Does this sound like a Dartmouth personality

danas
Sun, 23 May 2010 00:02:52 +0000

Re: performing arts. A friend of my son, a dynamite playwright, transferred from Dartmouth to Yale because Yale is pre-eminent in theater, from what I can tell.
My Dartmouth son was a very urban kid, and as luck would have it, his two Dartmouth girlfriends were from Missoula, Montana and Bemidji, Minnesota, which, by the map, is surrounded by Indian reservations. Both were used to pick-up trucks and firing guns, which he was not. As a city kid, he didn’t know how to drive.
I knew the Minnesota girl better, and at least in her case I think Dartmouth was the ideal transition to the Ivy League. I think it worked very well for the other gal as well.
The adjustment was almost harder for my son, but he came to make the place is own.
If your son is a Utah liberal, the other schools on the list are apt to be a shock. The people I know who graduated from some of these schools detested Bill Clinton and would regard southerners, and I’m guessing folks from Utah, as suspect.
I would regard the center at Dartmouth to be be populated by Clinton-like liberals.