Friday, August 2, 2024

The 1951 ‘Oedipus Mac’ article: A student response to the Korean War

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If you had opened up a copy of The Dartmouth one afternoon on April 29th, 1951, you would’ve seen the headline “Oedipus Mac: A Modern Trage...
Friday, July 26, 2024

Rauner Exhibit: "Creating and Preserving Culture: The Evolution of African American Theater"

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During the Spring term of 2024, Dr. Monica Ndounou, Associate Professor of Theater, taught the second iteration of her highly successful cou...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Rambling Boys and Ballads Migrant

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In 1889, William Butler Yeats published his poem "Down by the Salley Gardens," based on a half-remembered song he'd heard sung...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

John Locke Corrected

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Independence Day seems like a good time to take a look at our first issues of John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding . The...
Friday, June 28, 2024

No Such "Thing" as a "Game"

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The 1951 Dartmouth-Princeton football game was rough from the start. But its infamy didn't begin to cement until the second quarter, whe...
Friday, June 21, 2024

More than a Monster: Medusa as a Mutation

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For those of you who have visited Rauner to see the exhibit on display right now, “More than a Monster: Medusa Misunderstood,” you might now...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Cornelia Meigs: A Wildly Successful Experiment

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Cornelia Meigs. The Recipient of the Newbery Medal in 1933 for her children’s book Invincible Louisa, a biography of Louisa May Alcott. Ev...