PROFITS FOR STUDENTS
"The Dartmouth Profit Sharing Association," a business organization to be run on the plan adopted by the cooperative societies of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and other colleges, has been launched in Hanover with a capital of $5000 from student and faculty stock purchases. J. E. Ingersoll will be manager of the association for the current year, and the other officers are: J. B. Butler '16, president; J. L. Rubel '17, vice-president; F. W. Leighton '17, secretary, and A. L. Priddy 'ID, treasurer. The association will do a business in sporting goods, haberdashery, clothing and other articles.
The organization will be copied directly after the very successful Harvard Cooperative Society, the management being vested in a board of five directors. In addition to the regular stockholders, participating membership will be granted to those persons who pay $1 each year for the privilege of sharing 25 per cent of the profits on their individual purchases. Eventually under the plan of the association, all of the net profits will be distributed among the participating members. The association has leased space in the Bridgman Block for store and showrooms.
Dartmouth's assistance to the sufferers in the present war will be rendered in the form of a number of motor ambulances, if the plans of the Christian Association are approved by the financial support of the College. The first move in the campaign was a massmeeting in Webster Hall, addressed by Cranston Brenton for the American Red Cross. It is expected that $2,000 will be raised in Hanover, and that this sum may be increased by gifts from alumni.
The first two of a series of four entertainments planned by the Board of Governors of The Arts have been held in the Little Theatre of Robinson Hall, on April 22 and 24 respectively. Miss Helen Hersey appeared in a costume recital of English and French songs in the first program, which was followed by a reception in the clubrooms. Professor C. T. Winchester of Wesleyan lectured on American literature on April 24. Granville Barker and Percy MacKaye have accepted invitions to speak in Hanover later in the series.
Smith and Yale once more head the colleges, in the opinions of the seniors taken in the annual ballotings in April. Kipling is the favorite poet and Shakespeare the favorite author; the Dartmouth Song still stands preeminent, with the Stein Song and Un Peu d'Amour tied for second. Among sports, the seniors prefer football, baseball, tennis and track, in that order, and Economics, English, Mathematics and Chemistry find favor in the curriculum. Professors Emery, Dixon and Wicker were judged the most popular among the faculty. C. E. Griffith, Jr., is the most popular member of the class, the most respected and the busiest; L. A. Whitney is the best athlete, with C. L. Wanamaker, L. P. Tuck and M. P. Ghee, Jr., tied for second place.
Lyman Ray Jordan '16 of Joliet, Illinois, was elected president of the Christian Association at the annual meeting in the latter part of March. The election was held in A Dartmouth, and was preceded by two-minute reports of the various departments of the association. H. W. Marble '16 of Ashburnham, Mass., was chosen vicepresiden: R. Parkhurst '16 of Winchester, Mass., secretary; and H. E. Merrill '17 of Somerville, Mass., treasurer. Jordan by virtue of the election becomes ex-officio a member of the 1916 Palæopitus.
1917 won the annual basketball series from 1918 by two games out of three, all the contests being decided by very close scores. The scores of the various games were 28-26, 18-20, and 19-16-Steele and Mudgett starred for the sophomores and Rau was the individual expert for the freshmen.
