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The Dartmouth
April 12, 2026
The Dartmouth
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Mirror Asks: Alternative

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What’s your favorite alternative band? Christopher Cartwright ’21: Passion Pit. Annie Farrell ’21: The Strokes. Jacob Maguire ’21: Banners!


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Unconventional Pedagogy

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In a 2016 announcement about the “Liberal Arts Imperative,” College President Phil Hanlon said that Dartmouth “serves as a laboratory for intellectual innovation.” Each course at Dartmouth fulfills this mission differently.










Lily Xu '18's favorite bequest is a vintage Ledyard Canoe Club jacket from the '90s handed to her by Conor Cathey '15.
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Bequests: Threads of Legacy at Dartmouth

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While well-known traditions such as running around the bonfire during Homecoming or participating in the polar bear plunge during Winter Carnival contribute significantly to Dartmouth’s legacy, smaller traditions such as bequests help shape the College’s legacy on a more personal level.  Bequests, which are items that are cyclically passed from a senior to an underclassman, typically within an organization, are usually clothing items, but they can be just about anything that the senior wishes to pass down.





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A Co-Constructed Cultural Identity: Best Friend Love

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We all know the pain of leaving a close friend. In fact, I daresay that most of us were embroiled in a ruthless game of tug-of-war before coming to Dartmouth, torn between the excitement of reinvention and the sorrow of shedding our old self, complete with its crushes, its follies and foibles and, more importantly, all those people who reified if not constructed the person we once were.


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The Beginning of Something New

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Valentine’s Day is officially upon us. As the one day entirely dedicated to love, the 14th of February is highly anticipated around the world, and Dartmouth’s campus is no exception.