The Undergraduate Chair

SPRING DAYS in Hanover are full days. Baseball games, intramural as well as intercollegiate, track and football practice, crew races—yes, the Dartmouth crew is really an active activity at last—and then, too, there are the never-ending announcements of awards, appointments, and elections. The campus sounds faintly like a maternity ward. It is almost impossible to go through a week without there being a day when calls of "Nice going, Bob" or Ted, or Jim, are heard everywhere. Green Key, assistant managerships, officers of clubs and organizations—everything seems to be happening all. at once. Next year the men who have been elected, or honored, will settle down to their jobs, but right now they are responsible for a very expansive atmosphere.

To a casual observer, it might seem that the undergraduate body spends its time lying in the sun upon Observatory Hill, or sitting in the sun watching a fraternity baseball game on the campus. But a little closer look would reveal, for example that the players did a fine job on their presentation of Shaw's "Heartbreak House," that the members of the American Student Union made survey trips to Windsor and Claremont, that Senator Copeland talked in Webster Hall, that Felix Morley delivered two open lectures on "The Press and the Public," that the debating team lost to Vassar—a close look at these and many other activities of the undergraduates would show that Dartmouth is far from idle. It is a little bewildering to try to list or describe all the activities of the undergraduates. We will try to find the highlights.

GREEN KEY PROM BIG SUCCESS

Perhaps the fact that The Dartmouth ran the biggest headlines of the year when they announced that "Over 800 Guests Arrive in Hanover Today as Green Key Festivities Get Under Way with Crew Contest, Players' Show, Parties" compels us to say first that Green Key week-end was bigger and better than ever. Perfect weather, Benny Goodman, a winning crew and baseball team, spring, and all the rest—Green Key was a highlight.

Taking a tip on structure from Professor Gilbert who wrote in The Dartmouth that he has to "time about four laughs at various strategic lows of each Evolution lecture," we will now touch, for contrast, on what seems to be a more serious matter. On May 6 it was announced that four men had been appointed to the newly formed judiciary board of the Interfraternity Council. This board will handle complaints demanding disciplinary action. The formation of this board, which gives a more centralized control than existed under the old, individual house discipline plan, is a move toward a more flexible and powerful controlling body.

At the same time one committee was appointed to revise and simplify the constitution and amendments of the Council, and another to plan for meetings and information to promote freshman education regarding fraternities. These three groups are results of the efforts of this year's Council to arrive at ways to a solution, if not a solution itself, of some of the problems of the fraternities.

Typical of the things the fraternities are discussing is the problem of pledge night. A proposal is being voted on in the various houses now, which, if passed, will decree that on pledge night next year there will be no circulating around among the different houses on campus. In other words, the proposal is that pledge night parties be kept at home. There has been much discussion, some saying, "Why pledge night wouldn't be anything unless you could go around to other houses and see who's gone where and so on," and others argue, "Pledge night should, after all, serve to introduce the pledges more closely to the brothers, and how can this be done if everyone keeps going in and out?" It is a debate about which every house and every individual has pretty definite feelings, and the outcome will, in some degree, show to what extent the fraternities will allow a breaking down of tradition.

We come back again to activities, because there are two new organizations which have come to life here this spring which deserve mention. One of these is the crew, and since this is covered in another section of the magazine, we wish to say something about the Dartmouth polo team. The five men who are the team, who have "put it across" and established it as a Dartmouth organization, are Winford Naylor, president, of New York City; Henry Beck, of Dallas, Texas; Robert Fletcher, of Boise, Idaho; John Knutsen of Cleveland, Ohio; and Charles Urschel, of Oklahoma City. The team this year has had seven games, three with Norwich, two with Cleveland teams, one with Princeton, and one with Cornell. Four wins, one of them over a Princeton team, and three losses, in view of the fact that the team has to practice on the rough flats over on the Norwich side of the river, riding horses that know nothing about polo, is a creditable record. These men have paid for all their own trips, and even though they have lacked the impetus given by home games, polo facilities being nil in Hanover, they have started something that promises to last.

Speaking of lasting things, and growing things, Dartmouth's participation in the national student peace mobilization, with leading speeches by Professor Charles Stone, Elsom Eldridge '37, of Chestnut Hill, Mass., and Edward Ryan '37, of New York City, showed that Dartmouth undergraduates, too, feel strongly about the question of war and peace.

But even with Fascism, Naziism, Communism, comprehensives and finals confronting us, Dartmouth still sings. This spring, the interfraternity sing contest, in which each house entered a glee club and sang fraternity songs, added to the usual number of sings. Interfraternity singing is new this year, and from the interest within the houses, as shown by the work done in practice, and the pleasure afforded to the audience of undergraduates, townspeople, and those few unfortunate monotones who could not participate, it may be supposed that the contest will become an annual affair.

