My drink sloshed in its incongruous container an official Dartmouth paper coffee cup misappropriated after my Green Key compatriots snatched up all the conventional red Solos.
The College's annual adjustments to tuition and financial aid (up and down, respectively) have inspired a series of recent responses.
When describing Dartmouth to an outsider, the first descriptor that comes to mind is often: "Small, but not too small." Perhaps it's silly to hedge my summary of Dartmouth, but most of our descriptions are actually equivocations.
A fundamental tension, born out of Dartmouth's two centuries of existence, stands at the crux of campus debate and causes tremendous harm to dialogue about the College's future. That tension goes back to 1819, to that oft-cited line in Daniel Webster's argument before the Supreme Court, "It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college.
For the first time in Dartmouth history, professors now award more A and A-minus grades than all other grades combined. Think about that for a minute.
You're interviewing two Dartmouth seniors for a highly selective post-graduation job. Student A has a stellar academic record: a double major in theater and Arabic with a 3.87 major grade point average.
I've always thought it was odd that Dartmouth requires that its students can swim 50 yards before graduation, but not that they can write a coherent analytical essay of a few pages or more.
Few students look forward to the process of choosing courses. Sifting through major plans, distributive requirements, class hours and off terms is hard enough.
I've always believed that there are three types of learning. Passive learning is the easiest to understand and to undertake.
Last time I checked, Dartmouth was smack in the middle of a budget crisis that led to the termination of numerous staff members.