FOOTBALL

When we wrote last month's Undergraduate Chair the Dartmouth student body was preparing to descend upon New Haven en masse, and gridiron enthusiasm was probably as high here as it had been at any time within the past five years. At this writing (on the Monday following the Cornell game) interest in the Big Green has hit a new low. Before the Cornell loss there was still hope of a successful season. By defeating Dobie's men we could go into the Tiger encounter with everything to win and nothing to lose, and a victory would leave the season marred by only the narrow loss to Yale.

But after the lacing from lowly Cornell, and Princeton's defeat at the hands of the Eli, we go to Tigertown twice beaten and without the hopeful possibility of toppling a crown from an undefeated team. The general undergraduate apathy is noticeable in the number who since the Cornell game have changed their minds and decided not to go to Princeton.

Now, just as was the case during the extreme optimism previous to the Yale game, avid Indian rooters tend to overlook the accumulated handicaps of a new coaching staff, an inexperienced squad made up mostly of sophomores, and a large injured list, including the captainall in all, a situation which very, very rarely produces more than a mediocre team.

The Dartmouth editorially advocated a change which seems worth consideringmove the Yale game up further in the schedule so that the climax of the football year would not come at midseason.

After a slow start at the first of the year the Junto has shown new signs of life, and under the direction of President Dick Halvorsen '35 of Brooklyn, N. Y., is making extensive plans to present both local and out-of-town talent at its meetings. The organization has renewed its weekly series of phonographic concerts, has heard poetess Genevieve Taggard's talk on "The Young Writer and Romanticism" and its President's lecture exhibiting an interesting collection of lantern slides depicting points of interest in Sweden, and at present is preparing to announce three or four speakers scheduled for the next two weeks.

Following its initial success in starting faculty-student discussion groups in professors' homes, the Dartmouth Union is enlarging upon this activity and in a short time plans to be sponsoring meetings with most of those faculty members whom undergraduates, in the religious organization's questionnaire, indicated they would like to gather with for the purpose of discussing ethical, religious and other present-day questions of significance.

The language clubs appear due for an active year. Increased interest on their part is due in no small part to the German Club's spurt of activity last year under the able management of Herr Stephan J. Schlossmacher, its faculty director. With the German, French, and Spanish Clubs, another has now been organized— the Circulo Italiano. Germania started the season most auspiciously with a production on November 17 commemorating the 175 th birthday of Schiller. A telegram of greeting was received from the Mayor of Stuttgart, Schiller's native city.

In Yellow Jack, their first play of the year, The Dartmouth Players gave a most enjoyable entertainment to theater-goers on Fall House Party week-end.

Gile defeating New Hampshire for Dormitory touch football title.