Dartmouth College Traditions - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

• Students rub the nose of a statue of Warner Bentley in the Hopkins Center for the Arts for good luck. It has been speculated that this tradition grew from an older tradition in which students rubbed the nose of a bust of Craven Laylock, an 1896 graduate.
• Students throw tennis balls on the rink after the first Dartmouth goal in ice hockey competitions with Princeton University. In an effort to discourage this tradition, Safety & Security officials frisk students entering the game, and the ECAC hockey league assesses a two-minute minor penalty to the home team if balls are thrown.
• Students gather on the Green on the night of the winter's first snowfall for a school-wide snowball fight.