Celebrities leave lasting impressions. Others take impressions with them.

1817

President James Monroe

comes to Hanover. As the

Supreme Court has yet to decide the Dartmouth College case, Monroe tactfully pays his respects to the heads of both Dartmouths.

1829

Ralph Waldo Emerson visits the College. He writes,

"Hanover is a very pretty village built lying around a common. Why do not all people build towns in the same way?"

1872

The seniors, hoping to outrage the faculty, invite Walt Whitman to deliver the Commencement poem. It is doubtful that the poem outrages

anyone as the poet's voice is so muffled even those seated in the front row cannot make out what is being said.

1915

While vacationing in Cornish, New Hampshire, President Woodrow Wilson plays golf nearly every day in Hanover. A Boston paper muses that the President enjoys the golf course because Hanoverians ignore him.

1936

Ozzie Nelson's orchestra is booked for the Green Key

prom. Ozzie says both he "and Harriet were eagerly looking forward to a swell time in Hanover."

1937

Eyeing the Orozco Murals, Eleanor Roosevelt proclaims them, "way ahead of PWA projects."

1941

Babe Ruth declares the Hanover Country Club to be "too hilly."

1967

Media coverage of students heckling George Wallace off a campus stage and subse- quently surrounding his car when he tries to leave prompts an outpouring of mail to President Dickey. The letters, the majority of which criticize both the students and the College, fill two file boxes.

1979

Fifty-nine years after filming the famous Connecticut

River ice-floe sequence in her film Way Down East, actress Lillian Gish becomes the first recipient of the Dartmouth Film Award. Speaking in

Spaulding Auditorium she

says, "Little did I think, when I came here for three weeks and was so cold, that I would some day be surrounded by such love and affection."

1983

Before a crowd of 800 people in Thompson Arena television evangelist Jerry Falwell thanks the Dartmouth Review for bringing him to campus: "There are few publications and organizations as conserv ative as I am. I am so glad to meet one." The following

week an optimistic Kurt Vonnegut tells his Dartmouth audience that mostly young people are influenced by his books. "Therefore it'll take 20 years before anyone will listen to them. And I think they'll have my crackpot ideas."

1997

Actress Meryl Streep, an exchange student from Vassar for one term in 1970, receives the Dartmouth Film Award. During the award ceremony she recalls her time as one of the first campus coeds, saying, "We were like canaries in a mine. They sent us down to see if we'd survive."

Johnny- Depp was a big nameon campus for one whole day.