Table of Contents

October 1996

Vol. 89

No. 2

34 Dartmouth's Night

Once a year, the knowing elite become elemental. Photograph by Joe Mehling '69

36 Don't Call HimAnonymous

Keith Boykin '87 did a book that is different from what Clinton once thought it was. By Jeanhee Kim '90

2 Letters

8 Dr. Wheelock's Journal

10 On the Hill

18 Curmudgeon

20 Syllabus

46 Glass Notes

63 D-Mail

74 Obituaries

80 Dartmouth Undying

On The Cover:

As Dartmouth's wilderness has changed, so has its symbolism—from desert to vast gym. Painting by Rob Day

22Second Nature

The voice that cries in the wilderness has changed. But then, so has the wilderness. By Jay Heinrichs

24 This Man is anIsland

Nelson Bryant '46 thought he would be a Homeric poet. His Outdoors column for The New York Times became a 25-year epic. By Robert Sullivan '75

30 Naming the Animals

The tragedy of our species is the splitbetween impulses to dominate and to celebrate nature. By Robert Pack '51