Aegis (Dartmouth College Yearbook)
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The Aegis (pronounced EE-jus) is Dartmouth's award-winning yearbook. Published annually, the Aegis captures the passions, experiences, and perspectives of students during their four years at Dartmouth. Beginning in 1859, the Aegis was originally published three times a year. In 1876, the Aegis became an annual publication.
Awards
The 1994 Aegis won the 1995 Best of Category award, given to the best yearbook in the nation by the Printing Industries of America, Inc.
Objectives and Purposes
The Aegis' mission statement, as stated in the Aegis Constitution:
The Aegis exists at Dartmouth College because it is strongly felt that there is a need for a pictorial account of life on the Hanover Plain. The Aegis shall not be grandiloquent, but the effort is to be made to capture a bit of the splendor, the agony, the triumph, the discouragement --- the green grass, the white snow, the brown mud, and the uniqueness of personage who find in it all something to carry away. As a piece of worthy public relations and proud memorabilia, The Aegis is a valuable and concrete record of a year on campus. And thus it is that The Aegis helps to save a bit of what Dartmouth is every year. The Aegis occupies a position of traditional luxury, and Dartmouth College has none other quite like it.
