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

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.

At about the same time, the College adopted its " Dartmouth Plan " of academic scheduling, permitting the student body to increase in size within the existing facilities.

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 campus in Hanover, Dartmouth owns of Mount Moosilauke in the White Mountains Region and a tract of land in northern New Hampshire known as the Second College Grant.

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

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

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

" 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.

The Passenger Ferry, as its name suggests, carries only passengers, principally to connect with the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway at Kingswear station.

* 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.

Seven years after the Dartmouth College opinion, the Supreme Court decided Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts v. Town of Pawlet ( 1823 ), in which an English corporation dedicated to missionary work, with land in the U. S., sought to protect its rights to that land under colonial-era grants against an effort by the state of Vermont to revoke the grants.

Many other universities and educational institutions of the United States have been involved in the development of the project and its instruments, namely the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Stanford University, Penn State University ( ARL ), Boston College, UCLA, Clemson University, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MIT, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and the University of Tulsa.

The school, reputed for its international orientation, has partnerships with the best universities all over the world, such as Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Northwestern University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Seoul National University, and University of Peking

The Bristol County Sheriff's Office maintains its administrative headquarters and operates several jail facilities in the Dartmouth Complex in North Dartmouth in Dartmouth.

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.

England had lagged behind Europe in adapting to this new form of warfare ; Dartmouth and Kingswear Castles, built in the 1490s to defend the River Dart, and Bayard's Cover, designed in 1510 to defend Dartmouth harbour itself, were amongst the few English castles designed in the continental style during the period, and even these lagged behind the cutting edge of European design.

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

-According to an EdUniversal ranking from 2011, the school is " universal " ( highest grade ) and ranks as the 24th most influential business school worldwide, right behind LSE ( 21st ), Cornell ( 22nd ) and NYU ( 23rd ) but ahead of University of Toronto ( Rotman, 25th ), IESE in Spain ( 25th ), Northwestern University ( Kellogg, 28th ), University of Chicago ( Booth, 33rd ), all but one Canadian school, and ahead of other international schools like ESSEC, ESCP-Europe, IE Business School, Dartmouth ( Tuck ) and even the prestigious University of Pennsylvania ( Wharton ).

Matheson appeared in the movie Van Wilder in 2002, playing the father of the title character, who was inspired by his own character in Animal House ; Matheson's character even makes a veiled reference to the fun times he had had at Dartmouth, where the fraternity upon which Animal House is based is rumored to have " had a strong tradition of existence.

Ten Dartmouth Review staffers who dismantled the shanties were disciplined by the College, even though there was no physical or verbal form of " attack ," and the shanties were illegal to begin with.

The Lloyd Center for Environmental Studies, located in South Dartmouth, is a non-profit organization that provides educational programs on aquatic environments in southeastern New England.

It was at this same time that Al Merrill was named Director of Outdoor Affairs and given responsibility for recreational and educational use of the Second College Grant along with oversight of the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge and the Dartmouth Outing Club.

Volcker has received honorary degrees from several educational institutions including: Hamilton College ( 1980 ), University of Notre Dame, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, New York University, University of Delaware, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Bryant College, Adelphi University, Lamar University, Bates College ( 1989 ), Fairfield University ( 1994 ), Northwestern University ( 2004 ), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( 2005 ), Brown University ( 2006 ), Georgetown University ( 2007 ), Syracuse University ( 2008 ), Queen's University at Kingston in Canada ( 2009 ), and Amherst College ( 2011 ).

The New York City American, in a September 30, 1926 obituary notice, wrote of William Jewett Tucker that he " was known in New England as ' the great president ,' who brought Dartmouth from the position of a small New Hampshire college to that of a great national educational institution.

Many Dartmouth Phi Sigma Kappas held out hope that the national organization might eventually reverse the Bedford Resolution, but were dismayed at the racist attitudes of the leadership.

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

* BASIC ( although the original version, Dartmouth BASIC, was compiled, as are many modern BASICs )

The only other undergraduate-focused programs to make the list were Dartmouth and Williams, although neither school is exclusively undergraduate.

This was the first time that the Supreme Court was reported to hold that the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection clause granted constitutional protections to corporations as well as to natural persons, although numerous other cases, since Dartmouth College v. Woodward in 1819, have recognized that corporations were entitled to some of the protections of the Constitution.

The University Royal Naval Units, although under the jurisdiction of BRNC Dartmouth, are also a part of the Royal Naval Reserve.

At the time, The New York Times, which had expected a legal battle royal comparable to the Dartmouth case, commented that " although a small college of fewer than 200 students, St. John's has, because of its experimental liberal arts program, received more publicity and been the center of a greater academic controversy than most other colleges in the land.

From 1879 to 1881 they played at Dartmouth Park, although they may also have alternated between there and Cooper's Hill during this period.

