Image of the Week

Our series examining an Image of the Week from the photographic files, by Kevin Warstadt, Edward Connery Lathem ’51 Digital Library Fellow.

Eddie Shevlin and the 1923 boxing class

Featured above is a photo from a folder titled “Boxing.” The photo features the 1923 Dartmouth boxing class with coach Eddie Shevlin.

Shevlin, born John Prendergast, was the Welterweight Champion of New England from 1921-1925. He served as boxing coach at Dartmouth from 1914-1916 while on hiatus from his own career due to injury. He began boxing again in 1919 and retired in 1925. He continued coaching at Dartmouth and other schools in New England after his retirement as a competitor.

See more photos of boxing at Dartmouth in the photographic files.

New Open-Access Scholarship on The Occom Circle

Samson Occom, letter, to Susanna Wheatley, 5 March 1771

An article about the Occom Circle has just been published in the open-access scholarly journal Common-Place: The Journal of Early American Life.

Lauren Grewe’s “Samson Occom’s Missionary Correspondence and the Common Pot” contextualizes Occom’s correspondence within intellectual networks of Native and African American missionary writers.

The journal issue, edited by Jonathan Beecher Field, spotlights the work of of emerging scholars introducing open-access digital texts in Early American Studies.

Image of the Week

Our series examining an Image of the Week from the photographic files, by Kevin Warstadt, Edward Connery Lathem ’51 Digital Library Fellow.

Commencement Ceremony in the Bema ca 1913

In honor of graduation last weekend, we have a photo from a folder titled “Commencement 1911-1922.” This photo was taken in 1913 and features graduating seniors seated in the Bema with family members gathered around.

Dartmouth’s first commencement was held in 1771, and featured only four graduating seniors. From 1795 to 1907, the ceremony was held in the Dartmouth College Church. As the size of the student body expanded, more space was needed, and commencement was moved to The Bema in 1932. In 1953 President Eisenhower attended, and the ceremony was moved to The Green to accommodate the crowd. It has remained there to this day.

For more information on the history of Dartmouth Commencement see the link here. See more images of Dartmouth Commencement here.

Image of the Week

Our series examining an Image of the Week from the photographic files, by Kevin Warstadt, Edward Connery Lathem ’51 Digital Library Fellow.

The Dartmouth Five ca 1967

Featured above is an image of The Dartmouth Five from a folder titled “Bands, I.” The Dartmouth Five was a Dixieland Band, active at Dartmouth in the late sixties. They produced an album titled Dartmouth Five: On The Road in 1968. Several members of the group reunited at the Heirloom Cafe in 2010 for the members of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Silicon Valley. See a clip from the performance here, and more images of Dartmouth bands here.