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“Keep the Damned Women Out”

Here’s the inside story of how an all-male board of trustees brought forth the most significant reshaping of the College in its history.

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Dartmouth 2069

When Dartmouth celebrates its tricentennial, what will the student body look like? Will there be football? And how high can tuition go? Here are predictions Eleazar never could have imagined.

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Strength in Numbers

Total undergraduate alumni of Dartmouth College, 1771-2018

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Opening Ceremony

The earliest Commencement, held in 1771, featured bigtime barbecue, speeches in Latin, and lousy linen.

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You’re Hired!

Excerpts from the 1777 salary agreement for Mr. John Smith, Dartmouth’s first professor

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The Idle and Vicious Need Not Apply

Early students led scripted lives—or else.

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The Great National Calamity

When all the post-war hurrahs died in sorrow

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Roots

Myth, memory, and the ancient nobility of pines

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Busted

Long before Dean Wormer’s “double secret probation,” there was the one and only President Samuel Colcord Bartlett.

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Presidential Range

Memorable words from several esteemed members of the Wheelock Succession

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The Amazing Life and Times of John Ledyard

An epic tale greatly annotated in which we go ’round the world with Dartmouth’s class of 1776 poster boy for adventure.

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Eleazar Wheelock

Uncommon knowledge about the original big man on campus (1711-79)