CHINNERS TEMPORARILY AT PEACE

Next year will see Dartmouth fraternities again living under a long season system of pledging. According to agreement recently reached, no freshman shall be pledged before February 21; furthermore, no freshman shall be pledged before he has twelve semester hours of credit. Both rules are essentially wise. Another wise step is the elimination of a multitude of specific regulations concerning the relation of freshmen and upperclassmen previous to pledging day. It is assumed that no undue influences will be exerted; but if complaint arises, a faculty court has been established to deal with the situation.

To hope for complete harmony and unsullied satisfaction with any chinning season that can be devised, is to hope for an immediate and denatured millennium. The system as at present devised, promises as well as anything that is likely to turn up. If the fraternities decide that they can not live with it they will probably have a sophomore' season forced upon them.