DOCUMENTS RELATIVE TO DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE LEGISLATURE. 1816.
[Concord? New Hampshire General Court?], 1816. 39, [1 blank] pp, with two folding tables. Disbound, scattered foxing, Good+.
The Documents chronicle the dispute between President Wheelock and the College's Trustees, who were backed by the anti-Federalist New Hampshire legislature. The pamphlet prints President John Wheelock's Memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives of the General Court; the lengthy report of the Committee appointed in 1814 "to investigate the concerns of Dartmouth College and Moor's Charity School, generally, and the acts and proceedings of the Trustees of said Institution, and to report a statement of facts at the next session of the Legislature." Two folding charts are included: 'Statement of College Income and Expenditures, November, 1814'; and 'Exhibition of Salaries of Professors and Tutors, from the Year 1785 [through 1815]'.
The dispute led to the landmark Dartmouth College Case. Amid prolonged and noisy public clamor, the Trustees removed Wheelock after he wrote 'Sketches of the History of Dartmouth College,' an attack on the Trustees and Wheelock's other adversaries. The Legislature then changed Dartmouth's Charter, setting the stage for the Supreme Court's landmark decision forbidding legislative impairment of contracts.
Sabin 18620. Not in American Imprints. OCLC 818240 [13] [as of September 2014]. Item #31276
Price: $250.00