1922

144 Hilltop Place New London, NH 03257

Dartmouth Night, October 30, the eve of the Yale game, was the customary enthusiastic rally. The parade on the crisp, moonlit night passed through cheering spectators on the streets adjoining the campus and ended outside Dartmouth Hall.

Some 40 classes marched or rode as Warren and Jeanne Daniell and Dick Litchfield did in the 1922 car. College President James Freedman, the football co-captains, the coach, and a few alumni spoke, and the Glee Club sang while the band played on the steps of Dartmouth Hall.

Messages from alumni classes and clubs around the world were read, including one from 1922 president Jack Dodd. The high, many-tiered bonfire built by the young men and women of the class of 1991 was ignited and the celebration was on. Dartmouth Night is so very old-fashioned, so rural, so small-townish, it's wonderful. Where else but at Dartmouth.

Thirty-eight classes held mini-reunions over the Yale weekend. No class older than 1932 and only they, with '35 and '38, were the senior alumni. It is heartwarming for the real older classes to see these youngsters carrying on in the true Dartmouth spirit.

The only regret of the weekend was Yale 17, Dartmouth 7. But Dartmouth has beaten Yale 25 times in football and as this is being written in mid-November, Dartmouth has just won their first hockey game of the new season against Yale by a score of 2-1. Perhaps our hockey program is now going to show the way.