‘Coeducation would never succeed’: Looking back at the history of women at Dartmouth

‘Coeducation would never succeed’: Looking back at the history of women at Dartmouth

This article is featured in the 2025 Commencement & Reunions special issue.Fifty years have passed since Dartmouth granted degrees to a four-year class that was all-male. Although a few women had joined the Class of 1975 as transfer students, the first four-year coeducational class did not graduate until 1976.The Dartmouth caught up with six of the first women to graduate from Dartmouth and dove into the archives of our newspaper to understand h…