THE UNDERGRADUATE CHAIR
EDITOR'S NOTE—With this issue, MilburnMcCarty IV '35, of Eastland, Texas, managing editor of The Dartmouth, assumesoccupancy of The Undergraduate Chair.McCarty, who succeeds Stanley H. Silverman '34 of New York City, is an honorsstudent in History, member of the varsitysquash team, wearer of freshman tennisnumerals, and a member of Alpha DeltaPhi fraternity.
IT is WITH mixed feelings of insufficiency and satisfaction that we slide into the seat worn well by predecessors Silverman, Monagan, Ferry, at al. There is the feeling of insufficiency because we do not see too clearly the many and pressing problems facing the College and the World, and thus shall not be able to analyze, as did our immediate predecessor, these troubles and present their solutions to the alumni and others who read this Chair. There is satisfaction, on the other hand, in knowing, as John Monagan once put it, that "the sickly worm has finally turned." For after resting two full years in the hands of editors of the Jack-o-Lantern, this Chair leaves the haunt of the witty boys of Robinson and comes into the hands of a member of The Dartmouth directorate. It will not, however, be the purpose of this sitter to devote himself to avenging former monthly attacks on the daily with similar monthly charges against the "fun magazine," for it is all rather impertinent and hardly deserves the space in this column that it has received in the past.
Rather, it shall be our purpose during the coming year to report in each issue those campus events and activities which during the past month stand out as most significant to the undergraduate, and to try to present to the alumnus reader those trends most noticeable in the College life as a whole.
When the vacation-bound throng left an almost empty Hanover on March 28, the ground was still covered with snow from Dartmouth's coldest winter on record (the forty below Carnival night will forever furnish a fertile topic of conversation at all reunions of the Classes of '34, '35, '36, and '37). When weary crowds from the East, South, and West—and Bermuda—made the final dash into Hanover on the night before the resuming of classes (April 10), they found the snow completely gone. The next two days turned out warm and clear, and to unsuspecting freshmen indicated the sure arrival of Spring. New sport coats and spotless white shoes soon gave way to galoshes and rain coats, however, as the following days brought forth the usual all-day April rains and chilly winds. As this is being written the sun has again come out and local clothiers are enjoying a rushing spring business.
A Most Ordinary Sight Hanover's sun cult has grown by leaps and bounds during the past few years, and with warm weather here again, roofs, lawns, and the hillsides of College Park are sprinkled each afternoon with tanning bodies.
