793 issue of Massachusetts Magazine. The engraving may also be the first visual proof of cricket being played in the United States.

Lithograph of the President's House, Thornton Hall, Dartmouth Hall, and Wentworth Hall

McNutt Hall, home to the Dartmouth Office of Undergraduate Admissions

Dartmouth Hall was reconstructed in 1906.

Drawing of Wilson Hall, Dartmouth's first library building, by architect Samuel J. F. Thayer (1842–1893), which appeared in American Architect and Building News in March 1885.

American elm on Dartmouth College campus, June 2011

Sherman Fairchild Physical Sciences Center

Robinson Hall houses many of the College's student-run organizations, including the Dartmouth Outing Club. The building is a designated stop along the Appalachian Trail.

Dartmouth Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity house

A Dartmouth varsity hockey game against Princeton at Thompson Arena

Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs and United States Secretary of the Treasury

Timothy Geithner, former United States Secretary of the Treasury

Salmon Chase, former Chief Justice of the U.S.

Daniel Webster, former Secretary of State

Nelson Rockefeller, former Vice President of the United States

Kirsten Gillibrand, United States senator

Robert Reich, former United States Secretary of Labor, political commentator, professor, and author

Connie Britton, actress, singer and producer

Shonda Rhimes, television producer and writer

Jake Tapper, journalist, author, and commentator

David Benioff, screenwriter and television producer, writer, and director

Presidents Ernest Fox Nichols (1909–16) and Ernest Martin Hopkins (1916–45) continued Tucker's trend of modernization, further improving campus facilities and introducing selective admissions in the 1920s.

Worcester Academy

Private school in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Walker Hall, The Megaron, and Adams Hall

Ernest Martin Hopkins 1896, President of Dartmouth College

Tuck School of Business

Graduate business school of Dartmouth College, a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Amos Tuck, the namesake of the Tuck School, was a founder of the Republican Party.

Tuck Hall, the Tuck School's main administrative building, after a heavy snowfall

Stell Hall, named after Julia Stell, Edward Tuck's wife

The Feldberg Business and Engineering Library

The Tuck Living and Learning Complex (LLC)

Christopher A. Sinclair T'73, former chairman and CEO of Mattel, and former CEO of Pepsi-Cola

During this period of growth, Dartmouth president Ernest Martin Hopkins wrote often to Edward Tuck reflecting on the school's flourishing alumni and faculty.

Stanley King

The eleventh president of Amherst College.

Said President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Amherst's rival, Dartmouth College: "My respect has continued and grown for the scope of his intellectual interest and for the quality of his thinking in regard to political and social problems."

Dartmouth College Greek organizations

Host to many Greek organizations, and a significant percentage of the undergraduate student body is active in Greek life.

The second physical plant of Kappa Kappa Kappa, located at 22 North College Street and occupied by the fraternity from 1894 to 1924. The fraternity added the "goat room" (meeting room) at the rear.

Dartmouth Beta House, circa 1920, would later become home to the Tucker Foundation.

Delta Tau Delta, shown here circa 1915, would in 1960 become today's Bones Gate fraternity.

The brotherhood and physical plant of Lambda Chi Alpha in the 1922 Dartmouth College yearbook, The Aegis

College President Ernest Martin Hopkins personally decided to abolish freshman rush in 1924.

Newton D. Baker

American lawyer, Georgist, politician, and government official.

Secretary of War Newton D. Baker (right), Major General James W. McAndrew (left) and Major General Andre W. Brewster (center) with a group of German prisoners who have just arrived from the front, September 26, 1918.

Newton D. Baker, the Secretary of War, accompanied by Brigadier General Michael J. Lenihan and Major General Charles T. Menoher, inspecting elements of both the 166th Regiment and the 149th Machine Gun Battalion in Bénaménil, France, March 19, 1918.

Among the prominent names who called the Encyclopedia to account were Livingston Farrand of Cornell and Ernest M. Hopkins of Dartmouth.

Edward Tuck

American banker, diplomat, and philanthropist.

Edward Tuck and Julia Stell on the steps of :fr:Domaine de Vert-Mont

Tuck's French country residence, Domaine de Vert-Mont

In 1929, after solicitation from Ernest Martin Hopkins, the 11th President of Dartmouth, Tuck donated 600 shares of Chase National Bank, which was sold for $567,766.

David T. McLaughlin

The 14th President of Dartmouth College, 1981–1987.

Like his predecessor Ernest Martin Hopkins, the fourteenth president in the Wheelock Succession came from a business background.

Vermont Academy

Private, co-educational, college preparatory, boarding and day school in Saxtons River, Vermont, serving students from ninth through twelfth grade, as well as postgraduates.

View of the Vermont Academy campus in 2013.

In 1934, Ernest Martin Hopkins, President of Dartmouth College, recommended Laurence G. Leavitt, a fellow Dartmouth graduate, for the job of Head of School of Vermont Academy.