Overview
""Is Dartmouth a College or a University?"" For more than two centuries, that question has resonated through the Ivy League institution founded in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, leading college leaders, professors, alumni and students to reflect, debate and vehemently disagree. Even as Dartmouth has remained true to the ""college"" part of its name by emphasizing undergraduate instruction, its graduate programs in medicine, engineering, business and the arts and sciences have done increasingly important work. In researching Healers, Inventors & Entrepreneurs, Jeffrey Good found that the ""college or university?"" question has become, in the words of current President Phil Hanlon, a ""red herring."" Rather than diminishing the quality of undergraduate education, Dartmouth's graduate programs have enhanced it by giving the college the ability to recruit and retain top teacher/scholars, to include undergraduates in sophisticated research and professional development, and to create a scholarly culture that is by any measure distinguished. That history is populated by generations of healers, inventors and entrepreneurs; by distinguished scholars, bold presidents and innovative deans; and by benefactors without whose generosity the ""small college"" might have remained small - and of course by the most gifted of students. This Dartmouth story is anything but dull; in addition to inspiring narratives and sometimes bitter politics, there's also body snatching, midnight rendezvous and even a trip to the Folies Bergère in Paris. Little wonder that, in the famous words of Daniel Webster, ""there are those who love it.""
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Author: Jeffrey Good
Publisher: Jeffrey Good
Imprint: Jeffrey Good
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.494kg
ISBN: 9781605715292
ISBN 10: 1605715298
Pages: 372
Publication Date: 25 August 2021
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""With this lively history, Jeffrey Good has settled the running debate over whether Dartmouth is a college or a university. Two centuries after Daniel Webster declared it 'a small college, ' this book makes clear that Dartmouth has become so much more. It is the best book written about Dartmouth and the seamless cast of alumni inhabiting every page.""- Christopher S. Wren, Dartmouth '57Former New York Times correspondent and author of Walking to Vermont and Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom"
With this lively history, Jeffrey Good has settled the running debate over whether Dartmouth is a college or a university. Two centuries after Daniel Webster declared it 'a small college, ' this book makes clear that Dartmouth has become so much more. It is the best book written about Dartmouth and the seamless cast of alumni inhabiting every page. - Christopher S. Wren, Dartmouth '57Former New York Times correspondent and author of Walking to Vermont and Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom
Author Information
JEFFREY GOOD is a veteran journalist who served as the editor of the Valley News, won the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing, and authored (with contributor Susan Goreck) Poison Mind, the nonfiction account of a Florida murder investigation. He is currently Director of Communications for Acceleration Academies, a network of public high school dropout re-enagement programs.
