New Liquor Law Sets Dartmouth For Big Weekend

More than 2,000 Indians from the New Hampshire Hills will be swarming through Cambridge this weekend. Starting today, the Green Braves will be informing the beer halls and women's colleges that "Dartmouth's in town again."

Local merchants are fearful for plate-glass windows, and bartenders are checking broken glass insurance in preparation for the annual brawl.

This year's liquor consumption promises to be especially high because of the new Dartmouth drinking rules. These rules, when first considered last spring, led to a student riot. The enraged Indians marched on a dean's house, serenading him with shouts, curses, and an occasional firecracker.

Dean, Students Double-Take

The dean stood his ground, declaring that he would not bow to ill-advised mob sentiment. The next day, his resignation, which he had submitted several weeks before the riot, was reluctantly accepted.

This fall, in a sober moment, the student body voted in a "petit prohibition." No liquor may be consumed after 1 a.m., and the Sunday milk-punch parties have given way to discreet tippling between noon and 2 p.m. This year's Dartmouth weekend is shaping up as a good subject to omit in letters to sensitive parents.

Last year, the Green infiltration of Cambridge was a relatively quiet one. Not a single riot developed, although several were in the offing. Freshmen in Matthews Hall quelled one Dartmouth outburst with water-bombs, but the Indians retaliated by painting John Harvard's shoes white.