Table of Contents

October 1986

Vol. 79, No. 2

FEATURES

Shelby Grantham

50 Bonfire!

Dartmouth Night, the night before the Harvard game in Hanover this month, will be climaxed with another of the giant bonfires that have become a traditional part of this annual celebration. Shelby Grantham traces the history of campus bonfires, going back to the late 1800s, and explains that producing this fiery spectacle isn't an easy job.

President David T. McLaughlin

54 A China Perspective

During the summer President McLaughlin and his wife Judy spent four weeks in the central and eastern provinces of China. In this article the president describes some of the impressions he brought home, about China's economy and its people, and especially about its educational system.

Everett Wood

56 Papa's Son

Some reminiscences about Jack Hemingway '45, son of the famed author, and some comments on his recently published book, Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: Life With andWithout Papa.

DEPARTMENTS

Robert Graham

4 The Hanover Scene

7 Letters to the Editor

C. E. Widmayer

16 Dartmouth Authors

Lesley Barnes

30 The Undergraduate Chair

Georgia Croft

34 Wearers of the Green

Carl Thum: Teacher of how to learn

Teri Allbright Lee Michaelides

40 The College

Jim Needham

59 Sports

Karen Endicott

61 Class Notes and Obituaries

COVER

Fall colors are an added inducement for student hikers, to explore the hills and countryside around Hanover. One such student, seeking a bit of solitude as well as exercise, is shown in this cover photograph taken by Hathorn/Olson Studio of Hanover.