FRESHMEN AND FRATERNITIES

Professor Husband, freshman class officer, has collated the following interesting and significant information concerning the relations of freshmen to the fraternities: .

Scholarship

The interfraternity agreement, made two years ago, that no student should be allowed to join a fraternity until he had secured twelve hours' credit toward graduation, places initiation in the second semester, and prevents the initiation of a freshman who has been put on probation. The College "admonishes in scholarship" a student who has failed in a 3-hour course, and has low marks in other courses. One who has been admonished may, under the agreement, join a fraternity.

At the end of the first semester of the present year, 310 men of the freshman class became eligible for election, and 170 of these were. chosen before the Easter recess. The average mark of the 310 men eligible was 68.3 per cent; that of the 170 men elected was 67.1 per cent; while the average mark of 140 men not elected was 69.9 per cent.

There were twenty-five men in the class who obtained a rank of 80 per cent, or above, and nine of these entered fraternities; of 75 men with a mark of 75 per cent, or above, 24 were taken into fraternities. About 55 per cent of all men eligible in the class were chosen, but only 32 per cent of the men of high scholarship. On the other hand, 20 of the 28 men admonished in scholarship were admitted. Only five of the 17 fraternities did not admit a man who had been admonished.

The. following table shows the number of men taken into each fraternity, the average mark of each delegation, the average of the highest and of the lowest man admitted to each:

Average Highest Lowest Sigma Chi 12 71.7 82.1 61.1 Kappa Sigma 9 70.2 77.9 62.4 Beta Theta Pi 10 69.8 74.8 57.9 Phi Sigma Kappa 9 69.5 89.9 55.0 Alpha Delta Phi 14 68.5 87.5 54.5 Sigma Nu 12 68.2 88.3 49.9 Sigma Phi Epsilon 6 68.2 89.1 57.0 Theta Delta Chi 13 67.2 79.8 56.2 Phi Kappa Psi 7 66.8 79.5 55.9 Kappa Kappa Kappa 12 66.3 83.2 42.8 Phi Gamma Delta 10 65.5 79.2 50.9 Chi Phi 10 65.5 81.3 55.6 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 8 65.4 72.1 53.0 Delta Kappa Epsilon 12 64.8 78.5 52.8 Psi Upsilon 10 64.2 73.1 56.6 Delta Tau Delta 11 63.9 79.6 54.2 Phi Delta Theta 5 62.7 75.3 58.2

Student Activities

The men who become somewhat conspicuous early in their freshman year, and fall immediately under the observation of fraternities, are those who are engaged in various forms of extra-curriculum activities. Of 170 new fraternity, men, 102 were engaged in some form of athletics, 35 in non-athletic activities, 10 in both athletic and non-athletic activities, and 41 were wholly inactive. The total number of activities of 170 men was 178, or 104.7 per cent. The total number of activities of the 25 men who had an average mark of 80 per cent, or higher, was 26, that is, 104 per cent.

The number of new fraternity men engaged in, different activities follows. Athletic: track 35, football 32, baseball 27, basketball 15, hockey 10, tennis 9. golf 3, others 4; non-athletic: Dartmouth heelers 14, music 14, dramatics 8, Christian Association 3, others 5.

The activities, distributed by fraternities, are as follows:

Mon. InactiveAthletic Athletic Men Psi Upsilon 7 1 3 Kappa Kappa Kappa 13 4 1 Alpha Delta Ph. 13 9 3 Delta Kappa Epsilon 14 3 0 Theta Delta Chi 12 1 3 Phi Delta Theta 4 3 1 Beta Theta Pi 3 4 3 Sigma Chi 10 2 2 phi Kappa Psi 3 3 3 phi Gamma Delta 7 4 2 Delta Tau Delta 7 4 3 Chi Phi 8 1 3 Phi Sigma Kappa 9 0 3 Kappa Sigma 6 1 4 Sigma Nu 12 1 2 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 3 2 4 Sigma Phi Epsilon 4 1 1 135 44 41

The average mark at the end of the first semester of the 41 inactive men was 66.3; of 102 men engaged in ath- letics 67.7; of 35 men in non-athletic activities 71.9; of 10 men in both athletic and non-athletic activities 72.8. The average mark of 28 men composing the final freshman football squad was 67.6.