DR. WHEELOCK'S ALMANACK

"This may be the only campus in the country where most students wear sweatshirts bearing the name of their own college."

FEBRUARY

The New York Times October 26, 1988

1 Harvard announced in 1913 that it would drop Dartmouth from its schedule. The Crimson wanted a "less exacting series of contests" before the Yale game. Harvard returned to the Green's schedule in 1922.

3 The women's basketball team plays host to Penn.

4 Men's hockey team is at home playing Princeton. Gilman Frost took America's first medical X-ray in 1896 in Reed Hall.

8 Opening night for the Dartmouth Players' production of "What the Butler Saw."

9 Dartmouth Winter Carnival Ceremonies begin on the Green at seven o'clock. An army of visitors to the 1952 Winter Carnival caused an eight-mile traffic jam.

11 Jazz musician Max Roach is in concert with the Barbary Coast.

17 The new $101,000 Dartmouth Hall was dedicated in 1906. The weather was so cold that as the band led a procession through the snow all the instruments froze-save for the drums.

24 Third annual Alumni Winter Festival Weekend begins.