Too Much Tinsel

The tinsel and frivolity must have begun to pall a little by January 7, for the postvacation period has found us a very sober crowd. It so happens that the writer's eagle eye has not spotted a single tippling party in any of our undergraduate tippling sanctums since vacation, nor even so much as spotted any be-tippled people on the streets. This is rather unusual, since the tippling brotherhood, although a minority element, has methods peculiar to itself for attracting attention.

All this academic sobriety may be actual preparation for exams. Or it may be that the boys have been working back gradually into the Hanover life and keying themselves up to a monumental effort by attending the Nuggett.

We would hazard the statement that the collective mind, returning from vacation, is turned toward Carnival across the disconcerting, intervening hurdle of examinations. Preparations for both the exam repressions and the Carnival emancipation go along together. Carnival is a most opportune valve for the liberation of steam.