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Dartmouth 2069

When Dartmouth celebrates its tricentennial, what will the student body look like? Will there be football? And how high can tuition go? Here are predictions Eleazar never could have imagined.

Opening Ceremony

The earliest Commencement, held in 1771, featured bigtime barbecue, speeches in Latin, and lousy linen.

You’re Hired!

Excerpts from the 1777 salary agreement for Mr. John Smith, Dartmouth’s first professor

Busted

Long before Dean Wormer’s “double secret probation,” there was the one and only President Samuel Colcord Bartlett.

Portfolio

Book cover for Conflict Resilience with blue and orange colors
Alumni Books
New titles from Dartmouth writers (May/June 2025)
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Origin Story
Physicist Sara Imari Walker, Adv’10, goes deep on the emergence of life.
Commencement and Reunions

A sketchbook

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Ben Rice ’22
A New York Yankee on navigating professional baseball

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