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Dartmouth College is located in the rural town of Hanover in the Upper Valley of the Connecticut River in the New England state of New Hampshire.Dartmouth's 269-acre (1.09 km 2) campus centered on the Green makes the institution the largest private landowner in the town of Hanover, [1] and its landholdings and facilities are valued at an estimated $419 million. [2]
In 1819, Dartmouth College was the subject of the historic Dartmouth College case, which challenged New Hampshire's 1816 attempt to amend the college' charter to make the school a public university. An institution called Dartmouth University occupied the college buildings and began operating in Hanover in 1817, though the college continued ...
Founded in 1769, the school is one of nine colonial colleges chartered before the Revolutionary War.
Like the undergraduate portion of Dartmouth College, the Tuck School operates on a quarter system. [57] As part of the larger institution, the Tuck School is ultimately administered by Dartmouth's President and Board of Trustees. The school is directly managed by a Dean (currently Matthew Slaughter) who is advised by a Board of Overseers that ...
Dartmouth has a historical connection and affiliation with Lewiston-based liberal arts college, Bates College, [20] [21] that includes similar traditions such as the Dartmouth Challenge, [22] dual engineering programs, campus parallels [23] and an athletic rivalry. The tradition of Winter Carnival is the oldest in the United States, which is ...
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The original, historic library building is the Fisher Ames Baker Memorial Library; it opened in 1928 with a collection of 240,000 volumes.The building was designed by Jens Fredrick Larson, modeled after Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and funded by a gift to Dartmouth College by George Fisher Baker in memory of his uncle, Fisher Ames Baker, Dartmouth class of 1859.
The Dartmouth is the daily student newspaper at Dartmouth College and America's oldest college newspaper. Originally named the Dartmouth Gazette , the first issue was published on August 27, 1799, under the motto "Here range the world—explore the dense and rare; and view all nature in your elbow chair."