THE CURRICULUM OF THE DARTMOUTH OUTING CLUB
A return to nature and academic origins. Back to Plato walking and talking with his pupils among the trees and in the groves of his friend Academus, an "open air" course in peripatetic pedagogics.^
Teaching "on foot" and "out of doors," in the White and Green Mountains along its trails and in its camps. Such, briefly outlined, is the curriculum of the Dartmouth Outing Club!
Is it not about time that "Higher Education" "Took to the High Timber"?
If so, where can one "Hit the Trail" better than at Dartmouth College, located as it is on a remarkable plateau, at an elbow in the handsomest river in all New England (if you doubt that, read Thoreau) at its most scenic point, which commands a cycloramic view of two mountain ranges that rival one another in their natural beauty, brilliantly contrasted, the White and the Green!
If you don't believe it: here is the "Glad Hand," Come and See ! !
It would be easy to take this curriculum up and show how almost the whole catena of academic subjects can (and in some cases have been) taken out of the mephitic atmosphere of the class-room and given an airing along the trails and in the camps of the Dartmouth Outing Club.
The Long, Long Trail
