Whee­lock and Dart­mouth con­nec­tion ex­plained

copy­right the Chron­i­cle July 15, 2015

by Joseph Gresser

SHEFFIELD — Noah Man­ning, a sopho­more at Dart­mouth Col­lege, brought a school friend home re­cently. He was Philip Han­lon, the pres­i­dent of Dart­mouth. His visit to Miller’s Run School, where Mr. Man­ning got his early ed­u­ca­tion, brought out a crowd for a com­mu­nity meal and a cel­e­bra­tion of the link be­tween an Ivy League school and a North­east King­dom town.

When Eleazer Whee­lock founded Dart­mouth Col­lege in Hanover, New Hamp­shire, in 1769, he had a prob­lem: His plan of ed­u­cat­ing na­tive Amer­i­cans and Eng­lish mis­sion­ar­ies was not cal­cu­lated to bring in a great deal of money. He ap­pealed to the Re­pub­lic of Ver­mont for as­sis­tance, but aside from ex­pres­sions of moral sup­port, the Leg­is­la­ture of­fered lit­tle in the way of tan­gi­ble sup­port dur­ing his life.

John Whee­lock, Eleaz­er’s son, be­came… To read the rest of this ar­ti­cle, and all the Chron­i­cle‘s sto­ries, sub­scribe:

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