Table of Contents

November 1983

Vol. 76, No. 3

FEATURES

Shelby Grantham

24 "The Greatest Problem in American Biology"

The story of black biologist Ernest Everett Just '07 has gone too long untold.

Richard. Stuart Teitz

32 "Last of the Great Portrait Painters"

The director of the Hood Museum of Art explores the work of John Singer Sargent, including some drawings on display at Dartmouth earlier this fall.

Brad Hills

36 "Giving the Rush to the Recordbooks"

Junior tailback Richard Weissman has a shot at breaking the College's career rushing record.

DEPARTMENTS

Doug Greenwood

4 Editor's Remarks

"The Fall of '63"

6 Letters to the Editor

Peter Smith

12 Book Reviews

Debbie Schupack

20 Undergraduate Chair

"Freshman Book to Aegis"

21 The College

Kathy Slattery

38 Sports

Dana Cook Grossman

40 Class Notes and Obituaries

COVER Ernest Everett Just '07, one of Dartmouth's most gifted and unheralded alumni, appears on this month's cover in a formal portrait made in 1912, when he was 29. Our recounting of his life and work is timed to coincide with the centenary of his birth, the appearance of his first full. length biography, and the College's commitment to funding an academic chair in his name.