INTERFRATERNITY PLAY CONTEST
Fraternities have taken an unusually strong interest in the Interfraternity Play Contest, with more than $150 being offered in awards and cups, much of it by the Committee on Dartmouth Fraternities of the National Fraternity Council. Special prizes will be given for the best original play or adaptation in a special effort to encourage a constructive spirit among local chapters.
To further clarify the problem of fraternity finances Henry W. Ekstrom '30 has been retained by the college to work with Davis Jackson '36, recently appointed as advisor to fraternities. He has made a study of financial situations in various houses, and will submit a report recommending some permanent organization to give needed financial advice. He is working with the Interfraternity Treasurers' Association, which has already recommended a standard policy of paying fraternity dues by the semester, beginning this year.
Offering a series of moving pictures showing the development of films in Germany and France, the Junto instituted its current program of weekly films in Dartmouth Hall. Outstanding post-war films will be shown in the program of educational amusement similar to the one which was so popular last year. Films of excellent quality, both entertaining and informative, will be brought to Hanover; in some courses attendance at the movie series is required.
One of the courses with required attendance at the series is Art 18, a study of twentieth century art and its application of modern life. With mingled pride and misgivings the Art Department has watched the enrollment double each year until it is now more than one hundred and thirty. The Department is apprehensive for fear that the course has acquired a reputation for being easy. An equally logical answer is that more and more undergraduates are realizing the need for such a course designed to show the relationship of art to our civilization and as a vital factor in modern life.
Hockey and basketball still attract crowds to the gym, and news of the General Motors strike and the Supreme Court-Roosevelt controversy occupy a large share of The Dartmouth columns. Hanover still hopes for a little skiing before spring settles down in earnest, and members of the track team are making plans for the spring trip. The next big celebration comes with the North Country Fair for the benefit of the Mary Hitchcock Hospital, which will take place the first week in March. Marking a new degree of student cooperation in community affairs, the Interfraternity Council will take complete charge of the dancing. Plans are already well advanced for the two-day feature that for three years has increased in popularity as the big break in the duckboard weeks of the Hanover spring.
