FROM THE UNDERGRADUATE CHAIR

The undergraduate has been dozing in his chair for about a month, so he has not thought very seriously on any topic. From time to time his attention has been attracted by the various elections; and these have been practically his only active interest.

Just now he is saying, "a week to go,—" meaning that within seven days spring recess comes, and he finds another excuse to dodge work. The lethargy of the moment is hoped to be dispelled when the recess ends, and that well known Hanover spring air gets in its work. In fact, there have been sporadic hints of the awakening for two or three days at this writing, the last culminating in an informal burlesque parade—which, incidentally, served as advertising for the Green Key show.

The Players have provided the real interest of the month just passed—through a series of pleasing programs which ended with the Green Key show mentioned above. The best of their efforts was "The Great Catherine," by George Bernard Shaw, which received much favorable comment from the three Little Theatre audiences which witnessed it. "Dutch" Diehl, the roaring guard on the football team last fall, for the first time showed his histrionic talent—putting a gusto into the Prince Patiomkin part. "Aria," the Players' prize play, by Brice Disque '25, also was presented. This brief play, which was decidedly smooth for a first production, had enthusiastic applause on each night also.

The Players previously had produced "The Flare of the Match," by K. S. McKinley '21. This mystery play attracted the undergraduate attention for a week-end. Another week-end was. occupied by the productions of "The Counterfeiters" and "The Voice of the Tempter," two of the old fashioned melodramas, which were burlesques for the Green Key fund.

Twenty-two undergraduates and Mr. E. G. Noble, a New York banker, made the annual Mount Washington climb toward the end of February. Perfect weather greeted the climbers, with the result that the ascent of the mountain proper and the Tuckerman Ravine headwall were made without injury. Milt Hart and J. K. Sullivan, seniors, were in charge of the trip.

The Arts has had an active month, bringing Richard Le Gallienne, James Stephens and Louis Untermeyer to Hanover. Each of the authors read poetry, and later engaged in informal discussion with their student admirers.

Professors David Lambuth and Kenneth Robinson, of the English Department, each read a paper to The Arts recently. "Conrad's Philosophy," was the topic of Mr. Lambuth's talk,'and Mr. Robinson gave an interesting contribution entitled "Opera House Tonight." Mr. Robinson treated of the influence of the old fashioned opera house on the American stage, and his discourse was partly responsible for the production of the hectic melodramas by the Green Key.

The Round Table brought Alfred Zimmerm and S. K. Ratcliffe before Hanover audiences during the month. Each of these well informed Englishmen gave authentic pictures of present situations abroad.

The following undergraduates were pledged to senior societies the night of March 2: SPHINX 1925—Roderick Beebe Jones, James Pickney Thomas.

1926—Oliver Lincoln Barker, Joseph Milnor Batchelder, Robert Edward Cleary, Herbert Fankrin Darling, Hubert Des Marais, Carl Herman Diehl, George Edmund Douglas, Robert Bone Edgar, Douglas Newton Everett, Floyd Carleton Jones, Jr., Fred Freeman Lawson, Robert Hawkins Loomis, Clarence Godfrey MacDavitt, Leslie Benjamin McFadden, George Everett Manser, Jr., Harold Turner Marshall, Francis Ellsworth Merrill, Charles Brown Singleton, George Chandler Tully, Leslie Waggener, Jr.

CASQUE AND GAUNTLET

1925—Theodor Seuss Geisel.

1926—Carlos Eben Allen, John Washburn Blair, Robert Joshua Breyfogle, Marshall Richard Burlingame, George Champion, Montgomery Hill Colladay, Edward Joseph Duffy, Herbert Hawley Harwood, Henry Eugene Hudgins, Edward Curtis McClintock, Robert Kendall McConnaughey, Andrew James Oberlander, Nathan Kuhns Parker, Walter Meserve Rankin, Winfield Fairbanks Robinson, Arthur Carleton Smith, John Perkins St. Clair, Charles Drake Webster, Del Johnson Worthington.

DRAGON

1925—Henry Weed Stevens, Neil Williams. 1926—Edward Jeffress Chaffin, Paul Alfred Dillingham, William Porter Farnsworth, Donald Stewart Hoffman, Roland Austin Jacobus, Jr., Granville Frank Knight, Paul Ely Kyburg, Richard Dewey Mann, Frederick Franklin Seely, Kenneth Sherman Semple, Ritchie Cornelius Smith, Gair Tourtellot, Jr., James William Truesdale.

Palaeopitus again has decreed that the picture fight shall be carried out, and the date has been set for May 2. You may remember that last year the class of 1926 refused to go through with the fight. Undergraduate opinion has seemingly shifted since then, with the result that the lower classmen are expected to take the game in a sporting spirit and go through with the traditional contest.

The Glee Club this year placed third in the Intercollegiate Glee Club contest, held in New York. Yale won, and Princeton took second. R. H. Gaskill '25 is leader of the Dartmouth club.

The Music Department contributed to the general program of the month, sponsoring entertainments by Ferdinand Motte-Lacroix and Miss Leslie Taylor. M. Lacroix, the distinguished French artist, rendered an exquisite piano recital; and Miss Taylor, who makes her home in Hanover, entertained delightfully on the violin.

