Acknowledgments • Introduction by Sheila Culbert • APPOINTMENT AS PRESIDENT OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE • Remarks following the Announcement by the Board of Trustees, April 6, 1998 • Dartmouth: Forever New, September 23, 1998 • CONVOCATION ADDRESSES, 1999 - 2008 • September 21, 1999 • September 19, 2000 • September 24, 2001 • September 24, 2002 • September 23, 2003 • September 21, 2004 • September 20, 2005 • September 19, 2006 • September 25, 2007 • September 23, 2008 • SELECTED SPEECHES ON VARIOUS TOPICS, 1999 - 2009 • Address to First-Year Students, September 15, 1999 • Report to the General Faculty, October 18, 1999 • Class of 1950 Reunion Luncheon, June 10, 2000 • Libraries in the Cyber Age, July 12, 2000 • Growing and Preserving: A Mutual Challenge, November 26, 2000 • Remarks to the Alumni Council, May 18, 2001 • Address Delivered at Beijing Normal University, October 10, 2002 • Remarks to the Alumni Council, May 2, 2003 • Unleashed: Mobile Computing Conference, October 8, 2003 • Remarks to Class Officers, September 16, 2004 • Remarks in Memory of David T. McLaughlin ‘54 Tu ‘55, President Emeritus of the College, October 4, 2004 • The Leslie Conference on the Future of the Liberal Arts, November 6, 2004 • Dartmouth Lawyers Association, October 11, 2003 • Remarks at the Memorial Service for James O. Freedman, Fifteenth President of Dartmouth College, May 15, 2006 • Athletics and Life: Essay for the Class of 1964, on Its Fiftieth Reunion, 2007 • Honoring Veterans, October 6, 2007 • Eleventh Annual Report to the General Faculty, October 27, 2008 • The Yellow Ribbon Program and Private Colleges, February 2, 2009 • Veterans Day at the Vietnam Memorial Wall, Washington, D.C., November 11, 2009 • COMMENCEMENT ADDRESSES, 1999 - 2009 • June 13, 1999 • June 11, 2000 • June 10, 2001 • June 9, 2002 • June 8, 2003 • June 13, 2004 • June 12, 2005 • June 11, 2006 • June 10, 2007 • June 8, 2008 • June 14, 2009 • FAREWELL • Letter to the Dartmouth Community, June 29, 2009 • A Welcome to the Wheelock Succession, September 22, 2009