Dartmouth College charter = 12/13/1769.
While many trad songs mention schooling or college, few actually name the school:
To Dartmouth Scientific Halls
In olden times there came
A likely youth who was known full well
And Strongbow was his name.
Much he had heard of book-learned skill
The white man's pride and boast
An ardent wish that skill to gain
His honest mind engrossed.
Words & music by Nathaniel Waugh while soldiering in the War of 1812.
Still in tradition in the Main Woods in 1939.
The New Green Mountain Songster, HH Flanders, etc., 1939 & 1966
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