Friday, September 19, 2014

North Britain or Scotland?

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In the wake of the Scottish referendum, we thought we'd share a little gem in our collection that has varying degrees of connection to i...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

A War to End All Wars: "Necessary, Just & Righteous"

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Kirkland at Bowdoin Edward C. Kirkland, Class of 1916, was an intellectual through and though. At Dartmouth, he was in the first honor g...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Oh, that I had a Steam Launch

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It's our 500th posting on this blog, and yesterday was our fifth anniversary. What to blog for such an auspicious occasion? The traditio...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

A War to End All Wars: "Dying for a Cause"

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Training Trenches at Dartmouth College Wainwright Merrill's, Class of 1919, war correspondence oozes with good-humor, idealism, and...
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...