Fall Weekend,

Hanover's biggest weekend of the fall was adjudged a success in more than a gridiron way. Fall houseparties were held in conjunction with the game, and some 1200 girls, a record for the November event, were in town to help produce one of the more crowded occasions in Hanover's history.

The Dartmouth in its front-page color story made learned reference to Mai thus but more than made up for this by contributing one of the better mixed sentences of student journalism: "Hanover's coming apart at the seams with the biggest influx of humanity in houseparty history and all eyes are on the end zones."

Even the Dartmouth Museum got into the spirit of things by devoting its Hanover Inn showcase to a display of girdles, wooden belts, foot-squeezers and other contraptions used by ladies of the past to make themselves attractive to the male sex.

The Class of 1953, unfettered by preparations for dates and fraternity parties, was free to devote its energies to the building of another of the mammoth bonfires that have become the campus trademark of the class. The one that roared skyward as the climax of the pre-game rally Friday night was even bigger and better than the job done for Dartmouth Night.

With record-sized parties in swing, hundreds of visiting firemen in town, and cause for celebration provided by the upset victory over Cornell, Saturday night might easily have developed into a boisterous occasion; but a strengthened sense of student responsibility made the whole weekend an entirely satisfactory one. Only a few minor infractions of the rules were reported and not a single major disciplinary case developed. In the circumstances this is a record of which all Dartmouth students can be proud. It bears out the faith of those who have been willing to give Dartmouth undergraduates a larger measure of self-government and who have insisted all along that steady progress is being made in student responsibility.