The Undergraduate Chair
Hanover during the week before College opens is different from Hanover at any other time during the year. For returning upperclassmen it means a few tranquil days of renewing friendships, of discussing summer experiences (for Dartmouth covers every corner of the globe during vacation), of groups on the corner commenting on freshmen, of carefree sprees to neighboring dances and movies, of careful discussion of football possibilities. The student is relaxing before the daily grind of courses and extra-curricular work. A few men already drawn into the latter vortex as the heads of the various campus organizations are starting the great wheel of activity into motion. Dartmouth and Jack-0 heelers cry their wares in front of commons, managing editors and business managers draw up plans for their cohorts, and Green Key and Palaeopitus parade in uniform for the benefit of '34. The great wheel gathers momentum.
"Sutton going in for Johnson at fullback" —we take our eyes from the players below and watch the student with hot-dogs come up the steps. For four years we have waited and prayed that he would stumble on that high step somewhere in the region of row AA and scatter his wares to the mob. But although nine-tenths of the hurrying crowd stub their toes on this renowned step, the gods of luck have never failed that hot-dog vender—and we have only two home games left. Other visions crowd in . . . the airdale with the rabbit ears enters the field of' play accompanied by whistles from hundreds of mouths, but his dignity is not to be shaken by mere undergraduates, officials and cheerleaders, and he retires when he pleases . . . the cheerleaders are working out for the first time now and we cynically watch for defections, but their mechanical motions cannot be criticized and we remember how last spring they used to stand before the empty stands by the hour and lead Wah-Hoo-Wahs ad infinitum . . . Green Key members taking care of the visiting team . . . athletic heelers hurrying on endless errands and slaving for the team . . . and then in the background Velvet Rocks a mass of brilliant foliage, not real but more like an artist's dream, and what a beautiful dream! . . . and all this . . . Dartmouth.
We returned to College this fall to find several important steps completed: Tuck School was finished, the three-sided quadrangle of Woodward, Ripley and Smith dormitories was open for occupancy, and Reed and Hubbard had gone the way of other antiques, being removed from use. With the final work done on Streeter, Lord and Gile and a beautiful little campus along Tuck Drive we found a possibility of the center of College shifting toward this newer section.
