In September Dartmouth’s Interfraternity Council voted unanimously to do away with initiation hazing for fraternity pledges. It’s felt that hazing in the past has led to high-risk behavior and binge drinking. The council plans to work with the College to develop “constructive individual and team-building activities.” The sororities praised the council’s decision.


Dartmouth’s endowment fund had a return of 19.2 percent, tying with MIT, beaten only by Yale at 20.2 percent, while Harvard sagged to 15.4 percent.


Paul Danos, Tuck’s dean for almost 20 years, will retire next year. The Economist ranks Tuck as the world’s No. 2 business school behind the Booth School at the University of Chicago. The Princeton Review ranks Tuck among the top 10 schools for the “best campus environment, best professors, best classroom experience and best career prospects.” Thirty-one percent of Tuck’s 600 students come from outside the United States; 16 percent from minority groups; about one-third are women. The average starting salary for graduates is $115,000 with a signing bonus of $29,000 as well as other guaranteed compensation totaling $39,000. Seventy percent of graduates eventually achieve top level management positions. Dean Danos has a record to be proud of—we salute him.


Starting last fall Dartmouth became the 31st institution to join edX, an online learning platform founded by Harvard and MIT. A group of professors will moderate “massive online courses” known as MOOCs. Dartmouth will start with one course and will add others later. To quote President Phil Hanlon, edX will “enable our faculty to pave the way for the future, discovering new ways to teach that will take Dartmouth classrooms to the world.”


For the record: Six hundred fifty-eight of us matriculated in the fall of 1939, 23 of us died in the war and 95 (14.4 percent) of us are still alive.


We regret to report the deaths of classmates George B. Munroe, Miles L. Lasser, Donald W. Jones, Charles M. Donovan, Robert E. Costello, Richard H. Kimber, Larrabee M. Johnson and Paul F. Young. Our condolences to their families.


—John M. Jenkins, 80 Lyme Road, Apt. 304, Hanover, NH 03755; (603) 643-2757; mmjenkins@kahres.org