Table of Contents

December 1985

Vol. 78, No. 4

FEATURES

Kathie Min

28 Translating Plato's Republic

Two Dartmouth professors, Richard W. Sterling of government and William C. Scott of classics, decided that one of the seminal texts of Western literature, Plato's Republic, needed to be translated into a 20th-century idiom that was both faithful to the original text and understandable to their students. Their collaboration, Kathie Min suggests, is a case study in "continuing education" at a very elevated level.

Nancy Wasserman

32 The Impact of Section 504

For those who are physically handicapped, navigating the Hanover Plain can be a formidable task, even when it's 75 ° and sunny. While we've come a lot further than some of our contemporaries in ensuring accessibility for students, faculty, and staff, we've still got a ways to go..

Michael Berg

38 On the Air

Entrepreneurship - you've heard the word defined on TV. Three recent Dartmouth alumni are forging their own definition a stone's throw down the Connecticut.

DEPARTMENTS

Douglas Greenwood

4 Editor's Remarks:

"Vox Clamantis"

6 Letters to the Editor

Dave Coburn

14 Wearers of the Green:

Astronomer Gary Wegner: Seeker of another world

Dana Cook Grossman

22 The College

Rex Roberts

36 Alumni Album:

Fred Plum '45: Addressing "the number-one question"

42 Sports

Teri Allbright

44 Class Notes and Obituaries

COVER This fragment of papyrus No. 1808 in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri is housed in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University in England. The story of how this ancient piece of papyrus came to appear on the cover of the most recent translation of Plato's Republic is recounted by Prof. Dick Sterling on p. 31. We found it attractive enough and interesting enough to reproduce ourselves. Photograph courtesy of W. W. Norton & Cos., the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, and the Egypt Exploration Society of London.