With notices appearing in The Dartmouth almost every week that Mr. Soand-So, of some large corporation will be at the personnel office to interview seniors looking for jobs, a growing awareness comes to those who think about it, that soon the men whose canes we are carving will be "safe at last in the wide, wide, world." We wonder how many of these men will be so very "safe." There are those who have jobs waiting for them, but there are many who haven't. However, it is comforting to realize that as much is done as possible for those seniors who are in need of a chance. And when Professors Richardson and Tobin sent form letters around to the seniors, and to recent graduates, offering to help men who wanted to get into politics, a new train of thought was started. Four of the lecturers who have been here this year have been interested in college men entering the field of politics, as a duty if not as a career. There is talk among the faculty of "Dartmouth-in-Politics," the idea has been planted, and perhaps contacts with alumni already participating in politics will make it possible for Dartmouth graduates to get a start in this field.

Professor Gilbert would tell us that it is time to work in a laugh. This isn't particularly funny except that Carnival may seem a strange topic in June. However, Carnival next year will be on the second week-end in February because the first week-end conflicts with the mid-year exams at Smith and other colleges whence guests come. A notice to the above effect came out a short while ago with the postscript that "the announcement has been made at this time to enable the faculty of surrounding girls' colleges to make up their next year's calendar with this new date in mind." We think it only fair that Dartmouth alumni be given the same advice in planning their time as is given the faculties of "surrounding girls' colleges."

With thoughts of next winter comes the realization that this year is almost over. The reading period starts on May 27, exams follow, and then the underclassmen will leave; many of the seniors will stay straight through until the Commencement period, and some will go away after comprehensives and come back for graduation festivities. It seems to us that in almost all respects the College has had more fun, accomplished more, and has somehow been trying more successfully to improve than at any time in the past three years. The social survey, completed last year, not only awakened an undergraduate interest in the problems of the College, but also made many suggestions, some of which have been followed with advantage.

MILESTONES

Green Key: President, J. M. Mathes, Plandome, N. Y.; R. H. Anderson, Manhassett, L. I., N. Y.; E. D. Bayrd, Chicago; J. A. Boynton, Fair Haven, N. J.; J. N. Brown III, Jersey City; P. E. G. Clark, Westfield, Mass.; R. F. Clifford, LaGrange, Ill.; W. J. Cunningham, New York City; J. S. Cumming Jr., Pawtucket, R. I.; J. A. Donovan, Winnetka, Ill.; J. A. Feeley Jr., Cambridge, Mass.; A. D. Foster, Greenwood, Mass.; J. E. Foster, Leominister, Mass.; R. L. Frese, Scarsdale, N. Y.; C. S. Grant, Washington, D. C.; G. R. Hanna, West Swanzey, N. H.; R. T. Haslam, NewYork City; Daniel Hull, Waterbury, Conn.; H. H. MacGilpin, Worcester, Mass.; K. A. Mac Donald, Quincy, Mass.; R. F. MacLeod, Glen Ellyn, Ill.; B. R. Mac Mannis, Larchmont, N. Y.; W. B. Magee Jr., Passaic, N. J.; Herbert Mattlage, Douglaston, N. Y.; W. H. McCarthy, Manchester, Mass.; G. O. Mudge, Amesbury, Mass.; L. U. Noland Jr., Newport News, Va.; G. E. Patterson Jr., East Orange, N. J.; G. P. Paul, Seattle; L. J. Pyrtek, Hartford, Conn.; H. L. Rohde, University City, Mo.; J. O. Sampson, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; E. J. Searles, Toledo; G. H. Selkirk, Buffalo; R. R. Van Slambrouck, Port Huron, Mich.; W. O. Webster, Pelham, N. Y.; R. L. Weil, Montgomery, Ala.; R. B. Whitcomb, Brockton, Mass.; R. B. White Jr., Annadale, N. J.; G. G. Zitrides, Manchester, N. H.

Assistant Managers: Football, A. Boynton, Redbank, N. J.; baseball, W. H. McCarthy, Methuen, Mass.; basketball, L. U. Noland, Newport News, Va.; track, J. O. Sampson, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; hockey, R. L. Frese, Scarsdale, N. Y.; tennis, A. C. Blunt, West Newton, Mass.; swimming, C. F. Burnap Jr., Chappaqua, N. Y.; soccer, B. C. Prescott, Pelham, N. Y.; crosscountry, F. R. Mcßrien Jr., Niagara Falls; gym, F. D. Bayrd, Chicago.

Assistant Freshman Managers: G. H. Selkirk, Buffalo; R. H. Falconer, Nutley, N. J.; G. P. King, Millis, Mass.; W. S. Lyon, Manhasset, N. Y.; J. H. Fuller, Plandome, N. Y.; J. B. Garnett, Highland Park, Ill.; H. M. Rowe, Lajolla, Cal.

Intramural Assistant Managers: R. T. Haslam Jr., New York City; H. E. Hirschland, Harrison, N. Y.; R. E. Poehlman Jr., Manchester, N. H.; E. D. Stevenson 11, Chicago.

PEACE PIPES AT THE OLD PINE A traditional ceremony which will be repeated at the Class Day Exercises on June 12.