The Fraternity "Problem" Again

Despite the indifference of the Dartmouth undergraduates to the campaign against national fraternities conducted by the editor of TheDartmouth, his attack has attracted attention ouside of Hanover, which we very much regret. As an example of how an editorial in TheDartmouth may spread false impressions about Dartmouth abroad we quote the first paragraph from an editorial in the Cornell Sun, "One of those granite-hearted Dartmouth men recently raised a cry against the national fraternities and on further investigation we have learned that the Dartmouth campus is rife with discussion concerning the possibility and advisability of turning in national charters. The parent organizations have turned an anxious ear to Hanover; let them extend the other to Ithaca."

The Tech, of M. I. T., disagrees heartily with the editor of The Dartmouth on the question of national fraternities. He says, "We have discussed the question with members of a large number of national fraternities which have chapters here at Technology, to every one of whom most of the ideas expressed by the Dartmouth paper appeared grossly absurd and without any semblance whatever to the conditions in their own houses or to their formal business meetings held once each week.'

Norman Hackett, graduate secretary of Theta Delta Chi, wrote a six-page letter to The Dartmouth, which published it January 19, refuting the charges made against national fraternities. We may assume from this that other graduate secretaries and Dartmouth alumni have heard of this attack on nationals and are perhaps worried about it. There is nothing to worry about, however, because the Dartmouth undergraduates do not agree with the person who wrote the editorials; they have treated the whole affair with silent contempt.