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The 1,000-mile Journey

Janice Tanaka Tower ’84 and her brother, Matt Tanaka ’81, bike over the Alaska Range, across the subarctic interior, down the mighty frozen Yukon, and on to the Bering Sea during the 2025 Iditarod Trail Invitational.

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Greetings from Hanover!

Vintage postcards set the scene.

Before Instagram, we had postcards. Does anyone actually send them anymore? In 2020, the U.S. Postal Service reports, more than 485 million postcards were mailed in this country. That’s a far cry from the nearly 3.5 billion mailed in 1950. But deltiology, a.k.a. postcard collecting, is alive and well. People collect only coins and stamps in greater numbers. Through the years alums and their widows have sent DAM bundles of postcards that depict campus settings and the town of Hanover—some of which we present here. Many are from the linen card era of the 1930s, when printers used a paper stock that produced vivid colors. To see more, check out Rauner Library’s collection of more than 1,400 postcards, which includes scenes of fraternity houses, Winter Carnival, and dozens of other College events, buildings, and icons.

In The Current Issue

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The Legacy of Chinese Language Professor Susan Blader

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Campus

From Gaza to the Ivy League

Illustration of melting Earth

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Climate Detectives

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Voices in the Wilderness

Supporting Ukraine

Exterior of the Hop building, large glass windows

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An Icon Returns

Where to eat, stay, shop & more around Dartmouth
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The Hopkins Center

A photographic tribute to the cultural center of campus on its golden anniversary.

Into the Deep

Adventure photographer Tyler Stableford ’96 takes his craft to new depths.

Eye on the Wild

A selection of images by postdoc Jeff Kerby

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