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Dartmouth medical school gets a new doctor: Seuss

  April 05, 2012

He’s not a real doc. But at Dartmouth, that’s cool. He can still have his name on the medical school. That’s Dr. Seuss, a.k.a. Theodor Geisel, the late, beloved children’s author who, with his wife Audrey, has donated more money to Dartmouth College than anyone in history. Their generosity was rewarded Wednesday as the college renamed its medical school after the family, giving Seuss’s “Dr.’’ prefix a little more resonance.

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