See also:DARTMOUTH See also:COLLEGE
, an See also:American institution of higher See also:education, in See also:Hanover, New See also:Hampshire
.
It is Congregational in its affiliations, but is actually non-sectarian
.
The See also:college is open only to men except during the summer session, when See also:women also are admitted
.
See also:Dartmouth embraces, in addition to the See also:original college, incorporated in 1769, a medical school, dating from the See also:establishment of a professorship of See also:medicine in the college in 1798; the See also:Thayer school of See also:civil See also:engineering, established in 1867by the See also:bequest of Gen
.
Sylvanus Thayer; and the See also:Amos Tuck school of See also:administration and See also:finance, established in 1900 by See also:Edward Tuck—a remarkable feature, as it was the first, and, until the establishment at Harvard of a similar See also:graduate school, the only commercial school in the See also:country whose See also:work is largely See also:post-graduate
.
The See also:Chandler school of See also:science and the arts was founded by Abiel Chandler in 1851, in connexion with Dart-mouth, and was incorporated into the collegiate See also:department in 1893 as the Chandler scientific course in the college
.
From 1866 to 1893 the New Hampshire college of See also:agriculture and the mechanic arts, now at See also:Durham, was connected with Dartmouth
.
The medical school offers a four years' course, and each of the other two professional See also:schools a two years' course, the first See also:year of which may, under certain conditions, be counted as the See also:senior year of the undergraduate department
.
The college has a beautiful campus or " yard "; a library of more than 100,000 volumes, housed in See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall (1885); instruction halls, See also:residence halls—See also:Thornton and See also:Wentworth (1828), Hallgarten (1874), See also:Richardson (1897), and Fayerweather (1900); a gymnasium (See also:Bissell Hall, built in 1867); an athletic See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, known as Alumni See also:Oval; See also:Bartlett Hall (189o–1891), the See also:house of the College See also:Young Men's See also:Christian Association; Rollins See also:Chapel (1885); College Hall (1901), a social headquarters; an astronomical and meteorological See also:observatory (Shattuck Observatory, 1854); the See also:Mary See also:Hitchcock See also:hospital (1893), associated with the medical college; museums (especially the See also:Butterfield Museum) ; Culver Hall (1871), the chemical laboratory; and Wilder Hall (1899), the See also:physical laboratory
.
The college in 1908 had See also:Ioo See also:officers of administration and instruction and 1219 students
.
It is maintained chiefly by the proceeds of a productive endowment fund amounting to $2,700,000 and by tuition fees ($125 a year for each student)
.
The See also:government is entrusted to a See also:board of twelve trustees, five of whom are elected upon the nomination of the alumni
.
Dartmouth is the outgrowth of See also:Moor's See also:Indian charity school, founded by Eleazer Wheelock (1711–1779) about 1750 at Lebwon, See also:Connecticut; this school was named in 1755 in See also:honour of Jdthua Moor, who in this year gave to it lands and buildings
.
In 1765 See also:Samson Occom (c
.
1723–1792), an Indian preacher and former student of the school, visited See also:England and See also:Scotland in its behalf and raised £Io,000, whereupon plans were made for enlargement and for a See also:change of site to Hanover
.
In 1769 the school was incorporated by a See also:charter granted by See also:George III. as Dartmouth College, being named after the See also:earl of Dartmouth, See also:president of the trustees of the funds raised in See also:Great See also:Britain
.
The first college See also:building, Dartmouth Hall (closely resembling See also:Nassau Hall at Princetown and the University Hall of See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown University), was built in 1784–1791 and is still See also:standing, as are the typical college See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, built in 1796 and enlarged in 1877 and 1889, and Moor Hall, the second building for Moor's charity school, since 1852 called the Chandler building
.
During the See also:War of See also:Independence the support from Great Britain was mostly withdrawn
.
In 1815 President See also:John Wheelock (1754-1817), who had succeeded his See also:father in 1779, and was a Presbyterian and a Republican, was removed by the See also:majority of the board of trustees, who were Congregationalists and Federalists, and See also:Francis Brown was chosen in his See also:place
.
Wheelock, upon his See also:appeal to the legislature, was reinstated at the See also:head of a new See also:corporation, called Dartmouth University
.
The See also:state courts upheld the legislature and the " University," but in 1819 after the famous See also:argument of See also:Daniel See also:Webster (q.v.) in behalf of the " College " board of trustees as against the " University " board before the See also:United States Supreme See also:Court, that See also:body decided that the private See also:trust created by the charter of 1769 was inviolable, and Dr Francis Brown and the old " College " board took See also:possession of the institution's See also:property
.
This was one of the most important decisions ever made by the United States Supreme Court
.
See See also:Frederick See also:Chase, A See also:History of Dartmouth College and the See also:Town of Hanover (See also:Cambridge, 1891)
.
For the Dartmouth College See also:Case see See also:Shirley, The Dartmouth College Causes (St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, See also:Missouri, 1879) ; See also:Kent, Commentaries on American See also:Law (vol. i
.
See also:Boston, 1884) ; and See also:Joseph See also:Story, Commentaries on the Constitution(vol. ii., Boston, 1891)
.
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