THE weeks of spring have swiftly passed and the Commencement

THE weeks of spring have swiftly passed and the Commencement season is close at hand. The undergraduates have gone, glad to get away, for they are to return. The Seniors, hard upon the event for which they have longed inversely to its proximity, in calm disregard of partings to come, are making merry amid the pleasures of the present. The graduates meanwhile are counting the days to the season when the clock can be turned backward; when life can be. lived for a few short hours with the companions of college days; when without protest, voices, however untuneful, can be raised in approximations of once familiar tunes ; and when hours whose use at home would be desecration (and so viewed by the local constabulary) can be confiscated to piece out days too short. The Commencement season has its own significance. He who has seen the parting hand-clasp of Seniors going their separate ways, or he who has seen the greetings between reunited college friends, has seen the token of a relationship hardly duplicated at any other place or at any other time in life. This is the spirit of the Commencement season.

The program of Commencement follows the usual order. On Tuesday, however, many will find their chief interest, for on this day the formal presentation of Dartmouth Hall to the Trustees will be made by Mr. Adams, in behalf of the alumni who have given it. Letters from graduates bear abundant. testimony that love of the old has been strong enough to breed affection for the new, and that many a man will make a " Pilgrimage" as Mr. Adams terms it) to see the new hall. The building has already served its apprenticeship, A description has been published in a previous issue of the BI-MONTHLY. The value of the hall to the College plant cannot be estimated. Much has been expected of it. Realization has exceeded expectation. And when we consider the utility of a building in which three hundred classes a week meet, or when one is influenced by the sentiment of the close approximation of the old exterior in the new, or by the associations of the late afternoon shadows darkening the face of the hall, conviction grows strong that as a monument to the loyalty of the alumni and as a memorial to that whose name it bears, the new Dartmouth is fit.

It is an interesting fact, in these times when the relative proportions of graduates of the College going into the different professions and into business are so changed from the earlier years, that the per cent of men going into teaching is markedly increasing rather than decreasing. This means, of course, a large increase in actual numbers. Such a fact puts its new responsibility on the College, to afford the opportunity for special preparation for teaching in-go-fat at least as such can be offered through the Master's degree, properly guarded. The circular of information for graduate students, recently issued by the Committee on Graduate Instruction, sets forth clearly the requirements for the degree and marks the standard which is to be kept. Its opening statements are of interest to many outside the candidates for the Master's degree and are herewith given :

"It is the policy of the College definitely to encourage study leading to the Master's degree. Courses leading beyond this, to the Doctor's degree, are given only under exceptional circumstances.

" The work for the Master's degree may be taken by graduates of this or other colleges in residence, by graduates of this college not in residence, but working under direction of a Department of the College, and by graduates of this or other colleges who complete a sufficient number of courses of graduate grade in the Summer School.

THE WORK OF RESIDENT CANDIDATES

"For resident candidates for the Master's degree the major requirement is at least six hours in strictlygraduate courses in one department for two semesters (twelve semester hours.) In addition to this the candidate must in each of the two semesters complete six hours of advanced work in the same department or in an allied department. (In this, the minor requirement, the work may include undergraduate courses of advanced grade.)

"Both major and minor courses will be prescribed by the Heads of Departments immediately concerned, and are subject to the approval of the Committee on Graduate Instruction.

" A Master's thesis is required unless special excuse is given by the Committee on Graduate Instruction.

" Before beginning his major-graduate courses in any department, a candidate must ordinarily have completed an undergraduate major in the same department, as defined in the annual catalogue. But in case a graduate student wishes to take his Master's degree in a department in which he has not completed an undergraduate major, the Committee on Graduate Instruction will, upon recommendation of the department concerned, permit him to begin his major graduate courses while taking the advanced undergraduate courses necessary to complete the undergraduate major; and these advanced undergraduate courses may be counted as a part of the minor work for the Master's degree.

"Seniors who have time available beyond that necessary for completing the requirements for the Bachelor's degree are encouraged to supplement their undergraduate schedule by taking courses of graduate grade. These courses will be credited toward their Master's degree.

THE WORK OF NON-RESIDENTCANDIDATES

" The requirements for non-resident candidates are substantially the same as for resident candidates, but are necessarily measured in terms of work done, without regard to semesters and hours. Ordinarily, a nonresident candidate finds it necessary to spend from two to three years upon the work for the Master's degree.

