PLEDGE DAY

One hundred and fifty-nine freshmen, or forty-four per cent of the men in the first year class, accepted invitations from the seventeen fraternity chapters at Dartmouth on the morning of February 24. This is the lowest number of pledges recorded on chinning day in the last live years, according to statistics compiled by The Dartmouth. Bids were issued at seven in the morning. Freshmen were by rule required to be alone in their rooms from ten the night before until seven.

No men were allowed to be pledged who had not twelve semester hours to his credit. The second semester system had at first many violent opponents. The concensus of opinion about the Campus now, however, seems to be that in general the system is a success.