THE CARNIVAL

But there are many other interesting and important phases to the club's activities. Carnival! To what Dartmouth man does this not bring delightful memories. This mid-winter snow and ice festival requires an astonishing amount of work and planning. And it is all managed by a committee of students in the Outing Club aided by volunteer freshmen workers. It entails an endless amount of careful planning beginning in November and culminating in carnival week, the first week in February. The work is divided into a number of departments each under a senior. To the freshmen falls the brunt of the outdoor work such as building ice castles, clearing the skating race course, packing snow on the ski jump, laying out the snowshoe and crosscountry ski courses, building the toboggan slide, and a multitude of other tasks.

Then on Thursday night two special trains from Bost on and New York pull into Hanover with some six hundred girls aboard, girls from Boston, New York, the Middle West and the sunny South—demure freshmen and dignified seniors—from Smith, Wellesley, vassar, Skidmore, Holyoke. For the next three days there is something going on every minute; Lord Carnival reigns supreme and Father Time has to take a back seat. It is significant to note that nearly all these activities are out-of-doors.

Thursday night, or Outdoor Evening, offers fancy skating, fireworks, ice castles, glee club selections, band numbers, and the selection of the carnival queen, the fairest of the fair to reign as the queen of the snows, all of this program taking place even in the midst of a snowstorm. On Friday and Saturday the winter sports tournament is held for intercollegiate honors with representative teams from leading American and Canadian colleges. There are ski jumping, slalom races, ski crosscountry and downhill racing, snowshoe racing, figure skating, ski-joring, hockey games and tobogganing. Indoors are found the fancy dress carnival ball, swimming meet, basketball game, the carnival show and fraternity tea, supper and evening dances. The club expresses some of its spirit when it asks the young ladies to look "pretty and warm, not expensive and cold."