Daniel Webster’s verdict in Dartmouth College v. Woodward originally preserved American private colleges from government overreach in 1819. The Dartmouth College case has for over 200 years been ...

The year 2019 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in the case of Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward. This legal battle over the validity of Dartmouth’s ...

THE LANDMARK Dartmouth College v. Woodward case, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 2, 1819, established Daniel Webster as one of the top lawyers in the country. His persuasive reasoning ...

Let us hope that our courts will show the same respect for contracts and college autonomy as the Supreme Court did in Dartmouth v. Woodward 200 years ago. Until they do, those who are devoted to ...

The Supreme Court overruled the legislature’s amended charter in the 1819 case Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, thus restoring the name “Dartmouth College.” Alumni and former trustees recall ...