National Review takes a proprietary interest in Dartmouth College, thanks to senior editor Jeffrey Hart and the many veterans of the Dartmouth Review who have worked here

NATIONAL REVIEW takes a proprietary interest in Dartmouth College, thanks to senior editor Jeffrey Hart and the many veterans of the Dartmouth Review who have worked here. At long last, it looks like the game is up. Independent alumni, opposed to the liberal bureaucrats and empire-builders who run their school, managed to win four elections to the college's governing board of trustees, under a 116-year-old arrangement that allowed alums to pick half the trustees.

This fall the administration packed the board, doubling the number of trustees that it could select. There will be enough rich, compliant trustees who want buildings named after them to let the administrators run the school in saecula saeculorum. The Dartmouth resistance must resign itself to being a movement of student gadflies. It is sad that principles and fun should be opposed to power, but it is not the worst trade-off in the world.