Table of Contents

COVER

Adrian Bouchard, who retires this month after better than three decades as College Photographer, took this picture of the elms along Dartmouth Row early in his career, and it remains one of his favorites. To us it says "Dartmouth" and "Bouchard" and it hardly need say anything more. Thanks to the Dutch elm beetle, the scene has changed— but isn't this just how we all see it?

20 COMMENCEMENT

Dartmouth's 206th, plus honorary degree citations and the valedictory speeches.

26 231 YEARS FOR DARTMOUTH

Reflections by friends and former students on the retirement of seven members of the faculty and administration.

30 THE OLD ROMAN SPEAKS TO US STILL

The Webster Papers say much about America's growth out of knee breeches.

34 A FOUR-AND-A-HALF-OUNCE MAGIC TOTEM POLE

It circumscribed the molecules of love and art. A book excerpt.

9 More on God and Man

10 Wearers of the Green

12 Subject: W.H. Ferry

13 Reviews

16 The College

38 Undergraduate Chair

39 Big Green Teams

41 Club Reports

43 Class Notes

70 Obituaries

80 Vox