THE UNDERGRADUATE CHAIR

The month just closing has been the annual election month of the undergraduate calendar, in which the majority of student organizations elect new members and officers for the ensuing year. The campus, politically speaking, is now in the control of the Class of 1927; and that class, judging from the interest evinced in its affairs so far, will justify its entrance into the College.

One example of- the hectic electioneering was the plan attempted within the class of having the personnel of Palaeopitus changed, so that more members would be chosen by popular election. For a time it seemed that the class would so vote, notwithstanding the fact that Palaeopitus alone is empowered to change its personnel.

The talk flew thick and fast. Rumor had it that fraternities were behind the proposed change. The matter hung fire for several days; and finally the Class of 1927 voted approval of Palaeopitus as it is now composed.

The next excitement was caused by the nonfraternity group, members of which decided to compose themselves into a non-fraternity club. The story was that the non-fraternity men, by virtue of numbers, were to elect all the four men to be chosen for Palaeopitus by popular election from their own group.

This misunderstanding was cleared up through a letter to The Dartmouth by members of that group, which stated that the non-fraternity men merely purposed to unite into a club; and that the club would endorse one of its members for Palaeopitus. The campus apparently did not resent this step, since the non-fraternity group undoubtedly deserves representation. The plan was carried through, and the non-fraternity candidate was elected to the senior group.

Then the non-fraternity group held another meeting and elected officers for the coming year, as follows : President, Sheldon S. Voorhis; Vice-President, Robert W. Barkelew; and Secretary, George Friede.

Since the news of the month might be summed up very well in the elections which took place, these will be recorded in part here: L. H. Martin was elected assistant manager of Football, W. L. McKee, assistant manager of Track, and L. C. Milliken, assistant manager of Baseball.

Fifteen other sophomores were elected to positions of assistant manager. They are as follows: W. G. Carr, Basketball; G. H. Pasfield, Hockey; R. M. Kilgore, Swimming; H. M. Chapin, Cross Country; D. A. Benjamin, Soccer W. W. Simpson, Lacrosse; P. R. Kruming, Tennis; W. V. Sreenan, Gym; R. B. Fox '27, Rifle; S. J. Dennis, Fencing; J. Turkevitch, Freshman Football; J. B. Kenerson, Freshman Track; E. A. Hammersfahr, Freshman Baseball; C. M. Middlebrook, Freshman Basketball; R. C. Thompson, Jr., Freshman Hockey.

Lawrence Henry Martin attended Wakefield High School at Wakefield, Mass., and is a member of the Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity. The position of Manager of Football is an exofficio position of Palaeopitus.

Walter Leonard McKee attended White Plains High School and comes from Belmont, Mass. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. The Manager of Track is also an ex-officio member of Palaeopitus.

Leßoy Crosby Milliken attended Andover Academy and comes from Melrose, Mass. He is secretary of the sophomore class, played on the freshman hockey team and is a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity.

Wallace George Carr, Jr. attended Ridgewood High School at Ridgewood, N. J., is vice-president of the sophomore class and a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

George Houston Pasfield attended Choate School and comes from Springfield, Ill. He is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

Robert Murray Kilgore attended the Winchester High School at Winchester, Mass., is a member of Cabin and Trail and of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

Howard Mulford Chapin attended Central High School at Washington, D. C., and is a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity.

Donald Arthur Benjamin attended Chicopee High School at Chicopee Falls, Mass., is treasurer of the sophomore class, and is a member of the sophomore D. C. A. cabinet and of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Walter White Simpson attended Mercersburg Academy and the East Orange High School at East Orange, N. J., and is a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.

Paul Reginald Kruming attended Erasmus High School at Brooklyn, N. Y., and is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

William Vernon Sreenan attended Drury High School and comes from North Adams, Mass. He is a member of the Chi Phi fraternity.

Richard Bradley Fox '27 attended Haverhill High School at Haverhill, Mass., is. on the Rifle team and a member of the Gamma Delta Epsilon fraternity.

Samuel James Dennis attended Boston Latin School and comes from Atlantic, Mass. He is a Rufus Choate Scholar and a member of the Sigma Alpha fraternity.

John Turkevitch attended- Columbia Grammer School in New York City.

