FREE HEALTH SERVICE

Of the major changes in the College, the free health service has probably affected the most students. The number of patients at Dick's House has been greater than other years, the logical explanation being that students are willing to take advantage of free medical care. When the system was inaugurated President Hopkins called attention to its greatest potential weakness .... that of not insuring that undergraduates would go to Dick's House before a sickness becomes serious.

During the last month two campus problems came to a head, both as a result of agitation by The Dartmouth. They were the perennial Commons dissatisfaction which became more acute this year than before, and a controversy precipitated by a criticism of the standards of awarding phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth.

Fifteen seniors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa the first week in March, which was followed by an editorial in The Dartmouth suggesting that "if qualificationsfor membership in Phi Beta Kappa cannotbe so revised as to take cognition of thealtered aims of the liberal arts college, andof the accomplishment of undergraduatestoward fulfilment of those aims, then thatorganization has outlived its usefulness atDartmouth." A further suggestion was that while Phi Bete indicates a superior mental ability, it makes no recognition of the ends to which that ability may be put, and that the qualifications be broadened to include strength of character, qualities of leadership and broad achievement.