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.

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

Dartmouth has one secondary school — formerly ( Dartmouth Community College ) now Dartmouth Academy — an all-through school for those aged 3 – 18, and two primary schools: ( Dartmouth Primary school ( now part of Dartmouth Academy ) and St John the Baptist R. C.

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.

Campus meals are served by Dartmouth Dining Services, which operates 11 dining establishments around campus.

Over 164 Dartmouth graduates have served in the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives, such as Massachusetts statesman Daniel Webster.

Two Dartmouth alumni have served as justices on the Supreme Court of the United States: Salmon P. Chase and Levi Woodbury.

The Town Hall is located in the former Poole School, which also served as Dartmouth High School for several years.

After his time in Dartmouth, D ' Souza moved to Washington, D. C., where he served from 1985 to 1987 as an editor of Policy Review, an influential conservative journal then published by the Heritage Foundation ( and since acquired by the Hoover Institution ).

He served as director of the Dartmouth and Halifax Steamboat Company, Nova Scotia Sugar Refining, the Union Bank of Halifax, Consumer Cordage, and during his lifetime, came to dominate the financial elite of the Maritime provinces.

In 1956, he became a research professor at Dartmouth College, and soon after also served as the president of the American Psychological Association.

Lanier has served on numerous advisory boards, including the Board of Councilors of the University of Southern California, Medical Media Systems ( a medical visualization spin-off company associated with Dartmouth College ), Microdisplay Corporation, and NY3D ( developers of auto stereo displays ).

He went to the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth and served as Royal Navy officer from 1961-70.

He also served a Chair of the Young Fabians and now serves as a Trustee of Dartmouth Street, the building where the Society is based.

A graduate of Dartmouth, Jonathan Hunt served as a trustee of Vermont's Middlebury College, where Hunt family members had been early benefactors.

He taught at Dartmouth Medical School before returning to teach at Harvard and, for a time, served as dean there.

He served on the faculty of Dartmouth Medical School from 1838 to 1840, where he was appointed professor of anatomy and physiology.

From 1966 to 1975, Dr. Kurtz served as Director of the Kiewit Computation Center at Dartmouth, and from 1975 to 1978, Director of the Office of Academic Computing.

Kemeny served as the 13th President of Dartmouth College from 1970 to 1981 and pioneered the use of computers in college education.

She has served as a visiting professor of creating writing at Dartmouth College.

He served as president of Dartmouth College between 1822 and 1828.

Nichols served as a professor of physics at Colgate University from 1892 – 1898, at Dartmouth College from 1898 – 1903, and Columbia University from 1903-1909.

Thereafter, Nichols served as the 10th President of Dartmouth College between 1909 and 1916, and as the president of MIT from 1921 until 1923.

She worked as a consumer advocate in the office of the City Attorney in Los Angeles, was a fellow in the School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College and served as associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and its department of women's studies.

He was educated at the Naval Colleges of Osborne and Dartmouth and served as a midshipman in the China Fleet until 1913, when he returned to England to take the entrance examinations for Oxford.

Dickey served as President of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, from 1945 to 1970, and helped revitalize the Ivy League institution.

" After holding positions at Dartmouth College and UC Santa Barbara, he began teaching at the University of Chicago, where he served as Dean of the College from 1977 – 1982 and was appointed Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities.