THE COLLEGE

WITH its stock of pipsissewa replenished for the onset of vernal vapours, Hanover impatiently awaits the arrival of spring. The icecap is visibly if slowly receding, the days grow longer, the frost heaves provide an undulating ride, and the Mystic Order of the Pothole Watchers, founded some years ago by Jim Farley '42, is out in full cry all over the north country. Except for a hard core of undergraduates domiciled in Middle Mass while the rest of the student body vacations at home or in the Southland, the waiting for spring at the moment is being done entirely by the townspeople. College will have reopened - (March 29) before this issue of the MAGAZINE gets distributed; and once under way, the spring term will run its rapid course right up to 1961's graduation day on June 11. Between now and then, however, Hanover can anticipate that stretch of gentle, evanescent days that Dartmouth men remember perhaps most nostalgically.