WITH THE OUTING CLUBS

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, in February, a single skiing enthusiast in College was the driving force behind a winter sports meet among Dartmouth undergraduates. If Fred Harris '11 had returned to Hanover this year on February 8 and 9, to be present at the Silver Anniversary of Dartmouth's Winter Carnival, he would have witnessed an outdoor fete now grown to vast proportions and known the nation over.

The winter sports meet which Fred Harris pushed in 1910 was not the original Carnival, but it was the germ of the idea, and the first Dartmouth Winter Carnival of the name was held in February of the following year. The original Carnival was a two-day affair, and included a play, a dance, and a hockey game with Massachusetts Agricultural College, in addition to the winter sports meet of ski and snoWshoe races and ski jumping. Some fifty girls were in Hanover for the occasion, which was hailed as an undreamed-of success. Arthur T. Cobb 'l2 captured individual honors in the winter sports meet, with Fred Harris second, and John P. Bowler 'l5, now dean of the Dartmouth Medical School, was the winner of the boys' jumping event.

He Started It All Fred Harris '11, whose enthusiasm for skiing led to the formation of The Dartmouth Outing Club and to the first Winter Carnival 25 years ago.