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Then in 1893 Dr. William Jewett Tucker became president and the college's great awakening began.

He transformed Dartmouth from a small New Hampshire institution into a national college.

By 1907 the number of undergraduates had risen to 1,107.

And at his last commencement, in that year, Dr. Tucker and Dartmouth were honored by the presence of distinguished academic visitors attesting to the new stature of the college.

The presidents of Cornell, Wisconsin, C.C.N.Y., Bowdoin, Vermont, Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and Harvard and the presidents emeritus of Harvard and Michigan were there.