Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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President Dickey chats with ex-Governor Adams, now assistant to President Eisenhower able for reliving our experience here. e will lorn li only upon those events of broader interest witli the hope that thev may recall the mvriad itn])ressions with which each is associated. Our story begins in March 1Q52. . . . The ini[»orlance of New llain|ishire s stale priruarv in March was rcllrctcd liv llic isits of three jtresidential candidates to Hanover and en- virons. Senator Robert Taft sto|)|)cd off at the Lebanon ()[)era House during a wliirluind Idiir of this area, while Senator Estes Kefauver and Harold Stassen made visits to the college, belli attracting cnlhusiastic crowds. Kefauver gave the personal touch to his activities by attending a basketball game at Alumni Gymnasium and visiting the local chapter of his own fraternity. Kappa Sigma. A sigtiificant change in college administration took |ilace early in May with the sudden rcsigna- linii (if Dean Lloyd K. Neidlinger after serving as Dean of the College for eighteen years. Professor Josej)!] H. i IcDonald of the Department of Eco- nomics was named as his successor by the Board of Trustees, taking over his new- duties on the first of Julv. Page 5

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a (j tail Us ud l annis % B year in retrospect means many things to manv men. Complex and multi-dimensional beings that we are, no two of us are affected alike during a year of Dartmouth experience. Living together in our college community each man has had to cope with his own individual set of crises and strug- gles, realizations and frustrations, and joys and sorrows. Only one thing is certain. There is not a man among us who has not changed. . . . A task of mammoth proportions is that of de- termining those factors behind the melamorjihosis of just one man alone. Each of us has been affected by a different and intricate combination of items drawn from a iengthv Dartmouth s|)eclrum. All exerting their ecloral influence in various direc- tions and velocities have been Raker I.ibrarv. poli- tics, exams, the future, baskelball. liu- girl in Northampton, milk punch, the Bema, ' ' Battle A Dav. Dick s House, philosophy, the U.G.C., the ■|lic. the ' Frat I-odge. music, bull sessions, G.I., Louie ' s Barber Sho]) and Pool Room, religion, snow sculptures. Cap. Candrean. Tanzis. the mail. llie diafl board, skiing at Oak Hill, and so on down a list of indeterminate length. Once in a while it mav well be worlhwhile to dust iilV all these bricks llial have gone into a year of ronslruction on Hanover Plain. Thai a vearbook caiiiiol do this job is onlv loo ob i()us. Il is our hope iIkiI wlial follows will in some small way serve as a calal l lo llir in(inor . llic nuK ilcxirc a ail- Pagk 4

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The liaditioiial Vi et Down ceremonies were liigli- lijrhleil liy the in.-lallalion of new members of vari- ous student governing bodies and the presentation of the Barrett Cn|). awarded each year to the out- standing all-around senior, to Alan Reich. Presi- dent of the Class of 1952. E. Kent Calhoun ' 52. ca|ilain of the basketball team, was the recipient of The Dartmouth (!up. awarded each year to that senior athlete who has displayed the best sjiorts- manship in intercollegiate competition during the year. Twelve hundred Green Key dates and their es- corts took advantage of perfect spring weather to watch Dartmouth defeat Harvard in the first inter- collegiate rugby game ever played at Memorial Field, and later packed the top floor of Alumni Gym to dance to the rhvthms of Johnny Long ' s orchestra. Despite a fire which tolallv destroyed the contents of a fourth floor room in Streeter Hall early Friday evening, the weekend was generally conceded to be the best of the year. Another first in the history of the college was recorded on Armed Forces Day when student mem- bers of all branches of the armed services took i)art in a [)arade and review before President Dickey and the commanding officers of the various H.O.T.C. units on cam|)us. The occasion was also marked by special programs held in the Hanover grade and high schools, along with a |)ublic inspection of the Navy H.O.T.C. fa( ilities at Crosby Hall and Alumni Gym. A small group of local students allcmplcd to further the cause of ' Pogo for President with an imilalion of Harvard ' s enthusiastic displays, but lack of an external stimulus and general student ipathy caused the afl air to die quietly behind Massachusetts How. However, l CO PtHJO pins adorned many lapels on cam|)us. and members of The DarlnioMlh afl exlollccl llic iiliif- of their candidate to all who would listen. The recently constructed laulkncr House wing Pastoral ' ' il! ' l ?l|H{i Page 6