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Friday, February 20, 2015

The Plantin Polyglot

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Printer Christophe Plantin was a Protestant sympathizer during the height of the Reformation--but his greatest legacy is a Catholic masterpi...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Gentleman's "C"

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One of the concerns raised in the recent "Moving Dartmouth Forward" report concerned the excessive grade inflation that has infect...
Friday, February 13, 2015

Valentine from the Home Front

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The World War II years in Hanover were marked by a sense of urgency. As young men prepared to ship out and serve, the climate became one of ...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Fludd

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We got to Robert Fludd through Thomas Cromwell.  It doesn't make much sense at first (but neither did Fludd most of the time). Really, i...
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Friday, February 6, 2015

How the Experts Build a Snow Man

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In 1951, Popular Science featured Dartmouth students under the headline “How the Experts Build a Snow Man.” That year's Winter Carnival...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Invisible Cities

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Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities has inspired countless artists and intellectuals with its whimsical descriptions of imaginary cities. ...
Friday, January 30, 2015

First Super Bowl Party

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The Super Bowl gets a lot of hype, but the first game was a kind of experiment that had poor television ratings, and didn't even sell ou...
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