Four graduates made Dartmouth a better place
There are some students you read about all the time at Dartmouth. But there are many whose accomplishments are just as meaningful, but who remain behind the scenes.
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There are some students you read about all the time at Dartmouth. But there are many whose accomplishments are just as meaningful, but who remain behind the scenes.
Along with the crowd of future lawyers, doctors, consultants and investment bankers, there are a few graduates who have decided to take the road less traveled by.
Members of the Class of 1996 say they are beginning to realize the world beyond Hanover can be a scary place.
Grounds workers, carpenters, electricians and administrators scrambled from December to this morning, trying to make today perfect for graduates and the College's 10,000 guests. About every office and organization on campus makes special plans for Commencement.
As of Thursday, the Class of 1996 had pledged to give the College $108,722 over the next four years, thousands more than the Class of 1995 pledged.
Members of the Class of 1996 are not the only ones graduating from Dartmouth this weekend. Also receiving diplomas are the graduates of the College's three professional schools and graduate students from the College's academic departments.
For the first time in its 225 year history, the Commencement ceremony will be held on the Green this year.
Since the first Commencement in 1771, the ceremony has brought its fair share of drunks, charlatans and American presidents to campus.
David Halberstam is not the only one who will be given an honorary degree at today's ceremony.
From the war in Vietnam to the war between Bird and Johnson in the 1987 National Basketball Association finals, this year's commencement speaker has covered it all.
The student play "Vicious Cycle," alternately titled "How Elvis Really Died," opened last night in the Bentley Theater, unleashing a message about what happens when the limits of friendship are pushed too far.
Steppin' Out, the College's newest dance group, is striding into the foreground on campus. The students involved in the organization have taken up the art form of tap dance to create their own niche among dance groups on campus.
Most freshmen have a hard enough time adjusting to the rigors of Dartmouth without ever taking on the task of being a two-sport athlete.
With a list of achievements almost as long as his 6'6" frame, Sea Lonergan '97 is The Dartmouth's Athlete of the Year.
Ten Dartmouth student-athletes earned All-League Academic Honors this spring.
Sunday night, as I locked the doors to the Bentley Theater, I had what alcoholics call "a moment of clarity." I realized that I was closing the doors on the final dress rehearsal of what will be my final show at Dartmouth. And for the first time, I was hit by the fact that my time here at Dartmouth is over.
When I first arrived on the Dartmouth campus three years ago, I was excited and grateful to be here. This was, after all, the college with a teaching legacy. Professors were known to be accessible to students and prided themselves on how -- as well as what -- they taught. As one professor put it, "At Dartmouth, your teaching matters as much as your scholarship."
To the Editor:
Over the course of this term, the members of Abaris have used this column as a space to discuss various aspects of leadership at Dartmouth. In doing this, the focus has been abstract in nature, providing an idealized view of what leadership should be.
Nestled away in the basement of the Hopkins Center is what may be one of the College's best kept secrets -- the costume shop.