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.

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.

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.

It's location provides the museum with several piers and boatsheds, as well as a strategic view of the Halifax Harbour looking seaward towards the Harbourmaster office and Georges Island and across to Dartmouth.

He was the first Dartmouth president since John Wheelock who was not a member of the clergy, yet his deep appreciation of the importance of broad-based scholarship to the moral and spiritual growth of students was internationally recognized.

The port was used as the sailing point for the Crusades of 1147 and 1190, and a creek close to Dartmouth Castle is supposed by some to be named for the vast fleets which assembled there ( Warfleet Creek ).

Westport, so named because it was the westernmost port in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was first settled in 1670 as a part of the town of Dartmouth by members of the Sisson family.

The path then continues around Lannacombe Bay to Start Point and its Lighthouse and then through Start Bay along a 3-mile ( 5 km ) shingle causeway between Slapton Sands and the Slapton Ley freshwater lake and nature reserve before entering the estuary of the River Dart and historic port of Dartmouth.

The deep water port of Dartmouth is a sheltered haven.

Salcombe became a ship registry port in 1864, but still came under Dartmouth for customs.

Documents indicate that Teignmouth was a significant port by the early 14th century, second in Devon only to Dartmouth.

Unusual for its time, the Madre de Deus was three times the capacity of a normal English brig, and the pirates towed it to the port of Dartmouth rather than destroying the ship.

Soon after Mayflower and Speedwell cleared the coast, they made to put in for repairs to Dartmouth, a port seventy-five miles west of Southampton.

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

The exuberance on this occasion set a standard for subsequent Dartmouth gatherings.

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.

But Dartmouth preserves its youthful brashness even in its educational attitudes, and, although some of its experiments may still be in the testing stage, they make for lively copy.

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.

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.

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.

The nominees for alumni trustee are determined by a poll of the members of the Association of Alumni of Dartmouth College, selecting from among names put forward by the Alumni Council or by alumni petition.

The College also maintains the Dartmouth Skiway, a skiing facility located over two mountains near the Hanover campus in Lyme Center, New Hampshire that serves as the winter practice grounds for the nationally dominant Dartmouth ski team.

In 2006, The Princeton Review ranked Dartmouth third in its " Quality of Life " category, and sixth for having the " Happiest Students.

In 2007, Dartmouth College fielded 34 intercollegiate varsity teams: 16 for men, 16 for women, and coeducational sailing and equestrian programs.

As is mandatory for the members of the Ivy League, Dartmouth College does not offer athletic scholarships.

In addition to the academic requirements for graduation, Dartmouth requires every undergraduate to complete a swim and three terms of physical education.

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!

The funds for the Charity School for Native Americans that preceded Dartmouth College were raised primarily by the efforts of a Native American named Samson Occom, and at least some of those funds were used to help found the College.

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