(NEW HAMPSHIRE) Freshmen You Will Smoke in Hell You Will Swi

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(NEW HAMPSHIRE.) Freshmen! You Will Smoke in Hell, You Will Swim at Dartmouth. Honor the Mighty Soph! Illustrated letterpress broadside, 23 x 39 inches; two short closed tears, minor staining and toning. [Hanover, NH, circa late 1911]

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This Dartmouth College hazing broadside demands the subservience of the incoming class of 1915 (the "foolish fops of fifteen"), lest they be plunged into the "icy and ignoble tank" by vigilant sophomores. The sophomores add in closing that "drowning is but pleasant play compared to the horrors of the waiting tank." Among the tormented Class of 1915 was James Forrestal, who later took it out on the Nazis as Roosevelt's last Secretary of the Navy. One copy in OCLC, at Dartmouth.