CRUSADING SPIRIT WANES

It may be unfortunate that as one grows older one leaves most of his crusading behind him. There seems to be plenty of opportunity for crusaders after they have been handed their sheepskins, not for those who feel that everything should be changed but for those who believe that if there are those who don't like the present scheme of things they at least have the right to say so. It was only a few years after Doctor Wheelock put shirts on the heathens of New Hampshire that America was filled with crusaders. The last census indicated that there were still enough followers of the principles of the early crusaders around to conform to the principles that were fought for without jeopardizing those principles.

Time may give a clearer perspective to the Browder incident; today, Dartmouth has little to say about it.

ABOUT THE CAMPUS: "It's an unusual winter," they're saying down on Main Street. George Gitsis has been predicting snow every day for two weeks on the basis that he has to be right some day. The weather prophets of the old school, who are dormitory janitors in their spare time, have been resting their elbows between the pickets of the fence alongside the C and G House, and shaking their heads and shrugging their shoulders in unison. "Never saw the beat of it" one of them said recently. "Never saw a winter go so long without looking like winter."

Even the local merchandisers have been keeping their winter stock under moth balls until they can be assured that putting it in the windows won't be taking up space that could be devoted to saddle-shoes, white ducks and tennis rackets. There hasn't been a snowfall all season with the possible exception of a threat which wasn't sufficient to inspire the chubbers to begin waxing their skis. When chubbers can't be inspired things are really looking black.

On top of all that, Elmer Browne '40, president of the Outing Club, has predicted that the 1940 Carnival may be the last one to feature Outdoor Evening. Outdoor Evening has become as traditional a part of Carnival as the Boston and Maine's Friday afternoon special, which brings a thousand girls to a thousand undergraduates trying their best to toss Carnival off as an everyday affair—and succeeding very badly.