Table of Contents

OCTOBER 1990 VOL. 83 NO. 2

The Forfeit The long-gone day when Cornell lost and everybody won, by Ken Johnson '83 16

Dartmouth in the Media The press's spin has the College reeling, by Peter Prichard '66 22

Underpromise and Overdeliver The idea of service goes against our culture, by William H. Davidow '57 30

DR. WHEELOCK'S JOURNAL • 6

LETTERS • 10

PRESIDENTIAL RANGE • 12

SYLLABUS • 14

CLASS NOTES • 34

OBITUARIES • 64

DARTMOUTH UNDYING • 80

Cover: The Big Green may be an institution of a different color in the limelight. The photograph of the microphones is by Michael Moore and the airbrushing is by Tim Thrasher.

This is Eleazar Wheelock before he met the press. Commissioned by the Trustees, Joseph Steward painted the portrait 13 years after the Reverend Wheelock died; the artist may have worked from a miniature, but a Parson Weld is known to have posed as well. The painting now hangs in the Hood Museum.