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It’s Labor Day, Folks…
…and a more inspiring example of dedicated labor I could not have witnessed today. Trying to make the most of what is left of summer I decided to go in to New York City for the afternoon. I missed the 1:40 train and decided to stop by ‘Commuter Coffee’ a little dinner/ coffee shop near the station for a little lunch. The sign on the door said that the shop would only be open until 2 and it was already about 1:50. I thought they might be locking up so I hesitantly walked over to the take-out counter but the smiling waitress sat me down at a both and fawned over me like she was my mother. Two more parties walked in over the next five minutes at which point the waitress volunteered to the fellow working the register who I think was the owner that she would be happy to keep the place open another hour. Another family walked in and asked if they were still serving food. The still smiling waitress replied that if they were hungry, the restaurant was and would always be open.
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October 18, 2009
When Love Beckoned in 52nd Street
We were at San Francisco’s BIX last evening, enjoying prosecco, cheese, and a bit of music. A full year of inhabitation in Northern California has unraveled to me no decent venue for proper lounging, but… -
October 9, 2009
D Afraid of a Little Competish
So our colleague and Dartblog writer Joe Asch informed me that the D has rejected our cunning advertising campaign. Uh-oh. The Dartmouth is widely known as a breeding ground for instant New York Times successes,… -
September 4, 2009
How Regents Should Reign
As Dartmouth alumni proceed through the legal hoops necessary to defuse a Board-packing plan—which put in unhappy desuetude an historic 1891 Agreement between alumni and the College guaranteeing a half-democratically-elected Board of Trustees—it strikes one… -
August 29, 2009
Election Reform Study Committee
If you are an alum of the College on the Hill, you may have received a number of e-mails of late beseeching your input for a new arm of the College’s Alumni Control Apparatus called… -
August 23, 2009
Fare Thee Well, Tom Crady
And now Dean Tom Crady has precipitously announced his departure from the College after only 20 months on the job. How to read this? By way of background, prior to coming to Dartmouth, Crady had… -
May 31, 2009
Kangaroo Court, Indeed
In an interview with The Dartmouth, alumni-elected trustee T.J. Rodgers ‘70 explained his reasons for declining to participate in future evaluations of trustees up for “re-election,” namely the “kangaroo court” nature of such discussion in…