Menna: The College They Made
By Caroline Menna | June 14, 2026Fifty years ago, the first class to spend all four years at a coeducational Dartmouth graduated. The 177 women who made that possible helped shape the College we inhabit today.
Fifty years ago, the first class to spend all four years at a coeducational Dartmouth graduated. The 177 women who made that possible helped shape the College we inhabit today.
Six months after a column about her first term, a freshman reflects on what the full year taught her.
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A Dartmouth freshman explains why she returned one of the nation’s highest academic honors rather than keep a medal bearing Donald Trump’s name.
By choosing a Dartmouth alumna for the fiftieth anniversary of the first co-education class, the College made exactly the kind of Commencement choice it should make more often.
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Climate uncertainty is reshaping a tradition built on winter, and that makes Winter Carnival more meaningful, not less.