WORST BLIZZARD IN YEARS HALTS CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

The most severe blizzard that has visited Hanover since 1898 swirled down the Connecticut valley early on the morning of Saturday, March 6, heaping drifts across walks, streets and the campus so promiscuously and to such a depth that it was decided best to drop college work for the day. No exercises were held after the first hour recitations, there having been time by then to get word of the discontinuance to all recitation halls.

"Peerading" students who had left Hanover late Friday night were snowed in for 18 hours at Canaan, only 22 miles away, roads and railways were effectively blocked by the drifts, and the town and college submitted to being snowbound for four days. That was the period during which no newspapers reached Dartmouth from either New York or Boston.