DARTMOUTH UNDYING

1805

The weekly trip by stagecoach from Hanover to Boston lasts from Thursday through Saturday.

1915

To get the cheapest possible train fare for a football trip to Amherst, some 600 Dartmouth students travel as live stock in "Cattle Special" class. To comply with interstate commerce regulations which do not sanction such a classification of human beings ("even of freshmen," as one newspaper puts it), the students arrange for placement of one crated pig in each car.

1921

Thirteen students and one movie cameraman board canoes for the first annual reenactment of John Ledyard's trip to the sea. Because the Fox Films cinematographer has to leave the expedition early, participants must later stage the trip's finale in Long Island Sound.

1928

Only half of the 200 faculty members own automobiles. The ratio among students is 55 cars for 1,900 men.

1936

The Dartmouth publishes a Safe Driving Pledge "to drive at moderate speed and on own side of road."

1945

The administration lifts its wartime ban on student vehicles. Nine students plead guilty to speeding between Hanover and Cambridge, Massachusetts, en route to a football game.

1955

Students' cars total 750, equal to the number owned by townspeople.

1956

Forty-five-man teams from Psi U and Beta conduct a bicycle relay race from Hanover to Northampton, Massachusetts. Beta's winning rider, T.S. Weymouth '56, is "greeted by screams of delight from Smith girls," according to the Valley News.

1957

Twenty-one Volkswagen owners converge on Storrs Pond for a "Volks- wagenmeisterschaften" conference. Highlights include an obstacle course that tests the maneuvering skills of Beetle drivers.

1963

Teams in a Thayer School engineering class invent bicycles that store energy generated in rolling downhill for use in going back uphill.

1978

Campus police report that more than 20,000 dollars' worth of bicycles was stolen the previous year.

1985

Piloting a pedal-powered airplane, Glenn Tremml '82 becomes the first human to fly more than 36 miles under his own power.

1986

Fionne Mulligan '88 and Mike Acker '88 start a student-run travel agency in Hanover that caters to their peers' wanderlust.

1988

A solar-powered car built by Dart mouth students and faculty competes in a race in Switzerland. The car breaks down but gets high marks for its looks.

Back when BMWs were less visibleon campus, students had to use theirimagination to get around.