Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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The Early History of Dartmouth College Earl Gordon Bill Craven Laycock Dean of Freshmen Dean of the College his home at Lebanon, Conn., December 18, 1754, for the Christian education of Indian youth. The school was known as Moor's Indian Charity School, so named from Joshua Moor, who contributed a house and two acres of land. Funds for the maintenance of the school were received from various sources—from private individuals, from: the General Courts of Massachusetts Bay and of New Hampshire, and from Great Britain, where the enterprise had awakened the deepest interest. From the latter source an endowment was secured, chiefly through the efforts of Samson Occom, the Indian preacher, one of Dr. Wheelock's students, who was commis- sioned to make a tour of England and Scotland for this purpose in 1765. The sum of ten thousand pounds was thus raised, and committed to the charge of a board of trustees w ith the Earl of Dartmouth as its head. As the result of this endowment it was determined by Dr. Wheelock to enlarge the purpose of the school especi- ally to reach 'a greater proportion of English youth, and to change its location. Various proposals for a site were made, but after careful investigation that chosen was the township of Hanover, in the region of Cowas or Coos, in the Province of New Hampshire. Apart from the nearness of this site to the Canadian Indians, the determining reason for the choice seems to have been the attractiveness of the location, and the fact that it was the natural center of ''more than two hundred towns, chartered, settled, or about to be settled. Re- moval to the Province of New Hampshire also gave the assurance of a charter which it had thus far been dif- ficult to obtain. D ARTMOUTH COLLEGE is the outgrowth of a school which the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock opened in Dartmouth College in 1834

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4 cm. aa = 2 ae ae .. = The draft of the charter prepared by Dr. Wheelock and finally con- firmed December 18, 1769, received important modifications from the Governor of the Province, John Wentworth. Two provisions of the charter are worthy of emphasis. First: unusual powers were conferred upon the trustees, ‘'that they elect, nominate appoint so many Tutors and Professors to assist the President in the Education government of the Students belonging thereto as they the said Trustees shall from time to time at any time think needful serviceable to the interests of said Dartmouth College. And also that Rabert Otbeor Conant the said Trustees or their Successors Charles Ramsdell Lingley Registrar or the major part of any seven or Acting Dean of Freshmen more of them convened for that pur- pose as above directed shall at any time displace discharge from the service of said Dartmouth College any or all such Officers elect others in their room stead as before directed.'' Second: religious toleration was made a fundamental law of the College, ‘not excluding any Person of any religious denomination what- soever from free equal liberty advantage of Education or from any of the liberties and privileges or im- munities of the said College on account of his or their speculative sentiments in Religion of his or their be- ing of a religious profession different from the said Trustees of the said Dartmouth College. Dr. Wheelock was elected president of the College, with Mr. Bezaleel Woodward, a graduate of Yale in 1764, as his associate. The first class of four students was graduated in 1771, the Commencement being at- tended by the Governor of the Province of New Hampshire and a company of gentlemen from Portsmouth, who made their way in part through almost trackless forests. Two events in the early history of the College materially affected its character and growth. First, the grad- ual withdrawal of the support of its patrons in Great Britain, whose interest lay chiefly in the education of Indians; second, the lawsuit between the College and the State of New Hampshire for the control of the Col- lege, which resulted in a final decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in favor of the Trustees of Dartmouth College. The decision in ''The Dartmouth College Case’ was rendered in February, 1819. Since the reestablishment of the College by this decision, its history has followed the general course of educational progress in New England. Old Dartmouth Row -» 6t pal Peon