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    Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) Living in the 1800’s was not an easy task. This was the time of child labor and little to no education for kids. The time of having to walk 2-3 miles anywhere and making sure the crops were well enough to sell in the markets. The time of Westward Expansion and the genocide of Native Americans. Eleazar Wheelock, a Puritan minister from Columbia, CT was the one who founded Dartmouth. He initially established the school to train Native Americans as Christian missionaries

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    INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MANAGEMENT By EFRAIM TURBAN, LEIDNER, MCLEAN, WETHERBE MINICASE 1 Pg 32 Dartmouth College Goes Wireless Q1. In what ways is the Wi-Fi technology changing the life of Dartmouth students? Relate your answer to the concept of the digital society. A1. Dartmouth College has made many innovative usages of the Wi-Fi technology in their college: * Students are continuously developing new applications for the Wi-Fi. * Students no longer have to remember

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    Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, on January 18, 1782. Daniel was delicate, but a brilliant child, his family realized this, and made great expense to put Daniel and his brother Ezekiel through school. After graduating from Dartmouth College, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1805. Daniel Webster, was a well known public speaker and major constitutional lawyer; he was a major congressional representative for the Northern Whigs during his twenty years he served

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    The case that Richard N. Current describes in “The Dartmouth College Case,” is the four year prolonged Trustees of Dartmouth v. Woodward dispute between a private college and the state legislature of New Hampshire. In 1769, King George III of England “granted a charter to Dartmouth College” which “spelled out the purpose of the school, set up the structure to govern it, and gave land to the college” (“Key Supreme Court Cases”). The private college was established and funded by “a self-perpetuating

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    The Dartmouth, originally called The Dartmouth Gazette, was founded on August 27th, 1799 by Moses Davis in Hanover, New Hampshire. Davis, after founding the paper, attempted to gather subscribers from the sparsely populated Upper Valley, a challenging task. Davis succeeded in acquiring subscribers, and charged them annual fees. These fees were the only source of revenue for the early Dartmouth Gazette. Originally, a subscription to the Gazette cost a dollar and fifty cents per year. Davis initially

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    Abstract: Electronic mail is quickly becoming the most prevalent method of communication in the world. However, e-mail systems in corporate, institutional, and commercial environments are all potential targets of monitoring, surveillance and ultimately, censorship.             Electronic mail is a phenomenon that has begun to pervade all aspects of our lives today. We use e-mail in our personal lives, at our schools, at our jobs, and everywhere in between. However, very few of us consider the

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    “Dartmouth is a great school,” my grandpa said carefully. “One of the very best.” He took a long pause here. My grandpa opened and closed his mouth a few times, seeming to taste his words before speaking again. “But, the men there are pigs.” The silence hung in the air like the scent of the dinner rolls my mom had burnt that Thanksgiving. I, his granddaughter, was applying to Dartmouth College, his alma mater, something I had thought would be a source of joy, even pride, for the 85 year old. But

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    graduated high school as a valedictorian along with Elinor White. Robert was accepted into Dartmouth college and only finished one term. Robert and Elinor got accepted into different and when she wouldn’t agree with him to quit college to marry him, he got jealous thinking she was seeing other men. He left Dartmouth college but could not get Elinor to quit her studies to marry him (“Robert” 2). During college Robert worked

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    received a Bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, as well as a Master’s Degree from Harvard University. Carr has also written numerous books, including Does IT Matter: Information Technology and the corruption of Competitive Advantage (2004), as well as What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2010) which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. (Pg.22) Carr is considered an expert for various reasons. He received not only a Bachelors but also a Master’s Degree from Dartmouth as well as Harvard, which are

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    "Academic Success Videos: Sleep and the College Student." Academic Success Videos: Sleep and the College Student. Dartmouth University, 22 July 2011. Web. 24 Feb. 2016. . This source was produced by The Media Production Group at Dartmouth and Dr. Carl P. Thum, Director of the Dartmouth Academic Skills Center. Carl Thum himself works with students at Dartmouth University in which he provides coaching for students suffering from ADD and also leads various workshops, mini-courses, and coaching sessions

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