FRESHMAN TEAMS

A flood of athletic material is turning to Dartmouth. Almost unsolicited, and stirred by the knowledge that of the applicants for entrance in the freshman class only a fraction is admitted, applications have been pouring in this year from boys in preparatory schools who have begun to make names for themselves in all branches of amateur sport. Football captains, baseball pitchers, sprinters, shot putters, basketball players, and swimmers seem determined to turn down the "offers" from other institutions and to accept at Dartmouth that "offer" which means nothing save the opportunity to join its fellowships under the same conditions which attend the entrance of any student. An impression seems to be general also among school boys, that Dart- mouth is trying to administer its athletics cleanly; that the coaches and teachers of athletics at Dartmouth are a fine type of gentlemanly "he" men; that it is intended to preserve the proper balance between the mental and physical; that a boy has a square deal; and that he is rewarded according to his accomplishments.

The great "Tommy" is still with us as an assistant in the Compulsory Recreational Athletic work