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Freshman Issue 2017

Huebner: Academically Directionless?

By Julia Huebner | August 13, 2017

This article was featured in the 2017 Freshman Issue. The summer before my freshman year, I would waltz around my neighborhood in a Dartmouth t-shirt and Lone Pine baseball cap, telling family friends I was “just thrilled to go to Dartmouth in the fall!” and “planning on majoring in communications or journalism, because they’re my passions.” As it turns out, Dartmouth doesn’t have a communications department.

Freshman Issue 2017

Skiing at the College: A history of tradition and championship

By Mark Cui | August 13, 2017

This article was featured in the 2017 Freshman Issue. Despite its small size, Dartmouth College, as author Stephen Waterhouse asserts in “Passion for Skiing,” can “claim the lead role in the development of skiing in the past, present and future.” The school has been crucial to shaping the skiing landscape on both the national, collegiate and international level.

Freshman Issue 2017

Students reflect on their experiences abroad

By Mika Jehoon Lee | August 13, 2017

From observing the Southern hemisphere’s night sky in South Africa to cultivating a deeper understanding of Chinese culture in Beijing, over 55 percent of Dartmouth students participate in an off-campus program before they graduate. Every year, the College provides various opportunities for students to take their education outside of the classroom and beyond Hanover.

Joe Goldfield '76 gives a demonstration immersion class in French to showcase the Rassias method.
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IAPE celebrates 10th anniversary at Dartmouth

By Paulomi Rao | August 3, 2017

 Last week, over 40 teachers from across Mexico gathered at Dartmouth for a two-week program led by the Inter-American Partnership for Education, held in partnership with the educational nonprofit WorldFund and the Rassias Center for World Languages and Culture.

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