DR. WHEELOCK'S ALMANACK

NOVEMBER

1 Filmmaker Marcel Ophuls ("The Sorrow and the Pity") lectures on the making of his latest flm, "Hotel Terminus."

4 Houseparties Weekend begins.

5 The football team hosts Columbia. Last year's game in New York would have ended the Lions' now legendary winless streak had not Carl Romero '89 kicked a field goal with less than a minute and a half remaining to give the Green a 12-10 victory).

9 Lecture in Rockefeller Center titled, "The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic."

11 Club Officers Weekend. The hockey team hosts Brown tonight and Yale tomorrow. The Aires and Decibel lles are in concert.

26 On this date in 1805, the second bridge between Hanover and Norwich was completed. 'The first bridge had collapsed the year before. Earlier this year the New Hampshire Department of Transportation gave die Ledyard Bridge a safety rating of 3.4 out of a possible 100 points.

30 Fall classes end. To mark the beginning of the exam season, the official College calendar (without hint of sarcasm) has december 1 and 2 down as holidays.

President James O. Freedman, speaking at the 1988 convocation.

"The insistence inprominent sectors ofAmerican society thatcolleges stress themastery of facts comesdangerously near tosuggesting that liberaleducation is no morethan an expensiveinvestment in playing'Trivial Pursuit.'