Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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ie iioul-iniHdea. The adiiiiiiistriilion, recognizing that reconversion was going to entail more than merely a classroom prob- lem, had assigned Middle and South Fayerweather and Lord Hall as sanctuaries for the married couples, to be followed later by Sachem ' illagc ' s forty-eight ])refabricated houses and Wigwam Circle ' s imuiiiicr- ahle a])artnients. A new tradition ciiuc iiilo existence when President Dickey inaugurated the c istoin of officially greeting children of undergraduates with a Dartmouth birth certificate. This document declares that the child is a free born child of this reservation and that it will be extentled the welcome of all the Dartmouth tribe. President Dickey ' s signature is accompanieil by the officious title of Grand Sachem. Jti; . tH«iV. v irro raoEJ

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nae i(yiGja444ite ioau pAxwe inane. ' I ' lic world IVIt tlic rciXTCussioiis of ' -.I day in Sep- tenilicr of 194.5; and a inonlh latiT, on November 2, tile full ini])act of peace antl deniol)ilizalion jarred the small town of Hanover, New Hampshire, on a day wliieh might well have been called V-R day, or veUrans ' registration day a term suggested by Prof. William Stuart Messer, former chairman of the Special Com- niittee on Academic Adjustments. The past year and a half has .seen the revival of a custom which dates back to the days when Eleazar was recruiting Indians in the wilderne-ss with five-hundred gallons of rum. In the.se days Inflian girls from .seven neighboring tribes were boarded in and about the Col- lege while attending classes in reading, writing, anil home economics. When fifty of tlu ' first group of veterans marched across campus with suitcases, girls, and in some cases baby carriages. College history had repeated itself — although the new Dartmouth girls were no longer single and were in most instances already well-schooled in home economics.

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Ketun H A ineie xiiiyi iet The Darlmi)iilli Boari! in the 1880 ' s • , ,J 1769