464 JOIN FRATERNITIES

Fraternities held their own on campus this year when 464 sophomores joined on Pledge Night. Although this was considerably fewer than last year, the fact that two houses are no longer active brings the average number of pledges per house to more than twenty-one, a figure slightly higher than a year ago. The two-week rushing period was climaxed by a let-down on Pledge Night which was sufficiently disgraceful to single out that activity as the next challenge to the effectiveness of student control. A week before, at the Norwich game, Delta Alpha, vestigial climax of hazing in which most of the 650 freshmen participated, reached a new low for offcolor humor.

As the days grew colder touch football became the campus sport, with sometimes as many as ten teams in action in one afternoon. The Corinthian Yacht Club set up a twelve-foot dinghy loaned by M. I. T. in the trophy room of the gymnasium, after applying in vain for the use of the main floor of the library. The Baker custodians feared to establish a precedent, and suggested that if the dinghy occupied one wing of the building, the D. O. C. might logically wish to reconstruct its log shelter in the other. Jack-o-Lantern appeared with a new format, but lacking the Klingaman cartoons, and the Players are preparing Howard Lindsay's She Loves Me Not for Fall Houseparties.

Dartmouth political sentiment supported President Hopkins' anti-New Deal article in the October Atlantic Monthly when out of 1586 ballots marked in the poll conducted by The Dartmouth Landon received 1019 votes, or 63.5% of the total, Roosevelt 448, or 28.3%, and Norman Thomas 86 votes. Three weeks before election a Young Democratic Club and a Young Republican Club perfected plans to participate in the campaign, held rallies, and exchanged a formal challenge to a public debate on the merits of Landon and Roosevelt. Previously College authorities had squelched a sinister undertone in campus politics by tearing down a Nazi flag that billowed from the staff on Middle Mass.