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.
Seen & Heard
Opening Ceremony
The earliest Commencement, held in 1771, featured bigtime barbecue, speeches in Latin, and lousy linen.
You’re Hired!
Excerpts from the 1777 salary agreement for Mr. John Smith, Dartmouth’s first professor
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.
