Chandler students established their own fraternities (Phi Zeta Mu, later Eta Eta Chapter of Sigma Chi, now The Tabard, and Sigma Delta Pi/Vitruvian, later Beta Theta Pi); sat in their own pews for morning services in the Old Chapel in Dartmouth Hall; and had their own sports teams.
The building, built by Moor's Charity School in 1835 and designed by Ammi B.
Young, was remodeled with a Mansard roof by Chandler mathematics professor Frank Asbury Sherman in 1871 and received a rear addition in 1898, designed by Charles Alonzo Rich, a Chandler graduate of 1876 and designing partner of the New York architects Lamb & Rich.
[2] Dartmouth absorbed the Chandler Scientific School in 1893 and continued as the Departments of Zoology, Botany, and Geology.
[3] The Chandler Fund continues to be administered by appointed Visitors and was valued at about $1.3 million in 2000.