Table of Contents
Summer 1985
Vol. 77, No. 9
FEATURES
37 The College's 215 th Commencement
Barbara MacAdam
44 The Wentworth Bowl.
Dartmouth's prized montieth, described in fulsome detail by the Curator of American art at the Hood Museum.
Fred Pfaff
46 An Apple on Every Desk: Dartmouth Reprograms Computing History
Last fall, freshmen were offered personal computers at a reduced rate, and the College once again moved into the forefront of educational computing.
Charles T. Wood
51 A Humanist Ponders the Future of Liberal Education
Dartmouth's distinguished medieval scholar Charles T. Wood explores the liberal arts in the context of the demands of modern life.
Fred Pfaff
56 The Great Train Robbery (or how Orton Hicks '21 got to Dartmouth)
61 Reunions
Fifteen classes from 1915 to 1980 returned to Hanover in the spirit of "Lest old acquaintance be forgot ..."
DEPARTMENTS
Douglas Greenwood
4 Editor's Remarks
"On Commencement, 1985"
7 Letters to the Editor
Mark Woodward
22 Book Reviews
Dave Coburn
26 Wearers of the Green
"Sanguine Soviet dissident"
Gayle Gilman and Fred Pfaff
30 Undergraduate Chair:
"When Push Comes to Shove"
Dana Cook Grossman
32 The College
Jim Kenyon
59 Sports
Teri Allbright
72 Class Notes and Obituaries
COVER Resplendent in his red and gold robes, Irish statesman/ scholar Conor Cruise O'Brien, Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth for the last three academic terms, chats with Churchill P. ("Jerry") Lathrop, professor of art emeritus, as colleagues gather in front of the Hop for the stately procession across the Green on Graduation Day 1985.
