found: Dartmouth College WWW Home page, July 2, 2001(In 1815, Dartmouth became the stage for a constitutional drama that had far-reaching effects; claiming its 1769 charter invalid, the New Hampshire legis. est. a separate governing body for the College and changed its name to Dartmouth University; the existing Trustees, under the leadership of President Francis Brown, challenged the action and insisted on the validity of the charter and Dartmouth's continuance as a private institution free of interference from the state; case was argued in the United States Supreme Court by Daniel Webster; landmark decision handed down by Chief Justice John Marshall in February, 1819, affirmed the validity of the original charter)
