THE UNDERGRADUATE CHAIR

The fallacy of our light-hearted, unmeditated statement in our last contribution to the effect that Hanover was economically a sheltered backwater cut off from the outside world was forcibly brought home to us by the recent banking holiday. With a great number of the students depending upon checking accounts in home banks to furnish them the money for food and necessaries, the matter became, in many cases, quite acute. We, ourselves, saw many anxious check writers turned away by weary cashiers. Several of the local restaurateurs, it must be added, quietly and generously provided free meals for men in financial straits.

A welcome and too unusual feature of like situations was the timely analysis of the whole situation for the benefit of townspeople, faculty and students by a competent expert, in this case, Professor Leffler of the Economics Department.

BOYCOTT

Concurrent with the announcement of the moratorium, and no doubt greatly influenced by it, came the rather startling announcement of an often considered but never attempted plan to boycott the Nugget. The plan as advanced by its sponsors, who thus far have succeeded in remaining anonymous, has as its end the forcing of the admission price from thirtyfive cents down to a quarter which they feel is a sum more in keeping with the condition of the present student purse. Due more than anything else to the quality of the current shows, there was evident, at first, an appreciable drop in the attendance. The first more-than-mediocre movie, however, received the usual response and at present things look rather dark for the boycotters. So firmly intrenched is the place of the Nugget in the Hanover social scheme, we feel, that nothing short of a Hanoverian Radio City would lure the undergraduates from their regular attendance.

It is our gloomy duty at this point to announce the discontinuing of the publication of the Aegis due to the lack of undergraduate interest as shown by the drop in subscriptions. It is unquestionably true that the present-day magnificent year book at the current price is a tremendous luxury and although regrettable is meeting with the fate of all other luxuries. A curtailed annual will serve the seniors as a partial record of class personnel and significant events.

NEW DARTMOUTH

With the election of the 1934 directorate, The Dartmouth, while maintaining its standard in news gathering and editorial writing, has shown an increased interest in, feature articles, notably, interviews with nationally prominent people by staff members. Mae West, Broadway's "Diamond Lil," and Noel Coward, author of the well-known "Design for Living," were two rather incongruously paired occupants of the feature section.

Among the more memorable contributions to the editorial column was a squib which followed the above mentioned banking holiday announcement and which poignantly and pathetically queried, "Brother, can you spare a dime?"

Supplementing the calculated interestprovoking material presented by the staff on one wintry morning appeared the following series of notices: ORV—Give Northampton a break this week-end please. Feminae. Sol—So blue now that you've gone. Come back. Alas, Alan. A. H.—Neither you nor baby shall know destitution or want. Keep the secret. Sol.

With the culmination of the basketball league season comes the suggestion of another "entente cordiale," in hockey this time and sponsored by the Yale Daily News. The league would include Yale, Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth, all of whom meet each other at present. The circuit would begin to function next year according to the plans of its proponents.

HORSEHIDE AND WILLOW

Although strictly not in our sphere, nevertheless we cannot refrain from announcing that "once again the Alumni Gymnasium Cage is resounding with the sharp crack of the horsehide spheroid meeting the willow." In other words, the baseball combine or "nine" are busily occupying themselves with the matter of Spring Training. It also behooves us to mention that the lacrosse team is also interested in this same matter. However, the cage is not large enough for all, it seems, and so the unfortunate racquet wielders have been forced to hold their scrimmages on Memorial Field, now, as might be expected, covered with some six inches of snow. The condition of the field impedes their progress very little, it seems, and they romp gaily, even blithely, about as if a blade of grass had never existed. This is, in our opinion, carrying the winter sports idea just a bit too far.

We noted in The Dartmouth an announcement to the effect that class elections would be held next week which calls to mind the apathetic attitude which was evidenced last year at this time. The junior class required something over two weeks to cast the required number of ballots, if we remember rightly. There has been some talk of doing away with class officers in every case except that of the senior class where this would be unfeasible and where the elections are run off promptly anyway.

