Table of Contents

APRIL 1985

VOL. 77, No. 7

FEATURES

David T. McLaughlin

36 ROTC Statement

The full text of the President's statement on the return of ROTC to Dartmouth.

Laurence Davies

37 Listening for Silences

Can a famous author's correspondence tell us anything we don't already know from his work? See "Cover" below and story inside.

Jerold Wikoff

42 The Upper Valley

Rich in tradition, rich in soil, the Upper Connecticut Valley has stories to tell.

Gayle Gilman

44 Minimum Standards: Where Things Stand Today

Gayle Gilman '85, one of the Magazine's Whitney Campbell interns, reports on the just-released Minimum Standards evaluations.

Jim Kenyon

47 Key to Success: Dartmouth's Athletic Sponsor Program

How do the Ivies compete with the big-time athletic programs? Jim Kenyon suggests one way.

DEPARTMENTS

Douglas Greenwood

4 Editor's Remarks: "Continuing Education"

6 Letters to the Editor

Mark Woodward

18 Book Reviews

22 Wearers of the Green: Arthur E. Allen Jr.' 32: "Worth his salt"

Fred Pfaff

26 Undergraduate Chair: "Le plus ga change

Dana Cook Grossman

30 The College

Peter K. Mose

40 Alumni Album: Kenneth F. Wlaschin '56: "Three square movies a day"

Jim Kenyon

50 Sports

Teri Allbright

52 Class Notes and Obituaries

COVER The novelist Joseph Conrad, always fascinated by the sea and by matters of the soul, revealed much of both in his letters. Prof. Laurence Davies, co-editor of The Correspondence of Joseph Conrad, comments on some of the joys of scholarship (p. 37). For more on the cover, see also p. 4. Photographed by Jeff Nintzel.