DARTMOUTH UNDYING

1899

The first Green Key bash—called Spring Houseparties Weekend—is held to celebrate the end of a particularly inclement winter. The affair proves "that Dartmouth is not wholly without the pale of society," The Dartmouth notes with apparent relief.

1928

The Green Key Show is the highlight of early Weekends. This year's performance is titled "Hair-Pin Annie's Revenge," billed as "a stirring rhelodrama of sex."

1935

Despite a German measles outbreak on campus, women come from as far away as Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Canada, according to The New York Times.

1953

Fifty extra town and campus police are on duty as 1,200 women advance on Dartmouth for the weekend. Saturday morning classes are scheduled despite the festivities, and the prospect of women sitting in on classes prompts campus-wide debate. "I have no objection to their coming as long as they're pretty," one professor says.

1954

Hanover police seal off the country club after 69 students and their dates are discovered playing golf—at four o'clock in the morning. The police were on alert after the chief caught a hungry student on the eighth green with hot dogs, rolls, mustard, cupcakes, coffee, Canadian Club, marijuana, heroin and Alka Seltzer.

1963

Highlights of the weekend include piano-smashing on the Green.

1966

The first chariot race is held. Winners receive a keg of beer.

1967

The weekend prom is cancelled, never to be revived, after students riot in protest of a speech by Alabama Governor George Wallace.

1981

Highlights of the weekend include car-smashing at Phi Delt.

1989

"It's now pretty much a normal weekend with a few extra parties," a senior tells the magazine.

Behold the core of Green Key Weekends past: The Date. What happens now that women are already on campus?