Cabin Contest

THE closing date for the Dartmouth Outing Club's cabin-designing contest has been extended from May 1 to June 1. Alumni and students will have until the latter date to submit plans or models of cabins suitable to the New Hampshire climate and in harmony with the New Hampshire landscape. The three classes open in the contest are a wilderness cabin, suitable for Moosilauke or similar terrain; an accessible cabin, more readily accessible and suitable for mixed parties; and a small scale model of a log cabin, complete in every detail of construction in logs, with furnishings and equipment included so far as possible. Appropriate prizes will be given by the Dartmouth Outing Club to the winners in each class.

The Outing Club has received several sets of plans from alumni contestants, and in the third class has received a scale model, complete in every detail, from Laurence W. Lougee '29 and Myles J. Lane '2B. The model has been placed on public display in Hanover to increase undergraduate interest in the contest.

A BIT OF NATURALISTIC DETECTIVE WORKRichard L. Weaver, College Naturalist, shown banding purple finches as part of theprocess to discover where the birds wander during the winter. In addition to the aluminum bands placed on 1500 purple finches to date, colored feathers have also been gluedto the tail feathers of some 500 birds to enable people to spot the marked birds more easilyand report back to Mr. Weaver. Feathers of different colors are used to denote two-weekperiods in the marking process. To date purple finches banded in Hanover have been reported as far south as Northampton and Greenfield, Mass.