Pot pourri
THE influx of some two hundred freshmen this term has made the campus seem more like its old pre-war self than it has since the Great Exodus of 1942-43 .... the ratio of Navy and Marine trainees to civilian students, which was 10-to-1 at the start of the V-12 program, has now dropped to 2-to-1 New Hampshire, South Fayerweather, Butterfield and Russell Sage have been restored to the civilian dormitory list, and the freshmen have gone back to the old Commons in College Hall.... in order to keep the yearlings from barging through the Navy offices on their way to and from meals, the College has cut through a new entrance to Commons on the southern (West Wheelock Street) side of the building.... although wearers of the pea-green freshman caps dominate the civilian landscape, the numerically inferior upperclassmen seem to have the situation well in hand .... cries of "'49 up!" have disturbed the summer night, and only the timely arrival of the Dean of the College, astride his bicycle, "recently restored Occom Ridfjs to its slumbers and saved a score of recalcitrant freshmen from a ducking in the pond.
Civilian arrivals this term included 25 ex-servicemen, 14 of whom had been enrolled as Dartmouth students before .... the feeling of the latter group seems to be that campus spirit "ain't what she used to be" and, together with a dozen or so other veterans now in College, they have quickly organized the Dartmouth Veterans Club to aid the College in this transitional period and to try to restore some of the old traditions.... their absence from the campus, for two years or more, has sharpened their appreciation of the Dartmouth Spirit.
Main Street this month contributes two items of interest.... the grapevine has it that Life Magazine is planning to do a story on the inimitable Tanzis.... you can't put the Tanzis down on paper but Dartmouth men everywhere will be delighted with the try.... Ira Leavitt, who has ministered to the textbook, stationery, newspaper and comic-magazine needs of Dartmouth students for many years, recently contributed a touch of wild life (the natural kind) by spotting a deer on the Hanover Inn corner early one misty morning .... what an Inn advertisement Peggy Sayre could have made out of that if a photographer had only been handy.
