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.

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 ).

The first decade of the 21st century saw the commencement of the $ 1. 3 billion Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience, the largest capital fundraising campaign in the College's history, which surpassed $ 1 billion in 2008.

Notable student groups include the nation's largest and oldest collegiate outdoors club, the Dartmouth Outing Club, which includes the nationally recognized Big Green Bus, the controversial conservative newspaper The Dartmouth Review, and The Dartmouth, arguably the nation's oldest university newspaper.

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

Dartmouth is the third largest town by geographic land-area in Massachusetts after Boston and Taunton.

There are several parks and playgrounds located throughout the city, the largest being Brooklawn Park in the north end, Fort Taber Park ( also referred to as Fort Rodman, the name of another fort built there ) at Clark's Point, and Buttonwood Park, directly west of the downtown area near the Dartmouth town line.

There were several cotton mills along the river, the largest of which was at the junction of the river with Lake Noquochoke on the Dartmouth town line.

It is the largest town by area in Central and Western Massachusetts, with the four largest towns being in southeastern Massachusetts ( Plymouth, Middleborough, Dartmouth and Barnstable ).

It is the home to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Medical School, together comprising the largest medical facility between Boston, Massachusetts and Burlington, Vermont.

Currently, the largest Canadian Tire store is located in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

In the " College Sustainability Report Card 2008 ", which evaluates the 200 colleges and universities with the largest endowments in the United States and Canada, Carleton received the highest evaluation grade of A -, putting the college in the category of College Sustainability Leader with Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Brown University, Middlebury College, University of Vermont and University of Washington.

The crash site's proximity to Halifax meant that ships docked at Canada's largest naval base, CFB Halifax, as well as one of the largest Canadian Coast Guard bases, CCG Base Dartmouth, were within 1 hour's sailing time.

At 3, 334, 158 megalitres when full, it contains six times as much water as Sydney Harbour and is the second largest water storage in Victoria after Dartmouth Dam.

The Dartmouth Outing Club ( DOC ) is the oldest and largest collegiate outing club in the United States.

Nova Scotia no longer maintains cities as first-tier municipalities, however it has designated the former cities of Halifax and Dartmouth, the two largest by population, as " Metropolitan Areas " within their respective regional municipality.

With most Dartmouth students identifying as more liberal, the College Democrats has the largest membership of the 3 partisan political groups on campus.

The Dartmouth Outing Club ( DOC ) is the oldest and largest collegiate outing club in the United States, founded in 1909 to stimulate interest in winter sports.

* February 2 – The Supreme Court of the United States under John Marshall rules in favor of Dartmouth College in the famous Dartmouth College v. Woodward case, allowing Dartmouth to keep its charter and remain a private institution.

He attended Dartmouth College on private and ROTC scholarships, and graduated in 1958 with a bachelor's degree in government.

Several students also attend private and charter schools in Fall River and Dartmouth, including Bishop Connolly High School and Bishop Stang High School.

The nearest private schools are Tabor Academy in Marion and Bishop Stang High School in Dartmouth.

The decision, handed down on February 2, 1819, ruled in favor of the College and invalidated the act of the New Hampshire Legislature, which in turn allowed Dartmouth to continue as a private institution and take back its buildings, seal, and charter.

The landmark case of the U. S. Supreme Court addressing public versus private charters was Dartmouth College v. Woodward in 1819.

Dartmouth established the fundamental differences between public and private organizations.

It was the result of a thwarted attempt by the state legislature to make Dartmouth College, a private college, into a public university.

A small group of University professors and allied townspeople attempted to take the private libraries of the College's two literary societies, the Social Friends and the United Fraternity, which were located in Dartmouth Hall.

* February 2, 1819: Dartmouth College v. Woodward: Supreme Court allowed Dartmouth to keep its charter and remain a private institution.

By the 1960s, most of the other Ivy League institutions ( Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and Brown ) had provosts ( or equivalents ), as did other private research universities such as the University of Chicago, Stanford University, Rice University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University, Emory University, Wake Forest University and Duke University.

Although in Dartmouth College v. Woodward the United States Supreme Court rebuffed New Hampshire's attempt to convert Dartmouth College from a private college into a public university, the Court decided this based on the Constitution prohibiting states from impairing the obligations of the contract that created the private corporation that owned the land, and not based on any principle that the land was somehow immune from state control.

It is the successor to Southern New England School of Law, a private law school that donated its campus and its assets to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.