In 1853 he observed by chance the primitive oil-gathering industry in western Pennsylvania, although his interest in what was then known as " rock oil " had been piqued by seeing samples while a student at Dartmouth College.

Dartmouth Broadcasting receives no direct funding from Dartmouth College, although its studios are located on campus.

Features include a Grand Feature Parade, Firefighters ' Parade ( first held on Thursday, April 18, 1929 ), a carnival and midway, luncheons, races, walks, dances, and concerts, as well as a field show competition which formerly gave out the Queen's Cup trophy to the winner ( although the trophy was retired in 1992 by Dartmouth High School of Massachusetts after winning the competition three straight years ).

Government professor James Bernard Murphy of Dartmouth College explains: " although our philosophers often seek to use the term positive to demarcate specifically human law, the term and concept are not well suited to do so.

But since all early spellings start with Wal-or Wel -, it is not named after the " war fleets " of the crusades of 1147 and 1190, although the harbour of Dartmouth has seen many other war fleets, not least the American fleet en route to Utah beach on D Day.

Peter was present at various military campaigns: the expedition to Lyme ( May 1644 ), Bridgwater ( July 1645 ), Bristol ( August, although he left before the main attack ), Winchester Castle ( October ), and Dartmouth ( January 1646 ).

The 2006 Carnegie Foundation classification listed Dartmouth as the only " majority-undergraduate ", " arts-and-sciences focus ", " research university " in the country that also had " some graduate coexistence " and " very high research activity.

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.

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 ).

Beginning in the 1870s, corporate lawyers argued, following the reasoning of the Dartmouth College case, that corporations could exercise the rights of their shareholders, and that they were entitled to some of the legal protections against arbitrary state action accorded also to natural persons.

Webster Hall, at Dartmouth College, houses the Rauner Special Collections Library, which holds some of Webster's personal belongings and writings.

In fiscal year 2008, the town of Dartmouth spent 1. 5 % ($ 865, 864 ) of its budget on its public libraries — some $ 25 per person.

Strangely, in 1819 J. F. Dana of Dartmouth and Harvard proposed attaching steam boilers to street lamps to take advantage of Morey ’ s discovery, but water-gas was already being piped to some London street lamps from a central source in 1812.

" I felt that I should keep working and take some of the burden off my parents by helping put my younger brothers through college ," noting that he used most of his $ 750 annual salary as a state senator to defray Edward's expenses at Dartmouth.

After the details were worked out, final battle preparations were undertaken in the gymnasium at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth where some of the cadets helped the commandos with loading magazines and helping prepare the Bren guns and Thompson sub-machine guns that had been brought down from London specifically for the operation.

Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian comedy mockumentary television series created and directed by Mike Clattenburg that focuses on the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents, some of whom are ex-convicts, living in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

In August of this same year he accompanied Lord Dartmouth to Tangier as chaplain to the fleet, and Pepys, who was one of the company, has left on record some quaint and kindly reminiscences of him and of his services on board.

The severity of property damage in the metropolitan areas of Halifax and Dartmouth of Halifax Regional Municipality initially led some forecasters to believe that Juan was likely a Category 3 hurricane ; however, the sustained wind reports did not justify that suggestion.

Before leaving, Dartmouth was able to purchase the release of many English prisoners from Ismail's bagnio, including several officers and about 40 men, some of whom had spent 10 years in the hands of the Moroccans.

Moore headed to the Missouri Botanical Garden after serving for two years as the head of the Botany Department at Dartmouth College, and for some time as head of the Laboratory of Plant Pathology at the United States Department of Agriculture.

The student aspect of the Dartmouth Ski Patrol is governed by the Dartmouth Outing Club, which provides some funding and facilities for the patrol.

The railroad, a Dartmouth College-owned pottery studio ( in the house once owned by Dr. Joseph Lewis ), and a small road off McKenna Road, Lewiston Hill Road, make up some of the area where the center of the village of Lewiston was situated.

By the mid-1900s, the Dartmouth chapter of Chi Phi was having some issues with its national charter.

Both the rally and President Freedman were later criticized by some among Dartmouth alumni and by the national media.

The University of New Hampshire men's hockey team also plays some of their home games there, annually against Dartmouth College in the Battle for the Riverstone Cup, and less frequently in Hockey East conference play.

Despite the exclusivity and mystique, some, like National Review columnist / editor, Ronald Reagan speechwriter and Dartmouth emeritus professor of English Jeffrey Hart, have noted the club's modest physical and metaphorical character.

A proposed Dartmouth Media Institute, an offshoot of Dartmouth College, conceived by composer Jon Appleton ( who was also the founder of New England Digital ) and funded by some prominent corporations, was envisioned as the media anchor.