UNDERGRADUATE CHAIR

SINCE WE took over this Chair last spring, it has fallen to us to report two Dartmouth social events—Spring and Fall House Parties. Both of these were recordbreaking events insofar as the number of guests were concerned, and they indicated that more and more feminine guests were attending College social functions at Hanover. But all records were eclipsed by the recent Carnival, which brought almost 1000 girls into town for the twenty-fifth D. O. C. snow and ice festival. Unless some long-forgotten D. A. R. convention once made Hanover its gathering place, the Carnival week-end of February 8 and g saw more of the fair sex in town than at any time since the Deke house was built in 1771. So over-crowded were the fraternities that several houses had to convert their sacred chapter rooms into improvised sleeping quarters for guests.

In addition there was an increasing number of parents, newspaper men and photographers, and, probably most numerous and most in evidence, visiting collegians from Yale, Harvard, Williams, Amherst and elsewhere. The total inflow into Hanover over the week-end was estimated at 2000, a number which rather strained the facilities of the town and especially handicapped those delegated to keep disorder at a minimum. It is always easy for those seeking excuses to blame excessive riotousness upon the visiting fireman from watering places to the south of here, but in our opinion this is only an easy way to pass the buck. However, increasing numbers of friend collegians do strain the capacities of already overflowing fraternity houses and other local gathering centers. In view of such evidence this Carnival, the Outing Club has announced its intention to ease up on pre-Carnival publicity in the future and resign itself to smaller gates.