" A non-resident candidate should first correspond with the Head of the Department in connection with which he wishes to study. The departments attempt to adapt the work to the individual needs and interests of the candidates.

"After the general lines of work have been determined through, this correspondence, a detailed course of work is laid out by the department, and is transmitted to the candidate through the Committee on Graduate Instruction.

"Through occasional correspondence the department follows the work of the candidate until he ready to present himself for examination.

THE WORK OF GRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE SUMMER SCHOOL

" Graduate students in the Summer School will be treated as resident candidates, so far as their graduate courses in the Summer School are concerned. But they may supplement these resident courses by other work to be done as non-resident students and so diminish the number of sessions of the Summer School necessary for the attainment of the degree. Graduates of other colleges must, however, complete in residence at least fifteen of the twenty-four semester hours required for the degree.

GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS

"Ten scholarships,yielding two hundred dollars each for one year, are open to graduates of the College who wish to continue their studies in residence. These scholarships are designed particularly for those who intend to teach, but are not limited to those who have this end in view. A graduate student who receives one of these scholarships may also have the tuition fee remitted in return for service rendered the department in which he is doing his work, or in return for clerical service in one of the College offices.

"Two scholarships, yielding three hundred dollars each for one year, drawn from the Moor's Charity Fund, are applied by designation of the Trustees of the Fund to graduate students assigned to instruction in the Hanover High School.

"Six other scholarships are assigned to graduate students serving as assistants in the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. , The income is determined by the amount of assistance rendered.

''Application for scholarship based upon assistance in the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics should be made to the Heads of these Departments. Application for all other scholarships should be made to the Chairman of the Committee on Graduate Instruction, after consultation with the Head of the Department in which the student wishes to do his major work."

The enrollment of Dartmouth men who have gone into teaching, heretofore the task of a single department, has been made the business of a special committee appointed by the President. Men qualified to carry on this project to its highest efficiency have been appointed to the membership of this committee. The work will be broadened and made as comprehensive as may be, and the committee's catalogue will be made as accurate as pos- sible, not so much as a matter of record as for the advantage of the teachers. The endeavor will be to make this proposition a very practical thing, and it is the hope that in this way, through this committee, teachers may have the maximum opportunities to find their work, and that schools may have chances to secure our best men. If the College can assist at any point to the mutual advantage of schools and teachers, it ought to do so, and to do this will be the aim of the committee. Professor H. E. Burton is the secretary.

The Trustees of Dartmouth College held their annual spring meeting in Concord, Friday and Saturday, May 25 and 26, and much of the business transacted is of much interest to thealumni.

Final authorization was given for the building of two new dormitories necessary to complete Fayerweather Row, facing into the College Yard. These dormitories will be built by the College, under the supervision of Mr. E. H. Hunter, the College engineer. They will be of red brick, three stories high, and of simple colonial design. The two halls will give added accommodations for a hundred men and bring the total capacity of the College buildings to over seven hundred.

In view of the approaching completion of the Alumni Fund of $250,000, from which the new Dartmouth Hall has already been built at a cost of $100,000, it was voted to accept the architect's plans for Webster Hall, and to go ahead with the building of this, provided it was ascertained that the hall could be erected at a cost not exceeding the amount in hand. This building is to be a large auditorium capable of seating about sixteen hundred persons, and arranged especially for academic occasions of all sorts. It will be placed at the northeast corner of the College Green, and will complete the long projected quadrangle at the head of the Green.

The resignations of Dr. Kan-Ichi Asakawa, lecturer on the Far East, and of Franklin C. Lewis, instructor in Education, were tendered and accepted. Doctor Asakawa leaves Dartmouth to accept a position in the Oriental. Department of Yale University Doctor Asakawa's withdrawal is much regretted and the loss is a unique one, but one which must be accepted since Dartmouth cannot undertake to build up an Oriental Department. Mr. Lewis has accepted the office of superintendent of the schools of Ethical Culture in New York City, a position in which' he has already won high praise.

Professor C. F. Richardson of the English Department, Professor H. H. Horne of the Department of Philosophy, and Professor R. W. Husband of the Department of Greek, take their sabbatical years, 1906-1907, and Mr. C. N. Gould is given leave of absence for the same year.

The Department of Modern Art was established. The establishment of this new department was contemplated in the granting of a leave of absence of two years to Mr. Homer Eaton Keyes in 1903. Mr. Keyes returned at the beginning of the year and began the work planned. The department is now formally established and Mr. Keyes is elected Assistant Professor in Modern Art.

