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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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Always Faithful

An excerpt from “War and American Life,” a collection of essays about U.S. veterans

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“America Will Be”

A poem by professor Joshua Bennett

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Unresolved Battles

An excerpt from “Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America” by Keith Boykin ’87

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Hominins on the Move

An excerpt from “First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human”

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“Anybody Can Be a Writer”

An excerpt from "The Plot,” a new novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz ’83

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