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Thayer School of Engineering students at Surveying Camp in Canaan, New Hampshire, ca. 1939.
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In addition to fun, students also used the Green for other purposes such as this protest related to women’s issues in the 1980s.
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A group of tripees, ca. 1983.
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The Second College grant, 27,000 acres of land in Northern New Hampshire, initially provided profits from commercial timber operations that the College used for scholarships and other educational purposes. Eventually the Grant became another destination for those seeking fun outdoors experiences.
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David Bradley, Class of 1938, was a member of the 1940 Olympic Ski Team. Later, as a professor at Dartmouth, he wrote and published a treatise on ski jumping. Bradley was one in a long line of Dartmouth affiliates who contributed in one way or another to development of skiing as a sport.
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Fred Harris and other founding members of the Dartmouth Outing Club, the first collegiate outing club in the United States.
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A scroll map of the Connecticut River in a box for easy use in the field and equipped with a compass.
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John Ledyard was the original Dartmouth outdoorsman. Not happy with his Dartmouth experience, he famously left the College and paddled down the Connecticut River to the sea. From there he joined Captain James Cook’s second voyage.
