DARTMOUTH SPIRIT SUPREME

The following extract from a personal letter appeared in the Boston Herald of Oct. 16 under the title of "A Sample of Dartmouth Enthusiasm". It is published here as an answer to the question "Has Dartmouth Spirit Disappeared?" "Last night, or rather this morning about 1.30, I was awakened by the college band playing 'As the Backs Go Tearing By', and the sound of the whole college in motion to welcome home the football team from its disastrous Penn State battle. I hurriedly dressed and went out to find the students lined up in a double row all the way from the Inn to South street. It was a wonderful scene—the whole college out in the cold and darkness to cheer their hearts out for the beaten team. As the autos were slow in getting up from the Junction, the freshmen gathered wood and boxes and barrels by the score and built a dozen small bonfires—six on each side of Main street, which lighted up the whole thoroughfare. Then they fox-trotted in couples while the band played 'Mary', 'Sweet Rosy O'Grady', 'Dartmouth, Our Dartmouth', and 'Dartmouth's in Town Again'. Certainly it looked as if the town were on fire, as the fellows heaped on dry leaves and more boxes to feed the flames. The uproar was deafening with one 'Wah-Hoo-Wah' and 'lndian Yell' after another. Finally the lights of the auto procession were seen coming up over the hill and the cheer leaders lined up the crowd, then the coaches and squad rode up Main street between the two madly cheering lines of students. I never saw anything like it in my life. The players were so taken by surprise and touched that there were tears in their eyes. It was just 2.30 A.M. when Spears' car stopped in front of the Inn and he was forced to make a speech. He was much moved as he told of the wonderful playing of every man, how Jim Robertson's collar bone was broken five minutes after the start, but how he refused to quit. He was given a tremendous ovation, then all with bared heads sang the 'Dartmouth Song', and dispersed. This, I think, was the most magnificent display of the old fighting Dartmouth loyalty that has occurred in the memory of the present generation. Lucky class of 1924 to be thus initiated."

(Editor's Note: The above celebration began at 12. o'clock, one hour an a half before the author of the above was awakened. :