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PHOTOGRAPH BY ELI BURAKIAN ‘00
Three years after the first celebratory bonfire on Dartmouth’s campus, an editorial in The Daily Dartmouth lamented that the practice “disturbed the slumbers of a peaceful town, destroyed some property … and in fact did no one any good.” One hundred and twenty-nine classes of Dartmouth students have since disagreed. While the original bonfire was in celebration of a 34-0 victory in baseball, now the focus is undeniably the first-year class. In October, each year’s newest class of students builds a multistory tower. On Friday morning, the class crowns their achievement by affixing giant class numerals to the top of their work and, shortly after sundown, the stack is set ablaze. Today’s students honor tradition and celebrate their entrance into the Dartmouth family by running laps around the bonfire as the timbers crackle, wood smoke perfumes the air, and the orange reflection of the flames dances in the windows of Baker Library and Dartmouth Hall.