Safe at last in the soph’more class.

Dartmouth is the ninth-oldest of America’s Colonial Colleges. Established in 1769, it was the last to receive its charter from the British Crown. Dartmouth’s founding has since become a matter of ...

In 1910, skiing had not yet emerged as a common form of winter recreation. At Dartmouth, Fred Harris ’11 and his friend A.T. Cobb ’12 were among the few students who participated in the sport. Harris, ...

The first reported game of pong was played in the mid-1950s. However, it was a niche social activity reserved only for certain fraternities that didn’t gain mainstream popularity until the early ’70s.

Editor’s Note: The following is a Review favorite from the archives. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Nicholas Desai drew this account of Fitzgerald’s visit to Hanover from the Budd Schulberg papers at Rauner ...

Editor’s note (2023): The Dartmouth Review is proud to present a history of Green Key weekend—required reading for any socially literate or historically conscious Dartmouth student. The late Joe Rago ...

We all know Dartmouth is a small college steeped in history and tradition. These traditions are passed through the Classes and the years and, with but one hiccup, can disappear. This is my story of ...

John Kemeny, the 13th president of Dartmouth College. Photo by Adrian N. Bouchard. There were no female students at Dartmouth for all my four years, from 1948 to 1952. Women did not start to arrive ...

The late Harold Bloom’s famed The Western Canon (1994), perhaps the foremost apologia for the Western literary tradition in the modern day Notwithstanding Philip Larkin’s remark in “A Study of Reading ...

I had done my research, tied my shoes, and braced myself for the sprint as I circled the bonfire. Dartmouth Night was in full swing as my fellow ’15s and I ran in circles on the Green, jogging with ...

This Friday is Dartmouth Night, an evening of tradition impressive even by Dartmouth College standards. It kicks off the traditional Homecoming weekend with an evening of speeches, a parade, and, of ...