Yet Dartmouth still is the dominant member of the Intercollegiate Ski Union, which includes the winter sports colleges of Canada as well as those of this country.

There is much to be said for such a college -- and Dartmouth men have been accused of saying it too often and too loudly.

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

Dartmouth is numerically still a small college today, with approximately twenty-nine hundred undergraduates.

So Dartmouth is moving closer to the others in the Ivy group.

Charles Burke got turned down by Dartmouth and he is a straight-A student ''.

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.

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 is located on a rural campus in the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire.

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.

Tucker is often credited for having " refounded Dartmouth " and bringing it into national prestige.

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.

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 serves as the host institution of the University Press of New England, a university press founded in 1970 that is supported by a consortium of schools that also includes Brandeis University, the University of New Hampshire, Northeastern University, Tufts University and the University of Vermont.

The Dartmouth Plan ( or simply " D-Plan ") is an academic scheduling system that permits the customization of each student's academic year.

Dartmouth is governed by a Board of Trustees comprising the College president ( ex officio ), the state governor ( ex officio ), 13 trustees nominated and elected by the board ( called " charter trustees "), and eight trustees nominated by alumni and elected by the board (" alumni trustees ").

Dartmouth College is situated in the rural town of Hanover, New Hampshire, located in the Upper Valley along the Connecticut River in New England.

Dartmouth is the largest private landowner of the town of Hanover, and its total landholdings and facilities are worth an estimated $ 434 million.

In addition to its 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences, Dartmouth is home to three separate graduate schools.

Dartmouth Medical School is located in a complex on the north side of campus and includes laboratories, classrooms, offices, and a biomedical library.

Baker-Berry Library is the main library at Dartmouth, comprising Baker Memorial Library ( opened 1928 ) and Berry Library ( opened 2000 ).

Dartmouth is linked to Kingswear, on the other side of the River Dart, by three ferries.

The village of Kingswear and town of Dartmouth are on the east and west sides of the estuary, and are linked by two vehicle ferries and a passenger ferry.

The town is linked to Plymouth and Dartmouth by the A379 road, and to Salcombe and Totnes by the A381.

With an elevation several dozen metres higher than the harbour to the south, the pond was linked to the ocean by small inclined marine railway which was used to haul boats to and from Dartmouth Cove.

Halifax skyline from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

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.

* Halifax, Nova Scotia and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

* Halifax and Dartmouth ( Canada ) were forcibly merged in 1996 along with Bedford and Halifax County to create the Halifax Regional Municipality.

Located on the eastern shore of Halifax Harbour, Dartmouth has been nicknamed the City of Lakes after the large number of lakes located in the city.

While Dartmouth and its neighbouring city of Halifax, the town of Bedford and the Municipality of the County of Halifax were dissolved at this time, the former city forms part of the urban core of the larger regional municipality and is officially labelled the " capital district " by the HRM government.

At the time that the City of Dartmouth was dissolved, the provincial government altered its status to a separate community to Halifax however its status as part of the metropolitan " Halifax " urban core existed prior to municipal reorganisation in 1996.

Dartmouth is still the geographic name that is used by all levels of government for mapping, 9-1-1, planning, and is recognised by the Halifax Regional Municipality as a place-name for civic addressing.

To guard against Mi ' kmaq, Acadian and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax ( 1749 ), Dartmouth ( 1750 ), Bedford ( Fort Sackville ) ( 1751 ), Lunenburg ( 1753 ) and Lawrencetown ( 1754 ).

Dartmouth is represented municipally in Halifax Regional Council by the following districts:

The HRM community council for Dartmouth is the Harbour East Community Council and community council meetings are held in the council chamber of the Halifax Regional School Board building ( formerly the Dartmouth City Hall ) on the first Thursday of every month.

As a community, Dartmouth has often tended to distinguish itself from the community and former city of Halifax, even under the present municipal amalgamation.

Dartmouth is also the Halifax Regional Municipality's Public Works Eastern Region.

The city was not only a bedroom community for Halifax but also had commerce and industries of its own, including the Volvo Halifax Assembly plant, a molasses plant dating back to the days of the triangular trade with the West Indies, the shopping district of Dartmouth Crossing, as well as many federal government jobs.

Ferry running between Halifax and Dartmouth, docked at Dartmouth Ferry Terminal.

During the early 20th century, ferries shuttled pedestrians and vehicles between the downtown areas of Halifax and Dartmouth.

A railway trestle was built across Halifax Harbour in the late 19th century to bring rail service to Dartmouth however it was destroyed by a storm, requiring the present railway connection built around Bedford Basin.