Dartmouth Freshmen Break Tradition

An old campus custom went wrong at Dartmouth last weekend, and Bert Hughes is not too happy about it.

Before each home football game, the freshman class builds a bonfire. Last week's game was with Yale. This is the first time is fifty years that Dartmouth is playing Yale st home, and the Dartmouth Freshmen made the game an event to remember.

WDCR, the student operated radio station said that, Farrand Stanley, a native farmer of New Hampshire's Etna mountains, telephoned a class officer saying he had as old bars he wanted wrecked. The students could tear it down and use it for firewood. Stanley gave explicit directions as to the location of the barn.

Dartmouth Proctor John O'Connor said that the students found the barn easily. "The instructions led right up to the barn," he explained. The students dismantled the bars and hauled the pieces away for their bonfire.

The freshman class president, who received the call, said that he was happy that Stanley had solved the problem of fuel for the bonfire. Even under the stress of an added home game this season, the freshmen had kept the bonfire a tradition alive, they thought.

One thing though. It wasn't Stanley's barn, it was a barn owned by another Etna farmer, Bert Hughes.