Dartmouth Authors

Francis H. Horn '30, editor. Go Forth. BeStrong. Southern Illinois, 1978. 169 pp. $12.50. It was probably bound to happen. And here it is, the first book of its kind: a collection of 27 commencement addresses by 25 college and university presidents from 1964 to the mid-1970s. It would be easy to sniff, easier to make bad jokes. Commencement addresses! Everyone knows what they are. But not so, not so at all. After the initial, almost 'automatic cynicism is overcome, one begins to see these addresses for what they really are: thoughtful, informed, often witty statements by this nation's educational leaders spoken out of deep convictions that apathy toward one's fellow-man is an ignoble response, that higher education can make a difference, and that the human condition is not irretrievable. Dartmouth is represented by two contributions from President Kemeny and one each from Francis H. Horn '30, the editor and president emeritus of University of Rhode Island; Louis T. Benezet '36, president emeritus of SUNY Buffalo; and Charles E. Odegaard '32, president emeritus of University of Washington.

Richard L. Regosin '59. The Matter of MyBook: Montaigne's 'Essais' as the Book ofthe Self. University of California, 1977. 284 pp. $11.75. An analysis of Montaigne's Essais as a complex relationship created by the interplay between the writer's literary "self' and the formal characteristics of the essay genre which elucidates the nature and function of literary creation in general. Regosin is Professor of French at the University of California, Irvine.