Excerpt from General Catalogue of Dartmouth College and the Associated Institutions, Including the Officers of Government and Instruction, Graduates and All Others Who Have Received Honorary Degrees Dartmouth college grew up from a very small germ. Eleazar Wheelock, a half-paid Congregational minister in Lebanon, Connecticut, cherishing an earnest desire to do good beyond the limits of his parish, pro cured, by the aid of a missionary in New Jersey, two Indian boys in order to give them a Christian education. This was in December, 17 54. Others were soon added, until the enterprise became a school, numbering at one time as many as twenty-two Indian youths of both sexes. Meanwhile Joshua Moor of Mansfield gave a house and two acres of land, and the s'chool was named Moor's Indian Charity School. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.