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  Dartmouth College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dartmouth was made the ninth and final colonial college when it was given a royal charter by King George III in 1769, mostly as a result of the efforts of Eleazar Wheelock, a Puritan minister, and his patron, Royal Governor John Wentworth.
Dartmouth College Alumni Gymnasium, the center of athletic life at Dartmouth, is home of the Dartmouth College Aquatic facilities, basketball courts, squash and racketball courts, indoor track, fencing lanes as well as a rowing training center.
Dartmouth College was among the first institutions of higher education to desegregate fraternity houses in the 1950s, and was involved in the movement to create coeducational Greek houses in the 1970s.
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 Yale_University
Yale College expanded gradually, establishing the Yale Medical School (1810), Yale Divinity School (1822), Yale Law School (1843), Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1847), the Sheffield Scientific School (1861), and the Yale School of Fine Arts (1869).
Other Yale alumni who made serious bids for the Presidency during this period include Howard Dean (2004) and Gary Hart (1988), both of whom were considered front-runners for the Democratic nomination for a significant portion of the primary season.
While each college at Yale offers its own seminars, social events, and Master's Teas with guests from the world, Yale students also take part in academic and social programs across the university, and all of Yale's 2,000 courses are open to undergraduates from any college.
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 Columbia University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
It was established in 1754 as King's College and is the sixth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
Columbia College has the third lowest undergraduate acceptance rate in the United States, placing just after Harvard University and Princeton University (the ranking is for doctoral universities, as categorized by the Carnegie Foundation and U.S. News and World Report).
Barnard College for women became affiliated with Columbia in 1889; the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons came under the aegis of the University in 1891, followed by Teachers College in 1893.
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 A Plea for the Shower Towers
The new The Berry Library by VSBA and the firm's adjoining Carson Hall on Dartmouth's campus have many things to recommend them: chief in the minds of many is the fact that they eventually will cause the demolition of the Kiewit Computation Center and Bradley and Gerry Halls.
The College's purchase of the MHMH property in 1989 changed everything, and suddenly Bradley and Gerry were an impediment.
The College presumably has to follow rules about keeping a donor's name on some building even if it demolishes the original, which is why Butterfield and Bissell and Clement are not the first buildings with those names.
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 ipedia.com: Columbia University Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Columbia University traces its origins to 1754, when it was founded by royal charter of King George II as "King's College." It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States.
The American Revolutionary War brought the growth of the College to a halt, forcing a suspension of instruction in 1776 that lasted for eight years.
Barnard College for women became affiliated with Columbia in 1889; the Medical School came under the aegis of the University in 1891, followed by Teachers College in 1893.
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