American Scene: In Hanover: The Big Green Battle of the Sexes

Through the drifts a young man chases a young woman who has quite deliberately stolen his hat and is just as deliberately allowing herself to be wrestled into the snow. Near by, a friend calls to his roommate, "Just let me get a picture of you in your wild and crazy cross-country skis." The roommate strikes a pose: "Hey, I'm just a Nordic guy." A visiting sophomore from New Haven says to her date, "We don't have winter sports like these at Yale. We have crime."

It is Winter Carnival time again, and up at Dartmouth College nearly everything seems to be...

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