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April 30, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Letter to the Editor: Dartmouth Has Hired a Lemon

John Chamberlin ’70 argues that President Beilock's hiring was a mistake.

Re: Dartmouth Only Ivy to Abstain from Signing Letter Against Trump Administration Funding Cuts

Ordering in police to arrest protestors on the Green; hiring the RNC Trump ally lawyer as General Counsel; and now this.

I want to resurrect what Wiliam Loeb of the Manchester Union-Leader said, wrongly, about another College president. Dartmouth HAS hired a lemon. 

P.S: A Daniel Webster, a Thaddeus Stevens, an Amos Akerman, a John Kemeny – she is not. 

John Chamberlin ’70

Falls Church, V.A.

John Chamberlin is a member of the Class of 1970. Letters to the Editor represent the views of their author(s), which are not necessarily those of The Dartmouth.