In 2018, Roxanne Khamsi, then chief news editor of the journal Nature Medicine, read a New England Journal of Medicine article that described how genetic mutations could cause cardiovascular disease.
At Commencement time, there’s no shortage of wisdom offered to graduating seniors. Here’s what a few of Dartmouth’s more notable speakers have had to say through the years.
Leon Earl Kent ’35 • Feb. 12
David Herbert Beskind ’36 • Feb. 9
Daniel J. Minahan Jr. ’37 • Sept. 9, 2010
Robert E. Atkinson ’38 • March 23, 2014
Robert Sherwood Blees ’38 • Jan. 31
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Two decades ago tuition, room and board ran about $26,000. Now it’s nearly $64,000. C.J. Hughes ’92 crunches the numbers, examines the history and talks to administrators in search of an explanation.
