Table of Contents
24 Where They Hang Their Hats
Dorms and other places. Sometimes you get bowls, sometimes bunnies.
30 Building Community
A probing chat with Dartmouth's new dean of the College.
36 Windows on a World
Miniature masterpieces from the College's Treasure Room. They boggle the mind.
Departments
4 Letters
10 Wearers of the Green
14 Reviews
21 The College
34 Alumni Album
39 Undergraduate Chair
40 Sports
42 Class Notes
45 Dickey Endowment
101 Obituaries
Cover On this month's cover, reproduced life-size, is a page depicting the Nativity from a miniature Book of Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, made in the late fifteenth century in the workshop of Attavante, the greatest Florentine miniaturist of his day. It is a manuscript on 194 leaves of thin uterine vellum, many richly illuminated in gold and colors, with a text written in red and black in a beautiful Roman hand, bound in red and gilt morocco. This rare volume, a recent gift to the College from Madelyn C. Hickmott, is half the size of the usual Attavante Book of Hours and is thought to be the smallest manuscript ever produced in that workshop. The cover measures just over three inches tall, and the reduction to pocket size has been so skillfully done that the script is entirely legible and the text pages still have very broad margins.
