12 Facts About The Dartmouth

Many alumni of The Dartmouth have gone on to careers in journalism, and several have won Pulitzer Prizes.

The offices of The Dartmouth are located on the second floor of Robinson Hall, where over 200 student staff members contribute to the paper weekly either through the editorial or business staffs.

The Dartmouth is run entirely by undergraduate students, with the publisher serving as the head of the business side and the editor-in-chief serving as the head of the editorial section of the paper.

The Dartmouth maintains its own photo and poster store with pictures in current editions as well as copies of historical front pages, available for purchase.

The first issue of the Dartmouth Gazette contains a poem and short story signed by "Icarus", who was later found to be Daniel Webster.

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Financially, The Dartmouth was self-sustaining through a subscription revenue model.

The Dartmouth contained a College News section with one or two-line items on professorial appointments, alumni news, and an editors note regarding correspondence.

Christopher R Johnson '94 completed a detailed thesis history of The Dartmouth, after receiving a grant from the Hewlett Foundation for The Dartmouth's Historical Archives Project.

The Dartmouth went through a substantial developmental phase in 1875 under the watchful eye of Samuel Merrill of the Class of 1876.

On September 18,1913, a news story announced that The Dartmouth had become a corporation chartered in Maine over the summer break.

The Dartmouth maintains the Vox Clamantis Fund, created in 1999 to help enable reporters, editors, directors and staff to supplement their "on-the-job" training by meeting and working with journalists and business journalism professionals.

Vox Fund has allowed The Dartmouth to bring renowned journalists to Hanover to work alongside staff through the Editor-in-Residence program.