Transcending Disagreement

Ralph Waldo Emerson wasn't impressed with Dartmouth when he visited in 1863. "I went to Dartmouth College, and found the same old Granny system which I met there 25 years ago. The President has an aversion to emulation, as injurious to the character of the pupils. He therefore forbids the election of members into the two literary societies by merit but arranges that the first scholar alphabetically on the list shall be assigned to the Adelphi, and the second to the Mathesians...and so on. The amiable student who explained it added that it tended to remove disagreeable excitement from the societies. I answered, 'Certainly, and it would remove more if there were no college at all.' I recommended morphine in liberal doses at the College Commons."

Dr.Emerson'sprescription "fixed"Dartmouth's ills.

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