No Dartmouth man was surprised.

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

A lawyer, hired by the college, was arguing specifically for Dartmouth: Daniel Webster, class of 1801, made her plight the dramatic focus of his whole plea.

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.

The original BASIC language was designed in 1964 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz and implemented by a team of Dartmouth students under their direction.

BASIC was designed to allow students to write programs for the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System.

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

The head of the trust was a Methodist named William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth.

" The reference to educating Native American youth was included to connect Dartmouth to the Charity School and enable use of the Charity School's unspent trust funds.

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.

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.

In 2012, Dartmouth was ranked tenth among undergraduate programs at national universities by U. S. News & World Report.

" Internationally, Dartmouth College was ranked 99th in the world in the 2011 QS World University Rankings.

The D-Plan was instituted in the early 1970s at the same time that Dartmouth began accepting female undergraduates.

The new softball field, Dartmouth Softball Park, was constructed in 2012, sharing parking facilities with Thompson arena.

Dartmouth College was among the first institutions of higher education to desegregate fraternity houses in the 1950s, and was involved in the movement to create coeducational Greek houses in the 1970s.

It is often pointed out that the charter of Dartmouth College, granted to Eleazar Wheelock in 1769, proclaims that the institution was created " for the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing and all parts of Learning ... as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences ; and also of English Youth and any others.

Richard Hovey's " Men of Dartmouth " was elected as the best of Dartmouth's songs in 1896, and became the school's official song in 1926.

" One proposal devised by the College humor magazine the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern was Keggy the Keg, an anthropomorphic beer keg who makes occasional appearances at College sporting events.

Most notably, the 1978 comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House was co-written by Chris Miller ' 63, and is based loosely on a series of stories he wrote about his fraternity days at Dartmouth.

In a CNN interview, John Landis said the movie was " based on Chris Miller's real fraternity at Dartmouth ", Alpha Delta Phi.

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

However, three distinguished associated graduate schools offer professional curriculums -- the Dartmouth Medical School ( third oldest in the country and founded in 1797 ), the Thayer School of Engineering, and the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration.

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

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

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* July 13 – The Tri-Kap fraternity is founded at Dartmouth College.

Having founded the graduate program in electro-acoustic music at Dartmouth College with composer David Evan Jones in 1989, Appleton devoted most of his teaching to the graduate students in this program.

Eleazar Wheelock, who arrived in 1770 and founded Dartmouth College.

A second chapter was founded at Yale College in late 1780 ; a third, at Harvard College in 1781 ; and a fourth, at Dartmouth College in 1787.

* The Panarchy Mansion at Dartmouth CollegePanarchy, a Dartmouth College undergraduate student group founded on Panarchist theory

Dartmouth College originated from a school founded by Eleazar Wheelock for Native Americans and colonists in 1748, and Wheelock had been inspired by Brainerd's example of Native American education.

Some of the first colleges and universities in America, including Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Williams, Bowdoin, Middlebury, and Amherst, all were founded by the Congregationalists, as were later Carleton, Grinnell, Oberlin, and Pomona.

Wheelock subsequently founded Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, naming the school in Lord Dartmouth's honor in hopes of getting his financial support.

In the twelfth century a borough was founded ( 1190 ), and Saltash became the only franchised seaport between Dartmouth and Fowey.

Drury was founded as Springfield College in 1873 by Congregationalist church missionaries in the mold of other Congregationalist universities such as Dartmouth College and Yale University.

" Among the most famous: the Harvard Lampoon, which gave rise to the National Lampoon in 1970, The Yale Record, the nation's oldest college humor magazine ( founded in 1872 ), Princeton Tiger Magazine, the University of Pennsylvania Punch Bowl, which was founded in 1899, and the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern, founded in 1908.

The patrol has worked at various locations since it was founded, but now is primarily serving the Dartmouth Skiway.

He learned to climb while attending high school in Germany, and later founded the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club in 1936 while attending Dartmouth College.

The Sphinx, founded in 1885, is the oldest of the eight senior societies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.