Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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tUe to4 j ol Goile( Uj Evidence that the returned veteran realized llie vahie of his new educational opportunity was reflected in the academic aver- ages of a representative group of 269 undergraduates. Veterans led the field decisively, as wedtled veterans, demonstrating that marriage may be the key to academic success, outdid their single hrethren with an average of 3.06. The impartial finger of statistics pointed to 6-2 ' j of the married group with averages of 3.0 or better. The birth of liberal organizations .such as the A. ' .C.. the P.C.A., and the I.C.C.A.S.P. has testified that the war sharpened the social conscience of many of the veterans. Telegrams were .sent to Wash- ington by these groups, and .serious post-war problems were seri- ously discussed. Most spectacular of the.se group activities was the picketing of Main Street by members and sympathizers of the . .V.( . This picketing was done in conjunction with the nation- wide drive to hold the food price line. ' I ' urning from national ant! international issues to concern with their inunediate welfare, Dartmouth men re-examined their fra- ternity system and actively participated in the organization of an undergraduate self-governing body. ■ anni %xm% |tti;| |::» 1l:l!!||in:| . ; . 4:::n||nt!| I I -- J? t v. o fe nn.i ft ■ ■ B n

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

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Delta Alpha Initintion j uicutlo iei io u lien the last whitt ' -swcali-ri-il niniicr liud ciiioi ' gcil from the liiK- of belt-wielders stretching from the soutlieiisl corner of the campus to Wheeler Hall, Dartmouth tradition had become re- eiilrenched in the minds of the undergraduate l)ody almost as firndy as it lay imprinled ui)on the seats of their pants. ' Ihe wet down ceremony was climax to the revival of traditions which had its beginning in the assigning of caps to incoming Fresh- men by Green Key in the fall of IQ-IG. ' I ' he (jreen Key held further plans for its Freshman charges: and two weeks later tlie center of the campus looked like a cattle stampede, as the Freshman class with blackened faces repeatedly stormed the defense line of sophonK)res and carried through three of five footballs necessary to win the freshman-sophomore rush. In the meantime a few green senior jackets could be spied among the vast conglomeration of Army and Navy flying jackets, but the supremacy of the senior class was still challenged by large groups of unqualified senior-fence sitters. AVith the coming of the football season, the band and fifty kero- sene torch-bearers marched up and down the streets of Hanover accompanied by milling throngs of undergraduates, faculty mem- bers, and towns])eo])le. At the rally before the Syracuse game.