Is bigger better? Dartmouth, currently the smallest college in the Ivy League, is evaluating whether it should increase the present number of undergraduates. Princeton is slightly larger than Dartmouth, while Cornell, the largest, has 14,000 students, a 66-percent increase in the last 15 years. During that same period all Ivy League schools have increased the number of their undergraduates, but Dartmouth’s increases have been small. A task force has been appointed, co-chaired by the dean of the College and the dean of the faculty of arts and sciences. The charge is to come up with a financially feasible plan that could increase the student body between 10 and 25 percent. There are currently 4,310 undergraduates; a maximum increase would take the number to 5,300. Concerns include housing, maintaining an acceptable faculty-student ratio and maintaining the vitality of student life. A report is expected by March 2018.

Dartmouth’s campus was voted the fifth loveliest in a list of the country’s 24 most beautiful college campuses. Its citation read, “an Ivy League university and it looks the part.” (Bard was No. 1.)

This spring Dartmouth celebrated its 45th Pow Wow on the Green featuring traditional dancing, drummers and crafts from all over the country. There are 75 Native American tribal nations represented in the current student body.

A letter from classmate Henry Keck reports that he’s still working and has just published a book titled How Design Changed America, about success and failure in the marketplace. Our congratulations!

As of June 2, 48, or 7.3 percent, of us remain from our original class of 659.

Something to think about—a quote from Dartmouth professor of physics and astronomy Marcelo Gleiser: “What’s fascinating is that consciousness is what makes the universe exist.”

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