The Month
The first part of this month was featured, so to speak, by the disappearance of the skull of a gorilla from a classroom. The Dartmouth furnished a high spot in writing this happening up the headline read: "Cranium Collector Scrams With Skull" a rather more euphonious result than we are accustomed to having. Then there was the final official decision of the Carnival Committee to adopt a two-day Carnival rather than the standard three-day event. Then there were all the other standard activities of the Outing Club that's another thing which we begin to tire of writing of the accomplishments of that organization does seem a little redundant. There are so many incidental lectures and lecturers that it seems a little futile to us to attempt to name them all, for they deal mostly in matters of local interest and importance anyway.
The great thing of importance is the examination period which is looking us right smack in the face now. We often sit back and wonder just how we have so far managed to survive that bi-annual ordeal in the gymnasium, and we have no doubt that some of you feel that same way about it. The generous reading period which the College is providing now has taken a little of the tenseness out of the situation, but the exams are still there, and utterly unavoidable. There is that regular twinge of conscience, recurring with increasing frequency, until that moment of dull despair which follows the first reading of an examination . . . oh, it's far too sordid for us to dwell upon at this hour of the night, and besides, we know that it's merely a rehearsal of stuff which is older to you than it is to us.
Reed Hall has been completely done over inside, and this inner rejuvenation seems to have braced up the whole appearance of the building. Perhaps it was only the shell which carpenters had made of the old place which causes us to make that statement we hardly know. It is to be used for the Departments of Economics and History. The Sigma Chi fraternity house, which was so badly damaged in a fire last fall, is about to be repaired. Plans have been drawn up, and work will proceed in decent order. All of which reminds us that there has been no fire in some while around here. We continue to keep our fingers crossed, for our residence is one of the many around town which have the dubious distinction of having fifty pounds of wood to every pound of steel in its construction.
From vacation to examinations is an oppressive period, especially in this time when there are none of the ordinary activities with which to divert one's mind. While we were discussing the grim atmosphere which hangs over the town now, we did forget to mention the overweening eagerness with which afterexamination hegiras are being planned. Montreal, Boston, New York, and all intermediate points, or as many as time will permit which may or may not be another good argument against examinations; not that arguments on that subject are ever to any end other than that of dispensing with a little more or less just indignation.
So with that we leave you. Hanover is now no place to write about the air coming through our window now carries more summer than winter on it, and the comforting slight shudder of shutters without the window is supplanted by the resolute scratching of a mouse or some such small beast who has evidently been persuaded that spring is once again here.
AN OLD TRADITION
AT THE TOP A D. O. C. hiker surveys the world from the summit, Mt. Madison
