Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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a luU ie4M4Mil al actUuUei liiH ' d tlie baselines to walch Dean Xeidlinjier and tlie Sarg (lis|)lay their bat-wielding talents. Politics raged across thecanipus in the fall of l!)4(i vhen politieal- ly-niinded Freshmen went all ont in their class elections. Feelings reached a climax when a large camjiaign banner, which hung across an aerial wire outside South Massachu.setts Hall, was set on fire by the agents of a rival jiarty. Less spectacular campaign mea- sures consisted of bidletin boards plastered with A bigger and better class deserves the best. . Jim Gilmore for Secretary. and Larry Huntley ' 50 stands for class unity and later hours for guests in dorms. Preceding the election all candidates took to tiic I)latform in 10.5 Dartmouth Hall to make their final camitaign l)nimises before their classmates went to the polls. In order to provide a home for Dartmouth men away from home, the Diirtmouth House was officially launche l in College Hall in the fall of 1946. Furnished with a loimge, dancing room, and an under- standing hostess, it serves weekend needs for non-fraternity men with dates. t s -s. Taraeoaji mtb.r %

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7 4e ' noAi-wan, GcUleae cdio- 4ee i Cardigan Ml. Snowshoe ' lub ( (intrary to llic coiiccpl ion nf tlic iiiori ' naive piiMic, Darlinouth is not onr continuciiis ' illl(■I■ Carnival or (irccn Key weekend, and iinderfiradnalcs arc ot ' tcii faced willi llic jiniliicni of recreation unaided hy syni])a I liclic co-eds. Their injicimily finds oullet in many forms raufiing from c ' lass beer busts to intranuH-a! s|)orls. In the former dei)arlment tlie class of l!).j() leil the way with a bust at the foot of Tuck Drive last spring. When the kegs ran dry, the 50 ' s went en masse into the Nugget before storming a fraternity hou.se whose members liad finished off a good percentage of the ' 50 beer and refreshment.s. The appearance of a few football ])layers in the doorway is said to have discouraged the attack. One of the outstanding features of sports life within the environs of the campus was the twilight league. In it were the Friends of the Library. Xavy Instructors. Wigwam Circle, Sachem Village, Jacko, DBS, the Flying Club, and the Camera Club; and many nights the Nugget remaini ' d bare, while crowds of undergraduates I ' liviers fast of .liiliiif Caesar in the 1880 ' s

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