A Bigger and Better Carnival

The March winds and April showers may bring us the May flowers, but the month just past brought the 17th annual winter carnival, that bright spot in these snowbound weeks which makes Hovey's "Winter Song" weather more endurable. The academic cloud of exams shrouded the campus for the first few days, but hardly had the classes registered for the second semester when King Carnival ascended the throne for a three-day reign of winter festival.

For weeks the Outing Club workers had been busy planning for the influx of visitors which took Hanover by storm Thursday afternoon. The Carnival Committeemen made a brilliant spectacle as they scurried from task to task clad in their scarlet Hudson Bay blanket jackets, the gift of The Rev. J. E. Johnson '66. These jackets, tailored from blankets, bore the D.O.C. trail monogram on the left breast and admirably designated those undergraduate and faculty workers to whom all credit for the great success of the Carnival is due.

Special trains from Boston and New York brought hundreds of guests from all parts of the country and when THE DARTMOUTH made its usual compilation of visitors it was learned that 536 girls were resident in the fraternity houses alone, not including the registry in the overcrowded Inn and those lodged in private houses in the town. This year's assemblage overshadowed last February's list by at least one hundred.

The Musical Clubs' tea dance in the Little Theatre started the program and with the first salvo salute fired on the campus after supper, Carnival was moving under forced draft. Between rows of red flares the Carnival throngs wended their way to Occom Pond where Miss Katie Schmidt, Miss Freda Peterson and Bill Small of the Madison Square Garden, New York, entertained the packed stands with figure skating before a gorgeous ice palace constructed by the Outing Club. Intercollegiate speed, skating was sprinkled throughout the program and St. Bonaventure lead in points for the first events. Outdoor Evening ended when the first toboggan sped down the dizzy chute carrying a red flare, hurtling from the Ridge to the pond like a fiery comet. "Indoor Evening" began about ten o'clock. The blare of saxophones and the strum of banjos, coming through the open fraternity house windows, greeted the sun as it crept up in the East. Many a dainty slipper had been worn thin and the first day of Carnival was over.

After a morning of classes attended by drowsy revelers, the outdoor program resumed and the fraternities held preliminary skijoring races on Main Street. After lunch the winter sport teams gathered on the slopes of Balch Hill for a series of contests on skiis and the intercollegiate figure skaters showed their wares on the Occom Pond rink.

Theta Chi led Alpha Chi Rho to the finish in the interfraternity ski relay, while Sigma Nu came in third. The winning team consisted of W. D. Bowlby '27, T. V. Gillespie '27, F. P. Holden '27, and S. C. Bogardus '29, while Alpha Chi Rho was represented by J. W. Draper '27, S. D. Mills '27, L. P. Ahlers '28, and A. Lathrop '28. The two teams placing first and second were awarded a silver cup.

Friday evening The Players under the direction of Professor Maurice Longhurst presented "The Chocolate Soldier" to a crowded house in Webster Hall. The production was considered one of the outstanding triumphs of the local dramatic organization; not only was the operetta admirably well chosen but it was well cast; everyone was loud in praise of the entertainment.

Lights blinked on Dartmouth row and threw the historic buildings into bold relief against the black night sky as the Carnival hosts crossed the campus from Webster Hall to the Gymnasium which had been transformed into a Venetian setting for the grand ball. Of the decorations at the ball, "Her Majesty" writing in THE DARTMOUTH said, "The rainbow heavens above, shading from a deep orange in the south to a midnight hue in the north reflected their brilliance onto the seething mass of revelers below, as they wove a magic design of scintillating colors on the floor of the ballroom to the strains of the musician-gondoliers. The orange moon rising over the dark Venetian skyline shone down on the frivolity going on beneath its soft hue. The stars in the multicolored sky cast their unwinking gaze as strange creatures from foreign lands invaded the picturesque Italian city."

The intercollegiate winter sport teams met again Saturday morning in a cross-country ski race and the finals of the interfraternity skijoring race won by two sophomores representing Pi Lambda Phi, B. A. Berman and H. S. Hirsch.

The results of the individual competitors follows : Proctor (D) first, IS points; Pederson (NH) second, 9 points; Van Nortwick (St.B) third, 8 points; Thompson (McG) and Tetley (NH) tied for fourth, 7 points; Bolton (McG), Dustin (NH), and Laffey (D) tied for sixth, 5 points; Weston (NH) and Hobbs (NH) tied for 10th, 3 points; North (D) and Sears (W) tied for 12th, 2½points; Monahan (D), Patten (NH) and Whittemore (D) tied for 14th, 2 points; Gilbert (NH), Hodons (W), Phelps (NH) and Ryan (D) tied for 17th, 1 point.

Young Dartmouth and his fair guest celebrated a 42-29 victory over the Harvard basketball team by dancing through the remaining hours of Saturday night and Carnival waned with the tinkle of gay sleigh bells which punctuated the early morning air under a fading moon. With the sad departure of Miss Carnival Sunday afternoon, the cry went up: "The King is Dead! Long live the King!"

