The Undergraduate Chair

WITH THREE hundred freshmen and sophomores signed up for rec skiing, Hanover is still a pathetic substitute for a winter sports center. Pouring rain, icy mud and nearly bare hillsides all reflect the irony of the current Pictorial photograph showing a group of local cows grazing around the base of the Oak Hill Tramway. The irony is only further heightened by the fact that the picture was taken by Dick Durrance.

The Outing Club put up a good bluff all through the pre-Carnival rains, and made good, if only by a whim of St. Peter. Twelve hundred girls taxed fraternity housing accommodations and set a new record for Hanover social events. Six inches of powder snow offered almost the only skiing of the winter, and by scraping it together on Oak Hill a fast slalom course was laid out which attracted 1200 spectators .... again a record number.

Outdoor Evening, which was admitted to have been the weak feature of the 1936 Carnival, redeemed itself by means of Evelyn Chandler's figure skating (including her double Salchows, so often mentioned in pre-Carnival publicity) and by excellent lighting efEects. Using the golf course hill as the real background for the performance, and with expert skiing and an unusually fine fireworks display, Out- door Evening left the spectators with a definite feeling that Carnival had really begun. Dancing on ice after the fireworks, and the introduction of the visiting teams by formation skiing were other successful innovations.

Fraternity snow sculpture, in general well ahead of the dormitory efforts, was exceptionally fine in consideration of the lack of snow and the warm weather until only a few days before Carnival. College Hall's robust "Northwind" won the dormitory prize, and the fraternity cup went to Delta Tau Delta's tableau of Eleazar meeting the modern Carnival girl. The arctic scenes of Sigma Nu and S. A. E. were close seconds. An interesting sidelight is that the design which won the fraternity contest was seriously considered by the Carnival Committee as a center of campus feature, only to give way to the more radical conception of the Wolf-Wind by Wayne M. Guyther '38.

PRIZE SNOW SCULPTURE First award in the fraternity snow sculpturecontest went to Delta Tau Delta for itsrepresentation of Eleazar Wheelock greeting the modern Carnival girl. The winningpiece was designed by Richard L. Brooks'39, soil of A. G. Brooks 'O6 of Gloucester,Mass.