This is partly due to Colby Junior College, 400 girls strong and a scant 15 miles over the hills. It is also partly due to the half dozen Hanover-sized towns scattered through close valleys. The 1950 census revealed that one-sixth of the population of these towns was composed of young women, ages 17 to 25.

In addition, one Dartmouth man out of five who is permitted to have a car has one. There are twenty-three fraternities and three senior societies at Dartmouth plus the usual run-of the-college organizations. There are five movie houses nearby, including the modern first run house in Hanover which changes its show five times a week. Hanover is dry, save for beer, but there are towns within staggering distance that are not.

In short, the white bricked buildings around the campus Green do not house monks. Nor do they house naughty, liquor youth. The brutal truth is: they house college men, who act almost like all college men.

The almost is due to Dartmouth's pride and delight, the Outing club, which counts a good fourth of the college as members.

Other colleges. It is true, have outing clubs. But in Hanover, the club is more than part of the college-the college is nearly part of the club.

This vast woodsy empire became to unwieldy to keep as one group, so sub-clubs were set up several years ago. This afternoon one of them, the Cabins and Trails group, is sending four parties up the slopes of Mount Washington in the Presidential range. C and T owns and operates 16 different cabins for use of its members from Woodstock. Vermont, to Lost River, New Hampshire. The chain begins on a ridge that over hangs the campus known at Moose Mountain and stretches north and west as far as the foot can plod.

Snoic Prayers

Another department, the Winter Sports, is currently praying for snow, which is late this year, so it can take to the ski trails and show neophytes the techniques it has been demonstrating all fall in the classroom.

Best know of the groups is probably the Carnival Department which plans the events that go with Dartmouth's annual winter week-end drunk. So far the committee has just begun the Carnival poster contest.

Then there is the Bait and Bullet section, the Ledyard Canoe Club with 16 boats and a shed, the Mountaineering Club. Dartmouth Underground or the Speleological Club for Spelunkers which explores caverns, and the Natural History Club.

Like most of the organizations at Dartmouth, the DOC holds its own Parties. Officially, the refreshments consist of milk, ginger ale, and cider. These back-to-nature movements are held in any of the 16 cabins at various times of the winter and include outdoor girls from other colleges' outing clubs. The DOC is very popular.

The DOC feels fortunate in having a real Maine woods guide, one of the last of a dying race, in its employ. Ross McKenny is in charge of the woods lore division and acts as judge and referee in the annual spring Woodsman's Weekend.

Here big Boy Scouts from all colleges compete, but the affair is strictly male, Canoe races, fly and bait casting contests, fire building tilts, wood chopping and back-packing races, and pulp wood throwing contests are featured.

Outside of studying the song of the shrike, Dartmouth men study pretty much the same things as other college men study, with one great exception-Great Issues.

This turn through current events is a year-long affair required of all seniors. College officials were-worried five years ago that their spirited graduate would not know what was going on in the world when he emerge from the North Woods. So an ambitious program to teach him was instituted by President John S. Dickey, then in his first year of office.