BARRAGE OF LETTERS RESULTS

The editorial resulted in a barrage of "vox populis," most of them protesting against infringing on the time-honored traditions and urging against lowering the scholarship qualifications. The effect was a good deal of serious thought on the real purpose of a college education. That is perhaps more important than any tangible result of the controversy. The final restatement for Phi Bete reform explained the undergraduate daily's motive to be to restore the Phi Beta Kappa key to its former prestige and meaning by making it once more the symbol of the best in college education, the symbol of the scholarleader, on a premise that undergraduate scholarship must be made compatible with undergraduate contribution and character.

Coming at the end of a college year the whole controversy seems to have had a healthy effect on the campus.

Commons has always, perhaps inevitably, been the butt of a certain amount of dissatisfaction. Following the reorganization last fall continued criticism of the food was augmented by disagreement among the student help which resulted in a few spasmodic outburts and eventually in an investigation conducted by TheDartmouth. The College enterprise of conducting an upperclass dining hall next year gave the Commons situation an added importance.