THE COLLEGE

Having urged all class and club secretaries to keep their copy short for this issue, in order to create space for the 35th Annual Alumni Fund Report, we can do no less than practice brevity ourselves. This presents no difficulty, for the past month, half given over to final exams and the short mid-year recess, has been rather devoid of newsworthy developments.

To this last statement the Dartmouth Outing Club has the right to take indignant exception, for its Winter Carnival on the weekend of February 3 and 4. was not only newsworthy—it was a resounding success. The favoritism that the snow gods continue to show toward the D.O.C. is almost embarrassing; once again Carnival weekend became an oasis of winter in an otherwise weird season. Conditions, although not ideal, were highly satisfactory as conditions go these days, and the red Carnival directors made the most of their break and in the short space of a few days whipped together a snow and ice festival that lived up to the unique reputation the event has acquired over the past forty years. Outdoor Evening, in fact, was one of the best ever presented, with a cooperative moon, one day past full, hanging over Balch Hill and Velvet Rocks like a celestial spotlight on the set in the stadium below.

The snow sculptors had insufficient time to match the fraternity and dormitory efforts of previous years, but this traditional side of Carnival was not lacking and the press photographers found plenty of statues on which to drape pretty ski-suited girls—a side of Carnival that always holds up.

Wunderbar, the accordion-playing polar bear who dominated things from the middle of campus, still sits at the intersection of the paths, his snowy whiteness givlrig way gradually to a pinto effect. Despite his deterioration, he still sits as a jovial eye-catcher, serving as a reminder of a festive weekend recently past and of another D.O.C. victory over the confused elements.