THE UNDERGRADUATE CHAIR

SPRING is unmistakably in the Hanover air, and though senior canes have not yet made their appearance, the time has come for us to turn regretfully in our tracks and look back over the year of Dartmouth which it has been our privilege to report through these columns.

It has been an eventful and interesting year, memorable chiefly of course for the great Yale football victory, the culmination of fifty-one years of impatient waiting. But there were other high spots: the Dartmouth Hall fire last April; the Art Symposium, first of its kind in the country; Jeff Tesreau's record-smashing, league- winning baseball team; the ski tramway at Oak Hill; the Dartmouth Olympic skiers in Germany; the important curricular change announcement, involving "topical majors" and a required freshman "Social Science" course in place of Evolution and Industrial Society; the appointment of a Health Survey Commission; and the completion of Hanover's three new building projects, the steel bridge to Norwich, the new White Church, and modernized Dartmouth Hall.

What about the more complex aspects of the year—changes in student life and attitudes? We shall take up their developments under five main headings, as follows: Undergraduate radicalism, sports and college spirit, outdoor life versus sophistication, dormitory life, and fraternities.

Relinquishes Chair William J. Minsch Jr. '36 who ends his occupancy of The Undergraduate Chair with this installment.