WITH THE OUTING CLUBS
As winter sports got under way for the season, Dartmouth's ski team started its energetic schedule with a double victory at the Lake Placid Club Sno Birds' annual intercollegiate ski tournament, held during the Christmas vacation. The team repeated its success of last year in winning the President Harding Trophy, the team prize. And this year, Warren Chivers '37 won the Foch Trophy for jumping also for Dartmouth. The Dartmouth team consisted of Captain Sel Hannah, Don Richardson, Ben Woods, Ted Hunter, Warren Chivers, and Dick Durrance.
The last official trip before the Christmas holidays was led by Will Brown '37 to Mt. Lafayette, of the Franconia Range. The party slept in the A. M. C.'s Greenleaf Hut, near the summit of the mountain, and enjoyed exceptionally clear weather and most gratifying views.
Also just before the Christmas vacation, the Club sponsored its first "songfest" of the season at the Outing Club House. The songfest was introduced last year by Jack Feth '34 in an effort to bring together for an evening of good fellowship members of the Outing Club who enjoy a good dinner and a lively song around the open fireplace. "Supper and Song" was the name chosen this time by Louie Benezet '36, who managed the affair. The supper was well subscribed and a large variety of songs was sung with much exuberance.
February Bth and gth bring the twentyfifth annual Carnival, the Silver Anniversary Carnival. We hear that the Carnival Committee has some especially elaborate plans for this year's Anniversary Carnival. The title for Outdoor Evening was announced as Jottunheimer Eiskorneval, and although the Committee could not be persuaded to release any hints as to the details of the theme, we find from ferreting about in the stacks of Baker Library that the title refers to the annual ice festivities of a band of Norsemen in their northern abode. And on the winter sports end of Carnival, with Dartmouth the defending Carnival Champion, fresh from its victories at Lake Placid, the competition this year ought to prove exciting against the expert skiers representing the Canadian colleges, especially LaFleur of Ottawa and Clark of St. Patrick's. But Carnival has come to mean far more than a winter sports meet. Among the social events on the program are the Players' performances of ThePirates of Petizance, fraternity dances,interfraternity and interdormitory snow sculpture contests, and the selection and presentation of the Carnival Queen. But Carnival directors can plan, and Cabin and Trailers can assist, and heelers can toil to surprisingly little avail if there be no snow: so, Dear St. Peter, Ho! How about some snow?
