Men’s basketball recovers from close loss to split weekend series
The Dartmouth men’s basketball team remained in contention in the wide-open Ivy League, splitting a two-game homestand this weekend with Cornell University and Columbia University.
The Dartmouth men’s basketball team remained in contention in the wide-open Ivy League, splitting a two-game homestand this weekend with Cornell University and Columbia University.
When the Dartmouth women’s basketball team packed for its trip to New York this weekend, they packed grit. The Big Green came out victorious in two hard-fought battles against Cornell University and Columbia University, bringing the team to an even 3-3 in Ivy play and a winning 10-9 record overall for the season thus far.
This weekend, the men’s hockey team registered more shots on goal than both of its opponents, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and No. 20 Union College.
Only 25 Division I teams in the nation get to be nationally ranked at any given time, and being ranked is a recognition of dominance and skill as a team. After making their first Ivy Tournament in several years last year, it comes as no surprise that the Dartmouth women’s lacrosse team has been given the honor of a preseason national ranking.
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a pretty big homer when it comes to sports.
Last Friday, Columbus Blue Jackets winger and leading scorer Artemi Panarin announced a change in agents from Dan Milstein to Paul Theofanous. In a vacuum, this would be a horrifically boring announcement, but in context, there is more to the story.
As an old school with a very long history, it is very difficult for school records at Dartmouth to be challenged or even broken. However, Donovan Spearman ’21 is on the verge of doing just that. He is currently ranked second in Dartmouth’s history for the 60 meter dash and has plans to improve his position.
While today’s Winter Carnival typically includes a dip in the icy waters of Occom Pond and an ice sculpture competition, previous Carnivals used to include elaborate figure skating shows and keg-jumps. How did the Carnival evolve through the ages?
“Bring some long red woolen underwear!” While the tip seems inappropriate today, this was the advice given to women visiting Dartmouth for the 1951 Winter Carnival.
“Winter Carnival” was a low-budget Hollywood production set at Dartmouth that was released in the summer of 1939.
“From Gurgl and Obergurgl to New Hampshire comes Dr. Wolfgang Schlitz. Touring the White Mountains, he sees Mount Washington, famous for high winds, terrific storms, many climbing tragedies.”
In 1923, the College introduced a new dimension to the Winter Carnival — a beauty pageant. Fittingly titled “Queen of the Snows,” the competition inspired flocks of young and beautiful women to trek to the frigid campus.
Before Robert Trundle ’91 arrived on campus, he already had high expectations for Winter Carnival.
If you have ever been inside Rauner Special Collections Library, then you have gazed up at the four glass stories towering over that lovely, sun-lit hall, and probably wondered what they contain.
For over one hundred years, Winter Carnival has descended upon Dartmouth around this time.
Only 30 years younger than the College, student journalism at Dartmouth has been a stalwart — chronicling institutional change and the College’s interactions with the world.
Dartmouth’s history is a complicated one, and making the official record reflect the experiences of all students is difficult.
Art is a medium that contains within it the passage of time. It is something that remains.
These days, we do a lot of documenting without a lot of remembering.
Undergraduates must rediscover the history of Dartmouth.