Feature

Is Harvard Becoming More Like Dartmouth?

FEBRUARY 1991
Feature
Is Harvard Becoming More Like Dartmouth?
FEBRUARY 1991

Test your ability to discriminate!

OKAY, SO YOU'VE HEARD ALL the talk about the "Harvardization" of Dartmouth. Imagine a college with a significant number of foreign students, where some professors never teach, where all the campus housing is coed.

But wait a minute. Are you sure that describes Harvard ?

See for yourself by taking the quiz below. Decide whether each attribute defines Dartmouth, Harvard, or both. Answers are on page 44.

1. Harvard-educated president

2. 1989 Ivy football record of 5-5

3. Best cumulative Ivy football record

4. Alumni magazine accepts liquor ads

5. Geography department

6. Students lead freshman hiking trips

7. Adjacent to a navigable waterway

8. Has had just one foreign-born president

9. Library catalog fully electronic

10. Produced more pro football players

11. Better ice hockey team

12. More Academic All-Americans

13. Dartmouth-educated basketball coach

14. More winning women's teams

15. Teaching center

16. Ethics institute

17. Higher proportion of foreign students

18. Humor magazine

19. Drama department

20. Graduate program in electronic music

21. Training program for minbority business execs

22. Leader in hyperthermia research

23. Grad students teach in some courses

24. Changed school song

25. Conducts forestry research

26. School's researchers coined term "acid rain"

27. Owns land in the Florida keys

28. Calls itself the "College on the Hill"

29. Study-abroad programs

30. Language requirement for all students

31. Nebulous school symbol

32. Choice dorms dubbed the "Gold Coast"

33. Women's center

34. Academics given five stars in Fiske Guide to Colleges

35. Social life given five stars in Fiske Guide

36. Epository writing requirement

37. Major in Arabic

38. Three-year bachelor's-degree program

39. Older curriculum requirements

40. All campus housing coed

41. ROTC program

42. Physical-education requirement

43. Owns a ski area

44. Some professors never teach

45. Dormitories grouped to build social and academic ties outside classroom

46. Honor code

"In my family, there wasno clear line betweenreligion and fly-fishing,,"wrote Maclean in hisrapturous novella.

All of the answers are on page44. (Hey! Don't cheat! youShould know this already.)