Class Entertainment

Remember the professors whose courses were too inspirational or just too much fun to forget?

John Smith, class of 1795

SMITH TAUGHT ENGLISH, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Chaldee, but he earned his immortality on the foggy day when he mistook tree stumps on the Green for north-country wildlife and uttered the unforgettable: "A bear and three cubs! A bear and three cubs!"

Charles Augustus Young (1853)

EVEN AFTER HE LEFT DARTMOUTH for Princeton, where he was dubbed "Twinkle" Young, students remembered how this astronomy professor packed the blackboard with formulae and declared, "You see how simple the process is!"

Robert Russell (1960s)

IN THE DAYS BEFORE RASSIAS, Spanish Professor Robert Russell used dramatic presentation and unbridled enthusiasm to electrify even intermediate Spanish.

Joseph G."Doc" Pollard, M.D. (1950s)

STUDENTS CALLED POLLARD'S Hygiene 1 "Life on the Alimentary Canal," or, more succinctly, "Smut."

Susan Milmoe, Peter Hauri (1970s)

NUTS AND SLUTS," A.K.A PERSONALITY and Abnormal Psychology, or Psychology 24, attracted droves interested in deviant behavior.

Russell R.Larmon (1930s)

JUNIORS AND SENIORS FLOCKED to Professor Larmon's course in administrative business. Part business, part economics and history, the course provided the first glimpse many students had into the problems they would encounter in business and social relations.

Richard Husband (1900)

STUDENTS VOLUNTARILY SPENT evenings at this classics instructor's home to hear him read life into Greek and Latin texts.

Allen R. Foley (19405)

IT WAS KIND OF A GUT," SAYS A '44, "but it was a great gut": History 64, History of the American West, known by students as "Cowboys and Indians." Buffalo Bill, Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp this was frontier history anyone could lasso.

Robert Jastrow (1980s)

FARTH SCIENCE 5,"Earth, Moon, and Planets," Professor Jastrow's masterpiece theater, satisfied hundreds of students during the summer term. They renamed the course "Earth, Moon, and Everybody."

Even before Rassias, language could be fun.

The Doc

Al Foley