Winter: Zum, Zum, Zum...An Omnibus

WITHOUT WINTER there would be no Outing Club. (Fred Harris '11 founded it because, he said, "I honestly couldn't understand how over a thousand red-blooded fellows could stay housed up through the glorious winter.") Without winter, there wouldn't be Winter Carnival (also founded by the busy Mr. Harris). Without winter, there probably wouldn't be the torrid opening scene in Carlos Fuentes's 1987 novel, Christopher Unborn (The steamy tropical scene was inspired, says Fuentes, by the cold winter he spent in Hanover as a Montgomery Fellow during the early eighties.).

And without winter, of course, there would be no Dartmouth. —THE EDITORS