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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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Serenity Now

The campus offers many pockets of natural solitude where anyone can escape the grind and find a quiet place to think and be alone.

Updated on September 20, 2017

Ever since Dartmouth was carved out of the woods nearly 250 years ago, its remote setting has remained one of its greatest assets. Even as the College welcomes its largest incoming class this fall, the campus offers many pockets of natural solitude where anyone can escape the grind and find a quiet place to think and be alone.

Photographs by John Sherman

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Ledyard Canoe Club
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Bartlett Tower
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College Cemetery
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DOC House
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Occom Pond
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Hanover Country Club, r.i.p.

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Athletes check in from the summer Olympics.

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While students decorate themselves with flair, they adorn their laptops with a wide array of stickers.

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