CONCLUSIONS AND A WARNING

Our first general conclusion about radicalism at Dartmouth then would be that it is the direct and inevitable result of social problems stirred up by the depression. Secondly, as we have pointed out, that it has become better organized and more outspoken during the past year than it has ever been before but is still the creed of only a small, determined minority.

Third, we would state that the radical movement has a valid position on the Dartmouth campus and an indisputable right to be heard, and that on the whole it is probably a good influence, as a stimulus to thought and awarenes of social problems.

But in ending this section we should like to refer to a warning of Dr. Hopkins', contained in his convocation address last September. He pointed to the high ideals and hopes of the European post-war youth movements and their "melancholy sequence." And while paying high tribute to the social awareness of modern American college youth, he warned that "youth in thezest of rationalizing believes it possible todisregard unbroken experience as a factorin education or as a guide to the art of living." This is striking directly at the heart of the only danger in the radical movement at Dartmouth.