Table of Contents

October 1982, Vol. 75, No. 2

27 Why Study Women?

After all, what have they ever done? Some pertinent answers and a few quiz questions for us all.

32 Can the summer?

The pros and cons of the latest proposal to tinker with the calendar. It has the makings of a cliffhanger.

34 Home, Home on the Plain

Why, when it's so hard to find a parking place, do Dartmouth alumni keep coming back here to live? An inquiry into the lure of place.

Departments

6 Letters

16 In the Wide, Wide World

18 Reviews

22 Undergraduate Chair

24 The College

39 Sports

41 Class Notes

51 Development Report

92 Obituaries

Cover Small town life figures heavily in the return of many alumni to the Upper Valley. Nancy Wasserman '77 has caught its essence in this photograph of the green (which doubles as the schoolyard) in Norwich, Vermont.