COLLEGE HAS DUTY

A college has a definite duty to prepare men for life in the world as it actually exists, and this is probably too often neglected. But it also has responsibility to shake them up a bit and show them what is wrong with existing conditions. This is a responsibility to society, for the college men of today will be the leaders of tomorrow, and the four years which they spend in college will probably be the only period in their life in which they will be actively subjected to these forces of analysis and criticism. But there is the problem of individual adjustment to the world upon emergence from college. It all seems to boil down to the question of how far the College should go in throwing the undergraduate out of gear with actual conditions in order to insure that he shall be liberal and progressive-minded later in life.

Obviously we have not been talking merely about the curriculum, but the collective influence of everything that makes up the College. Several of our predecessors in the Chair have discussed undergraduate apathy. This apathy always seems to be the most noticeable characteristic of the undergraduate body, but is this a peculiarity of college life? One definite thing that the radicals have contributed to Dartmouth life during the recent months is to stir undergraduates out of their apathy more than they have been stirred since we have known Dartmouth.

Ringside Seats Students watching the Dartmouth Hall fire from the windows of Middle Fayer-weather.