EDUCATION IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.-ACTION IN REGARD TO A COL- SHIRE. - . 49 65 316 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. - PROFESSORS NATHAN SMITH, REUBEN D. 367 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. THE most valuable part of a nation's history portrays its institutions of learning and religion. The alumni of a college which has moulded the intellectual and moral character of not a few of the illustrious living, or the more illustrious dead, the oldest college in the valley of the Connecticut, and the only college in an ancient and honored State, would neglect a most fitting and beautiful service, should they suffer the cycles of a century to pass, without gathering in some modest urn the ashes of its revered founders, or writing on some modest tablet the names of its most distinguished sons. The germ of Dartmouth College was a deep-seated and long-cherished desire, of the foremost of its founders, to elevate the Indian race in America. The Christian fathers of New England were not unmindful of the claims of the Aborigines. The well-directed, patient, and successful labors of the Eliots, Cotton, and the Mayhews, and the scarcely less valuable labors of Treat and others, fill a bright page in the religious history of the seventeenth century. To numerous congregations of red men. the gospel was preached; many were converted; churches. were gathered, and the whole Bible - the first printed in America was given them in their own language. This interest in the Indian was not confined to our own country, in the earlier periods of our history. In Great Britain, sovereigns, ecclesiastics, and philosophers recognized |