The Dartmouth Review had not yet started up when I was there, so I have no first hand experience with them, but in the few articles that have caught my attention...they don’t do understatement.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom and that sort of Blakean hyperbole. I’d better be careful, though, Odette probably wrote for the Review...and I don’t know that this article is from the Review or its graduates.
No, the Review didn’t exist when I was there either. I did write for The Dartmouth ("America’s Oldest College Newspaper"). I wrote an editorial in April 1974 calling on Richard Nixon to resign.
There is a bond among Dartmouth alumni that is hard for others to understand sometimes. Perhaps it is born of the rather extreme isolation of the campus.
It is very small and is not a university (total # of students on campus under 5,000, fewer than 1,000 total graduate students). It is smaller than some high schools. The total number of alumni is dwarfed by that of most other schools of its stature and of course by virtually every major university in the country. Still, it has the 20th largest endowment in the nation, despite such few alumni.
When I was attending, it ranked 1st year in and year out - had for many many
years - in terms of percentage of alumni who gave. First in the nation. Year after year. There was a reason for that, and again it is sometimes hard for outsiders to understand.
The weird urge by non-alumni trustees over the last 30 years to turn Dartmouth into a University and succumb to the liberal dreams of melting pot, diversity, political correctness, leftwing facuty activism, etc. has threatened what we alumni treasure.
If you “got over it” where you matriculated, good for you. We haven’t. And don’t plan to.
But “The tanks of Tiananmen roll onto the Dartmouth Green” ? Please. That’s so far out there the Hubble can’t image it. Hyperbole would be a gross understatement.
A lot of us went to one college/university or other. Most of us got over it in a few years.
And what’s funny is that I do not give the place all that much thought, but Odette (who, I believe has gone on record as having had a miserable time there) and this article stir some old memories.
Also, as Daniel Webster said in Dartmouth College vs whoever, in front of the Supreme Court, I believe; “It is a small college, and yet there are those who love it. :P
And what’s funny is that I do not give the place all that much thought, but Odette (who, I believe has gone on record as having had a miserable time there) and this article stir some old memories.
Huh? I’ve never said any such thing! I had a fabulous time at Dartmouth.
And what’s funny is that I do not give the place all that much thought, but Odette (who, I believe has gone on record as having had a miserable time there) and this article stir some old memories.
Huh? I’ve never said any such thing! I had a fabulous time at Dartmouth.
What a weird comment.
Oops, my profuse apologies! I thought I recollected “Odette” (back when I though Odette was a female) saying that.
OK, out there, the person who said they hated Dartmouth, fess up. :red:
Now Haldeman has rolled the tanks of Tiananmen onto the Dartmouth Green.
Oh for God’s sake. First Yeats’s “Easter 1916,” and now Tiananmen square. Will you Darmouth people get over yourselves?
I Dunno Why ...
But I just noticed this thread and I must say that I agree with vladdy 100%.
“The tanks of Tiananmen roll onto the Dartmouth Green”
That Only ...
Reinforces everything I’ve ever thought about privileged frat boys who attend school on daddy’s dime and influence.
“Melodramatic" is an understatement - it’s an affront to those Chinese young people who RISKED THEIR LIVES, and many DID die, in order to express their desire for freedom.
Postbot ought to be ashamed.
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