Dartmouth College - New Hampshire, United States

Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. It consists of a liberal arts college, the Gisele School of Medicine, the Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences. Incorporated as the Trustees of Dartmouth College, it is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. With an undergraduate enrollment of 4,276 and a total student enrollment of 6,342 (as of 2013), Dartmouth is the smallest university in the Ivy League. It was the last Ivy League school to admit women, in 1972.Dartmouth College was established in 1769 by Eleazar Whee lock, a Congregational minister. After a long period of financial and political struggles, Dartmouth emerged in the early 20th century from relative obscurity.

Dartmouth's 269-acre 1.09 km2 campus is in the rural Upper Valley region of New Hampshire. Participation in athletics and the school's Greek system is strong. Dartmouth's 34 varsity sports teams compete in the Ivy League conference of the NCAA Division I. Students are well known for preserving a variety of strong campus traditions. 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 Christian missionaries. Wheelock's ostensible inspiration for such an establishment resulted from his relationship with Mohegan Indian Samson. Occam became an ordained minister after studying under Wheelock from 1743 to 1747 and later moved to Long Island to preach to the Mont auks. Wheelock founded Moor's Indian Charity School in 1755. The Charity School proved somewhat successful, but additional funding was necessary to continue school's operations, and Wheelock sought the help of friends to raise money. Occam, accompanied by the Reverend Nathaniel Whitaker, traveled to England in 1766 to raise money from churches. With these funds, they established a trust to help Wheelock. The head of the trust was a Methodist named William Leger, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth. The Charter of Dartmouth College on display in Baker Memorial Library. The Charter was signed on December 13, 1769, on behalf of King George III of Great Britain. Although the fund provided Wheelock ample financial support for the Charity School, Wheelock initially had trouble recruiting Indians to the institution, primarily because its location was far from tribal territories. In seeking to expand the school into a college, Wheelock relocated it to Hanover, in the Province of New Hampshire.

The move from Connecticut followed a lengthy and sometimes frustrating effort to find resources and secure a charter. The Royal Governor of New Hampshire, John Went worth, provided the land upon which Dartmouth would be built and on December 13, 1769, issued the charter in the name of King George III establishing the College. That charter created a college for the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing & all parts of Learning which shall appear necessary and expedient for civilizing & Christianizing Children of Pagans as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences and also of English Youth and any others.

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. Named for William Leger, 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. The College granted its first degrees in 1771.

Given the limited success of the Charity School, however, Wheelock intended his new college as one primarily for whites. Occom, disappointed with Wheelock's departure from the school's original goal of Indian Christianization, went on to form his own community of New England Indians called Brothertown Indians in New York.

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•  "Dartmouth’s Endowment Earns 19.2 Percent in 2014" Dartmouth College. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
• "Why is green Dartmouth's color?" AskDartmouth. Dartmouth College. Retrieved August 23, 2008.
• "Hill Winds, Granite Brains, and Other Dartmouth Traditions" Summer 2007 Newsletter. Dartmouth Parents & Grandparents. Archived from the original on 6 July 2008. Retrieved August 23, 2008.
• "Old Growth - Dartmouth's elms endure as defining features of the campus".Dartmouth College website, Dartmouth Life Home. June 2007. Retrieved 2014-12-26.During the growing season, [College Arborist David DiBenedetto] surveys the elms twice weekly, looking for yellowing and wilting leaves, the first signs that Dutch elm disease has caused a section of the tree's circulatory system to fail. College arborists respond by pruning as far back as needed to remove infected wood... Dartmouth's tree nursery, where several dozen young elms are added about every other year... is a visible sign of the College's commitment to the tree...
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