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.