Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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wz M ANY GODS are worshipped on the campus of a hberal arts college. Dartmouth men poured offerings on the altars of football, economics, the fraternity, music, Baker Library, Undergraduate Council, creative writing, skiing, free verse, existentialism, the can of beer, the color green. Great Issues, science, weather, and political forecasting. Something more singular was involved in this year at Dartmouth. Like embracing the will-of-the-wisp, this is an attempt to mark it. Freshmen, seven hundred and twenty of them in the largest class in Dartmouth history, came to Hanover in late September. Green Key men were on the Inn corner to steer them to their rooms, to Commons, registration and matriculation. The DOC freshman trip was cramped because of the tinder-dry woods. LTpperclassmen joined 1952, slapped each other ' s backs, and the community was ready to go.

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A 1949

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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