As we go to press, the second issue of the revamped Pictorial is being distributed about the campus. Again it presents competently an excellent panorama of noteworthy events between Fall House Parties and Carnival. It is encouraging to find that campus support of this worthy publication has been revived to a marked degree.

RACQUETS

Probably the most successful of the Dartmouth winter sports teams of the past two years has been the informal squash team which we mentioned in our last "Chair." Last year they were undefeated and this year we find that their slate has been kept clean in spite of a difficult schedule of six matches. We should think that they might at least be accorded official recognition by the Athletic Council.

Once again a band of intrepid adventurers has gone forth to brave the frigid winds and eternal snow upon the forbidding slopes of Mount Washington and once again, as far as we can ascertain, Man has triumphed over Nature. Although no tangible record of the Annual Senior Mt. Washington trip has as yet been presented to the world, the world is waiting with what we might aptly term a "bated breath."

BIER

Probably the action of Congress which has been most closely watched by undergraduates in recent years has been that in regard to the return of "Phi Beta Kappa" or 3.2 beer. The campus is now completely agog with the actual sale and transportation imminent. As far as the Hanover scene is concerned, there is no question but that the return of healthy, genuine beer will be greatly to the benefit jind general health of the undergraduate stomach which has for years been toyed with by the dubious brews of the local amateur brau meisters. The slaking of thirsts and the cooling of fevered brows within the law and not sub rosa in some dingy kitchen in the near future is certainly a most engaging prospect.

During the past few weeks there has been raging in the Vox Pop column of The Dartmouth a heated polemical discussion anent the attempt of the sophomore Vigilance Committee to enforce the vestiges of Freshman Rules which survived the move for freshman independence made several years ago and much regretted in the intervening space. The freshmen have eloquently attacked the strong arm methods of the sophomores and the sophomores have replied in the rather halting manner appropriate to strong, silent guardians of the status quo whose customary language consists mainly of deeds and not weak, ineffective verbiage. There is, however, a continually increasing sentiment in favor of bringing back the rules which were in force three years ago. There is no doubt but that a brief purgatory of servitude does much to purge the freshman soul of prep school impurities and prepare it for the blissful heaven of sophomorism. Any move in this direction will have the wholehearted support of the greater part of the senior class.

AVE ATQUE VALE

And now with the appearance of the junior blazers in the shop windows comes the realization that the old order is beginning to changeth. Soon the spring will come and the seniors will be wearing canes and harried looks. Just as our own rather capable posterior aspect was accustoming itself to the rather copious seat left by our hard shelled predecessor we find that we must croon our swan song and exit as gracefully as possible. So, to our successor Gluck Auf and to our readers, if any, LebWohl.

MILESTONES

Senior Societies, Sphinx, 1934: Robert Mayer Bennett, Newtonville, Mass.; Chester Thomas Birch, New Rochelle, N. Y.; William Plummer Clough Jr., New London, N. H.; John Francis Corcoran, Lawrence, Mass.; Walter Bain Crandell, Bronxville, N. Y.; Jerry Alan Danzig, New York, N. Y.; Philip Julian Glazer, Memphis, Tenn.; William Norman Hartman, New York, N. Y.; David Talmage Hedges, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Albert Case Hine Jr., New Britain, Conn.; Charles Raymond Hulsart, New Rochelle, N. Y.; Frank James Lepreau Jr., Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y.; James Howard McHugh, Melrose, Mass.; Robert John Miller, Cedar Grove, N. J.; Roald Amundsen Morton, New Rochelle, N. Y.; Arthur Davis Noble, Newton Centre, Mass.; Smith O'Brien, Lawrence, Mass.; John Joseph O'Reilly, New York, N. Y.; Irving Silverman, Norwood, Mass.; Robert Moors Smith, Winchester, Mass.; George Patrick Stangle, East Hartford, Conn.; James Herbert Walter, Port Colborne, Ontario.

