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Nevertheless, the 1-3 weekend drops Harvard to a second-place tie with the Bulldogs in the Red Rolfe division of the Ivy League, with two weekends of crucial division play remaining. Dartmouth, which took three games from Brown this weekend, is in first with a record...
...insignificant to really matter, but, while Harvard fans file out before the final buzzer of a blowout, supporters throughout the rest of the Ivies—often not even students—have another reason to tarry longer, providing additional support. So, on a dreary Hanover evening, when the Dartmouth women’s basketball team is being blown out by the Crimson in its season finale, dejected fans do not leave in disgust, but clamor for free t-shirts being tossed into the stands by sponsors, or excitedly check tickets to see if they have won the limousine trip...
...Dartmouth College holds an annual Native American recruitment program in the fall, luring potential applicants to meet Dartmouth’s strong Native community by offering free airfare and lodging in Hanover, NH. Dartmouth also travels to reservations and areas with high Native populations to find prospective students...
...Dartmouth may be far different from Harvard in terms of recruitment, but it has a strikingly similar history. In 1769, Dartmouth founder Reverend Eleazar Wheelock was able to raise substantial funds for the College from the Royal Governor of New Hampshire after penning a charter that devoted Dartmouth to “the education and instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in the Land and also of English Youth and any others.” For the next two centuries, Dartmouth, like Harvard, failed to fulfill its promises. However, in his 1970 inauguration, Dartmouth President John G. Kemeny pledged...
...Dartmouth currently has 117 American Indian students enrolled at its college—twice as many as Harvard, at a school two-thirds the size. Additionally, Dartmouth has an active degree-granting Native American Studies department and a Native American House with an adjacent Indian studies library...