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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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The Pioneering Women of ’76

The first women of Dartmouth arrived at a campus that was not quite ready for them. In the fall of 1972, 177 first-year women and 74 female transfer students joined 3,030 male undergraduates to make history. Each found their own way through it.
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