The Undergraduate Chair

For one hundred and sixty Junes, Dartmouth senior classes have banqueted, practiced marching order, attended receptions, become reminiscent, and have been graduated, but we like to think of this class of 1930 as the only one it is any better or worse, but just because to these seniors, it is everything. So, we would pause before continuing on to that ever endless belt of undergraduate activity which feeds our column each month. We have watched our seniors through that period of separation from Dartmouth, first the carving of canes, then group pictures and banquets, speeches, movies, with the class unity becoming more and more pronounced and here and there the sudden realization that college careers were closing. Students of today are not sentimental as a whole, but whether they listen or not to farewell addresses, whether they continue lighthearted throughout Commencement, we know that each and every one at some time feels that indescribable thrill and tingling creep over him which appears Harvard weekend when "As the Backs Go Tearing By" sounds out from the green-coated band. To the class of 1930 we express our sorrow that they must leave Hanover, our gladness that they have safely completed their four years of associations with the Green, and our anticipation of that which they will accomplish in the world of mankind as Dartmouth men. * * *

June is a month of finishing and touching up, of final elections, final honors, traditional ceremonies, passport pictures, summer jobs. Freshmen have > had one glorious year of Dartmouth andjhave already assumed that certain appearancevwhich marks the undergraduate. Their contacts have not been few or deep, but where they have skimmed the surface, they have sensed the treasures lying underneath. For sophomores the year has meant an introduction to Dartmouth activities which has left them with certain definite interests; they are oriented into athletics, publications, the Outing Club, musical clubs or peerades. Three years have given the juniors the culmination of their hopes as managers, lettermen, directors, etc. They have watched the seniors prepare to leave College and are beginning to wonder and speculate on senior year.

This summer we will wager that all records of student traffic to Europe will fall, that the alumnus will find the wearers of the Green in every foreign land, on bicycle, auto, train, aeroplane, as passenger, student, tourist, delegate, hiker, tutor, guide.