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  Dartmouth College
Dartmouth's trustees have undertaken a Governance Committee study of the size, composition, and method of selecting trustees to ensure the College has a strong and effective governing body that will continue to maintain Dartmouth's tradition of excellence.
Dartmouth is in the midst of the $1.3 billion campaign to advance leading-edge teaching and scholarship, enhance residential and campus life, and honor its commitment to making education accessible.
Founded in 1769 and a member of the Ivy League, Dartmouth includes an undergraduate arts and sciences program and four graduate schools: Arts and Sciences Graduate Programs, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and Tuck School of Business.
www.dartmouth.edu   (213 words)

  
 Home - DartmouthSports.com—Official Web Site of Dartmouth Varsity Athletics
Jeff Frechette, Dartmouth Head Athletic Trainer, is pleased to announce the hiring of Michael Derosier as an assistant athletic trainer.
Recent Dartmouth graduate and women's crew captain Anne Kennedy (Cooperstown, N.Y.) has again been named to the US Under-23 National Team.
The day was March 10, 2007 and Dartmouth Athletic Director Josie Harper was at Thompson Arena to watch the powerhouse Big Green women's ice hockey team continue its dominance of Boston College with a (Full Story)
www.dartmouthsports.com   (440 words)

  
  Dartmouth College | Admissions Facts and Statistics
Dartmouth College is the smallest member of the Ivy League – and arguably the one with the most intimate social and geographic setting.
Dartmouth College was founded as an undergraduate institution and continues to exercise a commitment to undergrad education.
In the College's own words, Dartmouth's mission is to "instill a love of learning and discovery in every member of its community." Dartmouth strives to make its educational experience available to all qualified students, assessing applicants on a 'need blind' basis that considers their abilities without regard to their financial resources.
www.admissionsconsultants.com /college/dartmouth.asp   (516 words)

  
 Dartmouth, Nova Scotia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dartmouth (2001 pop.: 94,779[1][2]), founded in 1750, is a urban community of the Halifax Regional Municipality and a former city in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
Dartmouth was a twin city with the City of Halifax, which was the shire town of Halifax County and the provincial capital.
While Dartmouth and its neighbouring city of Halifax, the town of Bedford and the Municipality of the County of Halifax were dissolved at this time, the former city forms part of the urban core of the larger regional municipality and is officially labelled the "capital district" by the HRM government.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dartmouth,_Nova_Scotia   (1855 words)

  
 Dartmouth, Devon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dartmouth is a town in Devon in the south-west of England.
It was a home of the English navy since the reign of Edward III and was twice surprised and sacked during the Hundred Years' War, after which the mouth of the estuary was closed every night with a great chain.
The railway terminated at a station called "Kingswear for Dartmouth" (now on the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway) and a ferry took passengers across the river to the station at Dartmouth, which had a dedicated pontoon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dartmouth,_England   (1183 words)

  
 Dartmouth College Alumni Trustee - Peter Robinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Research at Dartmouth should be of the kind that enriches undergraduate education—and the College should once again grant the very highest standing to professors who wish to devote themselves to the classroom.
Dartmouth was founded on the basis of certain human values, including a sense of community, inclusiveness and life enrichment through people from various and diverse backgrounds.
At Dartmouth, men and women must be judged according to merit, not race or ethnicity—this is the College’s heritage, part of Eleazar Wheelock’s founding belief in the power of education to confer dignity on all.
alumni.dartmouth.edu /trustee/robinson.html   (1824 words)

  
 Dartmouth :: Main Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
She became the first Dartmouth woman to amass 1,000 points and 400 assists in a career.
Dartmouth and Brown go at it on Saturday after the Bears stop at Harvard on Friday.
Dartmouth (3-18, 1-7) was led by Mike Lang with 13 points and Cal Arnold with nine, but lost for the ninth time in its last 10 games.
dartmouth.eponym.com /blog   (1688 words)

