Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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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.

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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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Baker Tower, Lord of the dniipus V ■ !■ r . • ( ' y idKi ' j dK ' 1 Air. Alpdiidler, ClIviuviiI Emcee Flowers in the interfraternity plav contest. Phi Psi phiced second with an original adapta- tion from Winnie The Pooh. Sam Harned ' 52 and Jeff O ' Connell ' 51 won the Best Actor Awards, and Don Gold ' 51 the prize for writ- ing the best original plav. The House Armed Forces Committee sanc- tioned the eighteen-year-old draft hill and passed a recommendation to increase the period of military service from 23 to 26 months. The Supreme Court denied the appeal of Alger Hiss, and the duo-pianists, Luboschutz and Nemenoff enthralled their Hanover audience. John Grocott ' 52 and Cliff Harrison ' 51 were named to the New England all-star hockey sextet. Bill Biggs ' 52 was the leading basketball scorer with 310 points. Rick Austin ' 51 and Steve Foster ' 53 clinched the squash duo-crown and brought Dartmouth the National Doubles championship. Bitter Rice was one of the best attended movies of the year: not only because of superb acting but also as a substitute for that old Dartmouth urge. President Griswold called off Derby Day at Yale because of rowdyism, and some enterprising Dartmouth man extended an invitation to the Derby Day Committee to hold the celebration on the banks of the Connecticut. No doubt the Committee believed a Dartmouth Derby Day would be more daring than no Derby Day at all because no response was ever received. President Dickey was reappointed by the State Department as a special consultant to the Dartmouth, the gleaming, dreaming walls of Dartmouth,