An interesting tidbit on why Dartmouth is called a college: Booz Allen, in the linked report ... on the World's Ten Most Enduring Institutions, includes Dartmouth among Oxford, GE, The Rolling Stones, ITT, The Salvation Army, et al because, in part, of its Supreme Court battle in the case of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, where Daniel Webster ( Dartmouth alum, Sec. of State, et all) successfully argued for Dartmouth's right to call itself a college nothwithstanding what the State of New Hampshire was demanding. This decision served to strengthen the Contract Clause of the Constitution. A significant reason some choose Dartmouth over other schools is its reputation in having an undergraduate (college) focus (not graduate school/university centric). As the report mentions, this point is brought home to every entering class.The Pearland Journal, part of the Houston Community Newspapers site, has a story about the Pearland H.S., Oilers spring football drills. From the story:
The Pearland head coach said that all of the Big 12 schools sent coaches to watch Oiler practices along with coaches from LSU, Boise State, UNLV and Dartmouth among other colleges.With so many teams in the Ivy League (and elsewhere) running the spread offense, a reader sent along a fine tutorial on what the offense entails and how to defend it. While this lengthy discussion might be elementary if you are a college coach, I found it very interesting. Find the discussion on defending the spread offense here.
And finally, since some of you have asked, mixed results on the diamond yesterday. The Hanover eighth-grader's team mercy-ruled the Hanover seventh-grade team, that certain Hanover sophomore catcher's softball team got mercy-ruled by neighboring Lebanon and that certain Blogger's incredibly young Little League team dropped a 7-6 decision to neighboring Norwich.
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