Word: dartmouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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School spirit in Hanover is still dragging its picturesque traditions out of their wartime hiding places. Great chunks of the student body are not sure whether Dartmouth is a "rah-rah" college or not; visitors who have watched a Big Green football rally, the freshman sophomore fight, or seniors ambling about in dark green jackets with their class numerals emblazed on the pocket are sure that...
...across the commons and all the juniors, sophomores, freshmen, and campus wheels in that order run the gauntlet of flailing leather belts. As each bruised figure reaches the end of the line, he joins in to wreak vengeance on those behind. "Thus do freshmen become sophomores," writes the Daily Dartmouth...
Last year after the Princeton game, the college band alighted from its train in New York's Pennsylvania Station and marched up Seventh Avenue playing Dartmouth songs to an appreciate wayside audience. They climaxed the event by tying up traffic in Times Square to the tune of Glory to Dartmouth," says the daily, calling the episode "possibly the best example of what is meant by school spirit...
...Hanover, there is little interest shown in extracurricular work. The Daily Dartmouth, oldest college newspaper in the nited States, publishes six times a week without any real student enthusiasm behind it. The paper has been unable to muster a staff even half the size of the Crimson's. Other undergraduate organizations--dramatic and language societies, glee club and band--struggle along with the support of the particularly interested few instead of flourishing as might be expected on so isolated a campus as Dartmouth...
Exception to the rule is the Outing Club. For a college in which everyone skis, the club maintains a chain of 16 cabins and several shelters reaching out into the Vermont hills. On Mt. Moosilauke, known familiarly as "Dartmouth's Mountain," the club has set up 14 miles of ski trails with "Hell's Highway" one of the steepest runs in New England. Out on the golf course are 13 more miles of ski trails, a 1200 foot tramway, and two mammoth jumps. The Outing Club is probably one of the most active outdoor groups in the country...