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Friday, January 15, 2016

Occom Pond Ice Record

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Occom Pond, conveniently located at the Northwest part of town, just a short distance from the campus center and the village of Hanover, has...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Turn and Face the Strange

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History is pretty strange, and human curiosity even stranger. One of our favorite genres is monstrosities. People hear "monster" a...
Friday, January 8, 2016

Committed to Social Justice: 50 Years of the Afro-American Society

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Founded in April of 1966, in the midst of the American civil rights movement, the Afro-American Society (AAS) was a deliberate attempt to in...
Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Campaign Expenses

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It is that time again. The New Hampshire primaries are in full swing. The airways are filling with campaign ads, and robo calls are harassin...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Seeing the Elephant--not the Pink One!

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You can't beat the way they ushered in the New Year in Lyme, New Hampshire, in 1877.  On New Year's Day, the Lyme Dramatic Club took...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Death at Christmas

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Richard Nelville Hall graduated from Dartmouth on June 23, 1915. Six months later he was dead, the first Dartmouth man to perish in World Wa...
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Friday, December 18, 2015

Bored at Home?

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Try Acting Charades! This 19th century pastime is way more complicated than what we call charades today. There's a whole book dedicated ...
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