Friday, March 1, 2024

In March the Wind Blows Down the Door...

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Happy March! We're getting impatient for spring around here and are celebrating the changing seasons with a look at one of the smaller b...
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Friday, February 23, 2024

Perfection through Portraiture

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Can we become more virtuous just by looking at portraits of illustrious people? Yes, we can! This is the claim of 16th century portrait book...
Friday, February 16, 2024

Breaking Bread: The Development of Kosher and Halal Dining at Dartmouth

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“[A] joint Halal-Kosher dining venture on campus … would significantly advance Dartmouth’s vision for its future.” 1999 was an important yea...
Friday, February 9, 2024

Fill the Bowl Up?

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"If every dormitory man had one identical piece of personal furniture, it was a beer mug." In 1975, Norman Carpenter '53 was l...
Friday, February 2, 2024

A Donkey in the Chapel and a Pig on the Train

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No one knew how the donkey had gotten into the chapel. But there it was, standing near the center of the platform, tied securely. This stori...
Friday, January 26, 2024

White Sheiks and Flappers

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Preparing for a visit from a delegation of the Osage Nation, we made a stunning discovery in our collection: a letter written in November, 1...
Friday, January 19, 2024

A Medieval "Book of Roots"

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The Kimḥi family of Provence was a celebrated medieval Jewish family of biblical commentators and Hebrew grammarians. Rabbi Joseph Kimḥi and...