Dartmouth history

By 1809, opposition to Wheelock’s presidency took hold of the board, and slowly converted a majority of the professors to their point of view.

The resulting controversy would outlive Wheelock himself, who died in 1817.

In 1863, faced with the prospect of removal, Lord opted to resign his office.

In 1866, the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was incorporated in Hanover, in connection with Dartmouth College.

The Thayer School of Engineering was established in 1871.

Together, they march in the colorful annual parade and celebrate in the glow of a dramatic bonfire on the Green-a tradition that dates back to 1888.

Serving until 1893, Bartlett would oversee Rollins Chapel’s construction and pushed the endowment past the million-dollar mark.

Search across the collections on Dartmouth to find more materials such as a panoramic photograph showing the Earl of Dartmouth laying the corner stone of new building at Dartmouth College on October 26, 1904.

In addition to developing Dartmouth’s facilities, Hopkins introduced selective admissions in the early 1920s.

Since 1924, 147 Dartmouth-affiliated athletes have competed in the winter Olympics-the most in the Ivy League.

In 1945, Hopkins was subject to no small amount of controversy, as he openly admitted to Dartmouth's practice of using racial quotas to deny Jews entry into the university.

In 1955, Sports Illustrated said the popular celebration “is a 30-ring circus that makes Ringling Brothers look like a two-wagon job on a vacant lot.” The current incarnation includes a hugely popular “Polar Bear Swim” in Occom Pond.

Under President John G. Kemeny, who took office in 1969, the college expanded its medical school as part of the newly organized Mary Hitchcock Medical Center and adopted a plan to permit an increase in undergraduate enrollment to four thousand students.

In 1970, Dartmouth reaffirmed its founding mission and two years later established one of the first Native American programs in the country.

He would also preside over co-education’s controversial beginning in 1972.

President Phillip Hanlon, a graduate of the Class of 1977 and the eighteenth member of the Wheelock Succession, has since succeeded her and promises to pursue new policies that will end “high-risk and harmful behavior” and promote experiential learning on campus.

In 1999, Dartmouth admitted its first class of first-year students in which women outnumbered men.

The following year he became the interim director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education at Berkeley, a position he held to 2002.

Since the election of a number of petition-nominated trustees to the Board of Trustees starting in 2004, the role of alumni in Dartmouth governance has been the subject of ongoing conflict.

The first decade of the 21st century saw the commencement of the $1.5 billion Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience, the largest capital fundraising campaign in the college's history, which surpassed $1 billion in 2008.

In May 2010 Dartmouth joined the Matariki Network of Universities (MNU) together with Durham University (UK), Queen's University (Canada), University of Otago (New Zealand), University of Tübingen (Germany), University of Western Australia (Australia) and Uppsala University (Sweden).

In 2017, Dartmouth topped the Ivy League in Nature's innovation index, awarded for the greatest number of scientific papers that lead to patents.

In the 2018 Winter Olympics, the College added a 10th silver medal to add to its 13 gold and six bronze medals.

In early August 2019, Dartmouth College agreed to pay nine current and former students a total of $14 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging they were sexually harassed by three former neuroscience professors.

Chris Cheng '21 and Andre Quintiliani '22 create blogs for HIST 5.05, The Emergence of Modern Japan, during Fall Term 2020.

Come learn the ins and outs of writing an Honors Thesis in the History Department Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 7:30 PM EST on Zoom.