HANOVER CURLING CLUB PUTS STUFF ON ICE
When letters from E. Gordon Bill, Dean of Freshmen and Director of Admissions, were received in Hanover last year asking if there were any local interest in the Scotch sport of Curling many and various were the quips and cranks bandied around the sacred card tables at the Graduate Club, and many the questions asked. Dean Bill is indisputably the best curler among the Directors of Admission at Dartmouth and his letter received much attention. To be sure he did say that if any were interested in the sport of curling he would send to Scotland and procure for them, at a price of $40, the "granites" which are used on the ice as the principal item of equipment for the game. This prompted some ribald jester to remark that if he were going to send to Scotland $40 for something to be kept on ice he'd be blessed if he'd let anybody call it "granite." But this was laughed off pleasantly, and a few weeks ago the Hanover Curling Club made its first appearance on Faculty Pond.
Curling is probably just the dandiest sort of game, and anybody who thinks so can put on a tam-o-shanter, fill his pipe, seize a broom, and go up to Faculty Pond to slide a 40-pound piece of stone around the ice while his fellow curlers shout and shiver and wonder whose feet are in their shoes. So far as one member of this editorial board is concerned, however, it's nothing but another nefarious scheme for making believe that" winter means something' more than pleurisy, onion syrup, and a nose that runs nine days ahead of the almanac, and he won't go an inch north of the hospital until it's time to change underwear.
The charter members of the Hanover Curling Club are: A. Ames, Jr., E. G. Bill, J. P. Bowler, N. G. Burleigh, E. H. Carleton, E. F. Clark, T. J. Dent, H. A. DesBrisay, H. C. Edgerton, A. P. Fairfield, J. F. Gile, N. L. Goodrich, H. L. Hillman, E. M. Hopkins, E. H. Hunter, H. N. Kingsford, D. Lambuth, J. F. Larson, C. R. Lingley, M. F. Longhurst, L. F. Murch, W. H. Murray, J. M. Piane, J. P. Richardson, K. A. Robinson, J. W. Sliney, A. D. Storrs, and W. H. Wood.
