But there has always been an outdoor air to Dartmouth.

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.

Under the auspices of the Outing Club, Dartmouth also has the Mountaineering Club, which takes on tough climbs like Mount McKinley, and Bait & Bullet, whose interests are self-evident, and even sports a Woodman's Team, which competes with other New England colleges in wood sawing and chopping, canoe races, and the like.

However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

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.

Since the election of a number of petition-nominated trustees to the Board of Trustees starting in 2004, the role of alumni in Dartmouth governance has been the subject of ongoing conflict.

Instead of ungrouped dormitories or residential colleges, Dartmouth has nine residential communities located throughout campus.

The Dartmouth Men's Rugby Team, founded in 1951, has also been ranked among the best collegiate teams in that sport over many years.

Technology plays an important role in student life, as Dartmouth has been ranked as one of the most technologically advanced colleges in the world ( as in Newsweeks 2004 ranking of " Hottest for the Tech-Savvy " and Yahoo!

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

The shield appears to have been used as the basis of the shield of Dartmouth Medical School, and it has been reproduced in sizes as small as 20 micrometers across.

Dartmouth has never had an official mascot.

" Some alumni and students, as well as the conservative student newspaper, The Dartmouth Review, have sought to return the Indian symbol to prominence, but no team has worn the symbol on its uniform in decades.

By 2008, Dartmouth had graduated 238 classes of students and has over 60, 000 living alumni in a variety of fields.

In literature and journalism, Dartmouth has produced nine Pulitzer Prize winners: Thomas M. Burton, Richard Eberhart, Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, Nigel Jaquiss, Martin J. Sherwin, David K. Shipler, and Joseph Rago.

Dartmouth has also graduated three Nobel Prize winners: Owen Chamberlain ( Physics, 1959 ), K. Barry Sharpless ( Chemistry, 2001 ), and George Davis Snell ( Physiology or Medicine, 1980 ).

Dartmouth has also produced a number of Olympic competitors.

Dartmouth College has appeared in or been referenced by a number of popular media.

Dartmouth College has been mentioned three times on the FOX animated sitcom, The Simpsons, with two of the three occurring on season 11 episodes and associating Dartmouth College with alcoholic consumption.

Dartmouth has served as the alma mater for a number of fictional characters, including:

No railway has ever run to Dartmouth, but the town does have a railway station, although it is now a restaurant.

Dartmouth is today still a small college -- and still a private one, thanks to Webster's eloquence.

During one such incident, at Dartmouth, several members of Baralongs crew were arrested after destroying a local saloon.

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

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 the upper tier of local government Dartmouth and Kingswear Electoral Division elects one member to Devon County Council.

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.

Receiving his gymnasium diploma from the Lyceum of Kuopio in 1959, he then studied philosophy and literature at Dartmouth College for one year.

Founded in 1832 by several Dartmouth College graduates and Midwestern leaders, Wabash is one of three remaining traditional all-men's liberal arts colleges in the United States.

When he was twenty-eight years old he joined the faculty of Dartmouth College where he established one of the first electronic music studios in the United States.

In fact, the hardware and software of the company's real-time capability was used in other fields completely remote to music, such as the main Dartmouth College campus computing node computers for one of the nation's first campus-wide computing networks, and in medical data acquisition research projects.

Dartmouth has one Francis turbine-generator, with a generating capacity of 180 MW, the largest single hydroelectric turbine in Australia.

The town has one middle school ( located in the 1955-vintage High School building ) next to the Town Hall, and one high school, the new Dartmouth High School, which opened in 2002 in the southern part of town.

The Overchurch also had only one access stairway to the promenade deck unlike the Dartmouth twins which had two.

Eleazar Wheelock, a Presbyterian minister, founded the school in 1769, naming it after the second earl of Dartmouth, its sponsor and benefactor.

With an undergraduate enrollment of 4, 248 and a total student enrollment of 6, 141, Dartmouth is the smallest school in the Ivy League.

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.

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.

With these professional schools and graduate programs, conventional American usage would accord Dartmouth the label of " Dartmouth University "; however, because of historical and nostalgic reasons ( such as Dartmouth College v. Woodward ), the school uses the name " Dartmouth College " to refer to the entire institution.

Dartmouth is well known for its fierce school spirit and many traditions.

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

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.

Furthermore, Dartmouth is home to three professional schools: Dartmouth Medical School ( established 1797 ), Thayer School of Engineering ( 1867 ) — which also serves as the undergraduate department of engineering sciences — and Tuck School of Business ( 1900 ).

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.

Morse painted portraits of Francis Brown — the college ’ s president — and Judge Woodward ( 1817 ), who was involved in bringing the Dartmouth case before the U. S. Supreme Court.

True BASIC is a variant of the BASIC programming language descended from Dartmouth BASIC — the original BASIC — invented by college professors John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.

Initially based on Dartmouth BASIC 7 — otherwise known as ANSI BASIC — TrueBASIC implemented a number of new features over GW-BASIC, and allowed the user a redefinable 16-color, 640 × 480 pixel backdrop for program editing.