"RED MENACE"

To start by jumping right into deep water with a dogmatic statement, the undergraduate body at Dartmouth is more radical today than it has ever been before. This has come about in spite of the words of our predecessor in this department last June, "And now, with its most active undergraduate supporters graduating thismonth, the radical cause at Hanover appears to have little future for the comingyear." We could point to Hanover's first Youth Conference, held recently, or Hanover's first Student Strike Against War and Fascism, held even more recently. We could mention the increasing activities of the local chapters of the National Student League and the League Against War and Fascism; or student petitions protesting the deportation of Strachey, protesting the curtailment of the New Theatre Players in Boston and Philadelphia always protesting; or the formation of two Huey Long Clubs in campus dormitories. But far more significant than these externals is the general drift of campus talk, the discussion of little groups emerging from classes or gathering in various spots throughout the college buildings.

We don't mean to imply by all this that Dartmouth is becoming such a hotbed of unrest as some of her metropolitan sisters far from that. In fact she is still permeated too thoroughly by that disinterested milk of complacency which is the worst element of conservatism. But there are other influences at work. Radicalism is beginning to come out into the open. At last it has captured that influential moulder of campus opinion, The Dartmouth. For, while the retired Editor-in-Chief of The Dartmouth comes out officially for Conservatism, "the oldest college newspaper" itself, under the most radical leadership of its history, campaigns almost daily against capitalism and the profit system.