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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = [[The Reverend]]
| name        = Samuel Colcord Bartlett
| image       = File:Samuel Colcord Bartlett 3.jpg
| order       = 8th
| title       = [[List of presidents of Dartmouth College|President of Dartmouth College]]
| term_start  = 1877
| term_end    = 1892
| predecessor = [[Asa Dodge Smith]]
| successor   = [[William Jewett Tucker]]
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1817|11|25}}
| birth_place = [[Salisbury, New Hampshire|Salisbury]], [[New Hampshire]]
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1898|11|16|1817|11|25}}
| death_place = [[Hanover, New Hampshire|Hanover]], [[New Hampshire]]
}}
'''Samuel Colcord Bartlett''' (November{{nbsp}}25, 1817{{snd}}November{{nbsp}}16, 1898) was an American [[Congregational church|Congregational]] minister who served as the 8th president of [[Dartmouth College]] from 1877{{ndash}}1892. He graduated from Dartmouth with the Class of 1836.

==Biography==
Another period of growth for [[Dartmouth College]] marked the tenure of President Bartlett, with the building of Rollins Chapel, Bartlett Hall and Wilson Hall. An elective course for students took shape during his administration and the endowment surpassed the million-dollar mark. Bartlett improved working conditions for faculty members and added 30 more scholarships to what had been an already growing list during the tenure of President Lord.

But the administration of President Bartlett was an embattled one, and he lost the vital support of faculty and alumni alike. The controversy surrounding him reached an apogee when the majority of the graduating Class of 1881 called for his removal from office. Subjected to an investigation by the Trustees, Bartlett employed what had become a legendary wit and finely honed intelligence to explain his actions and defend his administration. As a result, the charges—that he had alienated the faculty, ignored important administrative duties and generally conducted himself in a way unbecoming a Dartmouth president--"melted away," in the words of one chronicler. President Bartlett remained in office until 1892, when he resigned to become a member of the faculty.

==Works==
*Samuel C. Bartlett, 1850, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=vFgYAAAAYAAJ The Moral Relations of Physical Science]''
*Samuel C. Bartlett, 1856, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=9Xud1a9rCtEC&dq=Lectures+on+modern+universalism:+an+exposure+of+the+system,+from+recent+publications+of+its+standard+authors&pg=PR2 Lectures on Modern Universalism]''
*{{cite web |url=http://www.cimmay.us/oncall/pc_bartlett.pdf |title=Life and Death Eternal: A Refutation of the Theory of Annihilation |last=Samuel C. Bartlett, D.D. 1866 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724160716/http://www.cimmay.us/oncall/pc_bartlett.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-24 }}
*Samuel C. Bartlett, 1872, ''[[iarchive:divineforcesofgo00bart|The Divine Forces of the Gospel: A Sermon ...]]''
*Samuel C. Bartlett, 1875, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=_cg1w4-5c4gC Future Punishment]''
*Samuel C. Bartlett, 1879, [https://books.google.com/books?id=aJpCAAAAYAAJ From Egypt to Palestine: through Sinai, the wilderness and the south country] 
*Samuel C. Bartlett, 1880, The Princeton Review, pp.23-56, ''[http://www.bible-researcher.com/bartlett1.html The Inspiration of the New Testament]'' 
* Samuel C. Bartlett, 1882, ''[https://archive.org/details/sourcesofhistory00bart Sources of history in the Pentateuch : six lectures delivered in Princeton theological seminary, on the Stone foundation]''
* Samuel C. Bartlett, 1897, ''[https://archive.org/details/veracityofhexate00bart The Veracity of the Hexateuch]''

==External links==
*[http://www.dartmouth.edu/~presoff/succession/bartlett.html Article posted with permission from Dartmouth College]
*[https://archives-manuscripts.dartmouth.edu/repositories/2/resources/267 The Papers of Fanny and Samuel Concord Bartlett Jr.] at Dartmouth College Library

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