Current Investigations

It is rumored that members of the President's Social Survey Committee are encouraging Professor Larmon to make a definite steamship reservation for about February 1 in order to make sure that his projected leave of absence will materialize and that the Committee's labors will thereby cease!

The work of carefully and completely digging into all available information about every aspect of social lite in the College and then analyzing the data and crystallizing it through discussion and written reports is a tremendous task. Not much has been heard of the committee's activities this fall except that rather frequent meetings have been held and that the President will be given the report sometime around the middle of the College year. Although there may well be more public interest in the Committee's findings in regard to the fraternity situation (if the President is willing to reveal these), the interest in the world of Dartmouth will likewise be pronounced along other lines, such as the ancient "eating problem," dormitory life, and freshman problems. What will be the Committee's general and detailed suggestions for the ideal undergraduate social system?

MEANWHILE ANOTHER survey group has got under way. The question of health insurance, to permit undergraduates to receive services at Dick's House through the payment of a reasonable annual fee, has been periodically discussed. In reply to a Palaeopitus petition President Hopkins has asked a committee of 12, headed by Dean Robert C. Strong '24, to study this particular question and also any other aspects of Dick's House problems which may desirably be surveyed.

There is much to be said for compulsory health insurance. The idea, in theory and practical workability, has won adherents throughout the country. It will be mighty satisfactory to have a thorough study made of the question as it applies to Dartmouth and its unique Dick's House, probably unmatched in any College for its attractiveness and general excellence as a student infirmary.