Table of Contents

22 Inauguration of the 14th president

An occasion pervaded by the spirit of the Wheelock Succession, but in his inaugural address David McLaughlin focused on the tensions of "fixed reality and the changing order."

29 All the president's people

Twenty-four of Dartmouth's top-level administrators photographed out of their natural office habitats—which is to say, without protective coloring.

41 The big eye in Arizona

The McGraw-Hill Observatory at Kitt Peak, shared by Dartmouth, M.I.T., and Michigan, was once deemed a "crazy idea." Strangely enough, the notion worked. Watch what's coming.

Departments

2 Letters

12 Wearers of the Green

15 Reviews

18 The College

36 Undergraduate Chair

48 Sports

50 Reunion Reports

63 Obituaries

76 Fall Reunions

Cover

The McGraw-Hill Observatory at Kitt Peak, Dartmouth's big eye in Arizona, was photographed during nighttime operation by Steve Maker.

Design by Kate Emlen.