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November-December 2025

Class Note 1955. To write these notes the end of August when they will not be read until November is an interesting task.
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September-October 2025

Here it is the end of June and it feels like the dog days of August. You’ll read this in September or October, when cooler days should be here and we’ll be talking football. But you never know about the weather.

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July-August 2025

It has been said that “April is the cruellest month” (T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land”), and it has been, with disturbing events throughout the month. I’ll not do a list since that might take the entire column.
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May-June 2025

It is late February, and the sounds of hardballs thumping into gloves and the crack of the batted ball tell us spring training is underway. “Time begins on opening day,” Thomas Boswell once wrote. The season is here when you read these notes.
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March-April 2025

We write these notes at year end during the holiday season with so many thoughts of jingle bells and snow present.
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January-February 2025

To write these notes at the end of October knowing that when you read this, it will be January 2025 presents an interesting task. We will have a new president in what we hope was a peaceful transition.
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November-December 2024

It has been said that April is the cruelest month, but August, when this is written, has been no bed of roses, with fires, floods, high heat, and tropical storms, not to mention the political and international turmoil.
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September-October 2024

A heat dome in the East has surrounded us here in late June with record temperatures as high as 100. The Midwest has seen flooding and evacuations, and heavy rains have hit Texas from the first hurricane of the season.
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July-August 2024

By the time you read these notes, Dartmouth will have had graduation on what we hope continues as a relatively quiet campus, unlike the turmoil evidenced at other institutions nationwide.
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May-June 2024

These notes are written at the end of February as spring training opens in Florida and Arizona and the crack of the bat and the thump of the ball in the mitt are heard throughout the land.
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January-February 2024

The new college year was off to a robust start with the inauguration of Sian Leah Beilock as the new president of the college.