Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College, a liberal arts college in Hanover, New Hampshire. It is privately controlled, nonsectarian, and coeducational (until 1972 it was a college for men). It includes Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and Amos Tuck School of Business Administration.
The college has a beautiful campus near the Connecticut River in a region noted for winter sports. Dartmouth Hall is an outstanding example of Colonial Georgian design. It is a replica of the original frame building built in 1784 and destroyed by fire in 1904. The Baker Memorial Library, one of the largest undergraduate college libraries in the United States, is noted for its frescoes, An Epic of American Civilization, by Jos Orozco.
Dartmouth College grew out of Moor's Indian Charity School, founded in 1754 by the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock in Lebanon (now Columbia), Connecticut. After obtaining an endowment fund in England, Wheelock secured a royal charter for a college in 1769. He named it for the Earl of Dartmouth, a supporter, and in 1770 moved the school to Hanover.