Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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v0L.LV1 1914 Sigia The Soul of Letters fair, brows banded round With golden thought, and twined in her hair The rose of vivid fair-flowered, thorn-scarred life,- On her we call to guide our hand-to write For us the brief scope of our college year In tabled lists, in story and in jestg To blazon forth upon our zfgis, face, As did Achilles on his storied shield, A city fair with feasts arid banqueting, But malge it here, instead, our college haunts And picture all with cunning art and sh-ill The golden round of this, our college year. Draw there the realm of mind and intellect, And those who teach and those who sit and learn, And those who claim the palm of honor, won In quiet, learned wise.- In friendship's bond Be graven those who pledge with hand in hand A mystic fellowshipg mid lfindred souls Upraise the altar of true brotherhood To burn with comrade-love.- Those, too, set down Who with their body's brawny strength have gained The laurel and th' acclaim from those who saw Them battle for the College in the games. Here place the ranlgs of them who, with a slfill Born not of sturdy limb, accomplish much ln gentler arts,' their deeds portray and give Them honor, as they ought.- - And now, that naught Be laclfing from our shield, in jocund mien Our fun and foibles suffer to be drawn With sympathetic hand, and bear with us In all our folly and absurdity. And thus our boolg, which we would style our shield, Is doneg therein is writ, thereon engraved The golden round of this, our college year. -W. B. Humphrey C105

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voL.Lvi 7 Z 1914 Uhr Bight , What is the fE.gis? Perhaps a number could tell us that the fEgis was the shield of Minerva, but perhaps some might be interested in going a little farther into the detail and the truth of the word's significance. If we were to read into ancient, classic literature-Homer especially-we should find Zeus, the king of the gods, bearing the aegis as his particular property, and not his intellectual daughter, who, it seems, only bor- rowed father's finery on occasion. It was in the following manner that Zeus came to possess the aegis. Cronus, the old king of the gods, was very jealous of his offspring, and insisted upon swallowing every one of his children as they came to the light. Old mother Rhea, however, soon came to resent this summary disposal of her brood, and when the baby Zeus was born, she served the old gentleman a stone wrapped up in baby dresses, which he unhesitatingly bolted, and the infant she hid upon the island of Crete, where he was nurtured by the goat, Amalthea. When the lad grew up arid the old goat died, Zeus placed her sign among the con- stellations, but retained her skin, which he used as a shield, by fastening one end across his shoulders and holding the skin out across his body on his left arm. With this armor, the fearsome Gorgon,s head in its centre, Zeus fought against the Titans in the battle of the gods and giants. Athene, Apollo, and the hero Achilles are all storied to have used this invulnerable protection at times. According to her statues, Athene was fond enough of fashion to change the style of the aegis from shield to breast-plate, which she bound to- gether over her bosom with the snaky medallion of the lVledusa's head. Writers differ widely in description of the aegisg various conceptions of its form and nature seem to have been built upon and away from the original interpretation. Pri- marily, the aegis is the symbol of the grey thunder-cloud, fringed with light- Then Zeus toolf up his aegis which many a tassel trailed Refulgent, and the mountains of Ide with storm-clouds veiled, Anal, lightning, thunciered loudly and shook it from the height the goat-skin, golden-edged, with the Gorgon's head-symbol of the tempest and its terrors. From such form, however, it is turned into a breast-plate, and again we have it as the smooth, round Argolic shield with the ever-present face of snaky horror for a boss in its centre. The conception of the round shield, though perhaps not the truest, is yet the one we must select as the best to explain our year book name. Ours is the smooth, round shield upon which, as upon the shield of Achilles, may be graven many wonderful thingsg where, instead of the circle of the earth, we may draw the circle of our college world and bear our 1EE.gis thus emblazoned for a record of our academic life. C99

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IQ VOLLVI 1914 Cifrnaterz nf Eartmnuth Glnllrgr AND OF MOOR'S CHARITY SCHOOL ERNEST FOX NICHOLS, D.SC., LL.D., PRESIDENT. WILLIAM MARTIN CHASE, LL.D ....... Concord, N. H. Clerlf of the Board. HIS EXCELLENCY SAMUEL DEMERITT FELKER, LL.B., A.M., Cex-ojicioj FRANK SHERWIN STREETER, A.M ...... Concord, N. H. CHARLES FREDERICK MATHEWSON, LL.B., A.M., . New York, N. Y. BENJAMIN AMES KIMBALL, AM. HENRY HOYT HILTON, A.M. . FRANCIS BROWN, D.D., D.Lm. QOX SAMUEL LELAND POWERS, A.M. . . LEWIS PARKHURST, AM ..... ALBERT OSCAR BROWN, A.M. . JOHN MARTIN GILE, A.M., M.D. . EX OFFICIO TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE IN RELATION TO FUNDS GIVEN BY THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Rochester, N. H. Concord, N. H. Chicago, Ill. ON., . . New Yorlf, N. Y. . Newton, Mass. Winchester, Mass. Manchester, N. H. Hanover, N. H. . Councillors HON THOMAS ENTWISTLE . . . Portsmouth, N. H. HON HARRY T. LORD . Manchester, N. H. HON BENJAMIN F. GREER . Copfstown, N. H. HON JOHN M. GILE . ..... Hanover, N. H. HON HON. GEORGE H. TURNER Th EMOS K. SAWYER e President of the Senate Bethlehem, N. H. Franklin, N. H. The Spealfer of the House of Representatives WILLIAM J. BRITTON ......... Wolfehoro, N. H. The Chief justice of the Supreme Court FRANK N. PARSONS .......... Franklin, N. H. VISITORS ON THE CHANDLER FOUNDATION DAVID HERBERT ANDREWS, A.M ....... Newton Centre, Mass. ROBERT GORDON PIKE, A.M. ' ......... Dover, N. H. OVERSEERS OF THA YER SCHOOL THE PRESIDENT OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. GEN. HENRY LARCOM ABBOT, LL.D. . . JONATHAN PARKER SNOW, C.E .... PROF. GUSTAV JOSEPH FIEBERGER . CHARLES PARKER CHASE, A.M. . HON. HON GTIS ELLIS I-IOVEY, C.E. . Treasurer of the College C113 Camlnriclge, Masks. . Boston, Mass. West Point, N. Y. Hanover, N. H. New Yorlf, IV. Y