Thus, when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely recognized as the greatest, wildest, roaringest college weekend anywhere, any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup, Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb, topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl.

Recently, the group unveiled a new, more modern set list at their performance in Dartmouth's Spaulding Auditorium for Dartmouth's Winter Carnival 2009.

Dartmouth's original sports field was the Green, where students played cricket and old division football during the 19th century.

Richard Hovey's " Men of Dartmouth " was elected as the best of Dartmouth's songs in 1896, and became the school's official song in 1926.

Originally Dartmouth's only wharf was Bayard's Cove, a relatively small but picturesque area protected by a fort at the southern end of the town.

Notwithstanding Dartmouth's connections with the crown and respectable society, it was a major base for privateering in medieval times.

Within his first year at Olney a gallery was added to the church to increase its congregational capacity, and the weekly prayer-meetings were moved in 1769 to Lord Dartmouth's mansion, the Great House, to accommodate even greater numbers.

Dartmouth's history was that of an agricultural community, but during the late 19th century its coastline became a resort area for the wealthy members of New Bedford society.

Dartmouth's first city hall was built in the early 1960s on land with the Dartmouth Common.

It was Dartmouth's first high school in 1934.

His primary activity during his undergraduate career was as a contributor to the Jack-O-Lantern, Dartmouth's nationally known humor magazine.

Corks & Curls, the University of Virginia annual, regularly printed lists of the yells and colors of the various colleges ; in 1888 it included Dartmouth's school yell, a part of which was the phrase " wa-hoo-wa.

A shortened course was run in the spring of 1952 ( because of a cloud-shrouded summit ) that started just above the Lip of the Headwall, and was won by Dartmouth's Bill Beck.

One of Lord Dartmouth's main concerns was the evacuation of sick soldiers " and the many families and their effects to be brought off ".

He was a member of Dartmouth's 1996 undefeated Ivy League champion team, and served as President of Chi Heorot fraternity in 1997.

Hanover, New Hampshire was chosen for the site, and in 1771, four students were graduated in Dartmouth's first commencement, including Wheelock's son John.

In 2000, Professor Samwick was awarded Dartmouth's Karen E. Wetterhahn Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement.

* The Dartmouth Review continues to refer to Dartmouth's sports teams as the " Indians " after the traditional school mascot which was officially discarded in the early 1970s.

Dartmouth's medical school was founded in 1797 as the fourth medical school in the United States, following the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ( founded 1765 ), the medical school of King's College ( now Columbia University ) ( 1767 ), and Harvard Medical School ( 1782 ).

His administration was marked by numerous academic initiatives, a growth of the physical campus, and a strengthening of Dartmouth's graduate programs and professional schools.

Dartmouth's professional schools also grew under President McLaughlin's tenure: the Thayer School of Engineering received a $ 15 million grant to expand and improve facilities ; the Tuck School of Business was strengthened ; and Dartmouth Medical School was brought into financial equilibrium, greatly increasing its sponsored research and fund raising efforts.

He served on the faculty of Dartmouth College as a professor of religion from 1972 to 1989, where he was the first recipient of Dartmouth's Distinguished Teaching Prize.

Dartmouth's Sigma Kappa chapter was the first sorority to be founded on Dartmouth's campus.

For example, " the second issue has a long and rather tediously written discussion of New Hampshire school laws, and a report of Dartmouth's Commencement activities from Wednesday, August 28, 1799.

Daniel Webster, an alumnus of the class of 1801, presented the College's case to the Supreme Court, which found the amendment of Dartmouth's charter to be an illegal impairment of a contract by the state and reversed New Hampshire's takeover of the College.

Dartmouth's strength in undergraduate education is highlighted by U. S. News & World Report when in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 it ranked Dartmouth first in undergraduate teaching at national universities.

Dartmouth's campus buildings vary in age from Wentworth and Thornton Halls of the 1820s ( the oldest surviving buildings constructed by the College ) to new dormitories and mathematics facilities completed in 2006.

The nearby Thompson Arena, designed by Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi and constructed in 1975, houses Dartmouth's ice rink.

Dartmouth's motto, chosen by Eleazar Wheelock, is Vox clamantis in deserto.

Trails and cabins are available for use by the Dartmouth community, and are maintained by the Dartmouth Outing Club and Dartmouth's Outdoor Programs Office.

*"' At the nadir of discouragement ': The Story of Dartmouth's Kenneth Roberts Collection ," by Jack Bales, Dartmouth College Library Bulletin, n. s., 30 ( April 1990 ), pp. 45-53.

Samson Occom and the British Board of Trustees headed by Lord Dartmouth opposed the addition of the college, and despite ( or because of ) Lord Dartmouth's opposition, Wheelock named the college Dartmouth College.

* In 1988, the Dartmouth Review published an article criticizing a black professor by judging one of his courses " one of Dartmouth's most academically deficient.

* http :// www. dartmouth. edu /~ wess / wesslit. html ( Dartmouth's German-Studies Web links, annotated and arranged by topic )

The Sing Dynasty ( often called " The Sings ") is one of Dartmouth's two secular co-ed a cappella groups, founded by two ' 10s in the spring of 2008.

Dartmouth's favorite and most characteristic recreation is skiing.

Forty miles farther north is Mount Moosilauke, Dartmouth's own mountain.

Dartmouth's 34 varsity sports teams compete in the Ivy League conference of the NCAA Division I.

In 2004, Booz Allen Hamilton selected Dartmouth College as a model of institutional endurance " whose record of endurance has had implications and benefits for all American organizations, both academic and commercial ," citing Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward and Dartmouth's successful self-reinvention in the late 19th century.

Most of Dartmouth's buildings are designed in the Georgian American colonial style, a theme which has been preserved in recent architectural additions.

Dartmouth's nine libraries are all part of the collective Dartmouth College Library, which comprises 2. 48 million volumes and 6 million total resources, including videos, maps, sound recordings, and photographs.

Today, two of Dartmouth's athletic facilities are located in the southeast corner of campus.

Behind the Alumni Gymnasium is Memorial Field, a 15, 600-seat stadium overlooking Dartmouth's football field and track.

Dartmouth's other athletic facilities in Hanover include the Friends of Dartmouth Rowing Boathouse and the old rowing house storage facility ( both located along the Connecticut River ), the Hanover Country Club, Dartmouth's oldest remaining athletic facility ( established in 1899 ), and the Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse.

Dartmouth's more than 200 student organizations and clubs cover a wide range of interests.

Partially because of Dartmouth's rural, isolated location, the Greek system dating from the 1840s is one of the most popular social outlets for students.

Dartmouth's 1769 royal charter required the creation of a seal for use on official documents and diplomas.