PUBLICITY FOR THE OUTING CLUB

This winter the Outing Club and its carnival, has received a large amount of newspaper and magazine publicity. "American Universities and the White Outdoors," by Lawrence Perry, which is the leading article in the March number of Scribner's Magazine treats in large part of the Dartmouth Outing Club and the place Dartmouth has had in taking the initiative along the line of winter activities. This article finely illustrated by scenes of outdoor life in various American colleges contains some excellent photographs by Professor Leland Griggs '02 depicting winter life at Dartmouth. Mr. Perry says; "Dartmouth was the founder of organized winter sport in this country and today stands supreme in the field. The plan of bringing together students who loved the splendid Hanover country, of exploring near-by mountains, and of going far afield into the higher hills of New Hampshire met with instant approval when the Dartmouth Outing Club was formed during the winter of 1909-10.

"It was during the early weeks of this winter that a lonely ski-runner would fare forth from the university in the white dawn of a day of recess, dipping and rising from valley to valley, returning when the western horizon revealed over the tops of the brooding pines a broad crimson gash. And he marvelled that with more than a thousand redblooded men housed near-by he rarely saw a ski-track other than his own and all too few traces of the webbed foot. He was Fred H. Harris of the class of 1911 and he deserves a monument on the Dartmouth campus; for it was he who sent the call ringing through listless dormitory and fraternity house, and and so ended the one bane of existence at Hanover — the long winter months. It is a fact now that an appreciable proportion of Dartmouth's student body sees the passing of snow with a tinge of regret. For the Outing Club is one of Dartmouth's strongest institutions, and the annual winter carnival in February has come to be recognized not only as one of the chief functions among the colleges but as one of the great national winter events."

Mr. Perry who is on the staff of the New York Evening Post was present this year as last at the winter carnival and wrote for the Post four letters from Hanover telling the story of the carnival day by day. The rotogravure section of the New York Sunday Times for February 18 contained some good pictures of the carnival and a full page of the similar section of the Boston Herald for February 25 was given up to pictures of the carnival. The same issue had an interesting full page story on the Outing Club. This was illustrated by sketches made from photographs taken by Professor Griggs. The Outlook in its issue for March 7 made editorial mention of the Carnivals at Williams and at Dartmouth.