Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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. . . and this is the sex room Tug The President lives here dates were here to celebrate it. Alpdudler set the motif, and Miss Suzan Darrah of Smith reigned over the gala week-end. Dartmouth placed third in the ski meet, trailing Denver and Middlebury. Olympic Champion Barbara Ann Scott was the star of Outdoor Evenmg. The Gamma Delts and Richardson won first prize in the fraternity and dormitory snow sculpture contests. The Eat, Drink, and be Merry. . . week-end closed with this feminine comment, I ' ll never go to another ' Drop cocktail party again. As the new semester began, the Air Force and the Navy personnel came to Hanover seeking officer candidates. Baker Library was willed a valuable collection of original Eugene O ' Neill manuscripts. Pete McCrearv ' 52 won the New York Athletic Club race in Madison Square Garden. Coach Ellie Noyes commented that this could be one of Dartmouth ' s greatest track teams. Moving northward again, the Allies man- aged to hold off Red counter-attacks on their center. Two hundred and fifty Dads came from twenty-one states to share a week-end college experience with their freshmen sons. A greater proportion of the Dartmouth student body turned in Air Force applications than did either Amherst or Harvard. President Truman left the decision of crossing the 38th parallel to General MacArthur. r ' ' %% The long white afternoons, the ticilight glow?

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. and all eves were upon the 82nd Congress and new draft measures. The Remington trial had begun. Roseland had burned, and the debaters had won in New York Citv. The college revealed that ' 51 ' s prepped in high school received better grades than those from preparatorv schools. Gile Hall lost the draw and was chosen as the Carnival date hostelry. Thayer School opened a new laboratorv to study job simplification. The United Nations ' forces consolidated and were holding the Reds at Won)u. The Great Debate began, and President Truman called for mobilization in his State of the Union message to Congress. T;wc magazine called it a State of the World address. Hanover organized its civilian-defense program under Professor Goddard. By Januarv 21, twenty-one men had volun- teered for the armed forces. The hockey team won its hfth consecutive game over Williams despite pessimistic pre-season forecasts. Marian Anderson received a standing ovation for her performance — especially lieder and Negro spirituals. On January 22, the delayed message from Washington came to the lost generation — all students could volunteer in June for any desired branch regardless of pre-induction notices. The college men had not been completely forgotten. Carnival plans were materializing without a flake of snow on the ground. Ticket-purchase lines were )ust as early and long; scalpers could have done a land-office business. Beardsley Ruml was re-elected to the college ' s Board of Trustees and Henrv Steele Commager spoke on freedom and security. The Allies gained in Korea, and Economic Mobilizer Charles Wilson froze prices and wages. The National Student Association sponsored an art exhibit featuring student contributions from all over the nation. Through faith and fate, Winter Carnival and snow arrived simultaneouslv, and over 2,000 me.s Sqiuivi: Hifi over Her sparkling noons, the crowding into Commons, . . .

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Stalm again blasted the United States as an aggressor. Russell Sage Hall was put on four weeks ' probation fo r hosing around. The NSA announced again its sponsorship of more low-cost European summer tours. Dartmouth skiers captured the Eastern Title at Middle- bury Winter Carnival. The issue of the mo- ment was the eighteen-year-old draft. Two outstanding movies of the year were City Lights with Charlie Chaplin and Born Yesterday with Judy Holliday. Dartmouth lost as contender for the Ivy League hockey title bv losing to Harvard, but took the Crim- son in basketball for its second victory of the season. Kappa Sig and Beta tied for track aurels, and the frosh hockey team took their eighth consecutive victory in quashing Boston College. Nevada became the 36th state to ratify the 22nd amendment limiting presiden- tial terms of office to eight years. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the cost of living index had risen V2 in January and February of 195L The United Nations ' forces were again driving north. The college announced that 112 men were dropped at mid-semester, including 25 who had left for the armed forces, and the squashmen beat Amherst in their last match of the season. The Dartmouth Christian Union arranged for the adoption of its eighth European war orphan in an American home, and the Brown Spring ViiCiitio)!: 1951 Tt Mi See! By the light of many thousand sunsets,