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| Dartmouth College |
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| at Hanover, N.H.; coeducational; chartered 1769, opened 1770, the ninth colonial college (see Wheelock, Eleazar). Originally a men’s college, Dartmouth began admitting women in 1972. The school is actually a small university and was so named for a short time in the 19th cent. (see Dartmouth College Case). It has a strong undergraduate liberal arts program and graduate schools of medicine (1797), engineering (1871), and business administration (1900). | 1 | | See studies by R. F. Leavens and A. H. Lord (1965) and F. N. Stites (1972). | 2 |
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