THE UNDERGRADUATE CHAIR

The 1934 Dartmouth Winter Carnival broke quite a few records in various fieldswhich was a little surprising for so quiet a week-end. There was the weather, for one thing. At 6 A.M. on Friday, February 9th, Hanover thermometers hit new lows, and the Observatory reported forty-four degrees below zero. It warmed up a bit during the day, and almost reached zero, as a matter of fact; but the Dartmouth dry-cold myth is now definitely a thing of the past, even to the freshmen. The wind, to coin a phrase, cut through the boys like a knife.

But even this could not chill the enthusiasm of the D. O. C., because there was plenty of snow, and—for this once—it had arrived weeks in advance. Their joy knew no bounds, of course, when to this cheery information there was added the news that over nine hundred female guests would attend and one hundred and twenty-five athletes would compete—making it at once the biggest and coldest Carnival in Dartmouth history.