Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia were sweeter because Dartmouth still refused to hire players. Sullivan, Truncellito, Jenkins, Tracy and Pensavalle finished memorable careers for the Green. Fall houseparties accompanied the Columbia game. They demonstrated that there was a slowly changing atmosphere in fraternity life. Dartmouth men were slowly getting the idea that good manners were something to create instead of conventions it was cute to defy. The fraternity contest included scholarship, intramural sports, the interfraternity play contest, bridge and skiing. Dartmouth was taking its fraternities more quietly and thoroughly. Not everyone liked fraternities at Dartmouth, as a subsequent forum witnessed. Xo Negroes were pledged. The leadership that caused Phi Kappa Psi at Amherst to defy their national ' s discrimination ruling was not at Dartmouth. Many regretted it. The Undergraduate Council was without a doubt firmly established. Ray Rasenberger led it through its second competent but unspectacular year. The key stone in the structure was the fact that the administration firndy believed in and preached the principle of student government on which the Council was founded. President Dickey and Dean Xeidlinger continually demonstrated their reliance on the student group. The Dartmouth gave the Council strong publicity support. The Judiciary Committee and Paleopitus were the foci of all important action taken by the Council. The Dance Committee, under John Stockwell, put on excellent dances in Commons for House Parties and Carnival. The College ' s trust in the students was a cheerful and guiding light. Five displaced persons spent the year as Dartmouth students due to the combined efforts of the College, the Council, and the fraternities. The College Chest raised $.5,000, a considerable sum, but far short of the $13,000 goal, to help a few people in New Hampshire, in the country, and in the world.

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President Dickey called, and the faculty in their doctoral robes and the students came to hear the sttting of the year ' s compass. Your business here is learning, we are with you all the way, and God speed. Seniors and Paleopitus before the stage, and all the other classes, marked this tribute to the year ' s spirit well. Ceremony is a precious and rare thing at Dartmouth. The Fresh- men breathed their place in the conmuuiity for the first time that morning. Vigilantes took immediate steps to belt home their pea green status to 1952. Caps and iden- tification buttons were rigidly enforced. Frosh carried furniture in significant amounts for the first time since before the war. Bands of Sophomores gave many Frosh painful and sleepless nights. Football sendoffs to out-of-town games came off successfully late at night and early in the morning. The Freshman-Sophomore Rush was a mighty battle. Like a warring tribe 52 ' s, faces smeared with black boot polish, marched on the footballs. The sophomores ' subsequent victory, 3-2, was contested by the freshmen, but Paleopitus stood firm. John Stearns, Dartmouth editor, swallowed his official ' s whistle. The hour ' s wait for transportation to the hospital fanned the flames of the ambulance drive. The Dartmouth renewed its editorial crusade and Dean Morse, head of the Health Committee, announced that an ambulance would be here soon. The red hot football team occupied the glamor light. Rallies before the Colgate, Holy Cross, and Columbia games were tremendous. Dutiful freshmen rang the bells in Rollins Chapel nearly every Saturday as another scalp was added to the Indians ' belt. Tuss McLaughry was one of the year ' s foremost coaches. Later in the year, the Council voiced a drive for a formal cheering section. It had long been the custom in other Ivy League schools. The decisive victories over

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The College joined the National Student Association, but it was the plaything of a few inter- ested students and would have to prove its worth in the future. On October loth, the night before the Colgate game, the community gathered to celebrate Dartmouth Xight. On the lawn before Dartmouth Hall, President Dickey talked to the world of Dartmouth men. The Glee Club sang from the steps and the Band led a procession through the campus. A huge bonfire burned in the center of the green. The spirit of that night was an important witness against the year of many gods. Dartmouth has a certain family power beyond that of many other such institutions. This power to call together the family once a year is an im- portant part of it. The leaven of the crucial election of November found its way into Hanover. The college community reacted in a predictable way. The public noise was centered almost entirely in the third party. The huge heterogeneous machines of the major parties offered no opportunity for intellectual and practical, important participation of Dartmouth students; so the only real in- terest in the election was in the considerable handful of students and professors who campaigned for Wallace. The student body ' s actual stand was, of course, solidly on the conservative Repub- lican hill. In The Dartmouth ' s straw poll: Dewey 77.2%, Truman 12.9%, Wallace 6.8%. The College was not in touch with the climate of opinion which bore Truman into the White House. Professor Herbert Hill ran unsuccessfully for the governorship of New Hampshire as a Democrat. Professor Dayton McKean was his campaign manager in the uphill fight in the solid Republican state. The country worked hard to maintain the feeling of being Americans, of marching in the ranks of a secure going concern. For more practical than theoretical reason , American Commu- nists were the target. The articulate voices on the campus were loud against this makeshift pro- cedure. A petition with sizeable backing, against the procedures of the Thomas Un-American Committee, went to Washington. Representative Harold Hart, backed by a loud American Legion horn, attempted to put a bill through the New Hampshire legislature to investigate Com-