Dartmouth fills a void, sort of
Dartmouth has announced that it will finally hire a Shakespeare specialist to replace the legendary Prof. Peter Saccio, who retired in 2005. The College has selected Brett Gamboa from the graduate program at Harvard.
It’s great that Dartmouth is filling this void. However, its failure to do so sooner meant that students [...]
About those roses
I wrote here at length about “The Subject Was Roses” last year after I saw author Frank Gilroy’s grandson Sam on stage at the Moore Theater in Dartmouth’s Hopkins Center. Meeting up with the author when he visited Dartmouth in 1971 for a screening of “Desperate Characters,” a film he had produced and directed [...]
Coping with oversubscribed classes at Dartmouth
My daughter will be graduating from Dartmouth in June (along with Scott’s daughter) and I’m aleady starting to get sentimental about it. There aren’t many bigger thrills in life for a parent than seeing a son or daughter graduate from the alma mater. This is true, I think I’ll find, even when the [...]
If the shoe fits at Dartmouth. . .
From time to time we link to Dartblog and we also include it on our blogroll. Written mainly by the two Joes — Malchow and Asch — it provides a lively vehicle for keeping up with aspects of life and the culture wars at Dartmouth and elsewhere.
Recently, Dartblog ran an ad in the [...]
John Mathias delivers a low blow
The “D” — Dartmouth’s daily student newspaper — has published a profile of our friend Joe Asch. In the piece, John Mathias, president of the Association of Alumni, is quoted as saying of Joe, “he’s an unrelenting critic of Dartmouth, almost pathologically.”
Assuming Mathias has not been misquoted, this is a deplorable remark. [...]
More evidence of decline at Dartmouth
I majored in Philosophy at Dartmouth, as did John. So I’ve tried to pay attention to developments in that department over the years, especially since my daughter enrolled at the college, thereby putting me in a good position to talk to current students.
The news isn’t good at all.
A few years ago, well-regarded professors [...]