Casque and Gauntlet, 1934: Albert Clifton Baldwin, South Orange, N. J.; James Alfred Ballard, Detroit, Mich.; Richard Wallace Banfield, Saco, Me.; David Henry Callaway Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Jesse McIlvaine Carter, New York, N. Y.; Emerson Day, Bronxville, N. Y.; Philip Gene Eckels, Manitowoc, Wis.; William Colston Embry, Louisville, Ky.; Carl Baumgartl Hess, Chicago, 111.; Thomas Davis Hicks, Kenilworth, 111.; John William Knibbs 3rd, Mount Vernon, N. Y.; Stephen Christopher Meigher, Schenectady, N. Y.; Robert Henry Michelet, Washington, D. C.; Wilbur Langdon Powers, Newton Highlands, Mass.; Lyn Powers Schollenberger, Chicago, 111.: Robert Emmett Sweeney Jr., Indianapolis, Ind.

Dragon, 1933: Harold Bushing Naramore, Bridgeport, Conn.; Frederick Lupton White, Red Bank, N. J.; 1934: William James Baird, Omaha, Neb.; Thomas Ray Clark, Ridgewood, N. J.; George Elwood Cogswell, Winnetka, 111.; James Franklin Cowan Jr., Wellesley Hills, Mass.; John Griswald Fogarty, Evanston, 111.; Thorwald Johnson Fraser, Boise, Idaho; John Gilbert, New Haven, Conn.; John Junior Kneisel, New York, N. Y.; Arthur James Leonard, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; William Walter Leveen, Woodhaven, N. Y.; Robert Martindale Lindstrom, Evanston, 111.; John Donald Mahoney, Malone, N. Y.; Charles William Mills Jr., Chillicothe, Ohio; Maurice Stephen O'Connor, Fort Dodge, Iowa; Robert Carl Palmer, Shaker Heights, Ohio; Frank William Parmalee Jr., Toledo, Ohio; William Crites Ramsey, Omaha, Neb.; Frederick Gerard Robbe, Larchmont, N. Y.; Cornelius Joseph Shea, Dorchester, Mass.; John Amos Shea, Lake Placid, N. Y.; Robert Bruning Terhune, Ottawa, 111.; Arthur Hunt Willis, New Brighton, N. Y.; Robert Eck Wilmot, River Edge, N. J.

Interfraternity Hockey Champions: Zeta Psi.

Interclass Swimming Meet: Won by the class of 1936.

Interfraternity Basketball Championship: Psi Upsilon.

Interfraternity Winter Derby: Won by Phi Gamma Delta.

Captain of Freshman Basketball: J. R. McKernan, Barre, Vt.

Phi Beta Kappa: R. E. Alexander, Brooklyn, N. Y.; W. F. Atwood, Bangor, Me.; G. W. Beebe, Flushing, N. Y.; C. T. Clark, Oak Park, 111.; F. W. Cleaves, Needham Heights, Mass.; B. A. Davis, Lawrence, Mass.: J. H. Doehler, East Orange, N. J.; R. M. Estes, Manchester, N. H.; G. N. Farrand, Bloomfield, N. J.; G. G. Geddes, Chevy Chase, Md.; R. P. Goldthwait, Hanover, N. H.; H. A. Hawgood, Painesville, Ohio; E. W. Humes, Delaware, Ohio; W. N. Huse, J. Kanter, New York, N. Y.; P. A. Marden, Newport, N. H.; W. J. P. Norton, Belmont, Mass.; D. B. Paulson; J. A. Petrie Jr., Montclair, N. J.; W. E. Porter Jr., Turners Falls, Mass.; N. N. Root, Brooklyn, N. Y.; H. C. Smith, Bedminster, N. J.; H. W. Smith, Waterbury, Conn.; C. S. Webster, Newtonville, Mass.; P. R. Wetstein, Pittsfield, Mass.

Class Basketball Championship: Won by 1936.

Captain of Varsity Hockey: James H. McHugh '34, Melrose, Mass.

Everett H. Hymen '33 Senior Fellow and editor of The Dartmouth, of Milwaukee.

Max O. Waldsmith '33 St. Louis senior whose talent in art is shown in this issue of the Magazine.

A New Webster Painted by M. O. Waldsmith '33 from a daguerreotype.