Fall 2005
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Contents

Features

A LETTER FROM HOME
For 100 years, The Exeter Bulletin has been keeping a sense of school family alive, connecting alumni/ae with one another and with Academy life today. Article by Katherine Towler

THE SPIRIT OF THE PLACE
Reflections, past and present, on the many-splendored thing that is Phillips Exeter Academy.

EVERYBODY COMES TO EXETER
Robert Frost to Robert Oppenheimer: a look at some notable visitors.

LET US NOW PRAISE GREAT BOOKS
James Agee '28, John Knowles '45, John Irving '61 and other 'Exonians in Review.'

DECIPHERING THE DAN BROWN CODE
A reader's guide to the real-life Exonians lurking in the pages of Dan Brown's best sellers. Article by Julie Quinn

OUR BACK SPORTS PAGES
Great moments and milestones, athletes and upsets, coaches and comebacks: an Exeter sports sampler. Article by Brian MacPherson '02

THE REPORT OF GIVING

Departments

Letter from the Editor

Around the Table

Bruce Pruitt Named First Steyer Distinguished Professor
Other Professorships Announced
New Trustees Appointed
'A Door Has Opened'
Table Talk with Academy Archivist Ed Desrochers
The 'Pendulum' at 50: PEA's Literary Magazine Seeks to Inspire Art by Exhibiting It
Exeter Mathematics Institute Spreads the Good News About Numbers
Report from Tbilisi
The Greening of Exeter Continues . . .
New Academy Center Takes Shape
Corrections
Exeter in the News

Exonians in Review

From Every Quarter

Finis Origine Pendet, by Susannah Clark '84

About the Bulletin

Index