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Dartmouth was founded by Eleazar Wheelock, a Yale graduate and Congregational minister from Windham, Connecticut, who had sought to establish a school to train Native Americans as Christian missionaries. It was one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
Founded in 1769, Dartmouth is seven years older than the country. It is one of only nine colonial colleges to be founded before the American Revolution, and it is the only of those nine to conduct ...
Before founding Dartmouth, Wheelock founded and ran the Moor's Charity School in Connecticut to educate Native Americans. The college was primarily for the sons of American colonists. The college was primarily for the sons of American colonists.
Moor's Charity School was founded in 1754 in Lebanon, Connecticut (now in the town of Columbia [1]), by the Puritan Calvinist [2] minister Eleazar Wheelock to provide education for Native Americans who desired to be missionaries to the native tribes.
Seven of the nine colonial colleges became seven of the eight Ivy League universities: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Brown, and Dartmouth. The remaining Ivy League institution, Cornell University, was founded in 1865. These are all private universities.
The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.The university system includes six campuses (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, a medical school in Worcester and a law school in Dartmouth), a satellite campus in Springfield [5] [6] and 25 smaller campuses throughout California and Washington with the University of Massachusetts ...
Dartmouth University is a defunct institution in New Hampshire which existed from 1817 to 1819. It was the result of a thwarted attempt by the state legislature to make Dartmouth College, a private college, into a public university. The United States Supreme Court case that settled the matter, Dartmouth College v.
The Dartmouth Rugby Football Club (or DRFC) was founded in 1951 and competes in the Ivy Rugby Conference against its traditional Ivy League rivals. Dartmouth has been led by coach Gavin Hickie since 2012, following the departure of former head coach Alexander Magleby who in 2012 became head coach of the US national rugby team .