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Friday, January 24, 2020

Creepy-Crawlies

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If you like old tomes and creepy-crawlies, then do we ever have the book for you. In preparation for an anthropology class on bestiaries, ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

A Little Plainer Mr. Emerson

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Dartmouth students in the 19th century had a habit of tweaking the sensibilities of their nervous professors. The school was a factory for m...
Friday, January 17, 2020

Branding with a Bang

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Most of us today have heard of the retail clothing outlet Abercrombie & Fitch, most likely because of a string of nationally publicize...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

A Plan for World Peace

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On July 9, 1917, Vermonter Belno Marsh Whelden enlisted as a private in the Machine Gun Infantry. For the next two years he would serve on t...
Friday, January 10, 2020

Exhibit: "The Ties that Bind: Slavery and Dartmouth"

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Eleazar Wheelock came to Hanover and carved a place for Dartmouth College out the wilderness, or so the story goes. Often overlooked in th...
Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Hitting below the Belt

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We were digging though the Hanover Town Records for documents pertaining to the poor farm for a class next week on poverty in the 19th centu...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

New Year's on Ice

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A quick search of our finding aids for things related to New Year's brought to light an amazing survival. This little program was typed ...
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