The Undergraduate Chair

Spring Brings Out the Sunbathers and Baseball Players As V-12S in the Class of '46 Prepare to Leave Hanover

At long last, through the mud and rain, spring has come to Hanover. The campus dried up, the duckboards were lifted, and now the baseball players appear in great numbers every afternoon. These last are probably the only sure sign of spring we have. The first unwise robins were snowed under, the earliest sunbathers might easily have been hailed upon, but the weather has been fine ever since the intramural department's tournament began on the diamond next to the senior fence.

And now the sun worshippers are out in full force every afternoon. An old observer remarked that the enthusiasm for suntan is greater than it ever has been in Hanover. The reason for this is supposed to be that the Marines, most of whom are on their way to Parris Island in South Carolina this summer, are trying to avoid the sunburn which is the traditional boot's affliction at P.I. So Tuck Drive looks like a bathing beach in July with several hundred men out basking of an afternoon with little thought for the embarrassment of the ladies who bicycle past, trying hard not to notice the occasional low whistle which rises up from among the baking hordes.