  
 IT Policy @ CS.Dartmouth
Dartmouth College (including all undergraduate and graduate programs) is dedicated to the missions of teaching, education, research, and public service.
Dartmouth College expects each member of the community to use Dartmouth's information technology resources, including connections to resources external to Dartmouth that are made possible by Dartmouth's information technology resources, responsibly, ethically, and in compliance with the Policy, relevant laws, and all contractual obligations to third parties.
Dartmouth expects all members of the community to be aware of how intellectual property laws, regulations, and policies apply to the electronic environment and to respect the property of others.
www.cs.dartmouth.edu /~mikeb/itpolicy.html   (1960 words)

  
 Dartmouth On Destination: Nova Scotia
Dartmouth is located at 44°39'49"N, 63°34'05"W in the Dartmouth region of the Halifax / Dartmouth Trail, Halifax county.
The oldest structure in Dartmouth is the house of William Ray, one of the whalers.
Dartmouth's population doubled in the next ten years as boundaries were extended farther and as new residents and businesses arrived following the opening of the A. Murray MacKay Bridge across the Narrows in 1969.
www.destination-ns.com /common/places.asp?PlaceID=1141   (1096 words)

  
 Wired 10.10: Unplugged U.
Each homecoming night since 1920, members of the freshman class have built a towering bonfire at the center of the green, running a lap around the pyre for every year of their graduating class (the class of 1999 did 99 laps; not to be outdone, the class of 2000 did 100).
Dartmouth students say it constantly — as a noun ("I just read your blitz"), a verb ("Just blitz me when you're ready"), and an adjective ("A paper note or a blitz note?").
Dartmouth and several other Cisco-powered universities have agreed to give the company an early look at reports on network performance and usage patterns.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/10.10/dartmouth_pr.html   (3524 words)

  
 Dartmouth Devon the mouth of the River Dart
Dartmouth with its narrow streets, half timbered houses and deepwater natural harbour a haven for yachtsmen and visiting tourists alike.
Dartmouth Castle Reached by a 1 mile walk from the Town Centre towards the mouth of the Dart is the well preserved Castle with its distinctive round and square tower in a most imposing position on a rocky promontory.
Constructed largely in the 15th century, one of the first castles to be designed to take artillery- in use until the end of World War II Kingswear Castle on the opposite bank of the Estuary.
www.beautiful-devon.co.uk /dartmouth.htm   (731 words)

  
 Britannia Castles: Dartmouth and Kingswear, Devon
This pair of castles, corresponding to each other like Portland and Sandsfoot or Pendennis and St. Mawes, were the guardians of the entry of the broad estuary of the Dart, designed by King Henry VIII to protect a great centre of commerce and an important strategical point.
Dartmouth town lies half a mile inside the estuary, strung along a hillside in a picturesque fashion.
During the English Civil War, Dartmouth and Kingswear Castles, and a new battery called Fort Ridley above the latter, were well defended against the Parliamentarian, Fairfax, and the "New Model" army in 1645.
www.britannia.com /history/devon/castles/dartmouthcast.html   (627 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Featured Article
Not only did the trend give expression to the general alumni discontent over how Dartmouth is being run (a rare thing in academia), but a critical mass was also building for more muscular stewardship, and, with it, fundamental change.
And so a pattern emerges at Dartmouth, one interminably replicated on other campuses: The academic establishment wants to consolidate its authority and exclude those who might deviate from the party line.
Despite Dartmouth's troubles in recent years, we trust its graduates are bright enough to see this power play for what it is.
www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110008893   (749 words)

  
 Britannia Tours: England's West Country
Two hundred thirty six miles southwest of London, 35 miles south of Exeter, Dartmouth can be reached by rail from Paignton and Totnes (on the Paddington to Plymouth line' or by road take A38 from Exeter to A384 to Totnes and follow either A385 via Paignton or A381 via Halwell).
The great pinkish building of Britain's prestigious Royal Naval College towers over the deep water port of Dartmouth, home of England's navies since the time of Edward III and influential in the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1604, and in the Normandy landings in 1944.
Nearby 15th Century Dartmouth Castle was never tested in battle, and is thus remarkably well-preserved.
britannia.com /tours/westcountry/dartmouth.html   (186 words)