No mention of Carnival would be complete without reference to Jacko's 148 page issue, advertised as the largest number of a college comic ever published. And The Dartmouth published a four-page pictorial supplement Friday morning, profusely illustrated with pictures of visiting athletes and Carnival highlights, which was distributed free to regular subscribers.

For the first time the campus fraternities competed in snow moulding in front of the chapter houses and prize was awarded to Sigma Nu for their excellent life-size snow statue of a Carnival Girl executed by D. A. Mac- Cornack '29. Ice pillars, gondolas, snow houses and arches lent a picturesqueness to the fraternity house lawns.

The Dartmouth Glee club was slated to entertain with an impromptu concert during Carnival if unfavorble weather had necessitated cancellation of Outdoor Evening. They were not called, but they also serve who only sit and wait. The Musical Clubs, gave concerts in three cities during a short trip extending over Washington's birthday. Local Masonic lodges sponsored the appearance of the Dartmouth organizations at Pittsfield, Mass., and Newport, Vt. Skidmore College was host while the clubs were in Saratoga Springs, N. Y. March 12 will see the Glee Club in New York City participating in the annual Intercollegiate Glee Club contest which will be held in Carnegie Hall and will draw entries from many of the leading colleges and universities in the country. Yale at present has two legs on the cup and Dartmouth and several other colleges. On the eve of the intercollegiate contest a concert will be given by the Dartmouth singers at the International House in Manhattan.

The fraternities are active in other forms of competition besides rushing 1930 with bridge tournaments and athletic meets in good number. The Phi Delta Theta and Beta. Theta Pi knights of the square table won the latest auction bridge tourney held in the social room of College Hall, although Delta Tau Delta, Psi Upsilon and Sigma Nu retained their respective paces at the top of the grand standing of chapters. The basketball tournament is under way and has drawn considerable interest from the Greeks with several outstanding teams in the field.

Twenty-five undergraduates have signed up for the Outing Club trips to the summit of Mt. Washington during the latter part of February and the first few days in March. So much enthusiasm for these trips has been manifested that selection has been necessary in order that the personnel may be kept within a reasonable limit:. .The college radio club is perfecting plans whereby communication with the parties may be maintained throughout their stay in the fastness of the mountains. Joe Dodge, who is hutmaster of the Appalachian Mountain Club huts in Pinkham Notch, has a small working radio set in his cabins where the students will establish a base for their ascents. The radio club will attempt to follow the progress of the hikers by communication with this amateur station, IUN.

Lieutenant-Colonel Vivian Gabriel of the Indian Civil Service spoke to the College under the auspices of the Round Table and gave an interpretive lecture on India from the standpoint of the English government and outlined the various forces which have tended to mould the evolutionary development of the Hindu nation under British control.

Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn of the University of Wisconsin spoke in Hanover during the examination period on modern educational tendencies and emphasized particularly his plans for a model college which are being materialized for the near future. In spite of the fact that the noted educator could speak here only during the examination period, a large audience listened to his inspiring talk and attended the open meeting of the Arts after his address.

Alfred Kreymborg brought his puppet theater to the College February 24 and his entertainment was a pleasing contrast to the play staged by Tony Sarg's troupe a year ago. Mr. Kreymborg emphasized artistic presentation of plays by the director whereas Mr. Sarg's tiny players relied on spectacle for their appeal.

The Dartmouth suggested in its editorial columns that a text book library would be of great value to students who were attempting to support themselves while in college and the idea was immediately approved by the Dartmouth Christian Association which maintains the second-hand book exchange, N. L. Goodrich, Librarian of the College and Professor C. N. Haskins, chairman of the committee planning the new library. It seems likely that a canvass will be held throughout the College to solicit second hand text books which will be temporarily stored until the new library is ready, at which time these volumes will be lent to students receiving scholastic aid. Such a plan has been in operation at Yale for some time and has realized a considerable saving to needy students.

Officers for the 1932 Green Book have been elected. Collier H. Young '30 of Indianapolis, Ind., will be Editor-in-chief and John A. Cooper '30 will lie business manager. These freshmen will understudy the 1929 editors next year and assume office the following fall.

Figures released by the Recreational Department show how the various winter sports appeal to sophomore and freshmen as all forms of recreation are freely-elected with the exception of swimming for non-swimmers. Track leads the list with 200 participants and basketball is next with ISO enthusiasts. Meets and tourneys help to create and maintain interest in these branches. The gymnasium classes are full every day with 126 pairs of arms and legs in action. A newly-organized class in corrective gymnastics will soon be formed and should prove a valuable adjunct to the nutrition classes. One hundred thirteen men are working under the direction of Dr. W. R. P. Emerson in his nutrition classes and an incalculable amount of good is resulting from the conscientious cooperation with the directors. Swimming draws 95 candidates and handball and boxing have 75 and 47 respectively. Twenty-eight, have chosen fencing and 21 want to learn to ski. Faculty supervision is available for all classes and recreational activity is assuming an increasingly important place in the daily program of underclassmen.

Awarded Title Miss Hanover—Snow Sculpture at Sigma Nu House

The Carnival Chairmen in the official red Mackinaw

The dining room at the Dartmouth College Club, N. Y.