For the College on the Hill

Alex Fredman '20

If asked about Dartmouth’s reputation as a small college, many students and alumni will coyly repeat Daniel Webster’s famous 1819 quote: “It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it.”...

Young alumni reflect on their experiences after graduation

Eliza Jane Schaeffer '20

It’s odd that we prepare our young adults for the “real world” by sending them to schools like Dartmouth — schools that, arguably, have little in common with the real world. At no other point in our lives will we...

A Dartmouth Family: Legacy students in Hanover

Rebecca Flowers '19

Nine percent of students accepted to the Class of 2021 are children of Dartmouth undergraduate alumni. This is an increase from the almost 8 percent and 8.1 percent reported of the Classes of 2019 and 2020...

Students share perceptions of the new Good Samaritan policy

Emma Demers '20

This academic year, changes to the Good Samaritan policy include expanding the policy to include drug-related incidents and allowing undergraduate advisors to make Good Sam calls rather than having to file...

Student artists raise the visiblity of art on campus

Betty Kim '20

The five monochromatic panels behind the Hopkins Center for the Arts that face the Black Family Visual Arts Center are celebratory in nature. The large-scale “Dartmouth Panels,” as they are officially...

The invisible injury: how concussions affect student lives

Samantha Hussey '20

With Homecoming reuniting students and alumni in celebration of the Big Green, it is easy to get caught up in the traditional sports events, overlooking sidelined athletes. Injuries — of the “muscles and the...

Growing Pains

Lucy Li '19

A full year after arriving at Dartmouth, I realized that something I had been used to my entire life had largely went missing after making the trek across the country to this campus. It was a feeling, an identity, a subconscious way of thinking...

Risk and the Undergraduate

Steven Chun '19

The Dartmouth administration would much prefer if fewer deeds were dared. Deeds — and particularly those of the daring kind — on college campuses are common sources of litigation and bad press. Indeed, the line in our “Alma Mater”...

On the Old

Matt Brown '19

Most, if not all, of the world’s great legacies are steeped in tradition. Our predisposition to tradition is what enables constitutions and government, what permits the formation of scientific paradigms and what directs the passing down...

Through the Looking Glass: Becoming a Lone Pine

Allie Reichert '18

It’s a crisp fall afternoon. The leaves crunch beneath my feet, and my breath trails behind me in large puffs. My cheeks are red, wind-burnt, and my nose runs uncontrollably. I make the final trek to the top of the hill...

The Homecoming We Want

The Dartmouth Editorial Board

This Saturday, Yale University’s football team will arrive in Hanover to compete against the Big Green in our annual Homecoming football game. For students, it is a time for camaraderie and excitement. For alumni, it’s a time for nostalgia...

Editors' Note

Julia Huebner '20 and Cristian Cano '20

Our “Alma Mater” proclaims a campus of loyal sons and daughters of an idyllic “College on the Hill.” While the “Alma Mater” is sung on First-Year Trips by the incoming class and is played daily on the bells...

Survey examines student opinions of the College

Alexander Agadjanian '18

From Sunday, Sept. 24 to Thursday, Sept. 28, The Dartmouth fielded an online survey of Dartmouth undergraduates on their opinions of different aspects of the College. The survey was sent out to 4,418...