Books

Shelf Life

Carter Elwood ’58, a professor of history at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, provides a new picture of the Marxist revolutionary as a fallible individual in The Non-Geometric Lenin:…

Features

Time Out

One term off campus can make all the difference in a college career, as these life-altering stories from alumni attest.

The DAM Interview

President Jim Kim explains what he’s learned in his first two years on the job and talks about his plans for the future.

Digital Dilemma

Students tweeting during a lecture? Laptops on or off? When it comes to wi-fi in the classroom, professors have no easy answers.

Rolling Up the Rug

When eight non-music majors hit the jazz scene in the 1950s, they found themselves in the swing of things, on campus and off, body and soul.

Gap Year

Can you say “coach of the year” in French? For Patrick Turcotte ’95, pas de problème.

R.I.P.

Remembering the best and verse of Harold “Rip” Ripley ’29, a class secretary for the ages and the ageless.

Letters