THE UNDERGRADUATE CHAIR

The blood-chilling accounts o£ minus-forty temperatures and broken Hanoverian water-pipes which greeted returning students reached their logical climax with a "record snowfall" on January 13-14. King Winter now holds sway, the cries of merry skiers and the snap of broken skis resound over hill and dale, and Carnival is on the lips of everyone. To be sure, a few men were rounded up on the charge of talking about examinations, but the traitors were later released after a sharp lecture by the Outing Club.

Incidentally, Carnival presents a genuine problem this year. For one thing, legal liquor can now be procured in New York State and even in Massachusetts for the first time in fourteen years; and for another, President Hopkins clearly demonstrated, in the regulations laid down for Fall House Party conduct, that Dartmouth parties would be orderly in the future. The question then arises, complicated by the fact that the guest-list this year may be the longest yet seen in Hanover: How will The Law be maintained?

The answer hinges, of course, on the matter of enforcement. Now while the regulations were obeyed to a considerable extent Cornell week-end, we can state that they were not endorsed with any particular show of enthusiasm. And one of the major obstacles to whole-hearted cooperation, we believe, was the attempted enforcement of the no-drinking edicts by hired local patrolmen. Violations, some of which were punished, occurred for exactly the same reasons which made national prohibition such a farce.

Rhodes Scholar Robert H. Michelet, Dartmouth senior from Washington, D. C., who will go to Oxford next fall as one of the four Rhodes Scholars from New England.