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In the last hundred years or so, nine students from the Northeast Kingdom town of Wheelock, Vt., have taken advantage of a historic agreement between Dartmouth and the town that makes free tuition available to town residents admitted to the College, reports The New York Times in a story by the Associated Press.

Noah Manning ’17 is “the fourth Wheelock student to take the scholarship in the last half-century,” reports the Times.

“I had always heard about it. In like the third grade, I wasn’t quite focused on college yet, but I definitely knew about it,” Manning tells the AP.

Read the full story, published 9/1/15 by The New York Times via the Associated Press