THE UNDERGRADUATE CHAIR

An element of change, of movement, is in the air. Junior blazers for the Class of '36 are in the store windows. Traditional Dartmouth canes will soon make their annual appearance for inexpert carving at the hands of the Men of '35. Class elections have been held, and student governing problems, publication duties, and other campus responsibilities are gradually being relinquished by seniors and turned over to their successors in the class below. Within a short time another Dartmouth class will be released to the world and the annual surge of pressure below will push another group ipto their position.

In this movement we find ourselves. After a year we rise from the Chair to make room for another occupant, our junior successor. During our tenure of sitting we have tried to carry on the work of our immediate predecessors. At times it has not been too easy. The ample space left by the gluteal expansiveness of the "Sage of '32" has proved too much for our own limited capacities, and we are afraid that parts of the Chair remain cold after our year of occupancy. Neither do we feel that we have continued the tradition of airy humor and bons mots left to this department by that other predecessor, the "Wit of '33," whose spicy titbits still find their outlet in another section of this MAGAZINE. Nor have we acquitted our responsibility to another tradition—of solving the problems of the world—which was willed to us by that pundit of last year, the "Rebel of '34."

Relinquishes Chair Milburn McCarty IV '35, of Eastland, Texas, who concludes his occupancy of The Undergraduate Chair with this in- stallment. He will be succeeded by William J. Minsch Jr. '36, of Montclair, N. J., the son of W. J. Minsch 'O7.