The following elections to the grade of Assistant Professorship were also made :

Mr. Prescott Orde Skinner in the Department of Romance Languages, Doctor John H. Gerould in the Department of Biology, Doctor John M. Poor in the Department of Astronomy, and Mr. Warren M. Persons in Economics in the College and Finance in the Tuck School. Mr. Persons comes from the University of Wisconsin and succeeds Professor Young, who has recently taken the head of the Economics Department at Leland Stanford.

Mr. Ralph M. Barton was elected to an Instructorship in Mathematics and Mr. Ernest R. Groves, Dartmouth 1903, Associate Professor of English in the New Hampshire State College, was elected to an Instructorship in English. Mr. Gaetano Cavicchia was appointed Instructor in' Romance Languages. Mr. George W. Putnam, Dartmouth 1905, was appointed an Assistant in Greek and Mr. Eugene R. Musgrove, of the same class, was appointed an Assistant in English.

Doctor Charles H. Johnston, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, and of the Graduate School of Harvard University,' was appointed Instructor in Philosophy in the absence of Professor H. H. Horne. Mr. McBurnie Mitchell, graduate of the University of Chicago, now studying at the University of Berlin,was appointed Instructor in German in the absence of Mr. Gould.'

The ethics of college sports were never so much a question of public interest as in the last few months, and it to be hoped that much will be gained from the discussion. The discontent with athletic conditions in our colleges, which has been increasingly active during the last few years, became so strong during the fall that action on the part of those responsible for athletics in the respective colleges and universities became imperative. The radical condemnations of football by President Eliot in the East and by President Wheeler in the West, together with the fact that in the minds of the public football stood as the distinctively collegiate game, focused the attacks upon this single branch of athletics. For a time it seemed that the faults germane to intercollegiate athletics as a whole were to receive no attention in the general agitation, so great was the concentration of opposition to .the conditions in this one' branch of sport. Fortunately, however, the inquiry has widened ; evils of the general athletic situation have been studied, and steps have been taken to correct them ; publicity has been given to the methods of athletic boards and the details of financial managements, and further knowledge of things as they are promises to bring better understandings between the governing bodies, having athletics in charge, and the undergraduate and alumni bodies on the one hand ; and between the governing bodies and those from whom they derive their authorities on the other hand. If only the latter results are secured, the upheaval will have been well worth while.

Within the period of the last ten or fifteen years, no committees representing the faculties of the different colleges have had more continuous responsibilities than the committees on athletics. Troublesome questions involving no clearly defined standards of right and wrong have been always with them. Vexations and harassinents have been their daily portions. At Dartmouth, at least, the confidence in the faculty committee has but increased its load of responsibility, for the alumni in electing faculty members to the Athletic Council have chosen to designate each year those same men who have been the faculty committee. Much friction in the administration of athletics has thus been avoided without doubt, but it has been at the expense of painstaking care on the part of those members of the faculty who have held the balance of power between the component parts of the College., Nothing could be more desirable than that the work of the athletic committees should be followed and the policies understood. Few things could be less profitable than to look at isolated details without knowledge of the contextural constituents of a specific athletic policy.

Conditions at Dartmouth were better five years ago than formerly ; they are better now than then. Under these circumstances, many Dartmouth men have not understood the popular concern about college sports. But it was for the advantage of all that since the discussion was on it should not stop with football, but should endure until policies were plain and tendencies were marked. The trend in sports toward better things has been definite and would have continued. Perhaps ideals have been more plainly defined and progress toward them hastened by public discussion. At any rate collegiate athletics have not been denied any of the advantages which publicity can give. How great the gain is to be cannot yet be judged .

The courtesy shown Dartmouth by Harvard; as expressed in the following vote, is most pleasant. The appreciation of it reaches far beyond the College :

"At a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College in Boston, May 28th, 1906, the Librarian having reported that the University was in possession of certain early broadsides of Dartmouth College which were lacking from the library of that College, namely the catalogues of 1803 and 1805, respectively, and the catalogue of the alumni of 1792, it was : Voted that the Librarian be authorized to offer these catalogues to the Library of Dartmouth College.

"A true copy of record, "Attest:

"Howard L. Blackwell, Comptroller. "Mr. William C. Lane, Librarian."