DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE
APRIL 1991 VOL. 83 NO. 7
Teachers in the Grand Manner Why the lecture is far from dead, by Deborah Schupack '84 16
Steve Kelley in Two Acts There's something—no, two things—funny about this guy, by Rob Eshman '82 24
Disengagement President Dickey takes his leave 28
Could I Get In Today? The odds of making it into Dartmouth, by Howard Greene '59 30
Her Friend the Dalai Lama An exam leads to a moral quest, by Peter Bien 34
A Recent Interview with Ernest Martin Hopkins The great man discusses academia today with Robert H. Nutt '49 38
DR. WHEELOCK'S JOURNAL • 4
LETTERS • 7
PRESIDENTIAL RANGE • 13
SYLLABUS • 14
CLASS NOTES • 46
OBITUARIES • 72
Cover: "I think of my teaching as operatic," says Bill Cook. I love to whoop and bellow." See page 16 for more on the theater and music of the lecture. The painting is by Richard Piloco.
"Don't quit your day job," a heckler once told Steve Kelley '81 So he balances political cartooning with a nightclub schtick