We must make Dartmouth a hospitable environment for students who march
“to a different drummer”—for those creative loners and daring dreamers
whose commitment to the intellectual and artistic life is so compelling
that they appreciate, as Prospero reminded Shakespeare’s audiences, that
for certain persons a library is “dukedom large enough.”
--James O. Freedman former Dartmouth president
The Perversion of Scholarship
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there
