Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-30

Mans suffering from too heavy
clothes Is the cause, perhaps, of the
widespread interest expressed in the In
novation at Dartmouth, when hundreds
Of the students appeared in shorts, -
dubbed the ideal costume for warm
weather. Although cold weather met
the inauguration of the custom, the idea
Is warmly received.
Thousands of tailors must be hope
fully sharpening their needles, while
guardians of other peoples morals must
be distressed, on reading that a num-
Der OF Dartmouth students have decided
to defy the conventions and expose
their knees to the civic and academic
eye" is the comment of the New York
Times, and it prognosticates that out
side Dartmouth an overpanted human
1ty (male mostly, married and helpless)
will watch with fevered eagernesS the
progress Of this audacious defiance of
sacred customs" The Manchester Union
reasons that ANY such change in the
mode as this will command considera-
ton from two points of view-the utili-
tartan and the esthetic. The arguments
under the former head have been indi-
Gated" says the paper las for the
latter class Of considerations, one must
depend upon the testimony of the cam
era. Press pictures of students in shorts
leave the question open." the Union
suggests.
That the day when the adherents to
the new style were to fare forth turned
maliciously chilly, and yet they were
not deferred, speaks well for their de-
termination, according to several pa
pers, among them the Springfield Union,
which remarks: THE characteristic in
dependence and individualism of his
toric Dartmouth have found Joint ex-
preSsion-knee-join expression, to be
specihc-for approximately a thousand
claSSmen are exposing their knees to
the breezes as the result of an emanci-
patton proclamation. Unfortunately, the
day of independence turned cold, but
Dartmouth students have never been
known to turn yellow, and the anatomical
display took place per schedule.
They are hardy race, those Dartmouth
students" concludes this paper.
The Hartford Daily Times is amused
that "the Dartmouth students break
forth on the campus with short trousers
as a protest against the supposed dis
comfort Of the long ones on a day when
the near-freezing temperature made the
latter extremely comfortable. Student
crusaders have a way of disregarding
wind and weather, also common sense, %
1t AYERS.
Perhaps we have taken our college
youth too casually" suggests the Wor-
cester Evening Gazette. Sturdy hearts
may beat beneath those coonSkin coats
Lofty thoughts of regeneration and re-
form may be sizzling beneath the dump
masks of those Undated heads. We are
almost impelled to give the boys a
hand"
The fact that just as knees are dis
appearing from public view in the fem
mime world they are to appear in the
masculine realm Is cause for many edi-
torial chuckles. Says the Cleveland
Plain Dealer: Fashion, having ruth
lessly baniShed the feminine knee, now
brazenly orders the unwilling Of the
masculine. Shorts, terminating four
inches above the knee, are taking the
place of plus fourS and long trousers
Now the percentage of feminine knees
worth a second or even third glance
Is relatively large" gallantly asserts the
Plain Dealer, "but who will say that
even 10 per cent of the masculine In
tersections Of lower leg and thigh can
pass muster, under moderate esthetic
standards? The Highland Scots, it is
true, have long favored pitiless patella
publicity, but they always wear q garish
plaid to guide the eye away from the
knees windswept knobs" contends this
paper.
Registering its objection both to ex-
posed suspenders and exposed knees
the New Orleans Item says: I'VE hold
| despite all wanton changes of the times
ITO two simple tenets of our fathers
Puritan faith. They found the 'gallus
upornamental. 1t still is. And they
thought the male knee positively ugly
| So do we." And the Butte Daily Post
says, LET any man who doubts this
! take an honest look at his own
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But Is this experiment ct Dartmouth
simply fash In the PAM AS the New
York Evening Post puts IT, I'VE mus