John Bodge Kenerson attended Winchester High School at Winchester, Mass., is a member of Cabin and Trail and of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

Ellmore Alexander Hammersfahr attended Loomis School and comes from Bronxville, N. Y., is Editor of the 1930 Green Book and a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

Curtis Monson Middlebrook attended Mercersburg Academy and comes from South Orange, N. J. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

Rupert Campbell Thompson, Jr., attended Brown and Nichols School and comes from Newtonville, Mass., and is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

D. P. Hatch, Jr. '2B was elected president of the Dartmouth Outing Club for 1927-28, G. K. Sanborn '28 vice president and W. P. Kimball '28 secretary by members of the Cabin and Trail. Prof. William H. Murray was reelected to the Outing Club Council and seventeen freshmen were made members of the Cabin and Trail at the meeting.

Hatch of Montreal, Canada, will be the Outing Club representative on the 1928 Palaeopitus. He is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Sanborn of Andover, Mass., is a member of the Canoe Club and the Bait and Bullet. Kimball of Davenport, la., belongs to the Zeta Psi fraternity. These men will take office next fall.

Professor Murray of the Modern Language Department whose term as a member of the Outing Club Council recently expired was reelected for a period of three years.

The seventeen freshmen recommended for election to Cabin and Trail by the Nomination Committee were accepted and made members of the organization. The men are: A. Boal, Jr., D. G. Cogan, G. L. Colpuhoun, W. G. Dodge, J. L. Gill, S. V. Jamieson, Jr., S. W. Jewell, S. H. Jones, B. B. Leavitt, H. H. Leich, R. S. Monahan, R. B. Sanders, A. R. Welch, K. E. Wilson, E. W. Woodman, G. G. Wright and A. E. Young.

Robert Woodrow Barkelew, William Carlyle Cusack, Newman Montrose Horton, and Donald Fenton McCall were elected to the 1927 Palaeopitus by the class, completing the membership of twelve.

Barkelew prepared at Summit High School, comes from Millington, N. J., and was on the freshman and varsity cross-country squads.

Cusack prepared at Lawrence High School at Lawrence, Mass. He was prefeident of the junior class, president of Green Key, president of Forensic Union, Secretary of the Round Table. He is a member of the Interfraternity Council, Occum Council, Dartmouth Board, Intercollegiate Debating Team, the Alpha Delta Sigma fraternity, Delta Sigma Rho fraternity and the Kappa Sigma fraternity.

Horton prepared at Drum Hill High School and comes from Peekskill, N. Y. He was a member of the freshman football team, varsity football team and is captain of football for the year 1926. He is a member of Green Key, Sphinx and the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

McCall prepared at Muskegon High School in Muskegon, Mich., and was on the freshman and varsity track teams. He is vice president of the junior class and a member of Green Key, Casque and Gauntlet and the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

"The College is the embodiment and the consecration of the lives of men from its beginning until the present, and it is the accumulation of the efforts of their hearts and souls and minds that we might have the facilities with which to better our lives," said President Ernest M. Hopkins before the members of the Dartmouth board gathered for their annual banquet at the Inn. "The man who fails to understand and to interpret this perspective of the College as a living organization is going to miss a vital part of his college life," he continued, in stressing the fact that Dartmouth is not a mere dead collection of buildings and stones.

President Hopkins traced the development of the College from its inception in the mind of Eleazar Wheelock through its various stages of growth and emphasized the contributions which men have made to it. He further stated that the College is not only for the training of a disembodied intellect, or the development of physique; but it is for the moulding of the soul.

President Hopkins plead for a recognition of the fundamental truth that the significance of Dartmouth has never rested upon its accomplishments in any one field such as athletics but has always been regarded as significant, even before its foundation.

"Liberalism is not a recent trend in the College," he added, "but has been inbred for more than a century and a half."

E. J. Duffy '26, H. L. Withington '26, and C. H- Hornburg '26 spoke a few words on behalf of the retiring directorate and C. E. Strouse *27, present editor-in-chief, responded for the incoming editors.

