Today something a little different on BGA Daily as Dartmouth continues celebrating its 250th anniversary:
From the website for Dartmouth Undying: A Celebration of Place and Possibility:
Part scrapbook, part showcase, part argument, this book celebrates the spirit, character, and diverse accomplishments of Dartmouth College’s first 250 years, while implicitly making the case that Dartmouth’s historic contributions to society will only become greater as the College moves deeper into the twenty-first century.Here are a few photos I shot of pages that BGA readers might find particularly interesting as well as one that highlights The Stretch, the geology department's legendary off-campus program that was an integral part of That Certain Dartmouth '14's experience at the college.
Green Alert Take: Whether it's a gift for Mother's Day, Father's Day, graduation, a birthday or just because, this gorgeous hard copy, large format (roughly 11x11) book edited by Pulitzer Prize winner David Shribman '76 and Jim Collins '84, author of Mentors about life-changing Dartmouth teachers, will be treasured by anyone who loves Dartmouth. In the interest of full disclosure, I was given a copy of Dartmouth Undying and after spending a little time with the 271-page volume cannot recommend it highly enough. Consider this a tip directly from me to you. Get this thing. You won't be disappointed. It's wonderful. ;-)
From the jacket (continued after each picture)
Vision. Leadership. Daring. These were Dartmouth's from the start – its birthright, its heritage, its raison d etre. How unlikely a start it was: A Congregational minister who believed in the perfectibility of humankind, Eleazar Wheelock tramped north with – to the eighteenth-century mind as to ours – a mission that itself was audacious. A Yale man, freighted with determination, perhaps partly delusional, set out to parts unknown, unmapped, and untrammeled, to plant a college, and an idea, in wilderness so deep that traces of its wildness remain with us, two and a half centuries later, only steps from a billion-dollar campus complex that is the site of one of the most advanced educational institutions on the globe.
The College that grew out of Wheelock's unlikely dream is an unlikely alchemy, at once looking backward (to its idealistic and daring beginnings) and forward (to an equally idealistic and daring future). It remains a small college steeped in tradition, yet one with ongoing and outsized influence. Base camp to the world, in the words of President Philip J. Hanlon, Class of 1977.
All will agree that whatever else Dartmouth has been, it has been adventurous, Earl Cranston, Class of 1919, wrote in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine in 1944. That sense of adventurism, richly chronicled in these pages, colors the College’s storied past, defines its far-flung alumni, and animates the world-changing work that has emerged from Dartmouth's teachers, researchers, students, and graduates.Dartmouth Undying is available HERE.
