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CHAPTER XII. |
Administration of President Brown.—Contest Between The College and the State.—Triumph of the College |
100 |
CHAPTER XIII. |
Character of President Brown.—Tributes by Professor Haddock And Rufus Choate |
117 |
CHAPTER XIV. |
Progress From 1820 to 1828.—Administrations of President Dana and President Tyler |
126 |
CHAPTER XV. |
Inauguration of President Lord |
143 |
CHAPTER XVI. |
The Policy of the College, its Progress and Enlargement under President Lord's Administration from 1828 to 1863 |
157 |
CHAPTER XVII. |
Character of President Lord |
168 |
CHAPTER XVIII. |
Administration of President Smith |
177 |
CHAPTER XIX. |
Inauguration of President Bartlett |
190 |
CHAPTER XX. |
Prof. John Smith.—Prof. Sylvanus Ripley.—Prof. Bezaleel Woodward |
211 |
CHAPTER XXI. |
Prof. John Hubbard.—Prof. Roswell Shurtleff |
225 |
CHAPTER XXII. |
Prof. Ebenezer Adams.—Prof. Zephaniah S. Moore.—Prof. Charles B. Haddock |
241 |
CHAPTER XXIII. |
Prof. William Chamberlain.—Prof. Daniel Oliver.—Prof. James Freeman Dana |
256 |
CHAPTER XXIV. |
Prof. Benjamin Hale.—Prof. Alpheus Crosby.—Prof. Ira Young |
276 |
CHAPTER XXV. |
Prof. Stephen Chase.—Prof. David Peabody.—Prof. William Cogswell |
298 |
CHAPTER XXVI. |
Prof. John Newton Putnam.—Prof. John S. Woodman.—Prof. Clement Long.—Other Teachers |
316 |
CHAPTER XXVII. |
Medical Department.—Professors Nathan Smith, Reuben D. Mussey, Dixi Crosby, Edmund R. Peaslee, Albert Smith, and Alpheus B. Crosby—Other Teachers |
339 |
CHAPTER XXVIII. |
The Chandler Scientific Department.—The Agricultural Department.—The Thayer Department of Civil Engineering |
367 |
CHAPTER XXIX. |
Benefactors.—Trustees |
380 |
CHAPTER XXX. |
Labors of Dartmouth Alumni.—Conclusion |
395 |
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
The most valuable part of a nation's history portrays its institutions of learning and religion.
The alumni of a college which has moulded the intellectual and moral character of not a few of the illustrious living, or the more illustrious dead,—the oldest college in the valley of the Connecticut, and the only college in an ancient and honored State,—would neglect a most fitting and beautiful service, should they suffer the cycles of a century to pass, without gathering in some modest urn the ashes of its revered founders, or writing on some modest tablet the names of its most distinguished sons.
The germ of Dartmouth College was a deep-seated and long-cherished desire, of the foremost of its founders, to elevate the Indian race in America.
The Christian fathers of New England were not unmindful of the claims of the Aborigines. The well-directed, patient, and successful labors of the Eliots, Cotton, and the Mayhews, and