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The Undergraduate Chair

MARCH 1931 Craig Thorn, Jr.
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The Undergraduate Chair
MARCH 1931 Craig Thorn, Jr.

We are still panting just a little, and we are still regarding with a bit of awe our slender pocketbooks, horribly reduced, in spite of the fact that Carnival has been left behind by the space of three weeks. But it was the best Carnival ever; for each year Carnival is finer than the year before. In the first place it was a bigger Carnival than ever before. When the Boston and Maine specials bearing guests pulled into the Norwich and Hanover station on February 5, they chugged a little harder than ever before for they were weighted with a record number of girls. The train from New York bore a special car of Vassar students, thirty or more of them, while schools and colleges nearer the city as well as the ever popular Smith contingent were aboard in increased numbers. Another special train from Boston brought the guests from that sector, and they, too, were increased in numbers.

This year Carnival guests came well prepared for Hanover's snow and cold. Scarcely had they arrived at their respective fraternity houses than they doffed dresses for ski costumes, and the campus blazed with gay colors of red, orange, blue, and green in a hundred different shades. Many actually took to skis and were to be seen on the hills of the "golf course trying their skill.