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Dartmouth in Portrait 1952

December 1951
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Dartmouth in Portrait 1952
December 1951

This year's pictorial calendar crowns a five-year program: every picture-of-the-month is taken by a student photographer. The cover, moreover, is one of the award-winners in the annual undergraduate competition. Only the frontispiece, the portrait of a campus personality—here it is hard to avoid a note of mystery—is contributed by a professional. Even he is a recent graduate.

Five years ago photographs by undergraduates were selected for six of the twelve months, and for cover and frontispiece—G. I. wives and baby on Tuck Mall, remember? But Dartmouthin Portrait 1952 swings clear round the calendar without a single professional assist—due note being taken of the lucky circumstances which placed a camera clicking '51, in Hanover during the lean summer months.

Discernment comes with years. Many alumni from pre-parking meter classes regard the Dartmouth pictorial calendar as both the easy and the right solution to last minute Christmas problems. It is the answer to: "What shall I give Johnnie's school superintendent, and his Math teacher, and Cousin Mary's daughter Susie who goes to Smith next year, and the local Boy Scout leader, and that fellow who supervises the young people's programs at the church, and . . .

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