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To The Class of '65
Some Treasured Dartmouth Tunes
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Holidays have a way of exaggerating all emotions. This Holiday
Season certainly is no different. Who can go shopping for a gift, regardless of the holiday that one is celebrating,
without thinking about our men and women in harms way? And, who can think of a joyeous get-together, without wondering about
it being a magnet for terrorism? Such is the nature of this Holiday Season. To give attention to the frivolity
and honor to serious, several web pages have been added in a musical tribute. They range from Rudolph The Red-Nosed
Reindeer (written by a Big Greener -- perhaps the inspiration for the red nose), through memorable College songs, to serious
hopeful messages. Despite any particular words, all are provided in the Spirit of the Holidays for everyone to enjoy.
Hopefully, there'll
be "No Returns" except "Thanks!"
Ho Ho Ho, Mall Santa Mike
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There are decades of alumni class
organizations, each with a specific goal. And there are probably as many reasons for having a website. I'd
like to meld the two. And, I'd appreciate your help. Mike
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"The Hanover Plain"
(The angles are great...
The zoom is scary! )
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Coming Up |

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Mini & Full Reunions |
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Which Way Did They Go?
We must find them... We are their
leaders!
The Big Green College fingers "the
press" for Indian image...
Claims that it never officially
adopted any symbol or logo.
Today, chaos still reigns after
30 years.
D-students adopt ad-hoc mascots
of all sorts.
Without a symbol The College looses
big $$$
in licensed products.
It's a Tuck biz-case!
For approximately 50 years, representing 25%
of the College's history up to 1972
the year when the College re-awakened its passion
for Indian education,
an innocent fraud of sorts was created on
the students and alumni.
The College overtly approved and
co-opted the Indian moniker,
which was created by "the press," and
transformed it into
emblems on sports uniforms and College lore.
In 1974, The College banned all use and
references to the Indian symbol.
leaving many alumni bruised.
Today, The College sits
paralyzed on this
sore wound.
Class of 1965
Embrace the challenge of re-making the Great Spirit
of your beloved College's identity.
It can be done.
Historically, the Indian Era was brief.
Officially, it never was... though for us, we know that it
was.
Still, it's time for a make-over.
Done with skill, the leaders will follow once again.
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Besides, Ol' Eleazar was far
from unique in its quest to educate Indians. John Harvard beat Eleazar by 119 years! And as for Eleazar, well what
can be said, he was a bulldog... yup, a Yalie!
"Given the highly charged religious atmosphere, it is not surprising that in 1754 Eleazar Wheelock,
another Yale-educated minister, founded Moor's Indian Charity School in Lebanon, Connecticut. Wheelock was impressed by the
promise of his Indian students (among whom was the future Mohawk leader Joseph Brant), but especially by a Mohegan convert,
Samson Occom, whom he had tutored privately from 1743 to 1747. With Occom's help he secured funds from England that allowed
him in 1769 to found Dartmouth College, originally intended as a school for Indian youths."
READ ALL ABOUT IT...
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A Very Special Thanks to Jan
B. Bent '82 MALS
Director, Alumni Information Resources
Dartmouth College
"This
is the only information I could find, and did check with Public Affairs. To their knowledge, nothing has been written
about the history of the mascot. Hope the following helps somewhat." Jan
The "Big Green" Nickname
The first Dartmouth College intercollegiate athletic contest, a baseball game, was played in
1866. At that time, green was adopted by the students as the college color. Green has been associated with the College and
its athletic teams ever since.
Starting in the 1920s sportswriters (primarily representing Boston's many newspapers
of the day) began to regularly use the nickname "Indians" in their coverage of Dartmouth's football team as it achieved a
position of national prominence. The usage was grounded in reference to the College's founding mission in 1769 - the education
of American Indian youth (known today as Native Americans) in the region.
For about 50 years thereafter, the nickname
"Indians," though never officially adopted by the College, was used actively and interchangeably with "the Green," "Big Green"
and "Hanoverians" by the news media and in Dartmouth publications in coverage of the College's teams. The Indian symbol also
appeared on uniforms of athletic teams during this period.
In 1972, Dartmouth renewed its commitment to the education
of Native Americans. Recognizing the adverse effects of use of the Indian symbol upon the College's Native American Program
and its students, an ad hoc committee of the Dartmouth Alumni Council encouraged reduction in use of the symbol. In 1974,
the College's Board of Trustees stated that "use of the (Indian) symbol in any form to be inconsistent with present institutional
and academic objectives of the College in advancing Native American education."
By
the mid-1970s the Indian symbol, which had never been formally adopted by a College governing body, was discontinued.
Since
that time, the primary nickname for Dartmouth teams, again never officially adopted, has been the "Big Green." PMS 349, a
dark green referred to frequently in relation to the College as "Dartmouth Green," is the specific color used in publications
relating to Dartmouth athletic teams and in other College publications.
During the past 25 years, various student initiatives
have proposed numerous candidates for a tangible mascot, symbol or nickname that could be a companion or alternative to "Big
Green" when identifying Dartmouth athletic teams. To date, none of these recommendations has received sufficient broad-based
support from students or alumni to merit adoption.
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Eleazar Wheelock may still be a very pious man.
But this song about him is no longer revered.
"Eleazar Wheelock"
by the
Dartmouth Glee Club
Paul Zeller, Director
from the album
REFLECTIONS of DARTMOUTH
Oh, Eleazar Wheelock was a very pious man; He
went into the wilderness to teach the Indian, With a gradus and a Parnassum, a Bible, and a drum, And five hundred gallons
of New England rum.
(Chorus)
Fill the bowl up! Fill the bowl up! Drink to
Eleazar and his primitive Alcazar Where he mixed drinks for the heathen... In the goodness of his soul.
The big chief that met him was the sachem of the Wah-hoo-wahs. If he was not the big chief, there was
never one you saw who was; He had tobacco by the cord, ten squaws, and more to come, But he never yet had tasted of
New England rum.
(Chorus)
Eleazar and the chief harangued and gesticulated; They
founded Dartmouth College and the big chief matriculated. Eleazar was the faculty and the whole curriculum Was five
hundred gallons of New England rum.
(Chorus)
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List & Words Of Banned Songs |
More than the Indian Era has bitten the bullet
during the Revisionist Era of The College.
CHANGE IS INEVITABLE... HISTORY IS FOREVER.
IS IT IN THE HERALDED TRADITION OF "THE ACADEMIC PURSUIT OF TRUTH"
TO EXPONGE AL FOLEY'S "COWBOYS & INDIANS CLASS"
FOR WHICH THE COLLEGE SANCTIONED CREDITS?
Cost of the War in Iraq
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The War in Iraq Costs
$369,200,096,804
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