There are two ways to respond to the argument made by Chandrasekar Ramesh last Thursday ("Overemphasizing the Liberal Arts," Oct.
In his Presidential Lecture last summer, College President Jim Yong Kim demonstrated one of his own "habits of mind" when he said that at Dartmouth, "We are in the business of building better human beings that can take on the world's troubles and make them better." While in the past I've been primarily critical of the second half of that statement ("Tilting at the World's Troubles," Jan.
In his Presidential Lecture last summer, College President Jim Yong Kim demonstrated one of his own "habits of mind" when he said that at Dartmouth, "We are in the business of building better human beings that can take on the world's troubles and make them better." While in the past I've been primarily critical of the second half of that statement ("Tilting at the World's Troubles," Jan.
Already, two of my fellow columnists, Louis Wheatley '14 and Brendan Woods '13, have confronted the "objectors" ("A Shotgun for Bin Laden," May 3) and "armchair philosophers" ("Laden with Questions," May 5) who would call into question the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Dartmouth has shed a lot of its WASPiness in recent decades. By my calculations (and by "calculations," I mean flipping through a couple yearbooks from the 1950s), the student body is roughly 50 percent less white and Anglo-Saxon than it was 60 years ago.
Nowadays, "the world's troubles are your troubles" is something like Dartmouth's unofficial motto.
The left's reaction to the midterm elections has been remarkably illiberal. Although I have heard the occasional sportsmanly concession to the "will of the people" from my left-leaning friends, I hear much more often about the "frustration" or "anger" of the people.
In a recent article in The New York Times, Stanley Fish reviews a new study of the higher education industry by Robert B.
Dartmouth alumni tend to know a little something about money (see Timothy Geithner '83, Henry Paulson '68), but Alfred Valerie '01 seems to be an exception.
Last Monday, some of the members of the senior class attended a ring ceremony that can only be described as palpably meaningless.