  
 FIRE - Dartmouth College: Abolition of Speech Code
"Dartmouth Ends Confusion Over Speech Policies, Affirms Commitment to Free Speech, and Removes Troubling Documents From Website," FIRE Press Release, May 9, 2005: In a remarkable development for liberty on campus, Dartmouth College has issued a clear and unambiguous statement in favor of free speech.
"Dartmouth trustee vote raises controversy," Jason Schwartz, The Daily Pennsylvanian, May 13, 2005: By focusing on freedom of speech, Robinson and Zywicki are following in the footsteps of Silicon Valley tycoon T.J. Rodgers, a petition candidate who was elected to Dartmouth's Board of Trustees last year.
"Trustee Election at Dartmouth Is Seen as 'Battle for Academic Freedom'," Paul Fain, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 5, 2005: Elections of trustees to college and university boards are generally a snooze.
www.thefire.org /index.php/case/676.html   (982 words)

  
 Off-Campus Programs at Dartmouth College
Dartmouth offers a variety of opportunities for students to study off-campus and earn credit toward their degree.
Off-campus programs are considered an important extension of the regular Dartmouth curriculum, offering students opportunities to study other cultures and disciplines in depth as well as to gain new perspectives on our own society.
A student who participates in a Dartmouth LSA, LSA+, or FSP receives an 'O' in his or her Enrollment Pattern.
oracle-www.dartmouth.edu /ocp/prod/index.cfm   (506 words)

  
 Dartmouth Tour, Pictures, Information - Olde Dartmouth Sotheby's International Realty
Dartmouth has remained through most of its history a rural agricultural community but began adopting a summer residential and resort character in the 19th century as wealthy and near-wealthy city dwellers from New Bedford built and purchased vacation homes.
Although Dartmouth is now primarily a suburban bedroom community, the town came into the 20th century with significant portions of its historic character intact; there is still farming in Dartmouth, still a strong vacation component and still a wide diversity in religious beliefs.
Residents are proud of the fact that in Dartmouth the past and present co-exist: the past in its farms, churches, villages and scenic rural roads and the present in Route 6 commercial development, the North Dartmouth Mall and emerging industrial policies.
www.oldedartmouth.com /dartmouth.html   (676 words)

  
 SouthCoastToday.com - Dartmouth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
DARTMOUTH — UMass Dartmouth history professor Dr. Brian Glyn Williams is in Kabul on his third visit to war-torn Afghanistan since 2001, and...
DARTMOUTH — The Indians cruised to a four-goal, halftime lead in their home opener against Barnstable yesterday and held on in the second half...
DARTMOUTH — To close a projected $4.7 million to $5.1 million deficit in the fiscal 2008 budget, a town subcommittee is suggesting instituting...
www.southcoasttoday.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=TOWN02   (1393 words)

  
 Dartmouth College
The CECS classrooms are located in the Dartmouth Medical School complex which is adjacent to the Dartmouth College campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Dartmouth offers a wide array of computer facilities that are distinguished by the ease with which they can be accessed.
The resources of the Dartmouth College library system, an extensive and well-balanced collection of more than 1.75 million volumes, are made easily accessible to all members of the Dartmouth community through the library’s open-stack policy, online library and computer search capabilities.
ecs.dartmouth.edu /pages/students/dartmouth.htm   (317 words)

  
 Dual Degree Program
Students spend junior or senior year on exchange at Dartmouth, return to their home school for graduation, and then come back to Dartmouth for a second year to complete Thayer School's professionally accredited Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) program.
Before coming to Dartmouth you should take calculus (through linear algebra and multivariable calculus), physics (two courses through mechanics and electromagnetism), one course in general chemistry, and one course in computer science.
Dartmouth undergraduate housing is provided for your first year on campus.
thayer.dartmouth.edu /undergraduate/dual   (708 words)

