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Dartmouth College, Trustees's Records, 1:26. Dartmouth College Library, Special Collections, DA-1. . Connecticut itself was incorporated by charter, and English law of the time proscribed one corporation creating another. . Letter to Robert Keen, 13 March 1770. Dartmouth College Library, Special Collections, Ms. 770213.2. . Charter of Dartmouth College, section 30. Printed as an appendix to ...
Paul Musselwhite is a historian of early America with a particular focus on the political economy of early plantation societies in North America and the Caribbean. He received a B.A. in Modern History from Lady Margaret Hall in the University of Oxford, and a PhD from the College of William and Mary. At Dartmouth he offers a range of courses ...
Paul Musselwhite is a historian of early America with a particular focus on the political economy of early plantation societies in North America and the Caribbean. He received a B.A. in Modern History from Lady Margaret Hall in the University of Oxford, and a PhD from the College of William and Mary. At Dartmouth he offers a range of courses ...
Dartmouth College is a private institution that was founded in 1769. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 4,458 (fall 2022), its setting is rural, and the campus size is 237 acres. It ...
Apr 29, 2023 · Brief History of Dartmouth College. Dartmouth College, founded in 1769, holds the distinction of being the ninth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Established by Eleazar Wheelock, a Puritan minister, the college was initially intended to educate Native American youth, with the goal of Christianizing and assimilating ...
May 23, 2018 · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CASE. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CASE. In 1819 the U.S. Supreme Court, in Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheaton 518, extended judicial interpretation by declaring private-corporation charters to be contracts and hence, by the contract clause of the Constitution of the United States, immune from impairment by state legislative action.
Dartmouth was the ninth and final college established in America under colonial rule. When Dartmouth was first founded in 1769, its charter declared it to be a private school “forever.”. When the states became independent, they agreed to abide by the rights and privileges of such charters.
