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COVER

This view, looking upward from the main floor, shows the unifying geometry in the tower of the new Sherman Fairchild Physical Sciences Center. The shaft of light at left illuminates ground level and three floors above, and then soars across the top of the structure. Photograph by Adrian Bouchard.

26MORE THAN A BEAST,LESS THAN AN ANGEL

Some thoughts on man, science, and the humanities in a technological society.

30 "THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS COME"

John Humphrey Noyes' announcement in 1837 was met by a "sublime clap of thunder." It also produced profound earthly rumblings.

36 MOUNTAIN OF STORMS

An American team discovered that Dhaulagiri, which had taken the lives of six friends, more than lived up to its name. A book excerpt.

40 BELIEVE IT OR NOT!

Full of "curioddities," Dartmouth's Ripley Collection has been part of the College Museum for 35 years. It is slightly unbelievable.

1-4; 103-106 Ivy Football Preview

12 Dartmouth authors

18 The "Sisters of Dartmouth"

22 The College

35 Endowed Professorship

42 The Undergraduate Chair

43 Big Green Teams

57 Class Notes

90 Obituaries