41st Annual Dartmouth Carnival Gets Frosty Reception---25 Below

All the pleasures of civilization which returned to Hanover, New Hampshire, once again this weekend for the 41st Annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival had to contend with the primordial elements last night as temperatures dropped to 25 and 30 degrees below zero. One effect of the freeze cut the usual eight mile cross-country ski race scheduled for this morning to six miles.

But 6,000 Dartmouth men and their guests braved the cold during Outdoor Evening last night to watch Barbara Ann Scott, Women's World Figure Skating Champion, and others in an hour-long ice-spectacle, "Women and Song." Blond, blue-eyed Smith sophomore Susan Darrah, chosen as Queen of the Carnival, admitted being "thrilled to death and nervous."

Events got off to a downhill start yesterday morning as Brooks Dodge led the Dartmouth ski team in winning the downhill and slalom races on Mt. Moosilauke. The nine teams participating will also jump against each other this afternoon in addition to the shortened cross-country run in the morning.

Rain in the early part of the week gave way to colder weather and five inches of snow in the past few days and permitted the Dartmouth fraternities to compete sculpturing the mammoth snow and ice figures which mark the annual Carnival One of these, symbolizing the "call of the wild" Carnival theme, is a 30-foot statue depicting a Swiss Alpinist with a horn 35 feet long.

The skiing tournament 45 miles to the north of Hanover took place in bitter sub-zero cold. Many weekenders by-passed the athletics and elected to settle by crackling log fires.