YE GLORIOUS SPORT OF RUSHING
We firmly believe that there can be no system of rushing that will be adhered to by all and will be satisfactory to all. This year illegal sinking was more open than it has been in the past. Although the rules of the Interfraternity Council read that no agreement shall be made before the three nights of chinning during the second week of the school year, yet there was hardly a house on campus whose sophomore delegation was not partially or almost entirely lined up during the first week. Some of the larger houses even had from fifteen to twenty men lined up before the summer vacation. We do not claim that this disregard for rules is anything new; but this year's illegal tactics were far more flagrant than usual. The Dartmouth in a series of editorials offered the change of permitting verbal agreements all during freshman year. The idea here would be that freshmen could signify their intentions openly to the house they wished to go, where they have hitherto had to act illegally. They would then cease to be pestered by delegations from other fraternities. We are strongly opposed to the present system in that it takes so much valuable time away from the man who has other and more useful things to do. For two weeks in the fall it is impossible to carry on any organization programs and just when the wheel of campus life is trying to gather speed, this fraternity rushing stops all.
We are pleased to note the highest number of men ever pledged, and the birth of a new fraternity, the Sigma Upsilon chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu. To this new house we extend the best of luck—they will need it, for the smaller group of fraternities this fall suffered heavily The Dartmouth, in an editorial entitled "Campus Capers," expresses the situation in part: "Sophomores holding clubby conferences with members of those houses where they are already sunk.
"Sophomores entertaining unlimited streams of weary brothers—weary sophomores smiling sadly at sorry wise-crackswishing that the brothers might know the truth and pass on.
"Sophomores holding little gatherings for their fellows headed in a similar direction. These same gatherings passing judgment on the few poor souls to whom the house still gives its time.
"Sophomores indignant because some last minute undesirable is rushed into the bull pen.
"Brothers indignant because the last minute rushee has failed to pass.
"Brothers with calling lists cursing inwardly at the stupidity of a system filling all the time of all our yesterdays. "Brothers holding hot-box sessions with the last beleaguered and still undecided sophomores.
"Futile dinners and more futile talk—the Interfraternity Council in dejection—bargains and broken bargains—a week more to carry on, men; just one week. Who's next on that damn list?"
