Searching around on the internet, I found out that the Office of Alumni Relations has an online booklet with the lyrics of many Dartmouth songs.
You can find it here:
Alumni Songbook
The Class of 1965 website has recordings of many of the tunes featured in the booklet. The recordings are from a 1965 record by the Glee Club which was sold at James Campion's shop.
This is the link:
Reflections of Dartmouth LP
It's great that this record is now preserved in mp3 format and now available for all.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Monday, September 6, 2010
Orientation - 1947
Even as I write this post, Dartmouth's newest class, the '14s, have been arriving in Hanover to embark upon their freshman Outing Club trips and enjoy the great outdoors. Here we have a video from the Dartmouth archives chronicling orientation in 1947.
1947 was the first "normal" year at Dartmouth following World War II, and Dartmouth enrolled a record number of students that year.
As soon as the video starts, I was amazed to see the students stepping off the bus in jackets and ties, and the students were similarly dressed in the classroom. Nary a t-shirt to be seen throughout the whole film.
There are some nice shots of Main Street, including the now long-gone Campion's haberdashery, and the College Bookstore.
One "tradition" that I was amazed to see was that freshman, wearing their beanies, were required to help upperclassmen with their luggage at the beginning of the year. I can't imagine something like that happening today, but the thought of the unlucky '14s carrying my boxes around is not a bad one.
The video also shows a model for a performing arts center which would have stood where the Hopkins Center stands today. Designed along the lines of Webster Hall, personally I would have preferred it to the modernistic and ugly Hop.
The video ends with scenes from the famous Freshman trips, although the trips of yesteryear feature a lot more flannel and a lot less flair that those of today. However the point of the trips is the same; to introduce them to the wonderful countryside of New Hampshire and to welcome students to the best college in America
1947 was the first "normal" year at Dartmouth following World War II, and Dartmouth enrolled a record number of students that year.
As soon as the video starts, I was amazed to see the students stepping off the bus in jackets and ties, and the students were similarly dressed in the classroom. Nary a t-shirt to be seen throughout the whole film.
There are some nice shots of Main Street, including the now long-gone Campion's haberdashery, and the College Bookstore.
One "tradition" that I was amazed to see was that freshman, wearing their beanies, were required to help upperclassmen with their luggage at the beginning of the year. I can't imagine something like that happening today, but the thought of the unlucky '14s carrying my boxes around is not a bad one.
The video also shows a model for a performing arts center which would have stood where the Hopkins Center stands today. Designed along the lines of Webster Hall, personally I would have preferred it to the modernistic and ugly Hop.
The video ends with scenes from the famous Freshman trips, although the trips of yesteryear feature a lot more flannel and a lot less flair that those of today. However the point of the trips is the same; to introduce them to the wonderful countryside of New Hampshire and to welcome students to the best college in America
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