ON THE GLOOMY CORNER

The Dartmouth's comprehensive survey of the campus included a freshman questionnaire regarding fraternities, literally a ship passing in the night. The great secrecy has since veiled the activities of the board which undertook this stupendous project—it is evident that the campus as a whole isn't intended to know if freshmen think themselves "cogs in the wheel"—which makes it a perfectly authentic questionnaire. Fraternities at Dartmouth have been such a moot question for so many years that no one seems able to take them equably any more. As a matter of fact, from the eyes of a casual bystander, the system must seem as sound and free of pernicious results as any other one to be found. Each new year is looked forward to with gloomy expectancy: "Certainly this tragic state can't exist forever!", and nothing ever comes of it except new delegations and perhaps a little temporary hard feelings. Some pretty healthy critter feel ssorry for and worried about himself now and again, that's all.

The Outing Club continued its energetic program through the summer with crews working on the old cabins and trails, repainting and reblazing wherever necessary, and also built several new shelters. It becomes increasingly more apparent why the Outing Club is invariably awarded the distinction of being the institution to do most for the College it never ceases to function. The summer work was begun immediately after the examination period, and continued without end until classes actually began—a truly noble disposition for anyone's summer!