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.
The Dartmouth Beacon was a student-run journal of conservative political thought, with a focus on international and national issues.
The Dartmouth Free Press was a biweekly newspaper of liberal political thought and campus activism, but has not been published for a significant period of time.
Notable achievements include winning the award for best publication its inaugural year, and publishing a history of beer pong.
It was published monthly during the school year by a board of editors from the junior and senior classes of Dartmouth College.
Many celebrated writers, artists, comedians and politicians began their careers at the "Jacko", as it is often called, including: Theodor Geisel (who first took the name Seuss as a pseudonym so that he could continue to work on the Jack O’Lantern after he was banned from participating in college activities for violating Prohibition.
Seuss'), Chris Miller (who based his short stories in National Lampoon on his undergraduate experiences at Dartmouth College, and subsequently turned them into the movie Animal House), Norman MacLean, Buck Henry, and Robert Reich.
The magazine was referenced in the opening line of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story The Lost Decade, which was first published in Esquire in 1939.
The Dartmouth Review is a well-known and sometimes controversial conservative publication that is published off-campus without any official connection to the College.
Alumni/ae of the Review include Dinesh D'Souza, Laura Ingraham, and Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph Rago.