Solidarity Forever

1774

Complaints about inedible campus food eventually reach the desk of New Hampshire's governor. He advises President Eleazar Wheelock, "Twenty oxen badly saved had better be cast into the river and perish, than one month's improper diet be given the students."

1863

Seniors boycott class for two days when they Learn that the faculty cut the names of classmates serving in the army from the graduation program. Faced with the choice of further upsetting the students or reprinting the programs, the faculty chooses the former.

1875

Sixty students come down with typhoid fever. The student body petitions the faculty for a recess. The faculty denies the petition and promises to "spare no pains to improve the sanitary condition of the village." The epidemic eventually peters out on its own.

1878

Students unhappy with President Samual Colcord Bartlett distribute the following notice: "52.00 Reward whereas, Samuel Discord Blarett has escaped from his lawful keepers, the Medical Faculty of the Illinois State Lunatic Asylum we do offer the sum of $2.00 for the apprehension of said lunatic and his delivery to his proper keeper. Per Order Illinois State Insaine Asylum."

1879

Students assemble outside the home of President Bartlett to protest a rule forbidding public reading in the College church. Bartlett responds by expelling two seniors. The pair are reinstated after the entire student body apologizes for the rally and votes to maintain the rule.

1934

The first anti-war gathering since 1917 is held in 105 Dartmouth Hall.

1952

Two thousand students march on the dean's house carrying torches and tossing firecrackers in protest of the College's new alcohol policy.

1953

Staffers for The Dartmouth attempt to further the presidential campaign of Pogo, a cartoon character.

1961

Five Dartmouth students are fined $15 for refusing to participate in a civil defense alert. The students feel that participation is akin to admitting that nuclear war is inevitable. The Lawrence, Massachusetts, Morning Eagle-Tribune comments that the protest explains why many Americans are "contemptuous and suspicious of eggheads."

1966

General Lewis B. Hershey's campus visit is met with the largest peace demonstration that Dartmouth has ever seen. The undergraduate editor for the Alumni Magazine, however, finds the general to be a "nice old man."

1969

Seventy-five students occupy Parkhurst. The county sheriff, brandishing a bullhorn, orders the students to leave. He is met with a shower of daffodils dropped from a second-story window.

1986

In the wake of shanty-bashing and the takeover of the president's office Rabbi Michael Paley tells The New York Times, "We've outlawed two groups of students" The right-wing Dartmouth Review and the left-wing Dartmouth Community for Divestment.

1990

Participants in the College's summer language program are kept awake by late-night parties on Frat Row. In retaliation they hold a noisy Sunday morning march down Webster Avenue. Residents file a complaint with the campus police.

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