DORMS COME OF AGE

The latest and most significant of the liberal innovations issuing from the Dean's office under its new head, Lloyd K. Neidlinger, is the attitude taken towards student residences. Old rules bound by musty tradition and hypocrisy that forbade any sincere enforcement now give way to modern and sensible regulations for supervision. When boiled down, the new rules say simply that students in their rooms must observe gentlemanly conduct. Liquor is allowed in the rooms, and women guests may stay as late as 10 at night, and later if the proper persons are told and their permission obtained. The proper persons, who also are to be the judges of violations of gentlemanly conduct, are, in the case of off-campus rooms, the landlady, in the case of fraternities, the members of the houses themselves, and, in the case of dormitories, dormitory supervisory committees. These committees, who will constitute the dorm half-governing bodies, are at the present writing being elected in the separate dormitories. This plan, following the new powers granted to Palaeopitus last year, indicates a rapid tendency towards more complete student self-government at Dartmouth.