Playing by the Rules

1774

Eleazar Wheelock ignores a request from New Hampshire Governor John Wentworth that the College draft a body of laws; Dartmouth's president continues to rule by fiat.

1780

A new code of conduct written by Eleazar's son, President John Wheelock, requires students to remove their hats when they are within four rods of a faculty member and six rods of the president.

1799

Student Freemasons face fines and expulsion.

1868

After much discussion, the faculty officially allow themselves the pleasure of tennis, provided they don't wear "outlandish clothes" that show their legs.

1870

Students wearing green knickerbockers are barred from recitation rooms.

1905

Attendance is required at College prayers weekdays at 7:50 a.m. and on Sundays at 5:30 p.m. A student may absent himself from seven chapel services in each semester.

1930

Unchaperoned women are forbidden from College dormitories and fraternity houses at all times.

1946

Entertainment of women guests in a dormitory is prohibited except with permission of the Dormitory Committee.

1974

Students throwing snowballs or water bombs at automobiles or College buildings are subject to a ten-dollar fine.

1977

Pets may not be kept in dorm rooms. Fish are excluded from the rule.

1992

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