Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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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,

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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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basketball game caught Ballard, Bovages, Brown, and Calhoun all in bed with the flu. The United Nations gained further in Korea, and the United States won the Pan-American track and swimming titles in Buenos Aires. Dick Barnes ' 51, Pete Henderson ' 51, and Al Moses ' 51 were selected for the State Depart- ment foreign service training program. Despite injuries. Brown was beaten 4 to 3 in the last hockey game of the season. Under the well-organized direction of Dave Hilton ' 51, the Community Chest Drive at- tained gi ; of its $10,000 goal. The Alpha Delts emerged again as intramural basketball champs, and Collozo was sentenced to death for his attempt to assassinate President Tru- man. Labor leaders walked out of Charles E. Wilson s mobilization board demanding more power. The Senate passed the eighteen-year-old draft bill and it moved to the House. Captain Cliff Harrison ' 51 was this season ' s leading hockey scorer, and the alumni beat the varsity 8 to 5 in the annual end-of-season game. Among the returning stars were the Riley brothers and Arnie (Mr. Hat-trick) Oss. The 69 to 48 Cornell victory closed the basketball season dismallv with Dartmouth ' s 23rd loss. The Theta Delts won the Mary Gile Cup for their melodramatic production of the Faded A yell for the team ' ' These are days when men ar I ' e judged and tried for si: e Dartmouth undying, like a vision starts.