INTERCOLLEGIATE CONFERENCE

The first Intercollegiate Student Activity Conference was held April 17-18 at the Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology. This was a gathering of students representing the undergraduate extra curricular activities. Forty colleges and universities of the East, Middle West, and South sent delegates.

Last December at the suggestion of Dean Burton of M. I, T. representatives from Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, M. I. T., Princeton and Cornell gathered in New York and laid plans for the meeting. In order to facilitate free discussion, the conference was divided into four sections, athletics, student government, dramatics and musical clubs, and publications.

The afternoon of the first day was taken up with group discussions. That evening the delegates were given a dance in Walker Hall. Saturday morning was given up to further group discussion. That afternoon a general meeting of the entire conference was held and reports from the sections were made. The gathering ended with a dinner in the evening.

The sentiment of the conference in regard to the honor system was decidedly adverse, it being reported that of the 21 colleges which already had the system 11 were dissatisfied with it and four had already dropped it. Plans were laid for the formation of a national honorary society similar to Phi Beta Kappa, except that instead of scholarship, prominence in undergraduate activities should be the qualifications. All connection with professional athletics was denounced. It is planned to hold a conference every two years.

Dartmouth's delegates were C. R. Freeman '21, representing student government; j. W. Hubbell '21, publications; J. Z. Jordan '21, athletics; and S. B. Gorham '21, chairman of the section on dramatics and musical clubs.