Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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like ? .... Corps, a newly created division similar to the Navy and lVIarine Reserve Corps Which already contained numerous Dartmouth undergraduates. Sports occupied a prominent place in the summer's activities as the baseball team Won its first game of the season against Windsor to the tune of 5-3, While the Corinthian Yacht Club Won the famed MacMillan Cup. Dartmouth's foremost runner, Don Burnham, beat ICLLA champ MacMitchell to the iinish in the mile run adding more honors to Dartmouth's athletic fame. There was an active Fraternity Baseball League playing all summer on the campus Whose first match was with Psi U and Theta Chi. The long summer evenings were not dull for there Were Jam Sessions, Band Concerts and Blackouts. On the steps of Robinson Hall, Doc Fielding held forth, bringing the toWn,s hidden talent to light. At a final gigantic Jam Session to end all Jam Sessions, held by Webster Hall, over 60 entertainers were present. Hun- dreds of townspeople and students turned out every Sunday night to lie on the Warm green campus grass and listen to the Band's renditions. There were many blackouts, some of them coming off with perfect coordination While others Were ragged and lam Session tonight Con steps of Robinsonj Dartmouth's Navy T .nf 3 pi ' I Q . p jr is 5 X Q Q Ili . 'ei A comes through at Harvard 17

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Navy men play baseball ou the campus 19 Hep, two, three, four