January 1977

January 1977

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Johnny can't write? Who cares?

By Shelby Grantham15 min

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ES 21

By DAN NELSON9 min

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The Quirk Formula

By JACK DEGANGE7 min

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Johnny can't write? Who cares?

Willy-nilly, the U.S. educational system is spawning a generation of semi-literates. Newsweek December 1975 Anyone who reads student writing today knows that students can't write. Yale Alumni Magazine January 1976 College freshmen now read at what used to be considered the junior-high-school level; they write in fragments and cannot think at all. Harper's September 1976

By Shelby Grantham15 min

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A bicycle on the ceiling,dry-land birling and other products of the inventive mind

By DAN NELSON9 min

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The Quirk Formula

BY his own admission, Al Quirk's knowledge of hockey has been nurtured on more than a few years of observation and the fact that he was a pitcher of modest acclaim (a 4-0 record) on a Dartmouth baseball team that won the

By JACK DEGANGE7 min

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The Chuggers

THE College promised me a liberal arts education but nobody told me that my education would include learning how to chug-a-lug beer. I was initiated into the Mead Hall ritual two winters ago when some rugby players who didn't

By PIERRE KIRCH '786 min

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Class Notes

1972

Christmas in Vermont, with a frozen lake outside my window, Ghort purring happily on some plum pits, and Frodo munching on a Christmas tree ornament; who could have asked for more! Christmas cheer (about a fifth) flowed through

By JOHN D. BURKE,DAVID J. FRIEND6 min

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1923

Thanks to Paul McKown I have now added the minutes of the meetings of the 1923 Palaeopitus to our Class memorabilia. In case you don't remember, that body included Kip Couch as president, Joe Houston as vicepresident, and Paul

By WALTER C. DODGE,THEODORE R. MINER6 min

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1934

Hope all of you had a wonderful holiday. Just before coming to our place in Florida for the month of November, Em Day called me to say he has joined the faculty of Northwestern University as professor of medicine, as associate

By GEORGE E. COGSWELL,EDWARD S. BROWN, JR.5 min

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Alumni Sóns and Daughters in the class of 1980

Father Son or Daughter

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Class Notes

1948

On several occasions in the past I have used this column as a forum for proposing worthy causes such as '48 participation in the Alumni Fund and discussion of Dartmouth policy questions. In the following is set forth more of the

By FRANCIS R. DRURY JR.,LOUIS N. PERRY5 min

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1959

HAPPY NEW YEAR

By DOUGLAS WISE,BARRY R. BLAKE5 min

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