Dartmouth College Crest

Date

1957

Identifier

Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

Type

Publisher

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Abstract

Dartmouth College was founded in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, a Congregational minister from Connecticut, who was keen to establish a school to train Native Americans as Christian missionaries. On 13 December 1769, a charter was granted to the school, and eventually a seal with a coat of arms was created, depicting a pine grove, Native Americans walking towards Dartmouth Hall, and the school motto: Vox clamantis in deserto (‘A calling voice in the wilderness’). After various iterations, a simplified line-drawing was designed in 1940 by noted typographer W. A. Dwiggins. In 1957 his version was modified, changing ‘1770’ (on the original seal) to ‘1769’, which matched the charter date.

Files

dartmouth_crest.jpg

Citation

[W. A. Dwiggins], “Dartmouth College Crest,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed March 29, 2024, https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/10142.