Dartmouth Will Account for State Aid It Agreed to in 1800s

Facing questions from a skeptical lawmaker, Dartmouth College has agreed to provide an annual accounting of how it keeps promises it made two centuries ago to help needy New Hampshire students.  In 1807, the state gave the then-cash-strapped college 42 square miles of land, with the provision that all income produced from it be used to educate students from poor New Hampshire families. In 1883, the Legislature gave the private college $10,000 on the condition it be invested in a perpetual fund for poor students from New Hampshire.