Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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-S Miraculously huilded in our hearts! .

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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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,.»Ji:jL ' l ' -- ■•-g ' ! f «ii». ' s Men of Dartmouth, set a watch . . .