Books

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Why Is Dartmouth So Expensive?

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.

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Look Again

Photos previously seen only in black and white spring to life thanks to a little touch of color.

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Breakaway

In 1954, long before you could hop a quick flight from Logan, intrepid spring break skiers put rubber to the road in a quest for Colorado snow.

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The Creek Kid

Matt Royer ’93 quit a dream job as an environmental lawyer to come home and save the stream where he grew up—and also, perhaps, the Chesapeake Bay.

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Klan Buster

Little-known district attorney Alexander P. Nelson, class of 1889, waged war against cross burning, mob violence and racial hatred in 1920s Los Angeles.

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Voices in the Wilderness

Valerie Steele ’78 • Rishi Sethi ’11 • Jessica Glago ’08 • Tom Bartlett ’80 • Garfield DeMarco ’59 • Kyle Hendricks ’12

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Overheard

Splash Landing: During Winter Carnival’s annual polar bear plunge back in February, 466 people—most of them students—voluntarily jumped in frigid Occom Pond.

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Deaths

George Harold Payne ’38 • May 27, 2014 Nathan Straus III ’38 • Dec. 16, 2014 Harry F. Hopper Jr. ’43 • June 17, 2013 William MacFarlane Jones ’43 • Jan. 16 William T. Carlson ’46 • Jan. 2…

Letters

Web Extras

Web Extras

Religion and Money

When currency and faith collide: Did some organized religions spread as a response to the rising importance of the marketplace? From “Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us”