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Wish You Were Here
Greetings, dear ones, from Ocean City, New Jersey. O.C., as the parvenus swapping the engorged palaces along its shores must call it, is a wondrous place. It is also a dry place, which hindrance heightens the worked for wonder. The tradition is for my oldest friends and me is to come here at least once each year. Here we are. Ocean City has a place in American letters, you know, as the home Nabokov prescribed for Clare Quilty in Lolita; that distinction notwithstanding we have no reason to suspect that assault and aberrant romances are common here. And while the beaches are bare, the wind makes for nice kite-flying. Cheers to you, and bon santé, and happy Champagne Day tomorrow. (If the vintners were smart they’d push to call 12/31 that.)
Very much more in 2009. Ta ta!
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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…