Atkin Olshin Lawson-Bell Architects is now Atkin Olshin Schade and presently features features Collis and Fahey-McLane on its front page.
The firm’s Collis page has some new photos, including one showing the Lone Pine Tavern. The only detailed plan of the Hitchcock renovation yet available is on the site as well.
Google held a contest to encourage students to help populate its rendition of the Earth with three-dimensional building models. Dartmouth’s team was one of the winners (The Dartmouth; news release) and the models have since been placed on the globe for all to see.
The news release explains Dartmouth’s extra attention to history and suggests an eventual grand global GIS:
The Dartmouth team went a step beyond the contest’s expectations to create three separate timelines, 1800, 1900 and 2007, to illustrate how the campus has grown and changed. With input from the Office of Planning, Design & Construction, accompanying material for each building explains when it was built, what it’s used for, who the architect was, and when it was renovated.
Second Life already contains a superb downtown Hanover; someone must be thinking about putting it into Google Earth.
Artist Peter Irniq (Wikipedia) erected an inuksuk (Wikipedia) on McNutt’s lawn for the Hood Museum (Dartmouth Life; Hood News).
His coat of arms features an inuksuk.
(The Hood has been busy lately, also acquiring, at Sotheby’s, Pompeo Batoni’s 1756 portrait of William Legge, the second earl of Dartmouth.)
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[Update 08.12.2017: Arms image and Wikipedia link removed, replaced with Canadian Bureau of Heraldry link.]
[Update 01.13.2013: Broken link to arms replaced.]
The Dartmouth has recently written up the Second College Grant Bicentennial and the Life Sciences Building.
The Historic Campus Architecture Project of the Council of Independent Colleges includes an excellent database with information on:
Dartmouth Life and Vox note that Professor of History Emeritus Jere R. Daniell, 1955, and Jack Noon, 1968, have written Dartmouth’s Second College Grant: A History. It will be released on the 24th in the Grant.
This year is the bicentennial of the granting of the Grant.
The Zahm Memorial Garden, which filled the sunken space in front of the Hinman Boxes alongside the Inn, has been redesigned as the War Memorial Garden by Saucier + Flynn. The WWII/Korea memorial, a granite plaque, has occupied the end wall of the Inn since it was moved from under the Hood’s upper bridge in the early 1990s. The school moved the Vietnam Memorial, a sculpture, from the Collis Center to the garden. The Class of 1945 also gave the garden a plaque.
Landscape architects Saucer + Flynn have posted new information including descriptions of eight projects for Dartmouth as well as landscapes for North Park Street Graduate Student Housing, 7 Lebanon Street, the DHMC, projects in Centerra, and the Sphinx.
The firm also designed a wrought-iron fence for Skull & Bones in New Haven, which is not the kind of landscape project you see every day.
A large amount of interest in the history of American football is accompanying the fiftieth anniversary of the Ivy League. The Big Green Alert Blog has linked (more) to trailers for two new films about Ivy football: The League and For Love and Honor, which is based on Mark F. Bernstein’s Football: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession.
Both films appear to give some credit to the myth that football began in 1869 when Princeton played Rutgers. (The trailer for the first film mentions that game; the book upon which the second is based also mentions the game.) As has been noted here before, although the teams called their game “foot ball,” the fact that the British still call soccer by that name should be a tipoff: the teams were actually playing soccer, which was and is also known as Association Football. Rutgers acknowledges that the game was FA football and not rugby football in its website about the game.
Although the teams that played in the 1869 soccer match might be called the first American football teams, since they later switched rules to play rugby against other schools, the match itself was not half as significant as the 1874 Harvard-McGill rugby match or the 1875 Harvard-Yale rugby match, either of which is more properly known as the birth of intercollegiate football.
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[Update 11.12.2012: Broken link to Love and Honor replaced with link to Eight; broken link to
The Hood Museum has an interesting film of still photos from the construction of the museum in the early 1980s.
The Dartmouth Skiway is 50 years old. Skiway history articles appear in Dartmouth Life and elsewhere.
A new group called the Hill Winds Society appears to combine the one-time functions of the Admissions Office (giving tours) and Palaeopitus (preserving traditions). The group trains its members to give special tradition-based tours of campus. (See the Alumni Relations announcement, the story in The Dartmouth, and a mention in a press release).
One really hates to be a bugbear about this, but the announcement might have been worded differently:
From the Green, the site of the Dartmouth Night bonfire since
18911901 [or the 1940s] and, before then, funeral pyres for sophomores’ math books, all paths lead to tradition: to 105 Dartmouth Hall, where the Great Issues lectures enthralled students in the mid-twentieth century; to Sanborn Library and its dailyhightea; toOccumOccom Pond, where the “polar bears”swimhave swum for the last few years; to Parkhurst, where today’s students shake the hand of President James Wright ’64a during the fall matriculation ceremony; and, of course, to Observatory Hill, where thetriumviratebiumverate of tradition —theBartlett Tower, the Robert Frost statue,and the Old Pine stump — reigns over the campus.[…]
One of the few pines not felled
in 1769, when the College founders razed the woods in the area to build Dartmouth Hallduring the nineteenth century, the Old Pine long stood the test of time on the rocky hill now named Observatory Hill.
Here’s hoping the group is a success.
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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken link to article fixed.]
Some of the film that helped decide the Fifth-Down Game in 1940 appears in a short documentary about the game. The Review has an article about the game (“Fifth Down and Goal to Go: Dartmouth Spoils Cornell’s Title Hopes”).
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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken link to Review article removed.]
The New York Times examines the decline in Ivy football attendance that accompanied the shift from NCAA Division IA to Division IAA.
That decline is one of the reasons why Princeton recently demolished Palmer Stadium (Henry J. Hardenburgh, 1914) and replaced it with the lower-capacity Princeton Stadium (Rafael Viñoly, 1998), and why Dartmouth recently replaced some of Memorial Field’s seating with the Floren Varsity House (Centerbrook, 2006).
(The Times notes that Ivy schools’ teams “were perennial national champions from 1869 to 1939.” That should read “from 1874 to 1939,” since 1874 was the first time college football was ever played in the U.S. (Harvard v. McGill). The game that teams played for several years following 1869 was soccer. The confusion might come from Hickok Sports, which lists pre-1874 soccer games at the head of a line of football champions, or from the Rutgers University football page, which still claims that the 1869 game makes Rutgers the home of college football, although the very same webpage acknowledges that the game was played under rules “adopted from those of the London Football Association,” i.e. soccer. The first game of college football ever played between two U.S. teams was the Harvard-Yale game of 1875.)
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[Update 11.10.2012: Broken link to Princeton Stadium news item replaced with Wikipedia link.]
The list of works of the firm of Lamb & Rich has been expanded to include several projects:
The school is putting on a conference about the carved stone panels that, during the mid-nineteenth century, came from the Palace of King Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud, Assyria to a number of institutions in the west, including Dartmouth.
A slightly revised version of the Old Division Football paper has been posted. The well-known photograph of students playing Dartmouth-rules football has been dated to 1874.
The architect of the Phi Delta Theta (now Phi Delta Alpha) house on Webster Avenue has been elusive. Although Alexander Anderson McKenzie “built into this house his own integrity,” as a plaque inside states, he did not design the building.
The American Architect and Building News stated in its “Building Intelligence” section for November 10, 1900:
The Dartmouth College Chapter of Phi Delta Theta fraternity will erect a chapter-house on Webster Ave., after plans by Charles A. Rich, 24 Nassau St., N.Y. City. The structure will be built in the Colonial style prevailing in the college buildings, the lines in general being similar to those of the Gov. Hancock House, Boston.
