Table of Contents

DECEMBER 1984

VOL.77,No.4

FEATURES

David C.Hooke

33 Chronicling the DOC

A wide-ranging history of the DOC nears completion in this, the 75th Anniversary year of its founding.

37 The College Today: An Interview with the President

President David T. McLaughlin '54 speaks out on some of the issues facing the College in the short term and well into the future.

The Whole DAM Staff

42 Some of Hanover's Bests

A highly subjective assessment of things not to miss when you're back in town.

Charlotte K.Younger

44 Dartmouth Hall (1784-1984): A Bicentennial Tribute

Stately by any measure, ancient Dartmouth Hall has roots which date back to the 18th century, and a curiously troubled past.

DEPARTMENTS

Doug Greenwood

4 Editor's Remarks

"Between the lines"

8 Letters to the Editor

17 Book Reviews

Peggy Sadler

18 Wearers of the Green

Dave Orr '57, Lover of Parades

Gayle Gilman

24 Undergraduate Chair

"'Tis the Season"

Dana Cook Grossman

27 The College

Jim Kenyon

48 Sports

Teri Allbright

52 Class Notes and Obituaries

COVER George Ticknor's watercolor of Dartmouth Hall executed when he was an eleven-year-old sophomore at the College anecdotally captures the Green in 1803. Perhaps unwittingly identified by Ticknor as a "view of the principle Buildings of Dartmouth University," his delightful prospect obliquely comments on the manners of a genteel college scene, complete with a solitary scholar, boys chasing each other, gentlemen with their ladies, and that ubiquitous figure of civilized life-the dog.