THE UNDERGRADUATE MONTH

The past month has been productive of three particularly important events — the concert in Webster Hall by Anna Case, the famous Metropolitan Opera star, the straw vote of over 800 undergraduates on a military questionnaire compiled by The Dartmouth, and the starting of undergraduate enlistment for the course in military training authorized by the faculty and under the supervision of the War Department. Miss Case arrived in Hanover March 5. and gave.a song recital the following evening which was paid the unusual compliment of being enthusiastically received by the audience and highly praised by the reviewer. Miss Case's program was pleasingly varied, her voice clear and even throughout an unusually long range, her encores numerous, and her singing, manner and appearance all contributed to the unstinted applause and appreciation contributed by every member of the audience.

Prompted by the apparent lack of vital interest on the part of the undergraduate body in the international crisis confronting the country, and wishing to lay a definite foundation for the formation of some sort of military training in the college, The Dartmouth conducted a war questionnaire, the results of which were printed in the issue of March 8. The record number of 819 undergraduates cast votes and both interesting and significant answers were given to the 10 questions asked. By far the greater number of the voters, 698 in number, were willing to enlist as volunteers in case the country were attacked, and 36 percent would offer their services if called on under the present conditions. Voting in favor of optional military training in Dartmouth were 584, or 80 percent of these 440 expressed their willingness to enter such training, and all but 24 of the votes cast were in favor of having such training under the supervision of the War Department.

Universal compulsory military training in the United States was favored by 453 men, representing 63 percent of the votes cast. Given as reasons for the adoption of this system were a large variety of answers, predominant among which wrere preparedness for war, to increase personal discipline, physical training and to develop manhood and character. Over 87 percent favored the government's taking steps to protect American neutrality and shipping in the absence of a declaration of war, but only 21 percent believed that war should be declared at the present time as against 593 men who thought peace should be maintained.

Close upon the heels of this straw ballot came the formation of a special committee composed of two faculty and three undergraduate members to look into the matter and report to President Hopkins on the best action for the College to take in the matter of installing military, training. After a series of meetings, during which several plans were considered, the committee reported that the most feasible was the application to the war department for an officer to take his place on the faculty as the head of the department of Military Training and conduct the drill. The committee's report was referred at once to the faculty committee on military education, adopted and recommended to a special faculty meeting called March 17. The recommendation passed the faculty, by an overwhelming vote, enrollment started at once and there are prospects of a group of over 250 men to begin training soon after the Easter vacation.

The effect on the College has been to make the possibilities of war the chief discussions in all informal gatherings, to awaken a certain amount of class and dormitory rivalry as to representation in the proposed battalion, and to stimulate an interest in national affairs, the lack of which has been the source of no little worry on the part of the faculty and thinking undergraduates.

The annual senior society elections were held February 28 with the following results:

SPHINX

Elmer H. Englehorn, '-17 of Spokane, Wash.

E. D. Towler, '17 of Cranford, N. J.

1918

R. D. Bickford of Rochester, N. Y. E. H. Booth, Omaha, Neb. E. F. Emerson, Newton, Mass. J. L. Hanley, Jersey City, N. J. S. W. Judd, Grand Rapids, Mich. F. M. McDonough, Swampscott, Mass G. W. Markey, Evanston, Ill. G. A. Poole, Milton, Mass. O. H. Shoup, Colorado Springs, Col. H. K. Whitmore, Haverhill, Mass.

CASQUE AND GAUNTLET

1918

R. A: Aishton, Evanston, Ill. H. C. Bennett, Medina, O. J. M. Cunningham, Jr,, Denver, Col. F. J. Dusossoit, Brookline, Mass. E. H. Earley, Medford, Mass. E. Ferguson, Roxbury, Mass. R. Fish, New York City W. A. Glos, Elmhurst, Ill. S. W. Holbrook, Keene, N. H. H P. Hood, 2nd, Somerville, Mass. K. F. Hutchinson, Milford, N. H. A. F. Johnson, Sioux City, la. S. B. Jones, Brooklyn, N. Y. H. P. Kennedy, Anaconda, Mont. P. S. Miner, Brooklyn, N. Y. L. C. Pounds, Brooklyn, N. Y. R. P. Reese, Johnstown, Pa. E. D. Salisbury, Minneapolis, Minn. D. F. Shea, Worcester, Mass. R. L. Williams, Fort Dodge, la. R. M. Woolworth, Niagara Falls, N. Y.

DRAGON

1918

T. E. Baer, Peoria, Ill. G. H. Dockstader, New York City J. W. Gill, Jr., Steubenville, O. F. C. Hardie, Evanston, Ill. C. R. Hood, Beverly, Mass. T. V. Lehman, Cleveland, O. S. M. Morey, Greenwich, N. Y. L. C. Poole, Albany, N. Y. A. S. Ross, Mineral Point, Wis. A. H. Sibbernsen, Omaha, Neb. D. L. Skinner, Albany, N. Y. W. H. Stewart, Webster, Mass. Percival Streeter, West Medford, Mass.

