THE UNION PROGRESSES
Dartmouth's revitalized religious organization, the Dartmouth Union, displays potential strength and widespread activity in engaging in many promising fields. With the Green Key they have sponsored the freshman dinners at the Outing Club, they have had the first of numerous speakers to Hanover, and now they are initiating the most signifiant of their plans of the year student-faculty discussion groups to consider current questions of interest and importance to undergraduates, and to bring together members of the teaching and student bodies in informal meeting at professors' homes.
The year seems bright for undergraduate publications. The Daily Dartmouth has undergone an internal reorganization to specialize its different fields and do away with duplication that placed too much work upon certain of its members. Three new senior columnists, "The Spectator" (sports column), "W. M. N." (column of light verse and prose), and "R. A. S." (weekly book column), have been added to the staff. The mysterious "Eleazar" remains a mystery (in spite of Jack-o Editor Lauterbach's empty boast that he knows who it is), but continues to send in his column of verse every week. Additional new features that have enlivened The Dartmouth are first-hand articles on Russia gathered by News-Board-Member Budd Schulberg '36, who spent the summer in Moscow, and a weekly "Picking the Winners" contest in which undergraduates can compete in football predictions for a free Nugget pass.
The Jack-o-Lantern appeared for the first time two days before the Virginia game, and (it's not easy to admit) showed a decided improvement in cartoons and funny stuff over former issues .... with credit due to Editor Lauterbach, Managing-Editor Sellmer, and Art Director Klingaman.
The Aegis, which last year was a poor excuse for a Dartmouth year book, evidences early signs of rejuvenation. The present staff has already been active, passing out to seniors a folder to find out just what the class of 1935 would like in their annual.
The Junto, following its auspicious beginning on the ruins of the Arts and the Round Table, is wavering in its second year .... or else has not yet found its feet. Some of its energy (or lack of energy?), it is reported, flew south with a Norse pheasant and sought winter hibernation in Virginia corn fields.
