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HISTORICAL ROW: “THE FIRST 100 YEARS ARE THE HARDEST…”

This sage tidbit was uttered by Dartmouth President Ernest M. Hopkins during his speech at Wesleyan’s Centennial Celebration in October 1931. Hopkins was among the leaders of 38 colleges and universities who attended the three days of festivities, along with about 3,000 other revelers. Institutions …
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Culinary Creativity

BY CLARA SILVERSTEIN ’82 Alternately wielding a knife, a spoon, and a pair of stainless steel tongs, Michael Leviton ’88 spends most of his workdays in perpetual motion. As chef and owner of Lumiere restaurant in the B…
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Rainforest Classroom

NORA CONNER ’07 KNEW that “Tropical Ecology” would be wildly different from any other class she’d taken at Wesleyan. Still, she hadn’t expected to wake up and find a tarantula the size of her hand above her bed. “An eve…
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