Rauner Special Collections Library

"Dear Mother. We are at last out of fighting…at least for a while." So begins one of the letters from Jared P. Hubbard, a Union so...

The materials in Rauner are available for use only in our reading room, but we do at least let our users pick up and handle the items they r...

In 1771 the first group of Dartmouth seniors completed their long, arduous and sometimes tedious studies and were about to graduate from thi...

Class Day, usually the day preceding Commencement, began with the seniors meeting at the senior fence dressed in caps and gowns. From there ...

On November 2, 1927, the forecast in Vermont called for "fair and colder." However, as with many predictions, this one proved fals...

One of the more curious Senior Week traditions, which is no longer practiced, is Wet Down, which began sometime before 1885.  As with all tr...

Sometime in the 16th-century, young Elizabeth Carew wrote to her father in London. The formality of the letter would surprise most modern re...