Dartmouth Night

The annual celebration observed by men of Dartmouth throughout the country and abroad began in Hanover with the boom of cannon and the ringing out on the chimes of various Dartmouth songs. The torchlight parade led by the band and Palaeopitus traversed the campus and passed in front of the President's house where cheers for "Prexy," Mrs. Hopkins, Ann Hopkins and Dartmouth were sounded out. Back in Webster Hall President Hopkins spoke of the occasion as a symbol of the College as a great fraternity. He said that although on Dartmouth Night a feeling of group consciousness is present, that there is a strong tendency toward individualism in the College, and that a real Dartmouth spirit is increasing from year to year, before which the undergraduate must become more and more humble and more and more reverent.

Andrew Marshall '01, president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston and a former football player for both Dartmouth and Harvard, spoke of the necessity of a firm foundation to hold the superstructure of life. Education can lay that foundation. C. B. Spaeth '29, president of Palaeopitus, and L. P. Benezet '99, principal of the public schools in Manchester, N. H., also spoke.

The editor of The Dartmouth editorializing in the issue of the paper before the gathering said, "You may call it rot, but what of it? Dartmouth Night is still a glorious tradition. It is still inherent to a spirit which has typified men of Dartmouth since its founding 159 years ago. It still exemplifies the esteem for their Alma Mater inborn in Dartmouth men."