Introduction:
- As a group, we decided to collect Folklore from the Dartmouth Freshmen community since we experienced it and were aware of the vast amounts of folklore available. We collected 25 seperate items from a total of 13 informants. We had 11 male informants and 2 female informants. We met with all of the informants for face-to-face interviews and have provided both audio and video files for several of these interviews.
Presentation:
Items:
- Freshman Athletes Running Every Lap Around Homecoming Bonfire
- “Good Sam” Before Matriculation
- First-Year Trip Section Shirts
- Night in Leverone Fieldhouse
- Two-Day Wilderness Expedition
- Night at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge
- Trip-Cest
- Meeting the President of Dartmouth
- Class Photo in Front of Dartmouth Hall
- Doc Benton Story
- Floor-Cest
- Rushing Memorial Field on Homecoming
- Matriculation
- Construction of the Bonfire
- Salty Dog Rag
- Trips Safety Talk
- Dartmouth Slang
- Freshmen Class Year Shirts/Sweaters
- Freshman Sweep
- “Canadian Ground Fruit”
- “Worst Class Ever”
- Violating the Greek Ban
- Running Laps Around the Homecoming Fire
- Touching The Homecoming Fire
- Harassing The Freshman At The Bonfire
Collectors:
- Tommy Kaminsky
- Jack McCormick
- Will Randell
- Armin Mortazavi
- Devan Birch
- John Mayberry