30th Birthday

CORDIALLY REVIEWED by Mr. Goodrich in our last issue there is really no need for further praise of TheDartmouth Book of Winter Sports (A. S. Barnes Co.) except our keen interest in so doing, and our desire to add emphasis to one or two points.

The capable editor of this volume is Harold Putnam '37, Boston newspaper man. His exceedingly readable and interesting introduction is the best sketch of Dartmouth Outing Club history that has appeared to date. It makes good reading, as does the section devoted to his specialty, skating.

Mr. Putnam's introduction keynotes the book, setting the pace for a 300-page, profusely illustrated volume that is impressive evidence of the authority and achievement of the Outing Club. This is truly a Dartmouth book of winter sports. The contributors of its various sections are all young alumni with the exception of Walter Prager, varsity ski coach, and Ross McKenney, woodsman and guide for the Club. The contributions of these two men are notable—one for the thorough explanation of skiing techniques and the other for a human, highly instructive approach to winter camping in the woods that will almost send you out on a nearby hill to cook your supper and spend a below zero night without a blanket. (You may, on second thought, decide to stay home.)

This is the 30th anniversary of the Outing Club and its Winter Carnival. Coincident with this celebration the appearance of a substantial and highly readable handbook of professional grade marks the D. O. C. as truly of age. The Club's history is one of constant growth and progress, directed and participated in by many loyal men who have cherished its purposes, loved its hardest labor, and in whose hearts the D. O. C. is firmly entrenched for life.

The Outing Club began years before the first faint whispers were heard of the present national enthusiasm for skiing. It was a leader and a wheel horse in the mushrooming growth of skiing. Other colleges, other communities, the northern half of the nation, have followed its path and have come to respect the initials D. O. C. which we honor on its 30th birthday.

THE OLD PRINT at the head of these notes this month is a rare lithograph of a crudely drawn view of the College buildings in the thirties and forties. It is signed "M. P. S.—T. Sinclair's Lith. Phil." And still they come! Another next month, with cows in the front yard.