Dartmouth will welcome the Secretaries on March 14 and 15.

There is provided this year a sufficient mixture of important business and interesting entertainment to make a considerable journey well worth while. The Tucker Fund Committee will have an important a nnouncement to make; what's what in Dartmouth will be discussed; various constitutional changes will come up for consideration: The students promise a vaudeville show for the night of March 13; the night of March 15 is studded with social and athletic events. If the forthcoming meeting is not the liveliest on record, THE MAGAZINE is grievously mistaken.

THE MAGAZINE wishes to call special attention to the recent publication, Dartmouth Out O' Doors, edited by Fred H. Harris and published under the auspices of the Dartmouth Outing Club. The volume is compact, well bound, beautifully printed and illustrated. Its account of the winter joys of Hanover will bring to the older alumni the realization of many lost opportunities in years gone by; they should read it and pass it on to their sons. To the general public it will serve as a valuable witness to the healthful life of Dartmouth, and to the charm of Hanover during the months when the chill north strews its hills and plains with snow and locks its water ways in ice.

There is not a Dartmouth man in or out of College but should own a copy of Dartmouth Out O' Doors, and should send at least one to a friend; for nothing thus far produced shows so well the unique quality of the College and its environment. The price of the book is modest: the sum of $1.25 sent to the Secretary of the Outing Club, or to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, will bring the book by return mail. Its tonic quality is attested in the following letter from an appreciative alumnus:

"Sixty minutes with these pictures and these fellows brace me like a day off. If it can do this for a man forty years out of College and one hundred and fifty miles away, what may we not expect of a man in College with these scenes and these doings in front of him?

"The influence of the Outing Club, when one considers Hanover in winter and its isolation, must be looked upon as among the largest contributions to the health and manliness of undergraduate living.

"Happy Hanover!"

A year ago, TI-IE MAGAZINE chronicled the separation from College of some sixty-three men, because of poor scholarship. In commenting upon the slaughter at the time, THE MAGAZINE questioned that such drastic action would again be necessary. The showing at the end of the first semester of the present year seems to bear out this belief. Last year forty-two freshmen were dropped; this year there were thirty-three:. The showing in the upper classes is better yet. Last year sixteen sophomores were requested to depart; this year there were but three. Last year the juniors lost four men; this year none. In neither year have the seniors suffered.

The change is not due to any alteration in the standards of discipline; for those are fixed. It is due primarily to better work on the part of the undergraduates. In some measure, it may be due to better work on the part of the faculty, for in its effort to improve the quality of undergraduate scholarship, the administration has not been satisfied with the easy assumption that existing faults lay entirely with the student.

The degree to which the postponement of the chinning season is responsible for the general improvement it would be difficult to determine. Last year the chaotic condition of fraternity affairs was blamed for a considerable measure of the disaster which visited sophomores and freshmen. In so far as the freshman class is concerned, the difference in favor of the present year is so slight as to afford no fair basis for judgment. The small number of sophomores dropped may be attributed to the thorough weeding process to which the class was subjected early in its career.

Some misguided fraternity brethren seem inclined to believe this argument sufficient to support a return to the early chinning season. In this, of course, they are mistaken. If the undergraduate memory were not so painfully short, it would be unnecessary to point out that the change in the date of fraternity pledging from autumn to spring was due mainly to the suspicion, ill-feeling, and general unrest bred as a result of early pledging, and, further, to the fact that of any. considerable number of freshmen dropped, the large proportion had always been fraternity members. Thus the question of the "effect of the fraternities upon freshman scholarship, while at one time prominent, was, after all, merely incidental in its actual bearing. The question, however, of the effect of freshman scholarship upon the fraternities has always been an important one. The late chinning season, while it may not vitally affect the proportion of freshmen lost or saved, vitally affects the number lost or saved to the fraternities. And, if the present year , affords any criterion, it makes, in the student body as a whole, for a degree of peace and good-will which should not readily be given up.

The athletic management of the College is to be congratulated upon pulling out a last-minute football schedule that offers a greater degree of interest than any schedule in years. It is, of course, matter for reasonable regret that the "big green team", as it has come affectionately to be called in New England, should be forced out of its usual environment for some of its most important games, and that it must miss the greetings of thousands of friends whose admiration its long years of clean, vigorous play have won.

Yet in seeking laurels upon unfamiliar fields, the College representatives will carry the same qualities that have brought them distinction nearer home. If . they give a brave account of themselves in Philadelphia and New York, their work will mean a widened circle of acquaintanceship, of recognition, and of respect. Coaches and men will bear a heavy burden of responsibility next year. Victory they must seek, if victory can be deserved; yet in the stress of training, and of the gruelling contest itself, the oldtime standards of sportsmanship must be maintained.

Under usual conditions, emphasis upon the quality of sportsmanship would be quite unnecessary. Perhaps it is unnecessary, anyway. Yet the first meeting with new and doughty rivals may well arouse unwonted excitement and suggest, with more than common force, the special desirability of victory. The things that the alumni of Dartmouth will be watching for, next fall, will be knowledge of the game, team play, grit, determination, and through them all, thorough cleanness of speech and action. If these are apparent, the scores will take care of themselves; without them, scores are of small account.

Dartmouth is particularly glad to welcome Pennsylvania to its schedule, and to feel that the meeting on the football field may imply a growing community of interest between two institutions somewhat widely separated in point of distance, yet capable of developing more intimate relations than would at first seem apparent. Many of the fraternities which have chapters at Pennsylvania, are likewise represented at Dartmouth. and afford opportunity for the growth of undergraduate acquaintance. Through them, city university and country college may meet on terms of immediate understanding and good fellowship. If the result is nothing more than that of widening the scope of undergraduate experience and sympathy it will be well worth while. It will do our good friends of Quakerdom no harm to know a little more about New England: while to our New England sons,, the growing knowledge that civilization and opportunity extend beyond the borders of Puritanism will not come amiss.