Early American Colleges P7

The college of Dartmouth in New Hampshire began in 1770 when Congregational pastor Eleazar Wheelock secured a charter from the governor to establish a college to train young men for missionary service among the Indians. Its Latin motto means: “The voice of one crying in the wilderness” (quoting from John 1:23 and Isaiah 40:3). And it became known as the “Indian College.” Among its distinguished alums are early Supreme Court Justice Levi Woodbury and the great Daniel Webster, “Defender of the Constitution.”

Content sourced from The American Story The Beginnings by David Barton and Tim Barton