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nry Winkley ($25,000). Miss Mary C. Bryant, for the Library. Mrs. Betsey Whitehouse, for Scholarships. The sums given by the above average perhaps about $15,000. It is worthy of remark that a majority of these donations were made or received during the administration of President Smith. * * * * * There are at present ten principal edifices erected for the use of the various departments of the College: Dartmouth Hall and the Medical College, erected during the administration of Pres. John Wheelock; Thornton, Wentworth, and Reed Halls, Shattuck Observatory, and the Chandler Building, erected or completed during the administration of President Lord; Bissell, Culver, and Conant Halls, erected during the administration of President Smith. During the latter period the President's chair received an endowment of $30,000, and more than sixty scholarships an endowment of $1,000 each. Recent bequests to the various departments from Tappan Wentworth, John D. Willard, Richard Fletcher, John S. Woodman, and Joel Parker will amount, _when available_, to over $700,000. CHARTER OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. GEORGE THE THIRD BY THE GRACE OF GOD, OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE AND IRELAND, KING, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, ETC. _To all to whom these presents shall come_, Greeting: Whereas it hath been represented to our trusty and well-beloved John Wentworth, Esq., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, in and over our province of New Hampshire, in New England in America, that the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock of Lebanon, in the colony of Connecticut, in New England aforesaid, now Doctor in Divinity, did, on or about the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four, at his own expense, on his own estate and plantation, set on foot an _Indian Charity School_, and for several years, through the assistance of well disposed persons in America, cloathed, maintained and educated a number of the children of the _Indian natives_, with a view to their carrying the gospel in their own language, and spreading the knowledge of the great Redeemer among their savage tribes, and hath actually employed a number of them as Missionaries and School Masters in the wilderness for that purpose, and by the blessing of God upon the endeavors of said Wheelock, the design became reputable among the Indians, insomuch that a larger number desired the education of their children in said School, and were also
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