The Dartmouth Regional Technology Center site is up and provides views of the Center’s new building in Centerra (U.K. Architects, 2006): distant and closer (see also the firm’s page).

The campus map released in February now shows Fahey-McLane and other new campus projects, as well as the new commercial buildings of the South Block, below South Street.

Harvard’s campus map, probably because it is not required to show accessible entrances and parking lots, seems to have a bit more visual appeal.

Princeton has a master plan that is very well illustrated with maps. Unlike many master plans, it gets right to the details and shows specific sites for future buildings, at least those planned for the near future.

The OPDC has exterior photos of Floren, and the Big Green Alert Blog has the first photos of the completed interior. The smart classroom mentioned in the blog and on the project page is presumably for team training sessions, not Dartmouth academic classes.

In discussions about the history of Dartmouth’s former “Indian” nickname, mascot, and symbol, the subject of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School never seems to come up. Yet Dartmouth was one of Carlisle’s main football opponents in the early twentieth century, and Dartmouth had little reason to become known as “the Indians” as long as the Carlisle Indians were playing.

Carlisle (Wikipedia) was the dominant team in the east for several years up to the school’s closure in 1918, with “Pop” Warner coaching winning teams that included Jim Thorpe (1911-1912) and others. The phrase “Carlisle Indians” was a shortened reference to the school’s name and a literal description of its teams as well as a nickname that sportswriters used the way they used “Princeton Tigers.”

Dartmouth had a more distant connection to Native America, and students and administrators sometimes tried to make something of it. During events such as the 1901 Webster Centennial celebration or the 1906 Dartmouth Hall dedication, Charles Eastman would portray Samson Occom in a historical pageant or a few students would dress as “Indians” in a torchlight parade. Dartmouth football teams simply were not known as “the Indians,” however – instead they were known as “the Green,” referring to the green color that students had adopted as their sporting color around 1865. Some writers also used non-standard references to Dartmouth’s location in New Hampshire. Some examples from the New York Times:

• “Princeton met the Green at the Polo Grounds” (”Princeton Plays Dartmouth Team,” October 29, 1910, p. 12; notes that “[t]he Tigers will put forth a stronger team than opposed the [Carlisle] Indians last Week”).
• “Indians to Play Dartmouth Here” (February 3, 1913, p. 9; describes “the Green Mountain team”).
• “Indians Best Against Dartmouth” (December 6, 1913, p. 12).
• “Indians Smother Dartmouth, 35-10; Hanoverians No Match for the Wonderful Carlisle Team in Game at the Polo Grounds” (November 16, 1913, p. S1; notes “Green Line Crumples; Indians’ ‘Scoop-Shovel’ and Criss-Cross Attack Deadly”; describes “the New Hampshire mountaineers” and “the Green line”; states that “[t]he Indians showed a concerted smash against the mid-section of the Hanover line.[]”).
• “Hanover to Claim Football Title; Coach Cavanaugh Says Dartmouth Will Deserve It if Team Beats Indians” (November 14, 1913, p. 12).

Writers continued to refer to the Carlisle Indians into the 1920s. Someone has probably documented the first reference to “the Dartmouth Indians” in this period, once the team could no longer be confused with that of Carlisle. The introduction of “the Dartmouth Indians” might have occurred in bizarre fashion in an article of 1925:

Two of the rapidly dwindling list of undefeated football teams, the White Indians of Dartmouth and the Red Terrors of Cornell, are quietly encamped here on the eve of one of the big struggles of the season. The Green is a slight favorite.

Allison Danzig, “Dartmouth Picked to Defeat Cornell; Eastern Championship May Depend on Clash of Unbeaten Teams at Hanover Today. All Ithacans in Shape; Only Smith Out of Green Line-Up — 15,000 to See Game on Field Expected to Be Good,” New York Times (November 7, 1925, p. S10) (emphasis added).

[Update 10.14.2007: year of Dartmouth Hall dedication corrected from 1904 to 1906 and Webster Centennial example added.]

The Maloney Building, designed by U.K. Architects, has opened across from the Howe.

A major theme of campus planning in the early twentieth century seems to be the redevelopment by a college or university of a large discontiguous tract. Whether for purposes that are mostly or partly non-academic, the common characteristic is the form: a treelined urban grid, not an academic campus of connected grassy spaces. The South Block project in Hanover (purchased 1998, redeveloped 2005-2007) is one example. Penn has its parcel, Columbia is pursuing its huge work north of its campus (see Plan NYC; pdf map), Yale just purchased a suburban pharmaceutical research park, and Harvard is beginning its Allston redevelopment (map; aerial rendering; Globe article). Allston might be the largest of the group, and it is meant to be “sustainable.”

[Update 11.17.2007: An August article by Jeff Stahl in Urban Land (pdf) covers this trend.]

Is the temporary dining hall going to be an inflated bubble? Athletic departments put bubbles over playing fields sometimes, and Dartmouth seems to have considered it, but a May article in The Dartmouth Independent described the upcoming interim dining hall as “a temporary ‘bubble-like’ facility serving the two-year interim.”

Dartmouth’s steam tunnel continues to stretch northward. A thumbnail sketch:

• From Heating Plant along the Green to the Berry site (mid-1990s)
• From Berry site up Berry Row to Moore (around 1998)
• From Moore, tap into historic hospital tunnel network to reach Kellogg Auditorium and adjoining chiller plant (early 2000s?)
• From Kellogg, run northward behind Medical School to future Life Sciences Building site (2007).

Atkin Olshin Lawson-Bell Architects is now Atkin Olshin Schade and presently features features Collis and Fahey-McLane on its front page.

The firm’s Collis page has some new photos, including one showing the Lone Pine Tavern. The only detailed plan of the Hitchcock renovation yet available is on the site as well.

The Hanover High complex, including the adjacent middle school, has reopened after a major Banwell renovation. The mechanical contractor has images (High School, more) and the Valley News has a story. The town improved the high school as an alternative to swapping the building with Dartmouth and building a new school north of town.