Table of Contents

Vol. 90 No. 8

20 The Blackboard

In the classroom of the future, teachers will still turn to age-old technology. Their lessons will be written On stone. Photographs by Joe Mehling '6 9 Text by Castle Freeman ƒr.

26 Call Back

Fifty years after he left Dartmouth as a freshman. Robert Frost returned, officially, to the fold. Book excerpt by fay Parini

30 Pusling the Envelope

You've licked his art. Now meet the man: stamp designer Dick Sheaff'66. By Fritz Hier'44

2 Letters

4 On the Hill

8 Dr. Wheelock's Journal

10 Presidential Range

12Curmudgeon

18 Syllabus

32 Class Notes

60 Obituaries

64 Dartmouth Undying

On the Cover:Out of Dartmouth'spublic scribes,Professor Laura Ray confronts the infinitepossibilities of the empty blackboard.Photograph by foe Mebling'69. Hand-lettering by fulie Berson.

Robert Frost brought poetry to Dartmouth's wartime campus.