It fixed on Dartmouth College, which was ready-made and just what the proctor ordered.

* 1779 – Eleazar Wheelock, American minister, orator, and educator, founder of Dartmouth College ( b. 1711 )

The original Dartmouth BASIC was designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA to provide computer access to non-science students.

* BlitzMail, the internal e-mail network at Dartmouth College

From 1938 to 1945, he held a succession of positions, first becoming senior history master at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon in 1938 ( and also a Captain in the school's OTC ), then instructor at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1939.

Punter / wide receiver Pat McInally attended Harvard University and linebacker Reggie Williams attended Dartmouth College and served on Cincinnati city council while on the Bengals ’ roster.

* 1960s — General Mills and Dartmouth College, in a joint research project, develop the terms dimensions and facts.

Dartmouth College ( commonly referred to as Dartmouth ( ) is a private Ivy League research university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.

Incorporated as " Trustees of Dartmouth College ," it is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.

Dartmouth College was established in 1769 by Congregational minister Eleazar Wheelock.

The Charter of Dartmouth College on display in Baker Memorial Library.

The Royal Governor of New Hampshire, John Wentworth, provided the land upon which Dartmouth would be built and on December 13, 1769, issued the charter in the name of King George III establishing the College.

Named for William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth — an important supporter of Eleazar Wheelock's earlier efforts but who, in fact, opposed creation of the College and never donated to it — Dartmouth is the nation's ninth oldest college and the last institution of higher learning established under Colonial rule.

In 1819, Dartmouth College was the subject of the historic Dartmouth College case, which challenged New Hampshire's 1816 attempt to amend the College's royal 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 teaching classes in rented rooms nearby.

During World War II, Dartmouth was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.

At about the same time, the College adopted its " Dartmouth Plan " of academic scheduling, permitting the student body to increase in size within the existing facilities.

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.

Beginning in the 1920s, the Dartmouth College athletic teams were known by their unofficial nickname " the Indians ," a moniker that probably originated among sports journalists.

Based on Haliburton's writings, there have been claims that modern hockey originated in Windsor, Nova Scotia, by King's College students and was named after an individual, as in “ Colonel Hockey's game .” Others claim that the origins of hockey come from games played in the area of Dartmouth and Halifax in Nova Scotia.

The Dartmouth Ski Patrol originated more than 50 years ago by students at Dartmouth College who were concerned with providing emergency medical care to people participating in winter sports near Dartmouth.

In addition, the 1952 study collected comparable data from 4,585 students at ten other colleges and universities scattered across the country: Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, North Carolina, Fisk, Texas, University of California at Los Angeles, Wayne, and Michigan.

The Dartmouth Skiway, at Holt's Ledge, ten miles north of the campus, has one of the best terrains in the East, ranging from novice to expert.

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

John had claimed her from the stag line, a young man a year out of Dartmouth with skiing crinkles still around his eyes.

Halifax skyline from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

After a long period of financial and political struggles, Dartmouth emerged in the early 20th century from relative obscurity.

Dartmouth alumni, from Daniel Webster to the many donors in the 19th and 20th centuries, have been famously involved in their college.

Dartmouth was founded by Eleazar Wheelock, a Puritan minister from Columbia, Connecticut, who had previously sought to establish a school to train Native Americans as missionaries.

The nominees for alumni trustee are determined by a poll of the members of the Association of Alumni of Dartmouth College, selecting from among names put forward by the Alumni Council or by alumni petition.

" Since then, Dartmouth has graduated over 700 Native American students from over 200 different tribes, more than the other seven Ivy League universities combined.

Nelson A. Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States and 49th Governor of New York, graduated cum laude from Dartmouth with a degree in economics in 1930.

Norman Maclean, a former professor at the University of Chicago and author of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, graduated from Dartmouth in 1924.

In the 1969 movie Goodbye, Columbus, Richard Benjamin finds out all the men at a party are from Dartmouth.

Henry Hudson put in to Dartmouth on his return from America, and was arrested for sailing under a foreign flag.

Charles II held court in the Butterwalk whilst sheltering from storms in 1671 in a room which now forms part of Dartmouth Museum.

The nearest Met Office weather station is Slapton, about 5 miles South south west of Dartmouth and a similar distance from the coast.

Opposition from local seamen and merchants saw the route diverted to Kingswear on the opposite side of the river, but this occurred after the station had been built at Dartmouth.

Kingswear seen from Dartmouth

Dartmouth Community College and Dartmouth Primary School are part of the Dartmouth Learning Campus ; as from September 2007, Dartmouth Community College is part of a federation with Dartmouth Primary School and Nursery, meaning that the two schools share one governing body for pupils aged 1 to 19.

Dartmouth College was established in 1769 beside the Common at a village called the Plain — an extensive and level tract of land a mile ( 1. 6 kilometers ) from the Connecticut River, and about 150 feet ( 46 meters ) above it.