THE WINTER CARNIVAL

The second annual winter carnival was held on February 16 and 17, and proved a most brilliant success. The carnival was held under the auspices of the Dartmouth Outing Club, now in its third year of existence. The club was founded in the winter of 1909-10 by F. H. Harris '11. It held its first contests on March 1, 1910, and, although somewhat eclipsed as far as excitement went by the memorable South Fayerweather fire which occurred the night before, gave promise of great success in the future. On February 10 and 11, last year, the first regular carnival was held. It called forth the loyal support of the students and was attended with great enthusiasm and interest.

This year the carnival was much more pretentious, including, beside the regular sports, a dance, dramatic club play, and three fraternity house parties. A senior reception on Thursday evening, February 14 ushered in the carnival. At this President' and Mrs. Nichols, and Professor and Mrs. Bartlett received from 8.30 until 10 o'clock, after which there was dancing of an informal order until midnight. On the following evening there was a basketball game, in which Dartmouth fulfilled predictions by defeating Williams, 20 to 12.

On Friday afternoon came the first real event of the carnival, with snowshoe and ski races and a ski-jumping exhibition in the Vale of Tempe. A three mile cross-country race on snowshoes was the first event. There were nine competitors: S. L. Day '11 jumped into the lead, closely followed by A. S. Holway '12, and they finished in that order. Theft the four mile cross-country race on skis was started. This event, too, had nine contestants. A false start was made and the efforts of the ski-men to get back into line caused much amusement. The second start was more successful, "Ty" Cobb taking the lead with Bache-Wiig second. While this race was going on the starter announced that an obstacle race would be held, starting about three hundred miles down the vale. The announcement was received with great applause, but the announcer took back his statement, changing the miles to yards. The obstacle race was held in the roughest part of the vale, which is difficult enough at best, without the added obstructions, heaped up for the occasion. W. L. White '12 took the lead at first, but was overtaken and beaten on the last hill by D. E. Adams '13 and W. L. Baldwin '13, the contestants finishing in that order.

Just after the completion of this race it was announced that Cobb was in sight and the crowds lined up to see the finish of the ski cross-country race. Cobb finished first, in beautiful form, his time being 23 minutes and 56 seconds. Bache-Wiig '15 was second, C. E. Shumway '13 third, and "Jack" Bowler '14 fourth.

Exhibition ski-jumping concluded the afternoon's sports. F. H. Harris made an excellent jump of 57 feet, and "Dick" Bowler took the gallery by storm with a jump of 46½ feet.

Friday evening came the most notable feature of the carnival, the Outing Club dance, held in the dining room of College Hall. The room was very appropriately decorated with a mass of greenery. Whole trees, fir, spruce, and hemlock had been transported from the forest to the ball room, and the walls were completely hidden by a mass of forest greenery. A small tent was pitched in one corner of the room and in the intermission stereopticon pictures showing the Outing Club on some, of its trips were shown. Many of the dances had names appropriate to the occasion, such as "The Toboggan Slide," "The Ski Jump." and "The Moccasin Hop."

On Saturday afternoon, the sports were continued, ski dashes and snowshoe dashes being followed by the final ski-jumping contest. In the ski dashes first honors were divided between Cobb '12 and Cheney '13, the former capturing the hundred and the latter the two-twenty. In the snowshoe dashes honors were divided between Day '14, Holway and Griffin '12, and Haskell '15. Conditions for ski-jumping were rather poor, so that the jumps were not long, but the event was excellently contested, Cobb winning the senior event from Rogers '15 by the narrow margin of one point. The novice jump was won by Fox'13, but the work of "Dick" Bowler was excellent. After the contests the whole assembly, competitors and on-lookers, adjourned to Doctor Nichols' residence where the twenty-two cups were awarded to the prize winners by Mrs. Nichols. The cups were awarded in the following order:

Senior Ski Jump—First, A. T. Cobb '12, 281 points; second, D. T. Rogers '15, 280 points; third, C. D. Horton '1l5, 263 points.

Novice Ski Jump—First, G. F. Fox '13, 181 points; second, J. Bache-Wiig '15, 177 points; third, R. W. Brown '15, 159 points.

Junior Ski Jump—John Densmore. Cross-country Ski Race—First, A. T. Cobb '12; second, J. Bache-Wiig '15; third, C. E. Shumway '13.

Cross-country Snowshoe Race—First, J. L. Day '14; second, A. S. Holway '12; third, G. B. McClary '14.

Ski Dashes—In a tie between Cobb and Bache-Wiig, the latter won the toss; third, J. G. Cheney '13.

Snowshoe Dashes—In a tie between M. Haskell '14 and A. S. Holway '12; the latter won the toss-up; third, J. L. Day '14.

Obstacle Race—First, D. E. Adams '13; second, W. L. Baldwin.

The concluding feature of the carnival was the production by the dramatic club of Oscar Wilde's comedy: "The Importance of Being Earnest." The performance was given in Webster Hall on Saturday evening and was enthusiastically received by a large audience. Some of the feminine characters were anything but feminine, but on the whole the parts were well taken. The cast of the play was as follows:

John Worthing, J. P. J. R. Erwin '12 Algernon Montcrief G. H. Tilton, Jr.,'14 Rev. Charles Chasuble

E. V. K. Willson '13 Merriman A. E. Wyman '13 Lane J. J. Barnett '13 Lady Bracknell C. M. Claeys '14 Gwendoline Fairfax R. E. Hall '12 Cecily Cardew S. F. Ickes '12 Miss Prism J. B. Comstock '15