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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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Spend Time Alone

EXCERPT: A computer science professor warns that humans are not wired to be constantly wired.

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Love at First Sip

EXCERPT: What makes Panola Cola the sweetest thing around?

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Black Power at Dartmouth

EXCERPT: Conscientious students forced an elite, white College to evolve during the racially turbulent 1960s.

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Bridges to Somalia

EXCERPT: A U.S. ambassador recalls his years in Mogadishu during the Reagan administration.

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Robert Frost: Tortured by Love

EXCERPT: Heartbroken, the young poet fled Dartmouth for the Great Dismal Swamp.

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Into the Swamp

EXCERPT: A United States Congressman wakes up to an unpleasant surprise in Jake Tapper’s new novel.

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Seizing Fort Ticonderoga

EXCERPT: Benedict Arnold joins Ethan Allen’s “rustic rebels” for a surprise attack on the British.

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