Table of Contents

OCTOBER 1985

VOL. 78, No. 2

FEATURES

Priscilla Sears

44 "Are the fireflies ghosts?"

English professor Priscilla Sears recounts her memorable experiences teaching American literature in the People's Republic of China. Not surprisingly, the dreams and aspirations of students from two very different cultures have remarkable similarities.

Jim Kenyon

52 On the road to Cambridge: The Harvard Game

One of college football's great football rivalries, the HarvardDartmouth game, has been a love/hate affair since the teams first met in November 1882. Jim Kenyon recalls some of the more recent moments in this ancient contest.

DEPARTMENTS

Douglas Greenwood

4 Editor's Remarks

You Can't Go Home, etc.

9 Letters to the Editor

Mark Woodward

26 Book Reviews

Georgia Croft

30 Wearers of the Green

Efrain Guigui: Dartmouth's well-tempered conductor

Dana Cook Grossman

38 The College

Rex Roberts

50 Alumni Album

Thomas Seessel '59: "It's okay to say 'No'"

Teri Allbright

54 Class Notes and Obituaries

COVER A familiar scene a professor and his students on the lawn in front of Dartmouth Row on a beautiful fall afternoon - calls to mind the words of Anatole France: "The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." Photograph by John Sheldon, who also shot the cover of the Summer issue.