Forced into last place at the Williams Carnival last week because late examinations prevented a full team from competing, the schussers are off again today in toto, this time, for the 32nd annual Dartmouth invitational ski meet at Hanover.

Formerly known to thousands of pleasure-lovers as the Dartmouth Carnival, the yearly orgy of sports, wine, and women has been tamed by college officials and most of the glamorous features have been declared taboo.

Thus the lone attraction will be the six-event ski contest, always packed with enough excitement and thrills however, to keep even the most blase individuals interested in the goings-on over the weekend. The heavy snowfall last night, added to the previous seven-inch base, will give the runners perfect conditions if the temperature stays low.

The downhill race is set for this morning on Moose Mountain, 11 miles from Hanover, and the cross-country for this afternoon over an eight-mile Hanover course. The slalom will be held tomorrow morning at Oak Hill, and the jumping tomorrow afternoon at the big jump on the golf course.

The New Hampshire delegation, which did not compete in the Williams Carnival, is the pre-meet favorite to repeat last year's triumph, although Dartmouth will be out to contest the supremacy of its downstate rivals from Durham. However, the favorite to capture the most spectacular of all ski events, the jumping, is Merrill Barber of Norwich University.

Brown, of Williams, who pulled a surprise first place in the langlauf last weekend, will have a sizable task tomorrow if he expects to beat such stellar runners as Jay Dinsmore and Jake Nunemacher of Dartmouth; the Crimson's entries, including Del Ames and Finn Ferner, will make them push hard to win.

In the downhill event this morning Barber of Norwich and Bob Clark of New Hampshire rate as the favorites along with Jack Tobin of Dartmouth. Ralph Townsend of New Hampshire will be a strong contender here, too. Virtually the same men will run the slalom, but the favorite here will be Dartmouth's Meservey. Ferner, Ames, and Bungie King will probably place highest among Harvard's slalom and downhill men, though Freshman Duncan Reid, who turned in a high-class performance in those events last week, may carry off top Crimson honors.