The College

ONE hundred and fifty years ago this month, Daniel Webster argued the Dartmouth College Case before the United States Supreme Court. The decision, in favor of the College, was not handed down until February 2, 1819, and on the sesquicentennial day of that great event in Dartmouth's history a commemorative program will take place in Washington.

Back in 1818, the University expected a Supreme Court decision in its favor rather than a delay until the next Court term. Reported the Dartmouth Gazette in its issue of March 25, 1818: "On Saturday evening last the University gentry prepared themselves, on the arrival of the Mail, to greet the expected News from Washington. We learn that the old French six-pounder was to be loaded for the purpose, and everything ripe for a fine frolick, in true University style. The Mail arrived; - and lo! the information received occasioned the tolling of the University bell!" The Gazette was pro-College.