A vindication of the official conduct of the trustees of Dartmouth College : in answer to "Sketches of the history of Dartmouth College", and "A candid analytical review of the sketches," &c

Dartmouth College

Printed by G. Hough, Concord [N.H.], 1815

[The Legal Origins of the American System of Free Enterprise : The Controversy between President Wheelock and the Trustees of Dartmouth College] Bound in publisher's blue wraps.  Some wear/ tear to wraps. pp. 104. BA. 18633  Sabin 18633.   "For answers, see Dunham (J), and Freeman (P. R.) John Wheelock was the reputed author of the 'Sketches,' or at least furnished the materials for that pamphlet."   President Wheelock's attempt to turn Dartmouth into a state institution by having the Governor of New Hampshire appoint trustees to the board, led to the subsequent lawsuit by the private Trustees of the college.  Daniel Webster argued for the Trustees in the landmark Supreme Court case, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 1819.  The Supreme Court's "decision settled the nature of public versus private charters and resulted in the rise of the American business corporation and the American free enterprise system." - Newmyer, R. (2001). John Marshall and the heroic age of the Supreme Court