October-Nov ember 1921

College opened September 22nd. The President's address deplored the declining spirit of individuality in the student body and declared that no stereotype was sought by Dartmouth. Students were urged to escape mediocrity and attention was called to the fact that almost half of each entering class failed to finish the college course through lack of ambition to do more than "get by."....The Steele Chemistry Laboratories were dedicated, Rollins, Culver and College halls had been remodeled, the latter to provide a new cafeteria and grill room for upperclass dining. Here planked steak and chicken became popular specialties Jim Haggerty of Coffee Room fame retired and left Hanover Green Key began to function at the Norwich game The football team under Cannell won early games but fell disastrously before Ramsey, Kaw, and Pfann at Ithaca 59-7 for the worst beating in Dartmouth football history. Syracuse beat us and Penn tied but the finish at Georgia was an unexpected victory by means of a spectacular Robertson to Lynch pass. Burkes runs and Calders kicking were season highlights. ....Fletcher and Caswell were soccer stars, Jim Young a top man in cross-country during the fall Jacko featured the drawings of Quentin Moore and Lew Lewinsohn and the wit of McKnight, Bertch and Bronner Barnstorming airplane pilots reaped a gold harvest by flying adventurous students from Gould field on the White River road and from the high school field on the Leb road at ten dollars a head Bishop and Phillips are among the organizers of a new club Bait and Bullet Brown, Deering, Kimball, King, Martin and Weston man mean picks for the Mandolin society. The Giants won an exciting World Series from the Yankees. ... .Fatty Arbuckle was being tried for a fatally phonetic attack upon Miss Rappe. .... Radical labor groups were beginning to organize a campaign to save the as yet unpublicized Sacco and Vanzetti A nation-wide railroad strike was narrowly avoided just in time to allow eight hundred students to go to the Penn game by special train So the year began, with the Class of 1923 in the saddle of so many college organizations that hereafter only unusual accomplishments will be noted in this journal.