Alfred James Fowler '28 of Lakewood, Ohio, has been elected assistant business manager of the Dartmouth. Other 1928 business officers chosen at the same time are William Whaley of Washington, D. C., advertising manager, Gilbert Carl Swanson, of Omaha, Neb., circulation manager, and John Carlton Liddle, of Glens Falls, N. Y., service manager.

Fowler prepared at Lawrence High School before coming to Dartmouth; Whaley took his pre-college work at Morristown High School, Morristown, N. J., and is a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. Swanson attended Omaha High School before entering college and is a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. Liddle prepared at Glens Falls High school and is a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.

The Ledyard Canoe Club has elected ten new members from a group of 39 applicants. The men elected are as follows: M. E. Brush '27, J. M. Creamer '27, J. P. Williams '27, H. Buchtel '28; J. L. Merrick '28, R. V. Reid '28, E. R. Jones '28, A. M. Abbott, Jr., '29, J. C. Hubbard '29 and R. M. Sprague '29.

C. A. Randall '27 has been elected Head Yellmaster and Song Leader as a result of the final cut of the cheerleaders' competition. The other 1927 men who were chosen as assistant cheerleaders are W. R. Abbott, J. E. Carey, D. E. McCall, and G. W. St. Amant. These men will take charge of the cheerleading at the first football game next fall.

K. N. Meyercord '27 has been elected editorin-chief, D. W. Gardner '27 business manager and M. J. O'Connor '27 advertising manager of the 1926-27 Jack o' Lantern. The remaining positions of the directorate will be filled by R. S. Schackne '27, associate editor, R. M. Ring 27, art editor, E. D. Ruth '27, circulation manager and T. E. Norton '27 associate advertising manager.

Meyercord, of New York city was recently elected to Palaeopitus by the Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity. He has been a member of the soccer team for the past two years, is a member of the Arts, Round Table and has been a member of the Jack o' Lantern since his freshman year. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Schackne of Toledo, Ohio is secretary of The Arts, editor of the Tower, and formerly attended Yale University; he is a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity.

Ring, of Short Falls, N. J., is art editor of the Aegis for next year and a member of the Green Key, won his numerals in football, and was on the ski team squad. Gardner won the College heavyweight boxing championship in 1924 and 1925 and is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. O'Connor is from Great Notch, N. J.

R. E. Shaw '28 has been elected business manager and H. V. Fisher '28 advertising manager of the 1928 Aegis. E. M. Raymond '28 was made circulation manager and A. T. Bishop '28 service manager. Two additional men, G. D. Adams '28 and H. H. Schneppel '28 were made members of the 1928 Board and twelve men were elected to the 1929 Board from the freshman competition.

Shaw of Woburn, Mass., is a member of the Green Book board and the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Fisher of Washington, D. C., belongs to the Pictorial board and the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. Raymond of Kansas City, Mo., is a member of the Cabin and Trail and the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. A. T. Bishop of Middleport, N. Y., played on the soccer team last year and is a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.

The freshmen who belong to 1929 Aegis busiboard are R. Beadel, B. A. Berman, W. P. Bryer, W. B. Condon, E. M. Ellinger, J. F. Ingram, A. D. Jacobson, D. T. Martin, E. W. Merlcel, E. L. Savage, R. G. Tunnell and R. W. White.

Lawrence Paquin and James A. Hamilton '22 recently were elected honorary members of Green Key society at a meeting held in the Green Key rooms in Robinson Hall.

Mr. Paquin attended the Dramatic School of Carnegie Tech and is an instructor in the English Department in addition to his position as coach of Dramatics at Dartmouth.

Mr. Hamilton is an instructor of Industrial Organization in the Tuck School and assistant graduate manager of the Athletic Council. He has taken part in several Gilbert and Sullivan operas presented in Webster Hall. While in College, Mr. Hamilton was leader of the Glee Club.

