Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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Dick ' s House. . faculty cocktail parties... rushing back for the mail. . and the fraternity hum at twilight on the steps of Dartmouth Hall. . all this is part of Dartmouth Undying woven into the memories and sentiments of Dartmouth men. But in the background of these pleasant reminiscences there was the awful armed strife, and a few stopped in the midst of a complex and changing century to take account of themselves and their college. There is a certain pattern that remains behind the actions of the college man in anv year. Within each man: the campus politico, the party boy, and the BMOC, there is involved the inherent quest for purpose and alignment . . .conformity — yet individuality. . . for achievement. In conjunction with the general pattern of greater mechanization and specialization . of growing governmental influence and power politics .. .of increasing socialization .. and of the great struggle for men ' s minds — all setting the context of our times, there is the dynamic will of the individual — the insatiable search for broader horizons, the strength from faith and conviction, the virtuousness from understanding and humility, the pleasure from charity, the experience from hard-knocks, the freedom of personal doubt, the warmness of comradeship, the necessity of com- promise, and the gratification of self-confidence through self-expression. It is this pattern that comprises the persistent part of Dartmouth and of adult life. It is not the gleaming, dreaming walls that make Dartmouth Undying, but the community of men who give meaning to those walls, as well as to themselves, without which the old traditions would fail. John David Wiggins, Jr. Edward Emerson Clark Kfsniig on the past, enveloped in the present -If Dartmouth, the gleaming, dreaming walls of Dartmouth,

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plan more definitely for the future, and a test was devised by draft authorities to establish the basis for student deferment. Pinkv Pfaff ' 51 and Robert Caterson ' 51 were selected to re- ceive the $2,000 Reynolds Grants to study in Europe. The college also received a grant from the Carnegie Corporation for the establish- ment of a Russian Civilization major. The re- sults of the athletic Spring trips showed much room for improvement, and the newly-created Rugby team returned from Bermuda having won two out of three games. In its uniqueness, this was a normal year at Dartmouth. . There were still the levi-clad, unshaved chubbers . . . the dark gray flannels and regimental s. . the aggressive and loqua- cious beer-mug salesmen . . . Tanzis . . Blue Books. . .class smokers. . .the virgin freshmen the parking tickets .. Robinson ' s Little Red School House Lecture . the house-hop- ping for beer . Dean Lavcock ' s shining nose the Tower Room. . the sun bathers along Tuck Drive. Walt and Ernie ' s Barber Shop . . Sunday Morning Milk Punch . . the law of diminishing returns . the Broken and Maimed . . blind dates, the nude physical exams. . . Herb West .. handling .. poker games... the duckboards. . the friendly janitor, the Town House... the liquor runs to Leb. . Stilwell ' s Battle A Day . . . Dixieland . the Manchest- er trips. . the Bema . . Storrs Pond . softball on the green white bucks... the fetal pigs in Zoo 3- ■ all of these — none of these the goat room. . ski trip s. . .probies. . .the un- recognizable faces w ho greet you . . . gut courses . . cumberbuns . . . the smoke talks... the off- key bar harmony .. the uke ...the hygiene V.D. flick. . the plunging neckline. . the arm- pit . roommates .. .Foley ' s Vermont humor . . beer baseball. . Billingsley House. . .briefs . . .D.Y.P. parties .. the Saturday Revieir of Literature. . .the Charleston. . .no 8:00 o ' clocks . . skin shows . the Carnival jazz concert. . . the Ravine Camp ..Baker Bells — especially Sunday morning . . . Cap Gudreau . . . all the dogs on campus... the one-cent sales ... bird- dogging. . the premature bonfire Lehigh Week- end . . the Scott-Craig and Vance-Tabard Sym- posium . . . Outdoor Evening . . . Fletchers . . . Miss Lois Dunn, the Florence Nightingale of Experiment Aeschylus Mi ss Lois Dunn, mother of Dick ' s house ' ' ■ Dartmouth undying, like a vision starts.

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-S Miraculously huilded in our hearts! .