Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College, institution of higher learning in Hanover, New Hampshire. One of eight traditional colleges that make up the Ivy League. The college originated as Moor's Indian Charity School, organized at Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1754. In 1769 King George III of Great Britain and Ireland granted a royal charter for the school, changing its name to Dartmouth College, and the school moved to its present site. The schools of Dartmouth College include the undergraduate college, the Dartmouth Medical School, the Thayer School of Engineering, and the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Baker Memorial Library maintains the extensive archive of material of American explorer and anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson relating to the Arctic, as well as a special collection on American poet Robert Frost and murals by the Mexican painter José Clemente Orozco. Other facilities include the Hood Museum of Art and the Hopkins Center for the Creative and Performing Arts.

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