CUSTOMS FOR FRESHMEN

Steady growth in the size of entering classes has rendered the introduction of freshmen to the facts and traditions of college life yearly more difficult. To solve the problem certain new institutions have been added to the heart-to-heart talk of Dean Emerson and the unorganized personal influence of faculty and upperclassmen which formerly sufficed to start the pene on his collegiate way. For a number of years the Dartmouth Christian Association has held a freshman reception, President Nichols last year introduced the faculty advisory system, and with the class of 1915 has appeared the freshman cap.

The green skull cap with its large white button is intended to make it easy for the first-year man to become better acquainted with his fellows, and for the upperclassman to give to the freshman such instruction as he may from time to time require. The cap is not to be worn in severe weather.

Freshmen enjoyed the first campus fracas at the football rush the night college opened. In a very few minutes after the varsity football captain tossed up the ball, a sophomore scooted off the dimly lighted field with the prize hidden under his coat. The rush then developed into lively rough and tumble bouts between individulas of the opposed classes. After furnishing illumination for these, the old kerosene torches followed the crowd to College Hall porch, where with cheers and the Dartmouth Song the rush ended.

President Nichols, as first speaker at the Christian Association freshman reception, explained the advisory system whereby each freshman is assigned to some member of the faculty to whom he may go for counsel on any subject. There followed talk's by representatives •of nearly all the undergraduate activities, athletic and non-athletic. Members of the glee club enlivened the reception with songs.