Thursday, September 22, 2005
Volume 26, Issue 1

Dartmouth's Best Professors

John Rassias – French; P. David Lagomarsino – History; Edward Bradley – Classics; Alan Stam – Government; Ellis Shookman – German; William Cook – English

Dartmouth's Worst

Dartmouth's Worst Professor
Shelby Grantham – English

A self-described "recovering racist" who makes her classes into an airing of grievances rather than a study of literature because she "can't read male authors anymore," Grantham injects her Introductory Writing courses with dogmatic liberalism.

Courses of Note

Editor's Note: None of the following courses have prerequisites. We provide here course reviews of a few of the introductory courses you are likely to consider, and a few smaller, upper-level courses that have met with consistently excellent reviews over the past few years. They are truly some of Dartmouth's best.

The Greeks Shall Inherit the Earth

Editor's Note: Presented here for your consideration and enjoyment are brief pen-portraits of Dartmouth's venerable fraternities and sororities. Some might accuse us of trafficking in generalities; to our defense, we hope that these sketches will serve as fine, humorous introductions to the true hardwood of the College.

Freshman Year Made Simple

You might even find yourself agreeing with the paper on an issue–but for heaven's sake don't tell anyone! That destroys our credibility.

D'Souza Remembers the Early Days

Conservatism provided me with a framework, durable and yet flexible, for understanding the world. And having the world, at the tender age of twenty, I was ready to change it–as a member of The Dartmouth Review.

TDR Interview: Gail Zimmerman

The biggest mistake is not engaging soon enough in your academics. With a ten week term, it goes very, very fast. You have to hit the ground running, academically. You don't have time to enter a classroom and sit back and wait and see how it develops. You've got to engage.

Join Us, If You Dare

I looked at the blood-drenched gurney and curtly told the doctor that he should have been a Union surgeon at Antietam.

Charles Colson's Life Redeemed

One senses Aitken can relate perhaps better than he would like to the chaos of Colson's implosion, but his meticulousness in recounting a process rather than a moment demonstrates the earnestness–and the challenges–of Colson's conversion to Christianity.

Lost Songs of Old Dartmouth

Editor's Note: Presented here for your consideration and enjoyment is a selction of the songs of which the present administration does not approve but which were sung by generations of Dartmouth students. Many of these songs were prohibited or altered because they were deemed offensive, tawdry, or insensitive. Still, these songs recall a different time and a different caliber of College spirit.

The Last Word

Dartmouth is what a college should look like. – Dwight Eisenhower

Barrett's Mixology

Life among the literati in this haven of political dark arts grows wearisome on occasion, and I feel the urge to escape to somewhere characterized by the opposite.