Thanks to Big Green Alert Blog for pointing out this 1913 New York Times article (pdf) describing the decision of the Dartmouth team to put numbers on their uniforms. “Spectators Will Be Enabled to Distinguish Players.”
At the beginning of June, Princeton Architectural Press published Dartmouth College: The Campus Guide. At the moment it is available from Barnes & Noble and the press.
As is the case with any book, a few errors have crept in, and they are being collected in this pdf document. Readers are encouraged to email comments, error sightings, and updates to dartmo@gmail.com.
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[Update 11.17.2012: Broken link to Press fixed.]
The Planning arm of the OPDC has expanded its Web content lately. Now there are historic maps and aerial photos available. The College Planner, Joanna Whitcomb, even has a blog.
Most interesting is the very extensive file of planning documents of the last decade. There are some remarkable items here:
The third Images of America book about Hanover by Frank J. Barrett, Jr. is now available: Early Dartmouth College and Downtown Hanover. Its coverage of the old frame buildings that preceded today’s brick commercial blocks downtown is excellent. There are photos of obscure campus buildings, Rowley Hall and Allen Hall, and rare photos of relatively temporary or mundane buildings such as the Hanover Diner and the first Sachem Village, both on Lebanon Street. Hanover before 1900 or 1920 seems to have been characterized by jumbled small-scale clapboard-sided buildings — the level and density and great variety of materials and details visible at the level of the pedestrian was extremely high.
The College might publish a coffee-table book in 2009 with all of the Winter Carnival posters in commemoration of the Dartmouth Outing
Club’s Centennial, according to The Dartmouth, citing Archivist Peter Carini.
Edward Gray’s article “American Arriviste” in Humanities 28:6 (November/December 2007) is about John Ledyard.
The Collegiate Way links to an article in Portuguese on the University of Coimbra’s lost colleges (translation by Google). The university claims to be the oldest in Portugal, founded in 1290 (Wikipedia), and once had more than two dozen colleges (map) founded between 1527 and 1779. They were dissolved in 1834, however, and now some of their surviving buildings house university departments.
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[Update 06.13.2015: Broken link to map replaced.]
[Update 01.05.2013: Broken links to article and translation removed.]
ORW Landscape Architects & Planners of Norwich provide, among their transportation design examples, information about a project for Hanover: a set of street standards that fits with the Brook McIlroy plan.
The site includes drawings of a reworked south entrance into town (note the commercial building in the parking lot of Grand Union/CVS, as Brook McIlroy suggested); an eastern welcome by Memorial Field focused on a proposed corner tower and building on the very important site where the FO&M buildings are now; and two proposed street sections, one for Lebanon street with Brook McIlroy’s wide sidewalks for cafe seating.
The firm has also done a riverfront park design study, a trail plan, and a suburban development proposal in Lebanon, a proposal for corridor enchancements in Norwich, and a proposal for new buildings in downtown White River.
A 2005 presentation by Henry Bedingfeld, “English Grants of Arms in America,” summarized by the College of Arms Foundation, shows the surprising extent of the honorary grants of arms to institutions in the U.S. following a 1960 decision to begin making such grants. The list includes a number of schools:
A sampling of the other institutions:
Some of these recipients are surprisingly downbeat about their arms. Winthrop University, as it is called now, has one of those exhaustive graphic standards manuals (pdf) describing how to use its new shield-like logo, but it relegates its genuine coat of arms to one fuzzy black-and-white image at the back. The school’s “Treasures and Traditions” information pdf describes the coat of arms matter-of-factly and does not mention its origin in the College of Arms.
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[Update 01.05.2013: Broken link to Winthrop pdf replaced.]
The Office of Publications’ portfolio is fairly new, and shows that the school continues to recognize the importance of good design. Dartmouth seems to have a long tradition of carefully considering the aesthetic qualities of its publications, even the mundane ones. You can spot an official Dartmouth publication from the 1890s through the 1990s by its green paper cover and black type.
Although the unique evening-glow aerial view on the cover of the latest ORCis pleasing, one might wish to see it retain the serious look the old one had for many decades. The ORC was the one no-nonsense publication you got from the College, and reading it was serious business.
Contractor Trumbull-Nelson celebrates its 90-year history in the Spring 2007 issue of its Constructive Images newsletter.
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[Update 11.17.2012: Broken link fixed.]
Architect Fred Wesley Wentworth of the Chandler class of 1887 is the subject of a well-illustrated new website by Richard Polton.
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[Update 11.17.2012: Broken link fixed.]
Gwathmey-Siegel has some very nice photographs of Berry Sports Center.
The Hanover Country Club no longer uses its ski jump logo, and it seems to have adopted the pine from Dartmouth’s Bicentennial flag, as the Club’s home page indicates.
The jump was demolished in 1993, and there is a plaque on its site.
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[Update 01.05.2013: Broken link to flag replaced; broken link to plaque image removed.]
“Ask Dartmouth” says that the proportion of Macs at Dartmouth is 44 percent (having dropped from nearly 100 percent 15 years ago, at least among undergraduates?). The Dartmouthbiz blog has several posts on the history of computing at Dartmouth, covering Dartmouth’s selection of the Mac (more). Further back are GE and Dartmouth and the SysProg Reunion.
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[Update 11.13.2012: Four broken links to dartmouthbiz.com removed.]
The Development Office has published requests for a number of specific gifts, including the ’53 Commons Terrace. Three zones will occupy the space between the building and Maynard Street: the Portico, which is a collonaded space; the Terrace, which will have space for 100 people to sit and might be stepped downward away from the building; and the South Lawn, which has a White-Housey sound to it and will be the northernmost Lawn at Dartmouth, an equivalent to Baker Lawn.
The Graduate Student Suite in ’53 Commons will be the first headquarters for grad students of the College.
“The Scholars’ Green” is an idea for reinvigorating Baker’s Catalogue Room with comfortable furniture and other amenities. The idea is a good one, although “the Catalogue Room” would be a better name than “the Scholars’ Green.” Experience at other schools has shown that any fancy computers placed here will be used mostly for watching YouTube and that a single espresso machine will set the tone for the whole space.
Plenty of other interesting requests appear, including one for support of College Traditions.
(The profile of the Development Office has been rising, with its new offices (U.K. Architects, 2003) in 41 Centerra Parkway; it even has its own training department with a curriculum for training staffers.)
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[Update 11.13.2012: Five broken link to the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience removed.]
The campus map released in February now shows Fahey-McLane and other new campus projects, as well as the new commercial buildings of the South Block, below South Street.
Harvard’s campus map, probably because it is not required to show accessible entrances and parking lots, seems to have a bit more visual appeal.
Princeton has a master plan () that is very well illustrated with maps. Unlike many master plans, it gets right to the details and shows specific sites for future buildings, at least those planned for the near future.
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[Update 11.17.2012: Broken links to Harvard and Princeton replaced.]
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.