No relationship.at all. Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League college in Hanover, New Hampshire. UMass Dartmouth is in North Dartmouth, MA and is part of that state’s university system.

^^^What she said.

Both the college and the town were named after (and in honor of) William Legge, the Earl of Dartmouth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Legge,_2nd_Earl_of_Dartmouth

I knew that. My family all went to Dartmouth. I know all the words to Eliezar Wheelock [who also founded the Lebanon Congregationalist Church].I just can’t understand how the Massachusetts “Dartmouth” can use the name.

Unless it was something Dartmouth College set up for its own reasons. The Hanover/Lebanon NH area was very big into textiles in the early 20th century. I was born there. My grandfather owned the Lebanon Woolen Mills.

My S/O has been twitting me about your “high and mighty Dartmouth” since the news broke.

btw Daniel Webster went there.

Eliezar was minister of a congregational church in Lebanon CT before he gathered up his family, gradus ad Parnassum and 500 gallons of rum and went to found Lebanon NH and Dartmouth College.

I just thought the college might have had some interest in setting up a trade school in anotther part of New England.

found the answer—the puzzling reference to “textiles” came from a U Mass Dartmouth history recently published “two small technical colleges in the fading textile cities of New Bedford and Fall River . . . ” who merged to form the nucleus of U Mass Dartmouth in the TOWN of Dartmouth along the SE coast between Fall River and New Bedford.