Permanent, Commencement, arid Class Day officers were elected at the annual senior election of the .senior class held March 2. The class chose the following permanent officers: President, R. G. Paine of Brookline, Vice-President, J. W. Emery, Jr. of Quincy, Ill., Secre- tary, W. Sewall of Worcester, Mass., and Treasurer, A. B. Gile of Hanover. K. L. Thielscher of Brookline was elect- ed class marshal and R. W. Holbrook of Keene, N. H. was chosen floor di- rector for the Commencement ball. The executive committee of seven men will be composed of A. O. Duhamel, M. S. Hutchins, P. L. Melvin, C. F. Murphy, G. K. Page, W. C. Sisson and A. E. Wheeler. The three members of the auditing committee are H. Carr, R. E. Carpenter and G. C. Currier. W. S. Fitch was elected assistant floor director of the Commencement ball, B. A. Ludgate, Sachem orator, E. B. Robinson, class odist; T. L. Cotton, orator to the Old Pine; and W. A. Barrows, class orator. The address to the Chapel will be made by S. L. Smith. H. A. Loudon is class chorister, S. B. Emerson, 2nd will make the address to the President and H. A. Deferrari will compose the class poem.

The College has been unusually active in athletics during the past month in basketball, track and gymnastics. The basketball team started the home stretch on its schedule by winning a fast game from Williams 30-18, Mudgett and Rau starring with basket shooting and floor-work, "respectively. The varsity next opposed the strong Pennsylvania quintet and lost one of the hardest fought and most brilliant games ever seen in Hanover 24-23. The visitors had the advantage in being able to score on long shots from the middle of the floor and at the same time keep the Dartmouth offensive consistently in check. Rau and Mudgett again starred with floor work and Sisson's foul shooting was another feature of Dartmouth play. For the visitors, Jefford and Emery scored the greatest number of field goals with three each, while the captain McNichol was the greatest point winner with two field goals and four fouls.

On the last trip of the season, the Green lost 19-12 to Princeton, a victory which put the Tigers in a tie with Yale for first place. This defeat was followed by another at Schenectady by Union College, 18-17, after which the tables turned long enough to allow the Green to retain its hold on fourth place in the league by downing Cornell 27-24, and then resumed their former position when the varsity was decisively defeated the following night by Syracuse 26-17.

The final game of the season was played against Yale in Hanover on March 10, and resulted in a victory for the Blue 37-26. The visitors were never behind from the start to the finish and aside from Mudgett's work the varsity showed the effects of their recently concluded trip. This last defeat left the Green in fourth place in the league with a record of four wins and six defeats,

In the annual naval militia meet held in the armory at Hartford, February 21, Dartmouth won all the relay events in which it was entered, scored 25 points and finished second to Yale.

For the first time in the history of Dartmouth athletics, an indoor interscholastic meet was held in Alumni Gymnasium March 3. Preparatory and high schools of New England were invited to attend and 48 athletes were entered in the events.. The meet was won by Huntington School of Boston because of its well balanced team, and Colby Academy received second honors. The meet was a marked success and drew a large attendance of undergraduates. The chief features of the afternoon were the exhibition performances by Dartmouth varsity track men. Thompson equalled his world's record of 6 seconds in the 45 yard high hurdles, and in the broad jump, Worthington leaped 23 ft. 2¼ inches, the best indoor jump ever recorded.

The first of the annual interclass meets was won by 1920 with 39 points, closely followed by 1917 with 31 1-3. One record was broken — the three quarter mile run by M. G. Sherburne in 3 minutes, 13 2-5 seconds — and another equalled when C. F. Holbrook '20 led the field in the 60 yard novice dash in 7 seconds. The freshmen repeated their performance of the week before March 17, when they again won the interclass meet by 39 points, followed by the sophomores with a total of 35 points. The record for the 60 yard handicap dash was equalled in 6 3-5 seconds by C. E. Phillips, Jr., '19.

The gym team scored a 37-17 victory over Harvard in a dual meet in the gymnasium March 17. McDonough was high scorer for the Green with a first and a third place and six points, while Campbell for the visitors was practically the whole team being entered in all but one event, placing in all but one and piling up 13 of the Crimson's 17 points.

Two speakers of note have addressed large audiences in Hanover since the last issue of the MAGAZINE, Hamilton Holt on the general topic of foreign relations in which he advocated a league of nations to insure peace, and lan Hay with an address on trench fighting.

Several non-fraternity men who have been meeting regularly for the past year, have formed a new local fraternity, to be known as Epsilon Kappa Alpha, and to have rooms in the Bridgman Block.

Colgate defeated the varsity debating team 2-1 in a debate in Webster Hall March 16, on the Swiss system of military training.

Preliminary announcements by the Prom Committee point toward a successful Promenade May 10-12. New schemes of decoration will be inaugurated, two baseball games with Pennsylvania and Williams have been included, and these with the usual round of social festivities, should make the 1918 Prom one of the best in the history of the event.

The Harvard Glee Club won the intercollegiate glee club meet in New York City, March 3.

About 30 men made the annual trip to Mt. Washington under the auspices of the Outing Club. The trip was made over the traditional holiday . occasioned by the Hanover town meeting.

F. L. Rau '18 was elected captain of the 1918 basketball team at a meeting held after the last game of the season.