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The White Outdoors
by Lawrence Perry
Fiction by John Fox Jr.
A. C. Gordon Francis Lynde
George T.Marsh and others

Federal Money For Good Roads
by Edwin A. Stevens

Standards - An Essay by W. C.Brownell

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CHARLES SCRIBNER-PRESIDENT
ARTHUR HSCRIBNER-TREASURER

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UT of the white, gleaming, open spaces has come to the students of our northern colleges and universities the ringing outdoor call. The response to it marks one of the significant phases of extra-curricular life in seats of learning which look frequently upon areas of snow and ice between early December and March, while the young men of institutions situated in less vigorous environment who are obliged, as one may say, to take their winter weather when they can get it, have begun to recognize the opportunities for exhilarating sport that lurk in the heart of the so-called closed months. It is a thoroughly wholesome condition; it makes for husky physique, singing blood, and clear heads. Probing deeper,

we find in faculty circles a well-established theory that this modern outdoor tendency serves in considerable degree to ameliorate problems of student control; for be it known that your average college boy lacks something of that complete repose in his hibernating period which marks the ursine species. It may be only a coincidence, but the fact remains that old barns and hayricks contiguous to northern centres of education are no longer burned on winter nights, and that derangements of dormitory lighting systems and other manifestations of youthful exuberance are rapidly passing into the limbo of tradition.

Dartmouth makes as much of winter sports as she does of football. Activities on snow and ice are conducted on a definite, organized basis, and she is spon

Copyright, 1917, by Charles Scribner's Sons. All rights reserved.

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