HAS HUMOROUS SIDE

In fact, to be plunged into the midst of a heated discussion as to whether "the 'great change" is to come about by evolution or revolution, one has only to enter The Dartmouth office at almost any hour of the day or night. It all has its humorous side. In the old days of—well, say a year ago, the humorous side was about the only one that could be seen by about 95 per cent of the student body. But now it is different. There are the impenetrable reactionaries (of which group we are often accused of being a member) who feel that the whole thing is a disgrace and a blot on the fair name of Dartmouth. There are the fledglings who look upon it as the beginning of the great enlightenment. There is still the group who see it only as humorous. And there are the playboys who are too busy with bridge and parties to know what is going on. They wouldn't care if they did.

What does it all mean at Dartmouth? We do not believe in Youth Conferences or Student Strikes, nor do we believe that the older generation has failed, more than any generation fails. We do not believe that the system of private enterprise on which this country is founded should be scrapped or even changed much. So we are undoubtedly not a radical. But we do believe that the sane, intellectual beam of inquiry and criticism such as is being directed upon our social and economic system by so sincere and consistent, though visionary, a radical as the present Editorin-Chief of The Dartmouth can do little harm to the "Americanism" of the great majority of Dartmouth undergraduates, who come from a background of complacent conservatism for four brief years of intellectual pursuit and inquiry only to be drawn back again into the maw of complacency and status quo for the remainder of their lives.