Table of Contents

MARCH 1990 VOL. 82 NO. 6

Ancient Page Turners Some terrific novels are centuries old, by Joni Cole and Lee Michaelides 16

Addicted to Conversation A computer talk channel proves habit forming, by Clayton G. Gates '90 20

A Hero to Europe Internationalist Shepard Stone '29 sits for a portrait by Stephan McKeown '70 24

The Purpose Gap The debate over curricula skirts the point of learning, by Jay Heinrichs 30

Dartmouth's Steady Course Should students be told what to take? By Faculty Dean James Wright 32

An Elegant Backwater An elegiac jump into the Spaulding Pool, by Clayton G. Gates '90 40

DR. WHEELOCK'S JOURNAL • 4

LETTERS. 7

SPORTS • 11

SYLLABUS • 14

CLASS NOTES • 42

GIVE A ROUSE • 43

OBITUARIES • 72

DARTMOUTH UNDYING • 80

Cover: We are what we read. The photograph is by Doug Mindell; the books were loaned by Buddenbrooks Fine and Rare Books, Boston, and Quechee Books, Quechee, Vermont.

"Go to Berlin," a professor told Shep Stone in 1929. The advice, recounted on page 24, changed his life forever.