Friday, September 5, 2014

"Not expected they will be useful for either study or reference"

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In 1871, General Sylvanus Thayer gave a large gift of books from his personal library to Dartmouth to support the work of the Thayer School ...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014

A War to End All Wars: "Not the Gay Life You Would Have Imagined"

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Both at Dartmouth and during his military career, George Dock 1916 chased adventure. During his four years at Dartmouth, Dock was a member o...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Dalí, Psychoanalysis & Dante’s Divine Comedy

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During the 1950s, Salvador Dalí began working on a series of watercolor illustrations to accompany Dante's Divine Comedy . These illustr...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

The Natural History of the Hankey Bird

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Soon after the publication of And to Think that I Saw it on Mulberry Street in 1937, Ted Geisel '25 (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) produced a new cr...
Friday, August 22, 2014

A Comic Tour of Japan

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Legend has it that Japanese author Jippensha Ikku (1765-1831) spent so much money drinking that he could not afford to furnish his home. Ins...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

A Head Full of Steam

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If you've ever traveled across the Connecticut River between Orford, New Hampshire, and Fairlee, Vermont, then you did so on the Morey M...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Dartmouth and the Canal

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The Panama Canal was officially opened 100 years ago on August 15, 1914, ten years after the United States assumed control of the project. C...