THE courtesy extended to the Dartmouth

musical clubs by the Harvard clubs, in proposing a joint concert in Boston, during the Easter vacation is one which has made even more cordial the feeling at Dartmouth toward Harvard. It is most gratifying that the plan could be carried out, and that the result was so successful. It was very fitting that the two colleges which draw most heavily from Boston and vicinity should unite for an evening of this sort, and it was most pleasurable for Dartmouth. That the Harvard men saw an appropriateness in such an occasion is another proof of what has often been plain, that those whom Harvard puts into office in her various undergraduate activities are men as opposite as can be imagined to the type which in some quarters is supposed to represent that college. The Boston Transcript gave the following account of the concert, which is reprinted for those of the alumni who otherwise might know little of the affair:

"Harvard and. Dartmouth joined hands last evening and at Jordan Hall the glee, mandolin and banjo clubs of these two colleges gave a delightful entertainment to an audience which saw merit in every number and insisted on extras more vociferously and enthusiastically than the most rabid occupant of the gallery seat in a variety theatre. Harvard outpointed the boys from Hanover about four to one in numerical strength, but this was no handicap to their guests, for what they lacked in numbers they gained in finished expression. Harvard mustered nearly forty choristers, while Dartmouth had about half that many;yet when Dartmouth led off with Macy's 'Ho, Ye Gallant Sailors,' and followed with the finale from 'The Founders,' by Wellman 1907, there could be no doubt that here was the pick of the college singers. They sang with the snap and the precision which is notable in Yale glee clubs, while Harvard gave an impression of great volume and a rather lumbering tempo, although it put enough life into a melody arranged by Field, 1907, and sang Strauss's 'Beautiful Blue Danube,' a ticklish thing to tackle vocally, with fine swinging effect. There was little choice between the two mandolin clubs, although here again Harvard had all the best of it numerically. The best thing the latter had was Schubert's serenade, which was played with a remarkable degree of repression and with an almost reverential appreciation of the beauties of this haunting melody. The Dartmouth boys came back with 'Cubanola,' a typical mandolin piece, and selections from 'The Founders,' while in R. R. Lane, assisted by M. Hull on the guitar, they revealed an expert soloist. His mastery of tricky compositions was remarkable and his technique was perfect. Dartmouth has no banjo club, but Harvard turned out with twoscore of strummers on banjeaurine, banjo, mandola and guitar, and they ripped out Reeve's sturdy old 'Second Connecticut National Guards' march with splendid spriit. They also gave 'The American Patrol' with nicely graduated effects. Dartmouth sprang a big card in H. S. McDevitt, a curly headed fellow with a softly humorous baritone voice, and he was compelled to sing four 'coon' songs before his audience would release him; but Harvard came back strong with her quartet, which for fifteen minutes was kept hard at it, with comic ditties, not omitting that college lyric, 'Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup,' and one or two pieces of more substantial sentiment. The concert closed with both glee clubs filling the stage, Dartmouth leading off with Segur's 'Dartmouth Song,' and Harvard following with 'Fair Harvard,' each club singing, with the other. Altogether it was a very enjoyable concert, reflecting exceptional credit on all participants, and sending folks home with the feeling that all at once they had grown younger. and happier."

It is an unfortunate thing when any unpleasantness occurs in intercollegiate athletics, and it always means that one college or the other has wandered afield from the idea of athletics as a sport. The blame is hardly ever monopolized by either the party of the first part or that of the second. These reflections on intercollegiate quarrels in general indicate that in any particular case, such as that of Williams and Dartmouth, faults can be charged to both. But granting this some of us are very sure that relations between Williams and Dartmouth had reached the point where open disagreement, was preferable to the sustaining of an acrimonious rivalry, maintained simply out of respect to a traditional friendship, under the guise of which Dartmouth's teams . were maligned, her players aspersed, and mutual contests bereft of sportsmanship and charged with bitterness.

To be specific, Dartmouth had submitted as gracefully as possible for as long as seemed reasonable to the policy of pinpricks. Many things are done by individuals for which a college is not to blame, but if the succession of these is not interrupted, in time the college assumes responsibility. The frequent difficulties with the Williams management in arranging contests, the illogical conditions imposed from time to time for the exchange of games, the friction over officials, and the constant application to Dartmouth athletes of reputations made-in-Williamstown, had their effect in arousing the query in the minds of Dartmouth men as to what substance there was in the so-called friendship of Williams.

In regard to the incident which led to the breaking of relations with Williams, the Dartmouth sentiment is spoken by the editorial of the Dartmouth which is here reprinted:

"The Athletic Council at its meeting last Monday voted that athletic relations with Williams be discontinued. This was the direct result of the basketball game in Williamstown March eighth. Dartmouth and Williams were playing the game on which the championship of the league depended. Williams was upon her own floor backed by a large crowd of her own partisans. Dartmouth was the visiting team and was unaccompanied. The game was under the direction of a regular league referee, who had in previous games shown himself skilled in the rules and efficient in enforcing them. When the game had been played nearly to the end of the first period, trouble arose between the two centers. Before the referee could act, the crowd rushed on to the floor and attacked the Dartmouth players, striking them and brandishing convenient furniture. Cooler minds among the Williams men finally prevailed, and the crowd was induced to resume a position outside the field of play. The Dartmouth center was disqualified by the referee for unnecessary roughness, and the ruling was accepted. The game went on to its conclusion, a Williams victory, ten to six.

"The action of the Council has only been taken after a thorough investigation and careful consideration of what the interests of clean sport demanded.

