Talk:The Dartmouth

The correct date of establishment
It doesn't make sense to print the (implausible) 1799 date without some evidence, does it? The paper founded that year was a local newspaper, not a student publication, although Webster did write for it. It was not called The Dartmouth, and it folded after a few years, and no later newspaper revived it. It had nothing to do with a student paper of the 1840s that also failed after a few years.

That paper of the 1840s could perhaps legitimately claim to have been revived by the Dartmouth Literary Monthly (1867?), which has been published almost continually to the present. That's old enough. --Editing 20:23, 3 August 2006 (UTC)


 * According to their University Archivist, a college newspaper has existed on the Dartmouth campus since 1799. The D; however, can only trace its origin to the 1860s. They are STILL the oldest college newspaper because the Miami Student cheats in counting when it started publication, according to their own university archivist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.226.113.74 (talk) 21:06, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Oldest newspaper etc.
I've removed the information about being/not being the oldest newspaper because the only sources were primary/POV/blogs. Since this seems to be a controversial fact, please source to an independent, third-party source meeting WP:RS. Flowanda | Talk — Preceding undated comment added 04:23, 29 December 2008