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COVER Before taking in a Christmas matinee, these young children, dressed to the nines, gaze dreamily at an exhibit of antique toys in the Hopkins Center rotunda. An article on what Hopkins Center has meant for College and community alike begins on page 35. The photograph is by

22 THE WELL-TEMPERED SYNCLAVIER A new instrument propels electronic music a vast leap forward and, presto: trumpets!

28Short story competition winner HIS GRANDMOTHER AND VINCENT By Howard Webber ’56. “The birds were rustling on their perches. One was preening another’s feathers. . . . I thought of the grain growing in the ground that would feed the pigeons, and I thought of the earth and water coming together to form the grain, which was not earth and water but was made of earth and water, and I thought of the grain, blooded, feathered, beaked, flying over the earth from which it came, flying very high above it.”

35 THE HOPKINS REVOLUTION Reflections on what was once derided as an $8-million post office, and how it has revolutionized Dartmouth.

2 Letters

9 Wearers of the Green

13 Reviews

16 The College

26 Alumni Album

34 Undergraduate Chair

39 Big Green Teams

42 Club Reports

43 Class Notes

74 Obituaries

80 Vox