1927

According to The Dartmouth of 74 years ago, Norwich cider presses begin pouring forth their unending streams of inviting beverage and the season of dormitory banquets arrives.

Advertisements: "Toast sides only 10 cents with quality as a basis Big Eats Cafe." Campion "Sheepskins up. Jim's exclusives with big fur collars will be more popular than ever. Jim has laid in enough for the whole college." Raccoon coats, $200 and up. Gunthers 5th Ave. "Hot chocolate season opens today." R.J. Putnam, Rexall Drug Store.

John Spaghetti, traveler, philosopher, and vendor of statuary, arrives for 16th annual visit. Buy something and next year he will recognize you and call you by name (unbelievable but true)! "Hello, Chuck Baker." At the Nuggett Movie Theater, Harold Lloyd in Safety Last, a thriller as Harold holds onto the hands of the giant clock ten stories above ground.

Community Chorus produces Gilbert & Sullivan Opera The Mikado, with Prof. George Frost as the fast-talking Koko, the Lord High Executionery, and Prof. J.P. Richardson as the stately Mikado. Tunney beats Dempsey by unanimous decision in ten-round championship fight. Rev. Roy A. Chamberlin, for five years pastor of the White Church, becomes director of Rollins Chapel. (Remember compulsory daily chapel?) Dedication of Davis Field House. College enrollment reaches 2,157, consisting of 420 members of the senior class (1927), 487 juniors, 592 sophomores, and 658 freshmen.

Town of Hanover to spend $12,000 repairing the covered bridge over the Connecticut River. Robert Frost gives talk on poetry. The class enjoyed four glorious years of football under coach Jesse Hawley: 1923, 8-1 (the loss being to Cornell when the new stadium was dedicated); 1924, 7-0- 1 (the tie being Yale); 1925, 8-0, national champion; 1926, 4-4. Total: 27-5-1.

The basketball team won the Ivy League Championship in a playoff of a tie with Princeton. 1927 chose six seniors as candidates for Barrett Cup. Fire demolished barn at Villa Clara Farm at senior barbeque as seniors were eating box lunches. Fire started by a cigarette...uninsured damaged: $1,500. Class paid it. Class of 1927 wins Interclass Hum. Wet Down—Classes hold hums at senior fence, then 1927s march to the Old Pine to break clay pipes, then to Tuck Drive to serenade the president, then back to the senior fence. Three hundred forty-four seniors received diplomas at 158 th Commencement (later increased to 359). Sorry to report the death of our class pianist, Nat Morey, on January 11, 1997. He was the retired manager of Ralston Purina Co.

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