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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)

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Campus Confidential

1769-1816

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Commemorative Posters

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Give a Rouse

“…and the granite of New Hampshire keeps the record of their fame.”