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The Rise of Grade Inflation

The growing number of high marks has many professors—and some students—worried academic excellence is being cheapened. Has Dartmouth reached a breaking point?

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Book Picks: Nov./Dec. 2026

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Big Sister Hunter

An excerpt from “Raising Wrenns,” by Mal Wrenn Corbin ’96

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The Nature of Religion

An excerpt from “The God of Wild Places: Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors”

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Norman Maclean ’24, the Undergraduate Years

An excerpt from “Norman Maclean: A Life of Letters and Rivers”

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American Rivalry

An excerpt from “Gallop Toward the Sun,” a dual biography of Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison, by Peter Stark ’76

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Murder in the Congo

Stuart Reid ’08 talks about his first book.

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The Dead Canary

An excerpt from “All the Demons Are Here,” a novel by Jake Tapper ’91

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Ready for Battle

An excerpt from “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War,” a cross-country exploration of the nation’s deepening divide.

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