Hanover offers range of social options
While many might expect the sleepy town of Hanover to dampen the social life of Dartmouth, a wide range of options are available to students at the College.
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While many might expect the sleepy town of Hanover to dampen the social life of Dartmouth, a wide range of options are available to students at the College.
After likely touring Dartmouth on a previous jaunt through Hanover and hearing parents ask the College's tour guides, "So, how's the food? Will my little Jenny/Johnny be well nourished? Will she/he be happy?," the questions will finally be answered. Here is The Dartmouth's guide to dining options in Hanover.
Back in the very beginning, Dartmouth Hall -- the imposing white edifice that faces the East side of the Green -- was the only building that the College could call its own.
You open your mailbox to find a letter from Dartmouth's Office of Residential Life. In nervous anticipation you tear it open, only to find a cryptic room assignment that says, "204 Mid-Fayerweather, 250 sq. feet." Don't you want a better idea of what to expect?
As we look back on the year in sports during 1999 and 2000, we can come to but one conclusion: Dartmouth athletes love the springtime.
William H. King, Jr. '63 said he was "scared to death" as he came up over the hill from White River Junction, Vt. to view Baker Tower rising in the distance for the first time in the fall of 1959. So, if you're a little nervous don't worry -- you might just end up the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College.
For a small college situated in the New Hampshire wilderness, Dartmouth has attracted many non-academic celebrities to campus, ranging from talented musical artists to sports legends and high-ranking politicians.
Although perhaps less publicized than academia, athletics or social life, spirituality at Dartmouth is no less important to the College, especially for the many students who engage in active lives of worship through the wide variety of religious organizations and services offered on campus.
The Pow-Wow, the South-Asian students' culture night and the Dartmouth Asian Organization Harvest Festival all have one thing in common. They are all social and educational programming events hosted by campus cultural and minority groups for the entire Dartmouth community.
For over 50 years, most incoming Dartmouth freshmen have received their first taste of the College and its environs during their freshman trips. Organized by the Dartmouth Outing Club, the showerless outdoor introductory experience for the freshmen is only the beginning of the organization's many offerings. The DOC offers enough opportunities -- for both the hardcore and not-so-hardcore -- to keep any Dartmouth student busy for all four years at the College.
Right now you are reading an issue of Dartmouth's only daily newspaper -- The Dartmouth.
Dartmouth is a college entrenched in tradition: the alma mater rings from Baker Tower every evening at six o'clock, students will always be called by the year in which they will graduate, every winter students will risk life and limb to jump into a frozen Occum Pond over Winter Carnival, and a blazing bonfire will always tower above freshmen as they circle it as many times as the year they graduate during homecoming.
On February 9, 1999 students found a letter from the Board of Trustees and College President James Wright in their Hinman mail boxes. The letters, written subtly with no fanfare, were mostly ignored; few students, if any, at that point realized the far-reaching implications such a simple letter would have.
As members of the Class of 2004 prepare to leave the comfort of their homes and support of their families for a new and unfamiliar setting, the anxieties, decisions and conflicts that characterize freshman year need not be handled alone.
After 30 years at the College, President James Wright was inaugurated as the 16th president in the Wheelock succession two years ago, beginning an era of controversial change at Dartmouth.
Over two hundred years ago, it was a small log hut in the woods of New Hampshire. More than one hundred yeas ago, Daniel Webster called it a "little institution ... one of the lesser lights on the literary horizon of this country."
For James Larimore, the first year as Dean of the College has simply flown by.
The members of the Class of 2004 are smart, fascinating and diverse, with the largest number of international students in College history, according to Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg.
After having had 230 first-year classes walk through the hallowed halls of Dartmouth, upholding a slew of traditions has become a tradition in itself. And as luck would have it for the incoming class, many of these traditions center around the freshmen to welcome them into the community.
Welcome to Dartmouth!