AN INTERFRATERNITY AGREEMENT

Rushing agreements at Dartmouth were stabilized to some degree by the adoption of a constitution by the Interfraternity Council, signed by all of the seventeen academic fraternities. By virtue of this agreement, the council will in the future be composed of one representative from each of the fraternities, and each chapter will have one vote. The signatory chapters agree that the council shall have power to regulate all interfraternity matters concerning scholarship, rushing, pledging, and time of initiation. It is also empowered to enforce its own rules, and to exercise such authority as may be granted by the board of trustees or the faculty. More concretely, the short rushing season was continued for next year.

The chief benefit of closer relations among the fraternities will be a discussion of the common problems of each chapter in regard to finances, house rules, etc. There is at present a very wide variation between .chapter practices in these matters. Individual fraternities have developed systems of government and management which profitably might be used by all.

The officers for next year will be: president, P. L. Melvin of Bradford, Pa.; vice-president, H. W. Walters of Omaha, Neb.; secretary, J. W. White of North Brookfield, Mass.; treasurer, R. L. Holbrook of Keene, N. H.