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Title: The History of Dartmouth College

Author: Baxter Perry Smith

Release Date: April 30, 2009 [EBook #28641]

Language: English

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THE HISTORY

OF

Dartmouth College.

BY

BAXTER PERRY SMITH.

BOSTON:

HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge.

1878.

Copyright, 1878,

by Baxter Perry Smith.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge:

_Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company._

PREFACE.

In the preparation of this work the writer has deemed it better to let
history, as far as possible, tell its own story, regarding reliability
as preferable to unity of style.

The imperfect records of all our older literary institutions, limit
their written history, in large measure, to a record of the lives and
labors of their teachers.

To the many friends of the college, and others, who have kindly given
their aid, the writer is under large obligations.

The following names deserve especial notice: Hon. Robert C. Winthrop,
Hon. Charles L. Woodbury, Hon. R. R. Bishop, Wm. H. Duncan, Esq.,
Richard B. Kimball, Esq., Rev. Eden B. Foster, D.D., Hon. James
Barrett, N. C. Berry, Esq., Dr. F. E. Oliver, Hon. J. E. Sargent, Dr.
C. A. Walker, Hon. A. O. Brewster, Hon. A. A. Ranney, Dr. W. M.
Chamberlain, Hon. James W. Patterson, Rev. Carlos Slafter, Hon. J. B.
D. Cogswell, Gen. John Eaton, Rev. H. A. Hazen, Rev. S. L. B. Speare,
H. N. Twombly, Esq., Caleb Blodgett, Esq., Hon. Benj. F. Prescott, Dr.
C. H. Spring, Prof. C. O. Thompson, Hon. Frederic Chase, Rev. W. J.
Tucker, D.D., L. G. Farmer, Esq., and N. W. Ladd, Esq.

With profound gratitude he mentions also the name of Hon. Nathan
Crosby, but for whose valuable pecuniary aid the publication of the
work must have been delayed; and the