GROWTH OF INDOOR AND OUTDOOR WINTER SPORTS-NEW LOCAL MAP

The average undergraduate is exercising more than he did four years ago. He is making good use of the new gymnasium, and is becoming yearly more interested in the out-of-doors. The Alumni Gymnasium is not monopolized by athletes. Many an afternoon in winter finds a third of the College doing stunts, playing basketball, or holding impromptu track meets in the big building. Calisthenics are required of the freshmen, who report in regular divisions, and Doctor Bowler offers a voluntary class for upperclassmen and faculty members. Many others train regularly by themselves.

Dartmouth has produced many good distance walkers in the past. Most of her sons have done the five-mile square time and again, and many of them have walked the fifteen-mile triangle to Lebanon, White River Junction, and Han- over; but never of recent years has the student body been as familiar with the wooded roads, the climbs, and the views about Dartmouth as at present. For much of this increased appreciation of natural advantages, the Dartmouth Outing Club is responsible.

Although the Outing Club begins its regular Saturday afternoon trips before the snow comes and continues them for a. time after the ground is bare in spring, it was founded primarily to promote interest in the winter sports. In unbounded facilities for snowshoeing and skiing, Dartmouth is unique among the larger Eastern colleges, yet we are told that a dozen years ago there was very little snowshoeing in Hanover, and that the exhilaration of skiing was familiar to but a few. Participants in both sports have multiplied rapidly since the Outing Club was organized in 1909-10, and ski jumping, probably the most spectacular of all contests of individuals, bids fair to become as typical of Dartmouth as it is of McGill.

WINTER CARNIVAL

The College championship ski jumping is a chief feature of the Winter Carnival, to be held this year on Friday and Saturday, February 16 and 17. Besides the snowshoe and ski meets, there will probably be a basketball game with an alumni team; the Dramatic Club will present the play, ''The Importance of Being Earnest"; and the second annual Outing Club dance is to be held in the gymnasium." First on the official program are the three-mile cross-country ski and snowshoe races, starting from the golf links at 2.30 Friday afternoon. The basketball game at the gymnasium will follow these events, at about four o'clock, and in the evening will come the dance. Saturday afternoon the Outing Club is to run off the sprints on skis and snowshoes, the snowshoe relay and obstacle races on the golf links, and the amateur and professional ski jumping contests at the Vale of Tempe. The carnival will close with the dramatic club show Saturday evening.

Since its institution by the Outing Club two years ago, the winter carnival has steadily grown in favor and size until it is becoming a real mid-winter prom. House parties are planned by some of the fraternities for carnival week and many guests have been invited to be present by men not in these societies. The carnival affords a much needed break in the long winter siege between Christmas and Easter.

PROFESSOR GOLDTHWAIT'S MAP

From the greater popularity of snowshoeing, skiing, and walking trips, due to the activities of the Outing Club, has grown a demand for a comprehensive map of the immediate vicinity of Hanover. To meet this need Professor Goldthwait of the geology department with three student assistants, has undertaken and largely finished the mapping of the region within five miles of the campus. The new map is to be twen- ty-five inches in diameter, or two and a half inches to the mile. Contour lines will indicate levels twenty feet apart. The territory in the west half of the circle is covered by the Hanover and Strafford quadrangles of the United States Geological Survey map. Photographed to scale, corrected, and brought up to date,! the government mapping will appear in the new map. There will also be included a Thayer School map of the reservoir district, Thayer School stadia surveys of the village, and detailed maps of one or two small sections by Geology 6 classes. Professor Goldthwait is surveying with plane-table and barometer, the district around Hanover Center, Etna, and northeast of Lebanon, for which very little data was available. Some weeks more will be required to complete all of the original work on the new map, but enough of it is now available to warrant, the making of a negative from which brownline prints may be struck, and until the map is completed and printed, such prints will be used by the Outing Club. The completed map will be technically inferior to the government topographical maps in one respect,, in that it is to be printed in one color instead of three, but this is primarily a matter of appearance and will in no way detract from the map's usefulness.

The culture will include villages, houses, bridges, railroads, and township lines. Wrong usage of a few names, especially those of hills will be corrected, and the map is to show old abandoned roads available for walking but not indicated in the government survey. Most interesting of these is the old Wolfeboro road built in 1770 at the instance of Governor Wentworth to connect the College with Wolfebora, Portsmouth, and civilization; and over which tradition tells us that the governor with a retinue of sixty, the silver punch bowl, and a barrel of rum travelled to the first Commencement. The new map will add much to the walking possibilities of Hanover. It will show the twists and branchings of roads, the cross-cuts, and the lanes accurately and completely. It will give exact information as to the height the climber has reached, the distance from point to point, the names of brooks, and the location of springs,—lending to surroundings an interest appreciated only by those who have walked with a good map as a companion.