UNDERGRADUATE CHAIR
THE I66TH YEAR of College has opened with the usual hectic registration week bringing the returning horde of upperclassmen accompanied by the newly arrived Men of 1938. The inevitable "Whatya do this summer" . brings optimistic answers from the former. Most of them have beenworking. Jobs held by members of three returning classes include every kind of work from life guarding to watching over gangs of imbeciles at the New York Institution for the Feeble Minded. Several report having shipped on oil tankers to Norway or Alaska, while another tells of helping drive thirsty cattle from drought-stricken Nebraska to water in Illinois. One Dartmouth News Board man had a newspaper job in Canada, but watchful inspectors stopped him at the border. Canadian laws, it seems, protect their unemployed.
Other Dartmouth men were in various parts of the world. A few young intellectuals spent the summer pursuing leftist doctrines in a Moscow summer school, a senior dished ice cream to perspiring Southerners in Texas, and a sophomore relates stories of bear trapping on the Mackensie. So the conclusion seems to indicate that Dartmouth men covered the world during vacation.
The proposed daily paper to compete against the traditional Dartmouth has collapsed in a prenatal death, and the outstanding senior "Reds" who promoted the campus Marxian school last year and graduated in June can be found clerking in banks in New York, reading scripts for capitalistic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood, and writing books among their comrades in Russia.
After a year of sensible regulation of the Hanover liquor problems, a blue-nosed New Hampshire legislature has thrown a monkey wrench into the machinery with a new law making it a criminal offense for local restaurateurs to sell the malt beverage to persons under 21. As most Dartmouth undergraduates are not 21, Hanover proprietors are at present in a dilemma. As they are liable to prosecution for selling to those under age, their only alternative is not to do so, upon which deprived Dartmouth men will immediately journey to White River, where the age limit is reasonably set at 18, and where, unfortunately, they can and probably will indulge in the more potent spirits.
,The annual freshman-sophomore rush (which previously has meant nothing more than momentary glory to the victor) offers a new attraction this fall. The '38 men are restricted by a new set of freshman rules, one of which requires that they do not trespass upon the campus or pass along the diagonal walks. If they win the rush, they are immediately freed from the rules; if not, they must continue to observe them until a later date to be determined upon by Palaeopitus. Our prediction is that the '98 men will be sauntering freely across the expansive greenswards.
New Game Sweeps the Campus! The thing to do around the dorms at noon-time is to find an old tennis ball and organize a game as pictured above. It is most popular along Fayerweather Fayer calls it "Outs." South Fayer prefers the name of "Stoop Ball."
