Student Journalism

MORE BRICKBATS than bouquets are thrown at undergraduate journaism. It has long been our feeling that a daily student paper should take, and be given, a most responsible position of leadership in sensing and guiding student opinion and activities. The Dartmouth has its tips and downs in this respect but the average seems to be distinctly a favorable one. The retiring directorate of the daily paper has done a good job. Editorially it has been honestly constructive and altogether has helped to raise The Dartmouth's long-time average of effectiveness.

The new editors, chosen from the junior class, have taken hold with great vim and vigor. We suspect that they spent more night hours with the paper during Carnival than they did celebrating the Silver Anniversary of the D. O. C. In addition to the morning issues there was a special 16-page edition on Friday afternoon of Carnival. This was tabloidish in effect. It had alternate green and white pages and followed the metropolitan models so closely as to be profusely illustrated and to run a comic strip featuring Tarzan at Carnival.