Alpha Chi Alpha is a member of Dartmouth's Greek system, which currently has fourteen fraternities, nine sororities and three co-ed undergraduate houses that fall under the umbrella of the Greek system.

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

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

Dartmouth's alumni are known for their devotion to the College.

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.

SAPAs regularly post a short biography on Dartmouth's BlitzMail bulletins, and students are free to contact them at any time for questions, advice or other help.

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.

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.

The Darthmouth Review has consistently favored a stronger voice on the part of alumni who share its worldview in college governance and alumni issues, particularly elections to Dartmouth's Board of Trustees.

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 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.

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.

Dartmouth's sister city is Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

Copicut Pond is located on the border of Dartmouth in North Dartmouth's Hixville section that borders Fall River.

* In 1941, the Dartmouth Natal Committee decided to erect a cairn in honour of the spirit and courage of the first settlers to Dartmouth's shore.

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

Many of Dartmouth's existing Trustees refused to obey the Legislature's act, however, and the Trustees of Dartmouth University failed to obtain a quorum to conduct any business.

*"' 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.

Wheelock subsequently founded Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, naming the school in Lord Dartmouth's honor in hopes of getting his financial support.

* Dartmouth College – Dartmouth's in Town Again, Come Stand Up Men, As the Backs Go Tearing By, and Glory to Dartmouth

He taught at Dartmouth College during the early 1810s and had a house built in Hanover, New Hampshire that now serves as Dartmouth's Blunt Alumni Center.

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.

Dartmouth College's Alumni Gymnasium, located in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States, is the center of Dartmouth College's athletic life and hosts venues for many of Dartmouth's 34 varsity sports.

These songs include " Dartmouth's in Town Again ," " Come Stand Up Men ," " As the Backs Go Tearing By ," and " Glory to Dartmouth "-collectively known as the " Dartmouth Tunes " or " DT's ".

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 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.

Dartmouth's athletic teams compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) Division I eight-member Ivy League conference ; some teams also participate in the Eastern College Athletic Conference ( ECAC ).

Nine of Dartmouth's 17 presidents were alumni of the College.

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 ).

The medical school facilities at Dartmouth College sit in a complex on the north side of Dartmouth's campus and includes academic, administrative, research, and presentation facilities.

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.

During his almost forty years as Dartmouth's president ( 1779 – 1815 ), Wheelock oversaw the construction of Dartmouth Hall and the founding of Dartmouth Medical School, the fourth-oldest medical school in the country ; he also maintained the College ’ s fiscal solvency throughout the Revolutionary War, mainly through the Vermont legislature ’ s grant of 23, 000 acres ( 93 km² ) in Wheelock, Vermont.

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.

In 2002, Dartmouth's liberal newspaper, the Dartmouth Free Press, documented other issues on which the Dartmouth Review had taken a stand, most of them campus-oriented.

* 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.

The program balanced Dartmouth's greater basic science facilities than Brown, but fewer clinical facilities than available at the urban setting of Brown, which is located in Providence, Rhode Island.

Freedman also presided over the largest capital campaign in Dartmouth's history, the " Will to Excel " campaign, which raised $ 568 million, exceeding the original $ 425 million goal.

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.

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

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

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

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

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