Gaze out at the beautiful, if austere, Dartmouth campus from the Hanover Inn, which is all the great college-town inn ever was or shall be.

To the south sits the Hanover Inn, a College-owned hotel, and the Hopkins Center for the Arts.

And instead of being overwhelmed by snow-crazed alumni and families eager to peruse the snow-dotted campus, the Hanover Inn still has rooms available for Winter Carnival weekend.

"It's not as big of an event for outside people as it was in the old days," said Matt Marshall, general manager of the Hanover Inn.

Mr. Schulberg was visiting Hanover again and was leaning against the outside wall of the Hanover Inn when he heard the news that Fitzgerald had died.

Then, at 4:58 P.M., he walked into a room at the Hanover Inn for what might have been the most important news conference of his career so far.

Surrounding the green are Baker Library, the Hanover Inn and Hopkins Center, administration and classroom buildings.

We ended up at Zins, a wine bar and restaurant in the Hanover Inn, the old-time, formal hotel on one side of the green.

The Hanover Inn in Hanover, N.H. And to the library at Dartmouth.

As we walked up to the Hanover Inn we saw black and white balloons everywhere, tugging up against their tethers in the brisk June breeze.