THE DARTMOUTH CHANGES HANDS

In the middle of the month, The Dartmouth passed into the editorial hands of the 1931 directorate, headed by John Butlin Martin, Jr., of Grand Rapids, Mich. In a series of five editorials just preceding the transition, the retiring editor, John French, Jr., of Greenwich, Conn., summed up his editorial policy. The five major points were: (1) a tendency against the emphasis on extracurricular activities, with the suggestion that all such activities be confined to the first three years of college, leaving the senior year free for the better use of cultural opportunities which the senior is often just awakening to the realization of; (2) an utter lack of interest in the pretensions to brotherhood and the mystic mumbo-jumbrye of fraternities, an admonition to freshmen to obey rushing rules in their own interest, and a plea for more fraternities, to include a greater number of students; (3) the removal of sophomoric sadism in the disciplining of freshman, the restriction of Delta Alpha to the good-humored absurdities of the Norwich game parade and frolic, and the abolition of freshman rules except for the hat rule; (4) the further development of freedom in educational policy, with fewer examinations, wider fields for the major, and the excusing of seniors from ordinary classroom attendance requirements; and (5) a denunciation of the serene selfconscious maturity of twenty-year-olds, a plea for more undergraduate buoyancy, and a vigorous protest against snow.