Monday, April 07, 2003Women of Dartmouth?I was gratified to see the middle verse, known as the war verse, of Men of Dartmouth included in the issue. It's a shame that this part of the song has been expunged from the College's practices altogether. For those who don't know, the war verse was traditionally added to the alma mater during time of war, to honor those Dartmouth men who had died in the service of their country, and who might be doing so at that moment on the front lines. When the decision was made to alter the song to include women, rather than adopting a new alma mater and keeping Men of Dartmouth as simply one more song in the College canon, the war verse was basically eliminated (look at the lyrics and you'll understand why). On first reading the lyrics again I was going to emphasize this point. But it occurred to me that in the near future the verse could legitimately become obsolete, if Dartmouth women were killed in combat. So, another assignment for the Review staff if anyone wants it: how many female Dartmouth graduates serve in the military? How many are in specialties that would lead to forward deployment? Posted by Alexander at 7:26 PM Comments Post a Comment (we enforce our comments policy) |
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