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Yale is preparing to build a new residential college, and the Yale Alumni Magazine has an article called “Your Dream College Here” (March/April 2008). Many students and alumni appear to oppose any new college as a threat to Yale’s sense of community (even though that community, for most, seems to derive from loyalty to one’s own residential college) or on the basis of the particular site chosen for this complex.

The University of Durham, rebranded in 2005 as Durham University, is probably the third-oldest university in England (1832) and has a multi-sport competition with the Oxbridge schools called the Doxbridge Tournament. The university comprises a federation of residential colleges in the center of the city, including one in the ancient castle itself, possibly the most fantastic site for a college anywhere in the world. The nominal head of the university is its Chancellor, Bill Bryson, a former Hanover-area resident.

The note above was posted on April 23, 2008 in: All News, Hanover/Leb./Nor'ch.

 
 

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[RSS 2.0]   This site presents one view of the architecture of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A. The site began with some essays in May 1995 and incorporated the buildings catalog in 1996 and the Rich thesis in June, 1998. (The site was known as DArch initially and was renamed for an abbreviation of the word "Dartmouth.")

The campi of Columbia, Stanford and Amherst are the subjects of readily-available books, but no detailed architectural history of the country's fifth-oldest campus has been written. Dartmouth hosts the important collegiate grouping of Dartmouth Row and comprises some of the largest accumulations of the work of three American architects: Ammi Burnham Young, Charles Alonzo Rich and Jens Fredrick Larson. The campus currently is expanding in a fashion that is self-consciously traditional, which only enhances the need for information about its historic buildings.

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