THE COLLEGE

Hanover has already had its first snow. Sandwiched in between spells of fall weather as sparkling as any Hanover has ever experienced, the snow flurry of October 20 sent the temperature plummeting and the ROTC students scurrying to their respective head- quarters to see whether overcoats were the "uniform of the day" for Monday afternoon drill.

This premature dose of winter was not the biggest news of the past month but it was the oddest. It even provided a conversational break in the Eisenhower and Stevenson arguments, and injected a change of pace into a fall season that has gone along smoothly and busily since College opened four weeks ago. Daniel Webster's shadow blanketed the campus far more completely than the snowflakes. The 100th anniversary of his death provided the occasion for a memorable convocation, for an especially fine exhibition in Baker Library, and for the announcement of what was the biggest news of the past month the gift of a million dollars to support the new Daniel Webster National Scholarships.