Jeffrey Hart on the First Time he Saw Buckley
In 2005 Professor Hart published a history of National Review entitled The Making of the American Conservative Mind: National Review and Its Times. Below is…
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WFB: The Dartmouth Review Extends Condolences
William F. Buckley Jr. accomplished many things in his life, large and small. One of the smaller things touches us near here at The Dartmouth…
William F. Buckley Jr., “Scourge of Liberalism,” Dead at 82
From the New York Times: William F. Buckley Jr., who marshaled polysyllabic exuberance, famously arched eyebrows and a refined, perspicacious mind to elevate conservatism to…
ORL Foresees an On-Campus Housing Shortage
ORL (the Office of Residential Life) mailed out a letter from Dean Redman today concerning a potential housing shortage next year. First among the students…
The Power of Eloquence
Professor Hart has an Op-Ed in today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about the faulty assumption that the ability to speak eloquently and the ability to ‘get things…
Frost Lectures Transcribed for the First Time
James Sitar ’01, a grad student at Boston University, recently unearthed multiple lectures given by Robert Frost at Dartmouth from Rauner. The lectures were part…
Straw Poll
In an article in today’s Daily D a student claims that the new wireless network “Dartmouth Secure” is slower than the previous network “Kiewit Wireless.”…
Was Wright Forced Out?
A reader, smelling something amiss, writes in: In his Community Letter of February 28, 2007, President James Wright wrote: Some people have claimed that one…
Disciplinary Action
Many of you are probably aware of the big news from Columbia University this week. Madonna Constantine was accused of multiple cases of flagrant plagiarism…
Go See Julius Caesar
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a play that lends itself to political statement. I’m sure my high school English teacher was not alone when, in the…