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September 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Have I recommended to your attention this thorough piece by Boris Kachka, on the state and prognosis of the fiction industry? I cannot remember if I have; probably this is because I sit even now,…
Yesterday I posted about the demise of the $700 billion dollar bailout plan in Congress. This morning the Wall Street Journal has a fine opinion piece on the matter, quite sensibly linking Congress’s past years…
As a reader writes, “it’s not something you or I would have written,” but Cornell president David Skorton has now come out in defense of the Cornell Review’s right to print freely. Mr. Skorton’s editorial…
Today is the last day of the New York Sun. It was a golden newspaper: well written, devotedly read, genuinely curious about the world, and with a sense of adventure that does not, now, seem…
Yesterday this column plugged a new Tufts blog meant to fill the yawn created by administrators’ assault on the Primary Source, which published double plus ungood parodic material two Christmases ago. A reader advises us:The…
Yesterday I posted a few of humorist Ambrose Bierce’s ideas on politics, a century old but ringing true today as ever. Today I treat you to Mr. Bierce’s thoughts on education. Academe, n. An ancient…
An insane group of radical alumni is pushing for more responsible financial leadership at Colgate University….
P.J. O’Rourke on the several spasmodic reactions to a cancer diagnosis one is not apt to have….
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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…