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The Lincoln-Douglas Debating Society recently elected H. A. Pease '14, president for the second semester and L. R. Jordan '16, secretary.

The Christian Association was represented by five delegates at the seventh International Student Volunteers' Convention at Kansas City, Dec. 31 to Jan. 4. H. B. Belcher '12, went as faculty delegate and G. H. Gilbert 'l4, W. D. Knight '14, R. L. Durgin '15, and C. H. Parsons '16, as undergraduate representatives.

John Kendrick Bangs, the wellknown author and lecturer, entertained practically the entire undergraduate body at the first smoke talk of the year, held January 10. His subject was "Salubrities I Have Met".

Dr. Bowler is now working upon statistics of examinations of the freshman classes from 1910 to 1917 to discover from them the composite Dartmouth man. His first discovery is that 90 per cent of the men examined for the last seventeen years have had one shoulder higher than the other.

Evan Williams, one of the best concert tenors of America, gave the first of the Dartmouth winter concerts in Webster Hall, January 15. No concert for many years has been better attended than was this one.

The attempt of local storekeepers to have enforced upon students selling in dormitories the state license law which required that one dollar be paid to the state and ten dollars to the town for selling goods under certain conditions, has stirred up tremendous indignation in some few undergraduates, and no little interest in the college body as a whole. Charges and countercharges, threats of boycott, and what-not have been bandied about town for the last few weeks. The Dartmouth has learnedly expounded the law, its columns have contained reams of communications, some storekeepers have admitted being a bit hasty, and both sides say the end is not yet. Incidentally it appears that one hundred and fifty students are eking out their too slender incomes by selling goods of one kind or another to their fellows.

One hundred student members of the College Church met together in the church vestry just before the mid-year examinations for a good dinner, and a good discussion of plans for greater service in college and community.

In a recent meeting of the Cercle Francais, "Williams True to Purple" was sung in the French of a translation made by two members of the club.

Three sophomores were recently elected to The Dartmouth board, completing the representation allowed the class of 1916. They were: A. M. Behnke, J. M. Larimer, and R. S. Steinert.