Following the first hum of the year, the following members of the Class of 1928 were announced elected to Green Key: Lore Williston Alford, Eugene Charles Andres, Jr., Ernest Sleddori Bessette, George Madden Boughton, George Waite Buckingham, Wallace George Carr, Jr., John Beales Carson, Robert Milton Edgar, Thomas Patterson Ellis, Albert Thomas Fusonie, Geoffrey Glendenning, Arthur Robert Gow, Kenneth Folsom Graf, William George Heep, Jr., Ellis Rieger Jones, Rockwood Keith, John Leonard Kill Kelley, Jr., Robert Murray Kilgore, Jr., Myles Joseph Lane, Robert Edgar Langdell, Ambrose Patrick MacLaughlin, Jr., Robert Bruce MacPhail, John Creighton McAvoy, Walter Leonard McKee, John Philip McLaughlin, Samuel Donald Magavern, Lawrence Henry Martin, Leßoy Crosby Milliken, John Harold Moody, Donald Kenneth Norris, George Houston Pasfield, John Van de Poele Phelan, John Phillips, Charles Nancudi Proctor, Edward Maxwell Reece, Ralph Leyman Rickenbaugh, Lawson Van Riper, Eber Montgomery Wells, Lor en James Ritchie Westhaver, John Edwards Zanger.

E. C. Andres was elected president of the 1928 Green Key. L. C. Milliken was chosen vice-president, G. W. Buckingham, recording secretary, A. R. Gow, corresponding secretary, and J. V. Phelan, treasurer. These men compose the directorate which will supervise the entertainment of all visiting athletic teams.

For several years past, it has been charged that the Green Key elections are manipulated by fraternity politics; and attempts have been made to have the organization changed from within. This has not been done, and the charges were made again this year by the Dartmouth editorially, as follows:

A year ago the Green Key Society was the source of one of the perennial discussions of fraternity politics. All the old political evils were once more dug up, rehashed, and worst of all. buried again. Much was said; nothing was proved. The situation was this : the membership of the Green Key had fallen under the control of a few fraternities, the society was no longer representative of the College at large, its perpetuation had become a matter of cheap political bantering between the fraternities having the most members in the group. The Question was How maintain the Green Key as a representative and honorary society under the open system of election?" It was suggested that each fraternity elect from its own group two members, with a similar representation from the non-fraternity group—the idea caused a flurry of discussion, but it was decided that such a plan would tend to lessen the honor attaching to membership in the society, so it was thrown over and the old system was permitted to resume its sway.

After another year of this "sway" we view the situation: If the Green Key election of Thursday succeeded in anything it was in impressing the College with the fact that at last some definite action must be taken. Fraternity politics have probably always been a factor in Green Key elections but we know of no case ever before when they have been resorted to so openly. In practically no case was the judgment of a candidate free from an accompanying judgment of his fraternity. It is known that certain houses joined together in political agreements against other houses. The final ballots in many cases represented little more than what each group felt it must concede to the other. From the off-springing list of choices men may be picked at random who are known to have contributed nothing more to the College than their presence in the class-room and such men have usurped the places of a plentiful supply of others obviously more adapted to the work: numeral men, class officers, a college record-holder, an amateur champion. Forty men were elected and twenty-five of them were contributed by five fraternities. The twenty other fraternities and the non-fraternity group have contributed the remaining fifteen. A prospective Green Key member forecasted all this by overhearing an exchange of "deals' between two fraternity men. He came to us and said he didn't "give a damn whether he got a bid or not."

The sophomore class is indignant about the whole affair, and rightfully so. By such smalltown tactics the Green Key is being rapidly reduced to command from the College little more than criticism and disrespect. The society performs an excellent and almost indispensable function, but it cannot be expected to continue it unless the members carrying out its duties are rewarded with the honor and esteem of the campus. The need for some definite action is imminent and we suggest as a first move that the new members fix a number to represent the maximum permissable representation from each fraternity. After this we suggest a reopening, with a firmer purpose, of the discussion which took place last year.

D. K. McKay '26 won second place in the semi-finals of the' National Intercollegiate Oratorical Contest on the Constitution, which was held in New Haven. Kelly of Harvard and Thompson of Yale took first and third places respectively. McKay's speech was "Constitution's March."

By taking first place, Kelley will represent the New England district in the national contest wh ch will be held on June 1 in Los Angeles, California. This contest is an annual affair conducted by a California organization which is called the "Better America Federation of California. " The winners of the various semifinal contests in the districts into which the country has been divided will compete in June. McKay has been an intercollegiate debater for Dartmouth for the past three years, and was leader of the Dartmouth team which debated against Oxford last fall.