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TIL that Dartmouth College founder Eleazar Wheelock named the school after William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth in an effort to gain his financial support for the new college, as Legge had funded other schools founded by Wheelock in the past. Legge refused and vocally opposed Dartmouth's founding.

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