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Celebrating Dartmouth Engineering
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Thayer School founder "General Sylvanus Thayer, Class of 1807" by Thomas Sully, 1831.
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Thayer School founder Sylvanus Thayer, circa 1867.
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Dartmouth College campus, circa 1803, by Sylvanus Thayer classmate George Ticknor, Class of 1807.
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Dartmouth's 19th-century agricultural school became an early location for Thayer School.
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Dartmouth Row
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Lieutenant Robert Fletcher was only 23 when he became Thayer School's first dean and professor in 1870.
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In 1871 Thayer's first classes were held in five small rooms in Wentworth, Reed, and Thornton (right) Hall.
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Chandler Hall housed the sciences at 19th-century Dartmouth.
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Thayer students always knew how to have fun.
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Founding Dean Robert Fletcher with Thayer School's Class of 1889 in their Thornton Hall drawing room.
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Thayer students studied surveying for decades.
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Thayer School students with surveying equipment, 1876.
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Thayer School student with their surveying equipment, 1883.
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Thayer School students in 1894. Founding Dean Robert Fletcher sits back row, center.
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Professor Frank Austin, Class of 1895, x-rayed his own hand on equipment he built..
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In 1892, Thayer School buys and moves into Dartmouth's former agricultural experimental center on Park Street. "Thayer Lodge" is now apartments.
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Members of the classes of 1894 and 1895 work alongside Dean Robert Fletcher (front, left) in Thayer School's building on Park Street
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A Thayer classroom in the early 20th century.
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Invention: X-Ray
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Thayer Society of Engineers in 1917.
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Bissell Hall became Thayer School's home in 1912.
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Founding Dean Robert Fletcher set the school's academic and moral tone.
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Founding Dean Robert Fletcher devoted his entire career to Thayer School, from 1870 to 1936.
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Cummings Hall, the first facility built specifically for Thayer School, opened in 1939.
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Thayer School in 1932.
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Thayer School Class of 1936
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Thayer School Sanitary Lab in the 1940s.
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The Tuck-Thayer Program—three years at Dartmouth plus two years of engineering and business—was launched in 1942.
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In 1940 Thayer School offered a civilian pilot training program as World War II widened.