  
 Dartmouth - Dartmouth College, How to Get into Dartmouth
In 1815, Dartmouth became the stage for a constitutional drama that had far-reaching effects.
The existing Trustees, under the leadership of President Francis Brown, challenged the action and insisted on the validity of the charter and Dartmouth's continuance as a private institution free of interference from the state.
Drawing faculty and students from around the world, Dartmouth is committed to advancing the principles of liberal education within a diverse community of students, teachers and scholars.
www.go4ivy.com /dartmouth.asp   (579 words)

  
 Country Inns & Suites By Carlson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Among the convenient services offered by the Dartmouth Hotel are free High-Speed Internet Access, complimentary bedtime snacks, free local phone calls, coin-operated laundry facilities, same-day dry cleaning and business services at the front desk.
The Dartmouth Hotel offers access to the nearby ITAC Training and Conference Center, which offers 3,800-square feet of meeting space, High-Speed Internet Access, audio-visual equipment, business services and other amenities.
The Dartmouth Hotel is convenient to an array of restaurants and shops as well as the largest industrial park in the Maritimes.
www.countryinns.com /dartmouthns   (304 words)

  
 News Page of Dartmouth Music Festival United Kingdom
Dartmouth is an ancient and beautful town and port set at the mouth of the River Dart, in South Devon, United Kingdom.
As a thriving international tourist and holiday destination, Dartmouth appeals to people from all parts of the Globe.
It appeals to all ages, from the delightful elderly couple seen sedately jiving in the Avenue Gardens, to toddlers watching their older siblinings in their shcool choirs.
www.dartmouth-music-festival.org.uk /news.htm   (200 words)

  
 Dartmouth School Music Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Dartmouth is a highly-diversified community nestled along the shores of Buzzards Bay.
The Dartmouth Public School's mission of providing Quality Learning for All, is focused on requiring and supporting higher levels of achievement from all students.
The Dartmouth School Music Association (DSMA) is a not-for-profit organization of friends of the Dartmouth Schools' music programs.
www.dartmouth-music.org /about.html   (311 words)

  
 M Basketball - News - Big Green Sports - The Official Website of Dartmouth Varsity Athletics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
M Basketball - Dartmouth Men's Basketball Announces 2007-08...
A valiant second-half comeback wasn't enough for the Dartmouth men's basketball team as the Columbia Lions held on during the final minutes for a 69-67 victory Friday night.
The Dartmouth men's basketball team completes the 2006-07 season with a weekend road trip to New York State.
dartmouthsports.com /SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11600&KEY=&SPID=4703&SPSID=48790   (474 words)

  
 Charles Alonzo Rich Builds the New Dartmouth
By highlighting such traditional collegiate values as "democracy" and "spirit" in the new buildings, Rich and his patrons sought to ease the transition to the modern Dartmouth.
The pages of The Dartmouth and other sources can help fill in the blanks, but the exact motivations that created a building can never be entirely clear now that a century has passed.
I would like to thank Anita Dole of Dartmouth FO&M, Stephen Bailey of the West Lebanon Public Library, William Flynn of Saucier + Flynn, and the house at 12 Webster Avenue for their assistance.
www.dartmo.com /rich   (1634 words)

  
 Dartmouth College Hotels, Accommodations & Lodging Near Ivy League Universities – The Jackson House Inn
As one of the nation’s eight Ivy League institutions, Dartmouth College is well-known for its commitment to excellence.
Our historic inn is located less than a half-hour from the school’s campus, making it exceptionally convenient for visiting parents, prospective students, and returning alum.
This AAA Four-Diamond retreat is the preferred destination for Dartmouth College visitors in search of a rare find - a warm, refined, and intimate country inn, with a touch of modern style and personalized service.
www.jacksonhouse.com /dartmouth   (319 words)

  
 DHMC | Children's Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
As New Hampshire's only children's hospital, the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD) provides an extended system of care that offers advanced clinical services for children.
The Hood Center for Children and Families at Dartmouth Medical School is pleased to announce the launch of their new website.
The Hood Center, originally established at Dartmouth in 1990 with support from the Charles H. Hood Foundation, supports research and programs to improve the well-being of children and adolescents.
www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org /dhmc/childrens_hospital_at_dartmouth.cfm   (515 words)

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