There aren't so many ways of saying that it was a rare Carnival, but plenty of people found time to be original down at the June Sunday afternoon. There was talk of the gallant efforts of the Carnival Committee, among people who knew how hard it had worked, and everywhere people were marvelling at the excellence of the weather, of the women, of the whimsy,-of the Carnival.

But Sunday evening was a little slow and quite flavorless for certain blithe spirits. A little group of five fortified itself with frequent passings of the bottle and then took niblicks, spades, and pickaxes and went out looking for the fraternity snow statuary. Men had put hours of devoted effort into creating fragile dazzling white figures, with every shading of form, illumination and position carefully planned to create an effect of maximum beauty. That meant nothing to the forthright five; they smashed them all: Theta Chi's lovely Snow Girl, the majestic statue of Elcazar on the Green, and all the rest. It seems so childish, and so utterly unnecessary; a small, sour-souled thing to do.

And yesterday the rumors began, and with the rumors much verifiable fact. It has long been more than a suspicion among alert Dartmouth men that a large proportion of the disorderly occurrences that have caused the fair name of Dartmouth to look less fair to estimable matrons in authority at Smith, Wellesley. Vassar, Radcliffe, etc, have been largely due to the conduct of various visitors from Yale, Harvard, Williams and Princeton, specifically, who regard an occasion like Carnival less as an occasion than as an opportunity. And they make the most of it.

While out esteem for the students of Yale, Harvard, Williams and Princeton masse is second to none, we have succeeded in authoritatively tracing not a few of the irresponsible occurrences which yearly seem inevitable at Carnival to gentlemen, so called, from these institutions. To these specific visitors who might more properly be termed visitations our esteem does emphatically not extend. Moreover, we, who have recently had excellent opportunity to review the duties of a good host, think it appropriate that visitors for future Carnivals-and they will be more than welcome-find an opportunity to review the obligations of a good guest. -The Dartmouth.