The Undergraduate Chair

The New Year, which opened in Hanover with about five undergraduates in town, witnessed the lazy, routineless atmosphere which goes with college vacations. Before the first week had passed quite a few students had returned and the universal subject of conversation was the fire in the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house. A $50,000 fire took out almost completely the interior of a brick structure built three or four years ago. No one was living in the building at the time and no cause is definitely known. At five o'clock in the morning of January 3 the fire in an advanced stage was discovered by a maid in the home of President Hopkins two doors away. The floor of the living room had already begun to fall by the time the Hanover Fire Department had directed a stream on the flame.

Practically nothing was saved of the personal belongings of the men living in the House. The building itself was partially covered by insurance. Reconstruction has already started and the Delta Taus are meeting in a rented room in a Main Street office building.

In one or the other of the twenty-six fraternity houses now in Hanover a fire occurs almost every year. Club houses are never very good risks according to the insurance men.