"So far as this particular incident is concerned, it is certain that a systematic and prolonged attempt was made to bait the Dartmouth players into overt acts which should bring removals from the game. In the case of one man on the Williams team nothing was too extreme for this end. When the policy bad accomplished its purpose, the crowd of excited partisans could not allow the referee to care for the game, but precipitated a melee in which all members of the Dartmouth team alike were attacked and struck, though only in an effort, as the president of the Williams Council explains in the public prints, "to reach Lang." The incidents of the evening were followed by an editorial attack in the Williams Weekly, on a member of the Dartmouth team, the reasons for which exist largely in the creations of partisan imaginations, in the honest belief of Dartmouth men.

"It is beside the point, but it has its bearing, that at Dartmouth it has been more and more believed that some influence is at work at Williams which consistently misrepresents her opponents. Rivals having been painted black enough, and the policy of fighting the devil with fire having been carefully inculcated into Williams athletics, the logical result followed.

"The real point, however, is this. However blameless either party may be, such incidents as this furnish the basis for the distrust of athletics so strongly felt by some. The recent outbreak is the culmination of a feeling which has been increasingly evident in this particular rivalry. Such things cannot be endured in college sport. With a keen regret for the loss of the spirit Of the old-time contests between Williams and Dartmouth, the Council has nevertheless felt itself obliged to vote to discontinue athletic relations with Williams until such time as the present feeling can be eradicated. The student body fully endorses the action. The necessity is regrettable but evident."

Much resentment has been added to the feeling at Dartmouth by the attempt on the part of the Williams Record to justify the occurrences in question by blackening to the utmost the reputation of the Dartmouth center as a player. It is worthy of note, too, that while Dartmouth is besought to cast the beam out of her eye by taking Williams' word for it that the man in question should not be allowed longer to represent the Green in sports, still the Williams player who was involved is rewarded with the captaincy for next year.

Williams has lately asserted that most of those who rushed upon the floor did so to restrain the few who were seeking to take the game into their own hands. The Williams Record of March 11, however, said in its news columns,— after speaking of the crowd as "the largest ever assembled in La sell Gym. nasium,"- . . . "a free fight was narrowly averted when the crowd rushed upon the floor," and then says editorially, "The events that interrupted the first half of Friday night's basketball game did not look well in print for either Williams or Dartmouth. The deliberate prize-ring tactics used by the Dartmouth player must have disgusted all who read newspapers; and, it must be added, the Williams action, aided by prominent men, in endeavoring to retaliate, thirty to one, in the few seconds before cooler heads got control, was distinctly discreditable to the college."

Williams further claims that the Council investigation was not thorough, since the testimony of her men was not sought, but evidence enough was found in the news columns of her own paper to satisfy those who read the accounts that.some action by the Dartmouth Council was necessary.

The B1-MONTHLY regrets the whole course of events. It regrets the feeling at Dartmouth as well as the sentiment at Williams. But if the events in question could be forgotten or disregarded no arrangement could be satisfactory until the spirit of recent years should be eradicated. ' Under such circumstances the discontinuing of relations was wise.

It should be added that there is no antagonism either in the Council or in the College, against Williams, except in-so-far as the recent athletic policy there has seemed to be indorsed by the student body. If it were possible for the colleges to meet in the old-time spirit, Dartmouth men everywhere would be pleased. There is no evidence, however, that such a result would be possible at present.

The B1-MONTHLY has already called attention to a committee of the Administration known as the Committee for the Registration of Teachers. Last autumn blanks were sent to all teachers who graduated in the classes of 1895 to 1906 inclusive; these number 249. It was the hope of the committee that all these blanks would be filled out and returned, even if no assistance was desired, in order that there might be complete statistics of recent graduates engaged in teaching. As yet only 87 blanks have been received. Besides these, there are on file the applications of 29 Seniors who expect to become teachers next year. There are, then, only 116 men from whom to select candidates, to meet a very active demand for Dartmouth teachers. During the past two months about 35 applications for teachers have been received, not including those which have come from teachers' agencies. A majority of these call for men of experience. They have come from all parts of the country and include college as well as school positions, supervisorships, and principal-ships. In many cases excellent salaries have been offered. For some of these positions the committee has had no suitable candidates. The B1-MONTHLY takes this opportunity to impress upon all Dartmouth graduates who are teachers the desirability of having their names on file. Blanks will be sent upon application to the secretary, H. E. Burton. There is every prospect that this business will develop rapidly, as it is discovered that the College can furnish good teachers. The fact that the teacher pays nothing for the service and the College makes no financial gain from the transaction will be recognized by those who employ teachers as a great advantage to themselves. And it is, of course, an advantage to the College to maintain a connection with its graduates, especially with those who are engaged in educational work.

On April twenty-fourth the Dartmouth baseball team was withdrawn from the field at Providence, in the game with Brown, as a protest against what is generally admitted to have been a grossly unfair decision of the local umpire, after three innings of the game had been played, and the score was one to one. On April twenty-sixth, before the team had returned to Hanover and before any investigation of the affair by the Dartmouth Council was possible, but after Skillin as captain had made public apology to Captain Paine for penalizing the Brown men and the spectators for the mistake of the umpire, and after the Dartmouth had editorially expressed the regret of Dartmouth men at the occurrence, the Brown athletic committee voted to sever all athletic relations with Dartmouth.

We are sorry for this additional intercollegiate squabble. But the result is accepted cheerfully. If Brown really believes that there is enough in the original incident, even had there been no expression of regret from any one, to justify the breaking of relations, they are best broken. In short, if Brown, with a mistake apologized for as a pretext, wishes to abide by her own action, and stand sponsor for the break, Dartmouth has no mission to intercept the boomerang. The games with Brown have been interesting and we shall probably miss them, but the rivalry between the two colleges has never been a very spontaneous affair, and at times it has seemed very artificial. It was evidently bound to die eventually, by violence or from natural weakness. Now it is gone. Requiescat in pace!