New Coat-of-Arms

BY VOTE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, Dartmouth College now has a new coat-of-arms as pictured above. The design has been adopted so that the College Seal may be preserved for purely official documents and publications of the College and the new coat-of-arms substituted for all unofficial uses, especially such unauthorized and uncontrolled uses as stationery, banners and gift trinkets.

The coat-of-arms, mainly employing simplifications of the outstanding elements of the College Seal, was designed by Mr. Thoreau Mac Donald, one of the most eminent practitioners in this field. He was commissioned by the Dartmouth College Publications Committee, which a few years ago set to work on the problem of restricting the Dartmouth Seal to proper and authorized uses.

The official Dartmouth College Seal was adopted in 1773 and the original die is still used in the Treasurer's Office. Many careless copies came into existence and even some of the versions used by the College were inadequate, so a few years ago the College commissioned Mr. W. A. Dwiggins to make new drawings of the Seal. He made two handsome and painstaking drawings from the original die, and these accurate copies are now officially used for reproduction purposes.