Finding an Education at Dartmouth
Who are you? If you are part of Western civilization, your cultural ancestors are a tiny monotheistic desert tribe of Israelites and a small city-state…
Articles by The Dartmouth Review
A Western Culture Primer
The late Harold Bloom’s famed The Western Canon (1994), perhaps the foremost apologia for the Western literary tradition in the modern day Notwithstanding Philip Larkin’s…
Lost Songs of Old Dartmouth
Editor’s Note: Presented here for your consideration and enjoyment are songs of which few current undergraduates are aware but which were sung by generations of…
The Storied History of Dartmouth
Dartmouth is the ninth-oldest of America’s Colonial Colleges. Established in 1769, it was the last to receive its charter from the British Crown. Dartmouth’s founding…
Dartmouth Endowment Hits $4.5 Billion
Dartmouth’s endowment reported investment gains of 19.2 percent for fiscal year 2014, which ended on June 30, 2014. The endowment now stands at $4.5 billion,…
What IS in a word?
Illegal: shoplifting, drugs, traffic laws, murder. Undocumented: lost, bureaucracy, secret, subversive. Both of these words are laden with connotations that cause intended and unintended emotions…
Beyond SAT Optional
While in recent years the SAT-optional movement and a general backlash against standardized testing have gained momentum, one college has decided to go further than…
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here!
As joyous hordes of freshmen storm our campus, roaming its halls in ‘shmobs hungry for a taste of the Dartmouth social scene, the class of…
Harvard Continues Trend of Large Collegiate Donations
On Monday, September 8th, Harvard University ecstatically announced that it had received the single largest gift in its three hundred and seventy-eight year history. Brothers…
From Blackboard to Canvas
No doubt, students on campus have been adjusting to the College’s transition from Blackboard to Canvas as the College’s learning management system. Canvas, which has…