Really great program for the 1958 Dartmouth Winter Carnival. Full of pictures basketball hockey skiing etc
Winter Carnival
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Winter Carnival is a long-standing tradition at Dartmouth College that was particularly famous during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. The Dartmouth Outing Club, founded in 1909, organized a winter weekend "field day" in 1910. This was an athletic event centered on skiing, a sport which the Outing Club helped to pioneer and publicize on a national scale. In 1911, the event was named Winter Carnival, social events were added, and women were invited to attend. By 1919 the emphasis had shifted to dances organized by fraternities. Special trains made runs to transport women guests to Dartmouth, and National Geographic Magazine referred to it as "the Mardi Gras of the North". The event became famous, much as Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale was to be during the 1950s and 1960s.
Carnival was the subject of the frothy 1939 motion picture comedy Winter Carnival, starring Ann Sheridan, who plays a former Winter Carnival Queen of the Snows who has made a bad marriage to a European duke and revisits Dartmouth in an attempt to save her younger sister, the current Queen, from repeating her mistake with a European count.
The movie is remembered mostly for its extracinematic associations; F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dartmouth alumnus Budd Schulberg were hired to write the screenplay. While gathering background in Hanover during Carnival, Fitzgerald became scandalously drunk at fraternities and was forced to leave the project. Although portions of his work were used, he was not given a writer's credit. The events and personalities bear a resemblance to those recounted in Schulberg's novel, The Disenchanted.
Winter Carnival takes place each year on a weekend in February and include such events as ski competitions at the Dartmouth Skiway and Oak Hill Ski Center; a polar bear swim; a cappella and jazz concerts; a human dogsled race; a drag ball; and a showing of the 1939 movie. Students build a large Carnival-themed snow sculpture on the college Green. The 1987 sculpture held the Guinness record for the "tallest snowman". The sculpture in 2004 reflected the famous character The Cat in the Hat, in honor of the 100th birthday of Dartmouth alumnus and creator of the character, Dr. Seuss. Dartmouth has a historical connection and affiliation with Lewiston-based liberal arts college, Bates College,[20][21] that includes similar traditions such as the Dartmouth Challenge,[22] dual engineering programs, campus parallels[23] and an athletic rivalry. The tradition of Winter Carnival is the oldest in the United States, which is followed by Bates who founded their Winter Carnival two years after Dartmouth.[24]
Numerous parties are thrown by the campus's fraternities and sororities. In 1999, students cancelled their parties to protest other administration policies. In 2000, Psi Upsilon fraternity was forced by the Administration to ban its annual "Keg Jump" event, marking the end of a 19-year tradition in which brothers attempted to jump over a line of kegs on ice skates.[25][26]
A List of Carnival Themes Over the Years:
North Side Story 1962
Winter Wanderlust 1966
A Midwinter Night's Dream 1967
Klondike Kaleidoscope 1968
Land of Fire & Ice 1969
Sometimes in Winter ... 1970
Ooh ... Meanwhile, Back at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival 1970
Fun for the Whole Family 1971
The Winterland of Oz 1972
Through a Frosted Looking Glass 1973
The Winterful World of Disney 1974
Valhalla – Beyond the North Winds 1975
A Snow-Spangled Salute 1976
The Spirit of Wintergreen 1977
The Greatest Snow on Earth 1978
The Great Cold Rush 1979
Winter Takes All 1980
Hanover Hears a Who 1981
Adventures on the High Freeze 1982
The Rise and Fall of the Frozen Empire 1983
Camelot Frozen in Time 1984
A Diamond in the Rough 1985
Where the Wild Things Are 1986
Blizzard on Bourbon Street 1987
Winter Games of Old: Gods and Goddesses and Gold
Break Out of Hibernation 1989
It's a Grimm Winter 1990
Atlantice: A Winter Under the Sea 1991
How the Grinch Stole Carnival 1992
Sun, Surf, and Snow 1993
When Hanover Freezes Over ... All Carnival Breaks Loose 1994
Call of the Wild 1995
'Round the Girdled Earth They Roamed: A Prehistoric Carnival 1996
'Twas a Cold and Snowy Knight: A Medieval Carnival 1997
The Roaring −20°s 1998
Gone to the Dogs 1999
Lest the Cold Traditions Fail 2000
2001: An Ice Odyssey 2001
There's Snow Place Like Home 2002
One Carnival to Rule Them All 2003
Oh, The Places It Snows: A Seussentennial 2004
A Dartmouth Neverland 2005
Mischief in the Snow 2006
Down the Rabbit Hole 2007
20,000 Leagues Under the Snow 2008
Summiting a Century: 100 Years of the DOC 2009
I Came, I Saw, I Carnivaled 2010
Carnival of the Century 2011
Carnival in Candy Land 2012
A Very Grimm Carnival 2013
A Carnival of Thrones 2014
Mission: Winter Carnival - License to Chill 2022
Green Key Weekend