Dartmouth College went Boy Scout yesterday morning in a fashion that puts the famous Outing Club to shame. Clothing designers all over the country sat up to take notice as the men of green--five hundred strong--turned out for the daily jamboree in shorts. Leading Hanover undergraduates report the abbreviations are here to stay and manufacturers of young men's apparel are getting ready for a short cut to style.

It is only too easy to picture the effect of Dartmouth's attempt to cool off. When New Haven tailors found out they could sell more cloth if they cut their customer's trousers like a sailor's every office boy in New York followed suit. At Dartmouth the college newspaper thought it necessary to urge football men to set the precedent for shorts in order that the more timid would follow. This counsel was unnecessary, the habit will doubtless spread across the country over night. Boys in the big city to the south who have been running around all winter without hats will shortly have the pleasure of making their flapper friends feel at home in the subway.

At Harvard, where there is a strong masculine tradition never to be caught short, the new vogue will probably not get much of a start. If there were nothing else to stop this demonstration of male beauty there remains the significant fact that the modest maidens across the Commons strenuously object to a show of hairy legs in Cambridge tea rooms. So Dartmouth will have its short pants, Yale its natty caps, and Princeton its beer suits. For Harvard there remains nothing but a little old-fashioned dignity.