RETURN TO FORM
After a disastrous football season, Dartmouth sports have been, in general, looking up; and undergraduates are finding it much more satisfactory to go home with a hockey championship, and baseball and track victories to talk about than to take the usual joke about "that 33-0 Chicago lacing." The two Green teams that went on the road during the Easter vacation returned to Hanover with clean slates. Harry Hillman's trackmen journeyed to the Southland to defeat William and Mary, Virginia, and North Carolina. The former team held the Southern championship and had been unbeaten for several years until the Indians took their scalp. The baseball squad collected two lopsided victories, 13-6 against Princeton and 13-1 against Swarthmore, and retained their unmarred record until Yale beat them 9-3 on April 14. Tesreau's men have another chance at the strong Eli team during Green Key weekend, however, and look forward optimistically to the other League games during the Spring.
Under Coaches Blaik, El linger, Gustafson, and Donchess the Green football squad has been improving rapidly. The first outdoor practice was held immediately after Easter, and since that time visitors to Chase practice field had seen the players driven hard through numerous scrimmages. The new coaches know their business and the squad members realize it. The latter group is willing, however, and there is every indication that next fall will see the all-important cooperation between coaches and players that is so essential to a smooth running machine. Although infrequent remarks are heard about "emphasis on athletics," the large majority of the campus is behind the idea of the new grid set-up and eagerly look forward to the time when they can once more cheer Dartmouth touchdowns and perhaps a Bowl victory!
A Dartmouth crew! Its adherents say "No, not yet!" But the story is that two shells have arrived at Lake Mascoma, a coach is here, and 159 crew enthusiasts have turned out to begin rowing on the shores of the lake just east of Lebanon. The credit is largely due to J. M. Odell '35, of Delhi, N. Y., yachtsman who last summer won the National Intercollegiate Yachting championship. With no financial assistance from the Athletic Council, Odell and a group of undergraduates anxious to see a revival of water sports at Dartmouth have started the whole project themselves. They plan at present to reconstruct the boathouse on the lake, hold daily rowing practice, and perhaps run inter-class races.
To those who at this time last year were being rounded up three times a week by rushing chairmen and sent calling on a list of prospective freshmen, the new rushing system is a god-send. And to the '37 men, though they may not realize it, many wasted hours in boring conversation are being saved during these Spring evenings. The present regulation, inaugurated this year, calls for no rushingwhatsoever until sophomore year. Although vague rumors of one house or another violating the rules occasionally make the rounds of the campus, it seems that the new regulations have been pretty faithfully observed. Just what sort of hysteria the houses and rushees are going to find themselves in during the first three weeks of next fall (to which period the rushing is confined) is something to look forward to (or keep away from), but it is certain that both groups are finding this system considerably more ideal than the former.
