Friday, October 13, 2006

The Last Word on the Alumni Constitution

This isn’t Little League. You don’t get the trophy just for showing up. In the real world, results count for more than effort, and the results of the AGTF’s commendable effort are, kindly put, underwhelming.

History of Dartmouth Nights; Stories and Images

“The College shall always have the misdeeds of excitement; deliberate invention and perpetration of mischief have nearly died out from the more advanced colleges.”
—Edwin J. Bartlett

Fifth Down and Goal to Go; Dartmouth Spoils Cornell’s Title Hopes

The next day the Sunday headline read: “Cornell Tops Dartmouth 7-3 at Finish.” But that was not to be the end of the story.

TDR Travelogue: An American in Fez; Hearts and Minds Count After All

Even a small group of Dartmouth students speaking broken conversational Arabic with Moroccans had a noticeably positive impact in showing that Americans are not out to kill every Arab.

25 Years of The New Criterion; The Sequel to Dartmouth’s J-School

If you happened to visit the offices of The New Criterion at 900 Broadway, a building appropriately enough designed by Stanford White, the greatest American architect, you might for a moment think you had wandered by error into the office of The Dartmouth Review.

Lolita at 50: She’s Finally Legal

Humbert’s fantasy of nymphet-love is a dream, and like all dreams, he will awaken as the sun rises to expose his world and his pitiful place in it.

Ruggers Prep for Homecoming Tilt

Fresh off of two road victories in a row, the Dartmouth Rugby Football Club returns to Brophy Field this weekend, battling Harvard in a homecoming clash against a bitter rival.

Homecoming Football Preview

To anyone who would like to fight against the lame Big Green nickname, the real Dartmouth supporters can be found high up in the stands with their tomahawks chopping while their chants scare the children away.

The Last Word

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
—Socrates

Barrett's Mixology

When the sun sinks fast and men stand tall, when the arm is long and the rifle straight, and when the snow blankets the earth and night has no end, that is the time. The time to search for that holy draught of untold wealth is at hand.