The Interfraternity Council has been busying itself with drawing up a set of rules to govern second-year fraternity rushing. These will be presented to the fraternities for discussion and approval before final action is taken. It is likely that any rules passed now will be revised again next year, so not much active interest is being manifested in them.

The annual class elections have been going on since the beginning of March. The senior class picked Chester Bolles as president, Laurence Leavitt as marshal, Nate Bugbee as vicepresident, Douglas Archibald as secretary, and Stephen Ryan as treasurer.

Bolles was president of the class during his freshman and junior years and comes from New York city. He played halfback on the football team for two years, is now captain of the swimming team, a member of Palaeopitus, Delta Omicron Gamma, Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and Sphinx senior society.

Leavitt has been fullback on the football team for three years, was class treasurer in his sophomore year, and is a member of Palaeopitus, Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and Casque and Gauntlet senior society, and comes from Hampton, N. H.

Archibald is from Evanston, Ill. He is managing editor of The Dartmouth and a member of Pi Delta Epsilon and Kappa Sigma fraternities.

Bugbee is captain of the track team, was treasurer of the class last year and is a member of Palaeopitus, Kappa Sigma fraternity and Casque and Gauntlet senior society. His home is in Springfield, Mass.

Ryan is manager of baseball, president of the Occom Council and a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity and Sphinx senior society. He comes from Winchester, Mass.

The seven men elected to the executive committee of the class are: F. N. Blodgett, W. Campbell, T. S. Geisel, L. B. Jamison, F. T. Osgood, M. W. Reeves and N. Williams. The class auditing committee consists of C. W. Babcock, C. R. Jameson and L. S. McKown.

Other officers elected for Commencement are: Address to the Old Pine, R. O. Y. Warren; class orator, W. B. Sleigh, Jr.; Sachem orator, A. R. Perkins; address to the College, S. G. Litchfield; class odist, P. B. Tanner; class poet, H. S. Talbot; class chorister, C. V. Elmquist; floor director of the Commencement Ball, E. J. Petrequin; assistant floor director, D. C. Hunt.

Immediately after the senior elections, the junior class voted for new officers. The results were: President, George Champion of San Diego, Cal.; vice-president, Montgomery Hill Colladay of Hartford, Conn.; secretary, Carlos Eben Allen, Jr., of Valley City, N. D.; and treasurer, Douglas Newton Everett of Concord, N. H.

Champion earned his freshman numerals in football and has been a member of the varsity football squad for the last two years. He is also a member of the D. C. A. cabinet, the Green Key, The Arts, the Psi Upsilon fraternity, and is pledged to the Casque and Gauntlet senior society.

Colladay is a member of the varsity track team, the Green Key, the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and is also pledged to the Casque and Gauntlet senior society.

Allen is the junior baseball manager, a member of the Green Key and the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity, and is pledged to the Casque and Gauntlet senior society.

Everett is captain of the 1925 hockey team, a member of the Green Key and the Sigma Chi fraternity, and is pledged to the Sphinx senior society.

The following fraternity pledges recently have been announced: To Alpha Chi Rho, Richard Welch '28 and Robert Nespor '28; to Alpha Tau Omega, Urban Lauber '27 and Paul Staab '27; to Chi Phi, Henry Victor '27 and James McConnon, 3d '28; to Delta Tau Delta, John Scola '27 and H. T. Walker '28; to Kappa Kappa Kappa, F. B. Wallis '25; to Kappa Sigma, Albert Cantil '27, E. D. Ruth '27, and P. F. Hanna '27; to Psi Upsilon, Donald Giles '28; to Sigma Phi Epsilon, Charles Haynes '27; to Sigma Nu, Dustin Griffin '27; to Theta Chi, David McCathie '28; to Theta Delta Chi, Lawrence Robinson '28, and M. K. Taylor '28.

The following undergraduates have been initiated into Kappa Phi Kappa, educational fraternity: W. Clark '25, S. C. Goding '25, C. M. Hinckley '25, P. V. Reber '25, S. D. Milnor '25, E. F. Hennessey, Jr. '25, H. P. Clough '25, R. C. Comerford '25, R. A. MacCready '25, M. R. Burlingame '26, R. K. Carpenter '26, C. H. Elliott, Jr. '26, C. W. Collins '26, R. L. Hazel '26, R. C. Smith '26, G. E. Durgin '26, W. F. Robinson '26, H. O. Fallon '27. J. W. Frost '20 was initiated as an alumnus.

Pi Delta Epsilon, journalistic fraternity, has disbanded at Dartmouth. It was decided that the organization served no purpose.

The Dartmouth has elected three freshmen to the news board, following the close of the first 1928 news competition. These are E. W. Atkinson, of Wellesley Hills, Mass.; F. H. Hankins, Jr., of Northampton, Mass.; and W. L. Scott, of New Rochelle, N. Y.

President Hopkins recently appointed an undergraduate committee to meet with the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy and consider the report on the new curriculum, to be submitted to the faculty soon. The men selected include W. Campbell '25, K. F. Montgomery '25, F. M. Shea '25, C. M. Wilson '25, E. C. McClintock '26 and E. J. Duffy '26.

The committee met with the faculty committee at supper, and there followed an extended and detailed discussion of the proposed changes in the curriculum.

The Dartmouth Christian Association recently collected more than five barrels of clothes for the miners in West Virginia.