Hear ye, hear ye, ye men of fat legs and thin legs, of long legs and short legs; harken, ye seekers after maximum comfort and the minimum of swaddling clothes. Give ear, ye who would be dictators of a fashion and dressed in the style of the hour. We announce the "short," as suitable for all Hanover occasions--full dress, informal afternoon wear, morning lounging apparel. Tomorrow's the day.

Yesterday we spent the time answering our neighbor's questions as to whether we really and truly were serious about all this shorts business. We even had a calf-comparing contest in which we came out very much the worst but content that if we could wear this newest in men's style, most anyone else could also.

This idea seems more and more like the sort of thing everyone's been thinking about for a long time. It's been mulling about in the sub-conscious desires of the campus and if it has anywhere come to light, it has only been a kind of wish fancy. Now we want to do a bit of wishful thinking coupled with some real freedom-giving action. Wherefore The Dartmouth comes forth to you waving banners of revolt from the accepted uncomfortable conventional.

And the possibilities are unlimited. Khaki shorts, fiannel shorts, grey shorts, blue and green shorts worn with any shirt open at the neck and any kind of socks loose about the ankles. We advocate them for tennis, for golf, for basking in the sun, for attendance at the most aristocratic of classes, for study in the library and-dinner at the D. O. C. House.

Here is an opportunity, gentlemen, for the focund imagination of Dartmouth to produce something other than forward steps in the educational line. Here is a chance to be different with a vengeance, not for the sake of being different but in the name of good sense.

This means you, a Dartmouth undergraduate; this means you, stald and respectable members of the faculty: this means you, townspeople of Hanover, older than three and younger than sixty. This means everyone who believes that our logic is sound and refuses to be drowned in his own sea of self-consciousness. --The Dartmouth.