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Saying Thanks for a Professor Who Changed His Life

Ryan Goldstein ’93 remembers his first Dartmouth class in detail. He took a seat in a Reed Hall classroom for the first day of Emergence of Modern Japan. Standing in front of Goldstein and the other 71 students in the classroom that morning was Steven Ericson, a newly arrived assistant professor of history. Ericson also remembers the class vividly—it was the first day of teaching his very first Dartmouth course.

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