Table of Contents

COVER

This is a fresh-water diatom, Cymbellacistula. No one using a naked eye has seen Cymbella cistula looking quite like this because the creature is only a fraction of a millimeter long. It would take thousands to blanket a page this size. Professor Nina Allen of Biology took the photograph with a scanning electron microscope.

24 ARE THE POLITICAL ANIMALS IN HIBERNATION?

With a few exceptions, there isn't much action from the political activists.

29 CASTLES IN THE CLOUDS

Can you imagine Baker Tower on College Hall? A portfolio of Dartmouth buildings never built.

36 THROUGH A LENS BRIGHTLY

Seeing the invisible, with the aid of a scanning electron microscope. Anybody can use it.

40 REV. FRISBIE'S WONDERFUL DISCOVERY

The origins of the plaything of the Western World.

10 An Unabashed Partisan

11 Wearers of the Green

15 Reviews

18 The College

34 Alumni Album

42 Undergraduate Chair

43 Football Applications

51 Big Green Teams

54 Class Notes

83 Obituaries

92 Vox