THE UNDERGRADUATE CHAIR

Since the return from Christmas vacation, Dartmouth undergraduates have been concerned primarily with preparations for first semester examinations and the endurance of those irregular climatic conditions that only Hanover can offer. Returning from the balmy Southland ourselves, we had heard of the sub-zero weather and three feet of snow which had visited the college community during the holidays, and were thus expecting to come back to some pretty rigorous winter weather. Instead, however, the several days following the resumption of classes brought spring temperatures—warm enough for one to walk around in shirt sleeves if it had not been raining all the time.

For more than two full days a steady downpour fell, causing an unseasonable and dangerous rise in the Connecticut and considerable worry to the engineers working on the new Ledyard Bridge. The temporary structure substituting for a crossing to Norwich, as well as the Wilder Bridge further down the River, were closed to traffic, and professors living in Norwich were forced to walk to their classes on the campus.

At about the time the Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings was ready to resort to January duck-boards, Winter returned, along with ice in the hockey rink, the late arrival of New York newspapers, and several mornings of 15 and 20-below temperature.