With The D.O.C.
WITH THE WAR forcing the cancellation of most of the 194 a Winter Carnival, Chairman Robert B. Dewey '42 and his fifteen-man committee this month rounded out final plans for the running of the Carnival Ski Meet, the four-event competition which in the past has been accepted by many students merely as the excuse for holding a houseparty.
Carnival 1942 will be a different Carnival from those in past years. Without the show of South American ski teams, Royal Norwegian Air Force skiers, and hundreds of "dates," it will be a Carnival divorced from most of its usual glamor and color. No extravagant Outdoor Evening show, no higher-than-ever-before ice statues will grace the Hanover scene this year as the Outing Club produces its annual winter spectacle. But that isn't keeping the Carnival Council from working as hard as ever to make Carnival 1942 more than just another College week-end.
Carnival plans released at press time disclosed that seven ski teams, plus Dartmouth's varsity, will compete in the important annual ski competition on Friday and Saturday, February 6 and 7. The teams, all veterans in Carnival competition history, are: St. Lawrence from Canton, N. Y., coached by former Dartmouth coach Otto Schniebs; Norwich; Middlebury; Harvard; New Hampshire; Williams; and Amherst. Invited, but unable to accept, were the Royal Norwegian Air Force team from Little Norway, Ontario, Canada; McGill; and the University of Washington.
As usual the ski meet will get under way Friday morning with the running of the three-and-one-half-mile langlauf. Friday afternoon will see the teams, officials, and spectators heading for Moose Mountain where the downhill race is scheduled to be held. Saturday is reserved for the thrilling slalom event, which will be run on a tricky course laid out on Oak Hill, and the spectacular and popular jumping competition. Carnival scoring for the competition will, as usual, be based on the four events, plus two combination events, the jumping and langlauf, and the downhill and slalom.
