I. RADICALISM AT DARTMOUTH

In our original article for this department last spring we discussed undergraduate radicalism at some length, coming to the general conclusion that as it had been evidenced so far at Dartmouth it was a beneficial stimulus to student thought. In our next article we made an attack upon what seemed to be the abuse by a student group of a destructive sort of radicalism. Now before resigning occupancy of the Undergraduate Chair, we should like to carry this, discussion further and try to get at the underlying significance of radicalism at Dartmouth, which is virtually the same as saying radicalism in the American college of today, for the problem is not peculiar to Dartmouth but common to all the colleges of the country, differing only in degree at the various institutions.

Colleges have fallen into a certain amount of disrepute of late with a large number of American people. The meddling intellectual in spectacles and cap and gown has become a familiar figure in political cartoons. College professors and administrators are being charged with encouraging subversive thinking, and in many states are being required to take oaths to support the Constitution.