The Dartmouth Saga

February 10, 2012 — Scott Johnson

Speaking of Metamorphoses

Featured image I have a few regrets related to my undergraduate education at Dartmouth. One of them involves a course I didn’t take. Having taken a fantastic Latin course on Ovid’s epic poem Metamorphoses from Classics Professor Edward Bradley in the winter of 1970 — that’s me with my old copy of the Metamorphoses in the photo with Professor Bradley at the left — I signed up for his course on the »
January 5, 2012 — Scott Johnson

Dartmouth’s cult of personality

Featured image A long-time reader with connections to Dartmouth College can’t decide whether he’s more amused or appalled by what he calls the “Kim worship” on display in the latest issue of the Alumni Magazine. The issue features a 17-shot photomontage of Dartmouth president Jim Kim, plus an odd image of Kim which our reader compares to the style used to idealize certain left-wing dictators (as well as Barack Obama during the »
December 26, 2011 — Scott Johnson

A Dartmouth memory

Featured image I started writing for The Dartmouth daily newspaper as a reviewer in the fall term of my freshman year in 1969 and continued to write for the paper until I graduated. I reviewed plays, books, and films. Writing for the paper, I also interviewed campus visitors such as the literary critic Alfred Kazin, the sculptor Elbert Weinberg, and the one and only William F. Buckley, Jr., all now deceased. As »
December 20, 2011 — Scott Johnson

Two under 30

Featured image Forbes has compiled an impressive list of 30 under 30 (years old) deserving recognition in law and public policy. Taking a place of honor on the list is our own publisher, Joe Malchow (age 26): “Stanford Law student and conservative activist co-founded Internet advertising firm Integer.” Having founded and manned Dartblog as a Dartmouth freshman, Joe has provided invaluable assistance to us on Power Line since he was a sophomore »
March 2, 2009 — Scott Johnson

About Those Roses

Asked where they had their most memorable campus experiences, Dartmouth students polled back when I was an undergraduate most frequently identified the Hopkins Center for the Arts. It is certainly the site I would have identified if asked. I still recall, to take just one example, the one-man show derived from the works of Samuel Beckett that Jack Macgowran performed at the Hop’s Moore Theater just before Macgowran died in »