Sampler

"We trust the day is not far distant when our own Alma Mater shall welcome to her halls the fair daughters of Eve. and 'sweet girl graduates, with their golden hair' shall grace the Bema on Commencement day." Letter to the editor from amember of the class of 1867to the Dartmouth AlumniMagazine, 1932

"When I was at Vassar I spent a term at Dartmouth on an exchange program. It was the year Dartmouth went coed, and I was one of 60 girls among 6,000 men. Actually it was the loneliest time in my life. The men just didn't know how to deal with women as people. We were either treated as sex objects or ignored." Meryl Streep D.A.'81 in Cosmopolitan,May 1995

"When my father...heard of my application, he was as surprised prised as the others and refused to vote on the question." KitharineQuint, in 1895,after applying successfully tobecome Dartmouth'sfirst woman graduatestudent. Quint's father, theReverend Alonzo Hall Quint1846, was one of the DartmouthTrustees asked to confirmthe decision.

Ms. Cellany

Books in Baker Library with "women" in the title . 8,603

With "gender" in the title 1,157

With "men" in the title 4,790

Dartmouth classes with "gender" in the title 1972: 0 1996:18

Sororities 8

Fraternities 16

Coed houses 3

Women in sororities 662

Men in fraternities 919

Percentage of coed classes in which more women than men give to the Alumni Fund 74

Editors-in-chief of The Dartmouth since coeducation Women: 8 Men: 17

Dartmouth Olympians in the 1996 Summer Games Women: 3 Men: 3

Dartmouth Olympic medalists in the 1996 Summer Games Women: 1 Men: 0

How about golden-haired ax thrower Lara Burgel '96?